Born Sept. 3, 1927, in the village of Koniukhi, Slutsk Raion, Minsk Oblast. Soviet Russian and Byelorussian writer and literary critic.
Adamovich was graduated from Minsk University and became a doctor of philology in 1962. His published works include The Road to Mastery: The Formation of K. Chornyi’s Literary Style (1958, in Byelorussian) and Genre Formation: The Byelorussian Novel (1961). Adamovich is the author of the two-part novel The Partisans, which depicts the struggle of Byelorussian partisans against the German fascist invaders. Part 1, War Under the Rooftops, was published in 1960; Part 2, Sons Are Going Off to Battle, was published in 1963. He also wrote the story The Last Vacation (1969), which portrays the life of the Soviet scientific intelligentsia.