Anatoĺ Citoŭ

Biography Tsitou was born in Dresden, Soviet occupation zone in Germany.

He graduated from the History faculty of the Belarusian State University and in 1975 started his career as researcher at the Central State Historical Archives of the Belarusian SSR where he subsequently became senior palaeographer.

Since 1983 he taught at the Belarusian Institute of Culture and later at the Belarusian State University. In 1994 he became senior researcher at the Belarusian Documentology and Archives Research Institute. In the independent Belarus after 1991, virtually all Tsitou's reconstructions were accepted for the coats of arms of the country's settlements.

Selected works Heraldry Гербы беларускіх гарадоў [Coats of Arms of Belarusian Cities], 1983 Гарадская геральдыка Беларусі [Urban Heraldry of Belarus], 1989 Наш сімвал — Пагоня [Our Symbol, the Pahonia], 1993 Пячаткі старажытнай Беларусі [Seals of Ancient Belarus], 1993 Геральдыка беларускіх местаў (XVI — пачатак XX ст.) [Heraldry of Belarusian Cities, 16th to early 20th centuries], 1998 Сфагістыка і геральдыка Беларусі [Sigillography and Heraldry of Belarus], 1999 Геральдыка Беларусі [Heraldry of Belarus], 2010 Гербоўнік беларускіх гарадоў [Armorial of Belarusian Cities], 2015

Other topics Краіна майстроў. Рамесныя цэхі Беларусі: 16 - канец 18 ст. [The Land of Craftsmen. Craft guilds in Belarus: 16th century - end of 18th century], 2013 Беларусь на сямі рубяжах [Belarus at Seven Borders] - with Leu Kazlou, 1993 Шляхамі Францыска Скарыны [Following the Path of Frantsishak Skaryna], 2017