Ivan Shamyakin, editor-in-chief of the Belarusian Soviet Encyclopedia. Minsk, January 1981

At the editor's office of the Belarusian Soviet Encyclopedia: editor-in-chief of the Belarusian Soviet Encyclopedia I. Shamyakin, deputy executive secretary N. Filimonov, deputy editors-in-chief A. Petrashkevich and I. Khovratovich, head of the language, literature and folklore department V. Semenyakov