Larisa Guliakevich: The first meeting of two legendary poets of Latvia and Belarus Janis Rainis and Yanka Kupala occurred right here in Minsk in 1926, at a conference on the reform of the Belarusian language.
Two writers, and public and political figures have agreed to contribute to the promotion of the Belarusian language and culture in Latvia. By the way, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries there were a lot of Belarusian-language schools on the territory of a neighboring country. Janis Rainis was fond of Belarus, was fond of the works of Bogdanovich, Kolas, Kupala.












