About Uładzimir Katkoŭski
Lived 1976 – 2007 (aged 30). Uładzimir Katkoŭski was a Belarusian blogger, social activist, wikipedian, computer scientist and journalist.
Uładzimir Łeanidavič Katkoŭski (, June 19, 1976, Minsk – May 25, 2007) was a Belarusian blogger, web designer, Wikipedian and website creator.
Biography Katkoŭski took a degree in computer science at the American University in Bulgaria in Blagoevgrad and later worked as an IT specialist in Budapest and in Frankfurt am Main. From 2002, he worked for the Belarusian edition of Radio Free Europe.
On June 16, 2006, he and his wife had a car crash on a street in Prague. Katkoŭski was in a coma for almost a year until he died on May 26, 2007. by the Belarusian top web portal TUT.by for his blog br23.net.
Katkoŭski created the websites Pravapis.org (about issues concerning Belarusian language) and Martyraloh Biełarusi - "The Belarusian Martyrologe" about victims of Stalinist terror in Belarus. He translated the interface of Google into Belarusian, and was one of the founders of the Belarusian Wikipedia.
He was the creator and administrator of the website of the Belarusian edition of Radio Free Europe.
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Belarusian blogger (1976–2007)
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Uładzimir Katkoŭski was born on 19 June 1976 in Minsk.
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Uładzimir Katkoŭski died on 25 May 2007 in Prague.
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Uładzimir Katkoŭski was a blogger, social activist, wikipedian, computer scientist and journalist.
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Uładzimir Katkoŭski was Belarusian.
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