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Pyotr Ustinovich Brovka (, ; − 24 March 1980) was a Soviet Union Belarusian poet, more commonly recognized by his pen name Petrus Brovka (also transliterated from Belarusian as Piatrus Brovka or Pjatrus Broǔka).
During the Great Patriotic War, like most of the Europe Soviet Union, the Soviet Byelorussian SSR was invaded and occupied by Nazi Germany in the summer of 1941. Brovka voluntarily joined the Soviet Red Army but refused to participate in hostile actions. Brovka's mother was arrested and detained by the Germans, and spend time in various prisons. Ultimately, Brovka's mother was deported to the Auschwitz extermination camp in German-occupied Poland and later murdered there. Brovka himself wrote for the Soviet partisans press and published in the army newspapers, lauding the fighting effort of the Soviet people. He was recognized by the Soviet government with the Stalin Prize in 1947, the same year that Brovka was elected chairman of the Writers' Union of the Byelorussian SSR (a position that he would hold until 1967).
Brovka reputation as a Soviet and Belarusian poet continued to grow during Brovka's subsequent decades in Minsk after the war. The fullest apex of his literary talents is considered to be his final decades in the 1960s and 1970s.
Brovka was awarded the prestigious Lenin Prize after his completion of the poetry volume And Time Goes On in 1962."Petrus Brovka". Fifty Soviet Poets. Ed. Ognev, Vladimir & Dorian Rottenberg. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1969. . P. 86. In 1966, Brovka edited the first volume of the Byelorussian Soviet Encyclopedia, the year he was given the title of People's Poet of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic.Stolyarchuk, Konstantin. "Первый энциклопедист" ("The First Encyclopedian"). Vecherniy Minsk 125 (11932), 27 June 2005. Retrieved 9 July 2009. He was elected a full member of the Belarusian Academy of Sciences in 1966.
Apart from literary work, he served several terms as a representative of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, but maintained his literary career even as a political delegate. Some of his later verses made their way into Soviet pop music when they were adapted by the Belarusian Soviet folk rock band Pesniary.
Brovka was awarded the title Hero of Socialist Labor in 1972. Бровка Петрусь (Петр) Устинович (12 (25) VI 1905, с. Путилковичи Витебской обл. - 24 III 1980, Минск) - народный поэт Белоруссии, академик, общественный деятель" ("Brovka, Petrus (Pyotr) Ustinovich 12 - People's Poet of Belarus, Academic, Public Figure"). Orenburg Bibliographical Encyclopedia. Orenburg.ru. Retrieved 9 July 2009.
Minsk's Literary Museum of Petrus Brovka was established in his honor in 1980, when Brovka died at age 74.
In 2005, Belarus issued a postage stamp celebrating the hundredth anniversary of Pyotr Brovka's birth. "100 лет со дня рождения Петруся Бровки" ("100 Years Since the Birth of Petrus Brovka"). Information pamphlet no. 17 (2007). BelPost. 17 June 2005. Retrieved 9 July 2009.
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