Viktar Dashkevich was born in the
Chashniki District,
Vitebsk Region,
Belarus, on January 3, 1945. In 1973, he graduated from the
Belarusian State Academy of Arts. From 1973 to 1990, and after 1991, Dashkevich worked at the
Yakub Kolas National Academic Drama Theater. From 1990 to 1991, he was Director of the Belarusian Theater "Lyalka" in
Vitebsk. From 1981 to 1990, as well as from 1991 to 2007, Dashkevich served as the head of the troupe of the Yakub Kolas Theater. Dashkevich had been hospitalized with chronic lung disease and died in March 2020, in
Vitebsk, after contracting
COVID-19. He is buried in the Orthodox Hieorhijeŭskija Cemetery near
Ruba. ==Awards==