An outstanding actress, a legend of the Belarusian stage. Real success came to her only with age roles. Best film work - Daria in the film "Farewell". She appeared on stage until the end of her life, until the age of 95.
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Vseslav Charogdey is the legendary prince of Polotsk, who ruled from 1044 to 1101. According to legend, his birth was associated with pagan witchcraft, he could turn into a wolf and quickly cover long distances ─ for this reason the nickname Sorcerer appeared.
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He was one of the first influential magnates to adopt Calvinism, he had a significant impact on the dissemination and propaganda of reform ideas. He invited foreign Protestant scientists, founded a higher school for Calvinist youth.
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The representative of the old gentry family Lev Sapega was a prominent political, public and military figure. Throughout his life, he held high positions in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, served as a royal clerk, chancellor of the principality from 1589 and grand hetman from 1625.
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Ignatius Domeiko is outstanding geologist, mineralogist, geographer and ethnologist, rector of the University of Chile and a member of many scientific societies, one of the most famous students of Vilna University and a national hero of Chile, Belarus, Poland.
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Pavel Sukhoi is a well-known aircraft designer, Doctor of Technical Sciences, one of the founders of the Soviet jet and supersonic aviation.
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Academician Zhores Alferov is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2000. He is one of the greatest scientists of our time in the field of semiconductor technology, his works are widely known and recognized worldwide, included in textbooks and monographs.
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Peter Klimuk is twice Hero of the Soviet Union. The duration of its three flights is 78 days 18 hours 18 minutes 42 seconds. He has the status of a pilot-cosmonaut of the USSR of the third set of the Air Force.
Vladimir Kovalyonok was Colonel General of Aviation (1993). Twice Hero of the Soviet Union (1978, 1981). Hero of the GDR (1978). Hero of the MPR (1981). Pilot-cosmonaut of the USSR.
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Pilot-cosmonaut. Hero of the Russian Federation. Colonel in the reserve of the Russian Air Force.
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Napoleon Orda is an artist, writer, composer and musician. He was born in the village of Vorotsevichi, Pinsk district, was educated in Vilna, and since 1833 settled in Paris.
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Euphrosyne of Polotsk is an East Slavic educator, the first woman in Belarus to be recognized as a saint. She was born in Polotsk in 1104, was the granddaughter of Vseslav Charodey and Vladimir Monomakh on the paternal and maternal lines.
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Simeon of Polotsk is one of the outstanding figures of not only Belarusian and Russian, but moreover, Slavic culture in general. The style of sermons is quite simple, alien to pretentiousness.
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The talent of the young sculptor manifested itself primarily in the creation of sculptural portraits: Belarusian educators Francysk Skaryna, Vasily Tyapinsky, writers Yakub Kolas, Yanka Kupala, Zmitrak Byaduli, politicians Felix Dzerzhinsky, Alexander Myasnikov and Gracchus Babef, Grigory Ordzhonikidze, Joseph Stalin, as well as actress Larisa Alexandrovskaya .
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In 1517 in Prague, for the first time in the history of the Eastern and Southern Slavs, Skorina printed the Bible in a language accessible to the common people. In 1525, his "Apostle" was published, and later ─ "A Small Road Book".
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From 1961 to 1963 he was senior editor of the script department of the film studio "Belarusfilm", then again "Polymya": literary worker of the department of criticism, editor of the department of science and art. Since 1971 ─ head of the laboratory for teaching literacy, and then the department of scientific literature of the Institute of Pedagogy of the Ministry of Education of the BSSR.
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While in St. Petersburg, Pashkevich participated in Belarusian circles and began to publish in illegal publications. Returning to her homeland, she became one of the leaders of the Belarusian socialist community, for which she ended up in exile.
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Peter Masherov is a Soviet Belarusian party leader, the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the BSSR from 1965 to 1980. Masherov was born into a poor peasant family, during the war he was a volunteer in the Red Army, in the post-war period he began his career as a statesman.
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Kirill Mazurov was one of the organizers and leaders of the partisan underground and the partisan movement in Belarus during the Great Patriotic War.
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Andrei Gromyko is a well-known Soviet diplomat who worked as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the USSR for almost three decades. He was born in the Gomel region, in the village of Starye Gromyki, studied in Gomel and Minsk.
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Mikhail Savitsky is the only person of art who became the Hero of Belarus. This is an artist whose name is inextricably linked with the main tragedies of our land of the 20th century - the Second World War and the Chernobyl tragedy.
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Marc Chagall was born in a poor Jewish family. At the age of 19, he began to study painting at the school of the artist Yudel Pan, and later in St. Petersburg, Lev Bakst became one of his teachers. motives. In Vitebsk, the artist met Bella Rosenfeld, who became his wife and muse. It seems that even other women that Chagall painted have her features.
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He had a huge impact on the preservation and development of Belarusian culture.
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Olga Korbutis a Belarusian gymnast, four-time Olympic champion, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR.
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At the 2004 Games in Athens, the athlete in the final race for 100 meters, unexpectedly for many experts and analysts, was ahead of more eminent runners and finished first with a score of 10.93 and won a medal of the highest dignity.
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Aleksey Grishin is a Belarusian freestyler (ski acrobatics), champion of the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver, bronze medalist of the 2002 Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, repeated winner and prize-winner of championships and stages of the World Cup.
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Ekaterina Karsten is a Soviet and Belarusian rower. The first two-time Olympic champion in the history of independent Belarus; six-time world champion in single sculls. Honored Master of Sports of the USSR. The first ever full cavalier of the Belarusian Order of the Fatherland.
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Ruslan Salei is one of the best players in the history of Belarusian hockey. He took part in all three Olympics (1998, 2002, 2010) in which the national team competed. Champion of Belarus 1993, 1994, 1995.
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Vitaly Shcherbo is a world-famous Belarusian gymnast. Considered one of the best gymnasts of all time.
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Maxim Mirny is an outstanding Belarusian tennis player, Honored Master of Sports. Considered one of the best doubles players in the history of world tennis.
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Ivan Lutsevich, known under the pseudonym Janka Kupala, was born in the village of Vyazynka in the family of a petty gentry.
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Yakub Kolas (real name Konstantin Mitskevich) is one of the classics and founders of Belarusian literature. The first collection of the poet ("Songs of pity") was published in Vilna in 1910. The poems “Simon-Music” and “New Land”, the trilogy “On Rostany”, and the story “On Prastors Zhytsya” brought national fame to the classics.
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Ryhor Borodulin is poet of Belarus, essayist, translator who worked for many periodicals. About 70 collections of poetry by Borodulin were published. He also wrote satirical works, poems for children, critical articles.
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Vladimir Karatkevich, writer, poet, playwright, publicist, is one of the most prominent Belarusian writers of the 20th century.
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Melezh's first poem "Radzime" was published in 1939 in "Chyrvonai Zmena". Before the war, he was published in the newspapers “Litaratura and Mastatstva”, “Balshavik Palessya” and others.
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Ivan Shamyakin brought widespread fame ─ the first novel "Deep Current". The results of more than 60 years of creative work of IP Shamyakin are very impressive: 130 books have been published, with a volume of 500 printed sheets and a total circulation of over 25 million copies.
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Kondrat Krapiva began his career as a satirist poet. His first printed work ─ a feuilleton in verse "Once upon a time" was published in the newspaper "Krasnoarmeyskaya Pravda" in 1922.
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Yan Barshchevsky as a poet was formed under the influence of Polish classicism. Mickiewicz's passion for poetry was reflected in his Polish works (the poem "The Life of an Orphan", the sonnets "Pilgrim's Melodies").
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Vikentiy Dunin-Martsinkevich is a Belarusian writer, playwright and theater critic. It is considered one of the founders of the Belarusian national dramaturgy and theater.
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He worked in the editorial office of the magazine "Communist of Belarus", as an editor on the Belarusian radio, head of the department of literature, deputy editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Litaratura i mastatstva".
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Bogdanovich lived a very short life and died of tuberculosis at the age of 25. Nevertheless, he stood at the origins of Belarusian literature and the modern literary Belarusian language.
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Vasil Bykov is a Belarusian folk writer and public figure, a participant in the Great Patriotic War. He was born in the village of Bychki, Ushachsky district, Vitebsk region.
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In August 1941, he was entrusted to lead a separate cavalry group, formed from several cavalry regiments. Under the command of L.M. Dovator, a large cavalry unit for the first time made a raid into the enemy rear from August 14 to September 2, 1941, striking at communications, destroying the headquarters, transport, warehouses and manpower of the Nazis.
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In 1942, Khoruzhaya, at the head of a group of underground workers, was transferred across the front line to the city of Vitebsk. Her group carried out a lot of sabotage on the railway, factories, collected intelligence data for the command of the Soviet troops.
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Vasiliy Korzh is the commander of the Pinsk partisan unit, member of the Pinsk underground regional party committee, major general.
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Zinaida Tusnolobova-Marchenkocarried 123 wounded from the battlefield. On February 2, 1943, in the battle for the Gorshechnoye station in the Kursk region, she was seriously wounded, frostbite, and lay among the corpses for a day. She lost her arms and legs due to frostbite.
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Shmyryov's partisan brigade destroyed the enemy cavalry unit, defeated the enemy convoy and burned the bridges over the rivers Usvyacha, Turovka, Shlyakhotka. During August - September 1941, the partisans of Batka Minai fought 27 battles, destroyed more than 100 Nazis and their accomplices, 14 vehicles, 18 fuel tanks, 8 bridges.
On the night of September 22, 1943, in Minsk, on the instructions of the command of the partisan detachment - "Dima", a Hitlerite protege, the General Commissar of Belarus, was killed by a mine installed by her, in whose house Mazanik worked as a maid. Subsequently, she performed combat missions behind enemy lines.
On September 20, 1943, at a huge risk to her life, Osipova delivered a mine with a chemical fuse from a partisan detachment to Minsk in a basket of lingonberries and handed it over to Mazanik.
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Nadezhda Troyan is legendary intelligence officer, Hero of the Soviet Union. During the war years, she was a resident of the operational group "Arthur", which operated in Minsk. She took an active part in the preparation of the operation to destroy the Gauleiter of Belarus Wilhelm Kube.
Vladimir Omelyanyuk was one of the founders of the underground printing house during the Nazi occupation of Minsk, the editor of the first issue of the underground newspaper Zvyazda.
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In March 1943, the young hero actually saved the partisan detachment. When the punishers surrounded the partisans near the village of Rumok, it was Marat who was able to break out of the encirclement and bring another partisan detachment to the rescue. In December 1943, in a battle on the Slutsk Highway, Marat Kazei obtained valuable enemy documents.
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From the first days of the occupation of the capital, the young Minsker was actively involved in the work of the Minsk underground. At first she went to the Drozdy concentration camp - she brought food and water to the prisoners.
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