The life of the writer and editor of "Jazz-Kvadrat" magazine ended at the age of 60.
Ales Astrautsou. Photo from his Facebook page
Ales Astrautsou, an engineer by education, participated in the Belarusian national and democratic movement since late Soviet times. After graduating from the Belarusian Polytechnic Institute, he worked as an engineer at a factory for some time, and in the 1990s, he started working at the Maxim Bahdanovich Museum, which was then headed by the current Nobel laureate Ales Bialiatski.
Engineer Ales Astrautsou, together with the then director of the Maxim Bahdanovich Literary Museum Ales Bialiatski, hoist a flag on the museum's balcony, March 24, 1991. Photo by Siarhei Chyryk
He is also known as the chief editor of the "Jazz-Kvadrat" magazine, which was published in Minsk in a print version from 1997 to 2009 (and later appeared online). For a number of years, the magazine was the only Russian-language jazz-themed magazine.
Ales Astrautsou also engaged in literary work. His most famous work is the novel "Sula". Among other things, he translated into Belarusian the famous novel by Sergiusz Piasecki, "Notes of a Red Army Officer", from Polish.
In recent years, Astrautsou lived in Lida. And today, he was bid farewell at the Minsk crematorium.
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