His family announced this on his Facebook page.

"Today, after a long illness, the heart of a dear, close person, husband, father, grandfather stopped beating.

Viktar Hursik passed away.

May his bright work as a book publisher and public figure, his steadfast optimism and faith in the best remain forever in the hearts of those who knew him.

For us, he will always be the best adviser and beloved person," the message reads.

Viktar Khursik was born in 1953 at the Uborak railway station of Asipovitsky district.

The author of documentary books "Magdalena Radzivil.

The White Swan in the Rays of Glory", "The Tragedy of the White Guard" (about the time of Kastus Kalinowski) "Blood and Ashes of Drazhno".

Since 2009, he has been a private publisher.

He published about 350 books, among them - the historian Yevhen Anishchenko, the writer Lidia Arabey, the poet and translator Ivan Bursav, the translator Andrey Kalyady, the poets Uladzimer Nyaklyaev, Syarhei Paniznyk, the writer and local historian Alexander Karlyukevich.