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Belarus

Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...

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Communications in Belarus

• Communications in Belarus
  Communications in Belarus
  The Media and telecommunications in Belarus are dominated by the state which owns most of the corporations and infrastructure.-Telephone system:Telephone lines in use: 3.969 million Mobile/cellular: 9.686 million...
  
  
• .by
  .by
  .by is the Internet country code top-level domain for Belarus. It is administered by The Operative-analytical center of the Republic of Belarus . The code "BY" originates from an alternative spelling of Belarus, Byelorussia, which was used during their inclusion in the Soviet Union...
  
  
• Internet in Belarus
  • Internet censorship in Belarus
• National State Teleradiocompany
  National State Teleradiocompany
  The National State TV and Radio Company of the Republic of Belarus is the state television and radio broadcasting service in Belarus....
  
  

World Heritage Sites in Belarus

• Bialowieza Forest
  Bialowieza Forest
  The Belovezhskaya Pushcha / Białowieża Forest, in Belarus and Puszcza Białowieska in Poland, is an ancient woodland straddling the border between the two countries, located north of Brest and south-east of Białystok...
  
  
• Mir Castle Complex
  Mir Castle Complex
  The Mirsky Castle Complex , is a UNESCO World Heritage site in Belarus located in the town of Mir in the Karelichy District of the Hrodna voblast, at , 29 km to the north-west from another World Heritage site, Nesvizh Castle....
  
  
• Niasviž Castle
  Niasviž Castle
  Nesvizh Castle or Niasvizh Castle is a residential castle of the Radziwill family in Nesvizh in Belarus.-History:The estate was owned by the Radziwiłł Polish magnate family from 1533, when it was awarded to Mikołaj Radziwiłł and his brother Jan Radziwiłł after the extinction of the Kiszka family...
  
  
• Struve Geodetic Arc
  Struve Geodetic Arc
  The Struve Geodetic Arc is a chain of survey triangulations stretching from Hammerfest in Norway to the Black Sea, through ten countries and over 2,820 km, which yielded the first accurate measurement of a meridian....
  
  
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Economy of Belarus

• Economy of Belarus
  Economy of Belarus
  Recently, the Belarusian economy has shifted into sustained high gear, along with Ukraine, Russia, and many other Commonwealth of Independent States economies. The economic boom provided by mineral wealth of Russia and other CIS nations and its key location as a transit route between the EU and...
  
  
• Agriculture in Belarus
  Agriculture in Belarus
  Agriculture in Belarus is a shrinking sector of the Belarusian economy. The share of agriculture in GDP declined from 11.6% in 2000 to 7.4% in 2007, while the share of agriculture in total employment dropped from 14.1% to 9.9% over the same period...
  
  
• Belarusian ruble
  Belarusian ruble
  The ruble is the currency of Belarus. The symbol for the ruble is Br and the ISO 4217 code is BYR.-First ruble, 1992–2000:The breakup of supply chain in the former Soviet enterprises demanded that goods be bought and sold on the market, often requiring cash settlement...
  
  
• Brest FEZ
  Brest FEZ
  The Brest Free Economic Zone was created in Brest, the gateway city at the border of Belarus and Poland in 1996. Brest is a perfect place for a free economic zone. It has been a crossroads for trade and transit for centuries. Now it is a primary transit hub in Belarus. The Brest Free Economic Zone...
  
  

Companies of Belarus

• List of Belarusian companies
• Belarusian Telegraph Agency
  Belarusian Telegraph Agency
  The Belarusian Telegraph Agency or BelTA is the state-owned national news agency of the Republic of Belarus. It operates in the Russian and Belarusian languages....
  
  
• Minsk Tractor Works
  Minsk Tractor Works
  Minsk Tractor Works may refer to two entities: a plant in Minsk, Belarus and a plant association in Belarus....
  
  

Trade unions of Belarus

• Belarus Free Trade Union
• Belarusian Congress of Democratic Trade Unions
• Federation of Trade Unions of Belarus

Universities in Belarus

• Academy of Public Administration under the aegis of the President of the Republic of Belarus
  Academy of Public Administration (Belarus)
  The Academy of Public Administration under the aegis of the President of the Republic of Belarus , Minsk, is the leading higher educational establishment in a national education system of the Republic of Belarus and head establishment of education in system of training, retraining and in-service...
  
  
• Belarus universities
• Belarusian State Technological University
  Belarusian State Technological University
  Belarusian State Technological University is a University in Minsk, Belarus specialized in engineering and technology. It was established in Gomel in 1930 as the Forestry Institute. In 1941 it was evacuated to Sverdlovsk, now Yekaterinburg. Returned to Gomel in 1944, but in 1946 relocated to...
  
  
• Belarusian State University
  Belarusian State University
  Belarusian State University , Minsk, Belarus, was founded on October 30, 1921. The BSU is a higher education establishment in the Republic of Belarus.-History:...
  
  
• Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics
  Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics
  The Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics, also known as BSUIR , is a scientific and educational center in Minsk, Belarus The Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics, also known as BSUIR , is a scientific and educational center in Minsk, Belarus The...
  
  
• Republican Institute for Vocational Education
  Republican Institute for Vocational Education
  The Republican Institute for Vocational Education is a higher education institution in Minsk, Belarus. Founded in December 1992, it is managed by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus.-Structure:...
  
  

Geography of Belarus

• Geography of Belarus
  Geography of Belarus
  Belarus, a landlocked, generally flat country without natural borders, occupies an area of , or slightly smaller than the United Kingdom or the state of Kansas...
  
  
• Administrative divisions of Belarus
  Administrative divisions of Belarus
  At the top level of administration, the Eastern European country of Belarus is divided into six voblasts and the city of Minsk, which has a special status being the capital of Belarus...
  
  
• Belarusian Ridge
  Belarusian Ridge
  The Belarusian Ridge is a line of terminal moraines in the northwest of Belarus. This ridge, consisting of low, rolling hills, runs for about 500 km in the direction from west-southwest to east-northeast, from the area of the Brest region, which is close to the border of Poland to the Russian...
  
  
• Brest FEZ
  Brest FEZ
  The Brest Free Economic Zone was created in Brest, the gateway city at the border of Belarus and Poland in 1996. Brest is a perfect place for a free economic zone. It has been a crossroads for trade and transit for centuries. Now it is a primary transit hub in Belarus. The Brest Free Economic Zone...
  
  
• Dnieper-Bug Canal
  Dnieper-Bug Canal
  Dnieper–Bug Canal , or the Dneprovsko-Bugsky Canal is the longest inland ship canal in Belarus that connects the Mukhavets River, a tributary of the Bug River, and the Pina River, a tributary of the Pripyat River. Originally it was named Royal Canal , after the Polish king, since he was the...
  
  
• Dzyarzhynskaya Hara
  Dzyarzhynskaya Hara
  Dzyarzhynskaya Hara is the highest point in Belarus. The hill is 345 meters above sea level and is located west of Minsk, near Dzyarzhynsk, in the village Skirmuntava. The original name of the hill was Svyataya Hara...
  
  
• Extreme points of Belarus
• Kresy
  Kresy
  The Polish term Kresy refers to a land considered by Poles as historical eastern provinces of their country. Today, it makes western Ukraine, western Belarus, as well as eastern Lithuania, with such major cities, as Lviv, Vilnius, and Hrodna. This territory belonged to the Polish-Lithuanian...
  
  
• Kurapaty
  Kurapaty
  Kurapaty is a wooded area on the outskirts of Minsk, Belarus, in which a vast number of people were executed between 1937 and 1941 by the Soviet secret police, the NKVD.The exact count of victims is uncertain, NKVD archives are classified in Belarus...
  
  
• List of Biosphere Reserves in Belarus
• List of cities in Belarus
• List of places in Belarus
• Pinsk Marshes
  Pinsk Marshes
  The Pinsk Marshes or Pripyat Marshes are a vast territory of wetlands along the Pripyat River and its tributaries from Brest, Belarus to Mogilev and Kiev ....
  
  
• Podlaskie
• Polesia
  Polesia
  Polesia is one of the largest European swampy areas, located in the south-western part of the Eastern-European Lowland, mainly within Belarus and Ukraine but also partly within Poland and Russia...
  
  
• Vetka Island
  Vetka Island
  Vetka Island is an island in the Sozh River near the Belarus town of Vetka. The island is known for a large Old Believers community which lived there for a long time in the 18th and 19th centuries...
  
  
• Łojeŭ
• Śvisłač (disambiguation)

Rivers of Belarus

• Babrujka River
  Babrujka River
  Babruyka is a small river in Belarus, a tributary to the Biarezina river. It flows through the city of Babruysk and is named after the beavers which used to inhabit it. Due to industrial pollution, there are no more animals inhabiting the river and its flow has been reduced to a fraction of its...
  
  
• Berezina River
  Berezina River
  The Berezina is a river in Belarus and a tributary of the Dnieper River.The Berezina Preserve by the river is in the UNESCO list of Biosphere Preserves.-Historical significance:...
  
  
• Daugava
• Dnieper River
  Dnieper River
  The Dnieper River is one of the major rivers of Europe that flows from Russia, through Belarus and Ukraine, to the Black Sea.The total length is and has a drainage basin of .The river is noted for its dams and hydroelectric stations...
  
  
• Drahabuž River
  Drahabuž River
  The Drahabuž River is a river in Brest Province in south-west Belarus.It flows through the village of Zdzitava....
  
  
• Drut River
  Drut River
  Drut is a river in Belarus, a right tributary of Dnieper. It originates in the Orsha Upland in the Belarusian Ridge and flows through Vitebsk,Mogilev and Homiel provinces of Belarus.Cities of Tolochin and Rogachev are located by Drut....
  
  
• Horyn River
  Horyn River
  The Horyn or Haryn is a river, a tributary of the Pripyat River, which flows through Ukraine and Belarus. It has a length of 659 km, a drainage basin of 22,700 km², a maximum width of 80 m, and a maximum depth of 16 meters...
  
  
• Iput River
  Iput River
  The Iput River is a river in Mahilyow and Homyel Voblasts in Belarus and Smolensk and Bryansk Oblasts in Russia. It is a left tributary of the Sozh River. The length of the Iput River is 437 km. The area of its basin is 10,900 km². It freezes up in late November and stays icebound until...
  
  
• Jasielda River
  Jasielda River
  The Yaselda River is a river in Brest Province in south-west Belarus. It is linked via the Dnieper-Bug Canal to the city of Pinsk....
  
  
• Kasplya River
  Kasplya River
  Kasplya is a river in Russia and Belarus, a left tributary of the Daugava River. Its length is 224 km, the first 157 km in Russia , and the rest in Belarus . It starts from Lake Kasplya at , and joins the Daugava in the town of Surazh...
  
  
• Kotra River
  Kotra River
  Kotra River is a long river in Belarus and Lithuania. The river is known due to a rare phenomenon of river bifurcation.At first Kotra and Ūla Rivers form one river, known as Pelesa River. Pelesa originates in Belarus and flows in northwestern direction...
  
  
• Lovat River
  Lovat River
  The Lovat River is a river in Belarus and Russia. It flows out of Lovatets Lake in northwestern Belarus, and flows north through Pskov and Novgorod Oblasts of Russia into Lake Ilmen. Its main tributaries are the Kunya, Polist, Redya, and Robya Rivers....
  
  
• Mukhavets River
  Mukhavets River
  Mukhavets , ; ) is a river in western Belarus, a tributary to the Bug River.The river rises in Pruzhany, Belarus where the Mukha river and the Viets canal are converging, flows in the south-western Belarus and empties into the Bug River in Brest....
  
  
• Narač River
  Narac River
  Narač river is a river in north-western Belarus ....
  
  
• Narew
  Narew
  The Narew River , in western Belarus and north-eastern Poland, is a left tributary of the Vistula river...
  
  
• Neman River
  Neman River
  Neman or Niemen or Nemunas, is a major Eastern European river rising in Belarus and flowing through Lithuania before draining into the Curonian Lagoon and then into the Baltic Sea at Klaipėda. It is the northern border between Lithuania and Russia's Kaliningrad Oblast in its lower reaches...
  
  
• Neris
  Neris
  Neris is a river rising in Belarus, flowing through Vilnius and becoming a tributary of the Neman River at Kaunas...
  
  
• Niamiha
  Niamiha
  Niamiha is a river in Minsk. Today it is contained within a fabricated culvert.The first mention of the river in historical chronicles is connected with a disastrous Battle on the river Nemiga, which took place here in 1067, when the forces of the prince of Kievan Rus' defeated the forces of...
  
  
• Pałata
• Pripyat River
  Pripyat River
  The Pripyat River or Prypiat River is a river in Eastern Europe, approximately long. It flows east through Ukraine, Belarus, and Ukraine again, draining into the Dnieper....
  
  
• Ptyč
  Ptyc
  The Ptsich River is a river in Eastern Europe, of approximately 422 km length. It flows south through Belarus, taking its source near Minsk, and draining into the Pripyat, being its left tributary.Its biggest tributary is Aresa....
  
  
• Sozh
  Sozh
  Sozh is an international river flowing in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine. It is a left bank tributary of the Dnieper River. Sozh passes through Gomel, the second largest city in Belarus....
  
  
• Styr River
  Styr River
  The Styr River is right tributary of the Pripyat River, with a length of 494 km. Its basin area is 13,100 km².The Styr River begins near Brody, in the Ukrainian Oblast of Lviv, then flows into the Rivne Oblast, Volyn Oblast, then into the Belarusian voblast of Brest where it finally...
  
  
• Svislach River
  Svislach River
  Svislach or Svisloch is a river in Belarus, a right tributary of the Biarezina river. It is 327 km in length. The name is derived from the root -visl- 'flowing,' of Indo-European origin ....
  
  
• Ūla River
  Ula River
  Ūla is a river in Dzūkija National Park in southern Lithuania.The total length of the river is 84 km. Ūla flows into Merkys....
  
  
• Bug River
  Bug River
  The Bug River is a left tributary of the Narew river flows from central Ukraine to the west, passing along the Ukraine-Polish and Polish-Belarusian border and into Poland, where it empties into the Narew river near Serock. The part between the lake and the Vistula River is sometimes referred to as...
  
  

Provinces of Belarus

• Administrative divisions of Belarus
  Administrative divisions of Belarus
  At the top level of administration, the Eastern European country of Belarus is divided into six voblasts and the city of Minsk, which has a special status being the capital of Belarus...
  
  
• ISO 3166-2:BY
  ISO 3166-2:BY
  ISO 3166-2:BY is the entry for Belarus in ISO 3166-2, part of the ISO 3166 standard published by the International Organization for Standardization , which defines codes for the names of the principal subdivisions of all countries coded in ISO 3166-1.Currently for Belarus, ISO 3166-2 codes are...
  
  
• Brahin Raion
  Brahin Raion
  Brahin Raion is an administrative subdivision, a raion of Homiel Voblast, in Belarus, governed from a small town of Brahin....
  
  
• Brest Voblast
  Brest Voblast
  Brest Voblast or Brest Oblast is a province of Belarus with its administrative center being Brest.Important cities within the voblast' include: Baranovichi, Brest, and Pinsk.-Geography:...
  
  
• Buda-Kashalyowa Raion
  Buda-Kashalyowa Raion
  Buda-Kashalyowa Raion is an administrative subdivision, a raion of Homiel Voblasts, in Belarus....
  
  
• Homiel Voblast
  Homiel Voblast
  Homiel Voblast or Gomel Oblast is a province of Belarus with its administrative center being Homyel.Important cities within the voblasts include: Gomel, Mazyr, Zhlobin, Svetlahorsk, Rechytsia, Kalinkavichy, Rahachow, Dobrush...
  
  
• Hrodna Voblast
  Hrodna Voblast
  Hrodna Voblast or Grodno Oblast is a voblast in northwestern Belarus.The capital - Grodno is the biggest city of the province. It lies on the Neman River. Grodno's existence is attested to from 1127. Two castles dating from the 14th - 18th centuries are located here on the steep right bank of...
  
  
• Mahilyow Voblast
  Mahilyow Voblast
  Mahilyow Voblasts or Mogilyov Oblast is a province of Belarus with its administrative center being Mogilyov ....
  
  
• Minsk
  Minsk
  - Ecological situation :The ecological situation is monitored by Republican Center of Radioactive and Environmental Control .During 2003–2008 the overall weight of contaminants increased from 186,000 to 247,400 tons. The change of gas as industrial fuel to mazut for financial reasons has worsened...
  
  
• Minsk Province (Belarus)
  Minsk Province (Belarus)
  Minsk Voblasc or Minsk Oblast is a province of Belarus with its administrative center being Minsk, although still being a separate administrative subdivision of Belarus...
  
  
• Vitsebsk Voblast
  Vitsebsk Voblast
  Vitsebsk Voblast or Vitebsk Oblast is a province of Belarus with its administrative center being Vitebsk .As of a 2009 estimate, the voblast has a population of 1,230,800...
  
  

Brest Province

• Kamenets Raion
  Kamenets Raion
  Kamenets Raion is an administrative subdivision, a raion of Brest Voblast, in Belarus....
  
  
• Kobryn Raion
  Kobryn Raion
  Kobryn Raion is an administrative subdivision, a raion of Brest Voblast, in Belarus. The regional center - the city of Kobrin. In the region of 162 localities belonging to the 13 rural councils...
  
  
• Pinsk Raion
  Pinsk Raion
  Pinsk Raion is an administrative subdivision, a raion of Brest Voblast, in Belarus.- External links :*...
  
  
• Stolin Raion
  Stolin Raion
  The Stolin Raion is an administrative subdivision, a raion, in the southeast of the Brest Voblast, in Belarus. It was established on January 15, 1940 with its administrative center in the city of Stolin. The region has a population of 89,000 people, of which 26,300 people live in urban areas. ...
  
  
• Baranavichy Raion
  Baranavichy Raion
  Baranavichy Raion is an administrative subdivision, a raion of Brest Voblast, in Belarus....
  
  
• Biaroza rajon
  Biaroza rajon
  Biaroza rajon is an administrative subdivision of the Brest Province of Belarus with the center in Biaroza. The rajon is located in northwestern Polesia....
  
  
• Brest Raion
  Brest Raion
  Brest Raion is an administrative subdivision, a raion of Brest Voblast, in Belarus.- External links :*...
  
  
• Brest Voblast
  Brest Voblast
  Brest Voblast or Brest Oblast is a province of Belarus with its administrative center being Brest.Important cities within the voblast' include: Baranovichi, Brest, and Pinsk.-Geography:...
  
  
• Drahichyn Raion
  Drahichyn Raion
  Drahichyn Raion is an administrative subdivision, a raion of Brest Voblast, in Belarus....
  
  
• Hancavichy Raion
  Hancavichy Raion
  Hantsavichy Raion is an administrative subdivision, a raion of Brest Voblast, in Belarus....
  
  
• Ivanava Raion
  Ivanava Raion
  Ivanava Raion is an administrative subdivision, a raion of Brest Voblast, in Belarus....
  
  
• Ivatsevichy Raion
  Ivatsevichy Raion
  Ivatsevichy Raion is an administrative subdivision, a raion of Brest Voblast, in Belarus....
  
  
• Luninets Raion
  Luninets Raion
  Luninets Raion is an administrative subdivision, a raion of Brest Voblast, in Belarus....
  
  
• Lyakhavichy Raion
  Lyakhavichy Raion
  Lyakhavichy Raion is an administrative subdivision, a raion of Brest Voblast, in Belarus....
  
  
• Malaryta Raion
  Malaryta Raion
  Malaryta Raion is an administrative subdivision, a raion of Brest Voblast, in Belarus....
  
  
• Pruzhany Raion
  Pruzhany Raion
  Pruzhany Raion is an administrative subdivision, a raion of Brest Voblast, in Belarus....
  
  
• Zhabinka Raion
  Zhabinka Raion
  Zhabinka Raion is an administrative subdivision, a raion of Brest Voblast, in Belarus....
  
  

Homiel Voblast

• Homiel Voblast
  Homiel Voblast
  Homiel Voblast or Gomel Oblast is a province of Belarus with its administrative center being Homyel.Important cities within the voblasts include: Gomel, Mazyr, Zhlobin, Svetlahorsk, Rechytsia, Kalinkavichy, Rahachow, Dobrush...
  
  
• Aktsyabar Raion
  Aktsyabar Raion
  Aktsyabarski Raion or Oktyabrsky Raion is an administrative subdivision, a raion of Gomel Region, in southern Belarus, with capital Aktsyabarski-External links:/...
  
  
• Siarhey Balakhonau
  Siarhey Balakhonau
  Siarhey Balakhonau ; born April 24, 1977) is a Belarusian postmodern writer.- Biography :...
  
  
• Brahin Raion
  Brahin Raion
  Brahin Raion is an administrative subdivision, a raion of Homiel Voblast, in Belarus, governed from a small town of Brahin....
  
  
• Buda-Kashalyowa Raion
  Buda-Kashalyowa Raion
  Buda-Kashalyowa Raion is an administrative subdivision, a raion of Homiel Voblasts, in Belarus....
  
  
• Chachersk Raion
  Chachersk Raion
  Chachersk Raion is an administrative subdivision, a raion of Homiel Voblast, in Belarus....
  
  
• Dobrush Raion
  Dobrush Raion
  Dobrush Raion is an administrative subdivision, a raion of Homiel Voblast, in Belarus. A Russian exclave Sankovo-Medvezhye is situated here.- External links :*...
  
  
• Dobruš
  Dobruš
  Dobrush is a town and region within the Homiel Voblast of Belarus. It is located on the Iput River. Mentioned for the first time in 1335.Dobrush is governed by a Regional Executive Committee, the chairman of which is Olga Mokhoreva. In 1986, the city suffered from heavy radioactive fallout from the...
  
  
• Avrohom Elyashiv
  Avrohom Elyashiv
  Rabbi Avrohom Elyashiv was the Av Beis Din of the city of Gomel and son-in-law of the famous kabbalist, Rabbi Shlomo Elyashiv, author of the Leshem Shevo V’Achlamah. He was also the father of Rabbi Yosef Shalom Eliashiv...
  
  
• FC Slavia Mozyr
  FC Slavia Mozyr
  FC Slavia-Mozyr is a Belarusian football team, based in Mozyr, Belarus.-History:The team was founded in 1987 as Polesie Mozyr. Between 1987 and 1991 they played in Belarusian SSR league. From 1992 till 1995 they played in Belarusian First League. They changed their name to MPKC Mozyr since 1994-95...
  
  
• Gomel Airport
  Gomel Airport
  Gomel Airport is an airport located 3 km north-east from Gomel, the second-largest city in Belarus. It was opened in 1968.-Servicing Airlines:...
  
  
• Homyel
  Homyel
  Gomel ; also Homiel, Homel is the administrative center of Gomel Voblast and the second-largest city in Belarus. It has a population of 482,652...
  
  
• Homyel Raion
  Homyel Raion
  Homyel Raion is an administrative subdivision, a raion of Homiel Voblast, in Belarus....
  
  
• Jelsk Raion
  Jelsk Raion
  Yelsk Raion is an administrative subdivision, a raion of Homiel Voblast, in Belarus....
  
  
• Kalinkavichy
  Kalinkavichy
  Kalinkavičy , or Kalinkoviči, is a town in the Homiel Province of south-eastern Belarus. Kalinkavičy is located beside the Pripyat River, opposite the town of Mazyr, and is the site of one of country's most important railway junctions...
  
  
• Kalinkavichy Raion
  Kalinkavichy Raion
  Kalinkavichy Raion is an administrative subdivision, a raion of Homiel Voblast, in Belarus.In 1998, the rural area was united with the town of Kalinkavichy to form a single administrative unit covering 2,756 km², with a total population of 71,500....
  
  
• Khoiniki Raion
  Khoiniki Raion
  Khoiniki Raion is an administrative subdivision, a raion of Homiel Voblast, in Belarus....
  
  
• Loew Raion
  Loew Raion
  Loyew Raion ' is an administrative subdivision, a raion of Homiel Voblast, in Belarus....
  
  
• Lyel'chytsy Raion
  Lyel'chytsy Raion
  Lyelchytsy Raion is an administrative subdivision, a raion of Homiel Voblast, in Belarus, capital Lelchytsy....
  
  
• Mazyr
  Mazyr
  Mazyr, also Mozyr is a city in the Homiel Province of Belarus on the Pripyat River about 210 km east of Pinsk and 100 km northwest of Chernobyl and is located at approximately . The population is 111,770 . The total urban area including Kalinkavičy across the river has a population of...
  
  
• Mazyr Raion
  Mazyr Raion
  Mazyr Raion is an administrative subdivision, a raion of Homiel Voblast, in Belarus....
  
  
• Narowla Raion
  Narowla Raion
  Narowla Raion is an administrative subdivision, a raion of Homiel Voblast, in Belarus....
  
  
• Pyetrykaw Raion
  Pyetrykaw Raion
  Pyetrykaw Raion is an administrative subdivision, a raion of Homiel Voblast, in Belarus....
  
  
• Rahachow
  Rahachow
  Rahachow - also transliteratedRahačoŭ .The notable Rabbi, Yosef Rosen , known as the Rogatchover Gaon , was born and raised here. The artist Anatoli Lvovich Kaplan was born and brought up here, as was former NHL hockey player Sergei Bautin.- External links :*...
  
  
• Rahachow Raion
  Rahachow Raion
  Rahachow Raion is an administrative subdivision, a raion of Homiel Voblast, in Belarus....
  
  
• Rechytsa Raion
  Rechytsa Raion
  Rechytsa Raion is an administrative subdivision, a raion of Homiel Voblast, in Belarus. Administrative center — Rechytsa.-External links:...
  
  
• Rečyca
• Svetlahorsk
  Svetlahorsk
  Svietlahо́rsk is a town in Homiel Province of western Belarus. It is located by the river Biarezina and has 69,900 inhabitants .-Industry:Within Svietlаhorsk there are many industrial activities and organizations...
  
  
• Svetlahorsk Raion
  Svetlahorsk Raion
  Svetlahorsk Raion is an administrative subdivision, a raion of Homiel Voblast, in Belarus....
  
  
• Vetka Raion
  Vetka Raion
  Vetka Raion is an administrative subdivision, a raion of Homiel Voblast, in Belarus.- External links :* *...
  
  
• Zhlobin
  Zhlobin
  Zhlobin is a city in the Homiel Voblast of Belarus, on the Dnieper river. As of 2005, the population is 75.866. The town was first mentioned in writing in 1492....
  
  
• Zhlobin Raion
  Zhlobin Raion
  Zhlobin Raion is an administrative subdivision, a raion of Homiel Voblast, in Belarus....
  
  
• Zhytkavichy Raion
  Zhytkavichy Raion
  Zhytkavichy Raion is an administrative subdivision, a raion of Homiel Voblast, in Belarus....
  
  

Towns in Belarus

• Antopol
  Antopol
  Antopal is a town in Belarus is located at Latitude 52.12.06 N and Longitude 24.47.11 E. It is at an altitude of 518 feet. The approximate population for a 7 kilometer area from this point is 2,469 people....
  
  
• Asipovičy
• Ašmiany
  Ašmiany
  Ashmyany is a town in Hrodna voblast, Belarus , capital of the Ašmiany raion located 25 km from Vilnius. It lies in the basin of the Oshmianka River. It is also known as "Aschemynne" in the Chronicles of the Teutonic Knights. It was birth place of Lucjan Żeligowski, who was a Polish...
  
  
• Astraviec
  Astraviec
  Astraviec is a city in the Hrodna Province of Belarus, an administrative center of the Astravets Raion.On 11 October 2011 an agreement was signed to build Belarus’ first nuclear power plant near the city, using two VVER reactors with active and passive safety systems. The first unit is planned to...
  
  
• Babinavičy
  Babinavicy
  Babinavichy is a small town in the district of Liozna, in the Vicebsk region of Belarus.The town traditionally supplied timber for the Imperial Russian Navy, as is reflected in its coat-of-arms which depicts two masts.The town was previously a Jewish shtetl....
  
  
• Babruysk
  Babruysk
  Babruysk or Bobruysk is a city in the Mahilyow Voblast of Belarus on the Berezina river. It is a large city in Belarus with a population of approximately 227,000 people . The name Babruysk probably originates from the Belarusian word babyor , many of which used to inhabit the Berezina...
  
  
• Baranovichi
  Baranovichi
  Baranovichi , is a city in the Brest Province of western Belarus with a population of 173,000. It is a significant railway junction and home to a state university.-Overview:...
  
  
• Barysaŭ
  Barysau
  Barysaw , also transliterated Barysau, is a city in Belarus situated near the Berezina River in the Minsk Voblast.-History:...
  
  
• Belaazyorsk
  Belaazyorsk
  Belaazyorsk is a city in the southwestern Belarus, voblast of Brest....
  
  
• Berazino
  Berazino
  Berazino , or Berezino , also known as Biarezan , is a town on the River Berezina in the Minsk Province of Belarus. The population is 13,300 .-History:...
  
  
• Biaroza
  Biaroza
  Biaroza is a town of 31 000 inhabitants in Western Belarus in Brest voblast, center of the Biaroza rayon.- History :The village of Biaroza was first mentioned in 1477 as part of the Slonim paviet. In the 15th century, the village probably received the town charter. Between 1538 and 1600 it was...
  
  
• Biešankovičy
  Biešankovicy
  Biešankovičy is a town in the Vitebsk Province of Belarus and a port on the Western Dvina river. It is west of Vitebsk on the railway line between Orsha and Lepiel. The population is 8,200 ....
  
  
• Brasłaŭ
• Braslawl-Zawelski
  Braslawl-Zawelski
  Brasławl-Zawelski is a town in western Belarus....
  
  
• Brest, Belarus
  Brest, Belarus
  Brest , formerly also Brest-on-the-Bug and Brest-Litovsk , is a city in Belarus at the border with Poland opposite the city of Terespol, where the Bug River and Mukhavets rivers meet...
  
  
• Buda-Kashalyowa
  Buda-Kashalyowa
  Buda-Kashalyova is a town in Homyel Voblast, Belarus. It has a population of 8,800 .It was first mentioned in chronicles from the first half of 1824 as village Buda in Mahilyow Gubernia. Its population was 500 ....
  
  
• Bychaw
  Bychaw
  Bykhaw is a town in the eastern Belarusian voblast of Mahilyow. It is located 44 km south of Mahilyow on the Dnieper River , and is the administrative center of the Bykhov Raion. The population is approximately 20,000 ....
  
  
• Čačersk
• Čašniki
  Cašniki
  Chashniki is a town in the Viciebsk Province, Belarus, famous for the Battle of Czasniki that took place in the neighbourhood during the French Invasion of Russia .- External links :* *...
  
  
• Červień
  Cervien
  Červień or Chyervyen’ is a small town in Minsk Voblast, Belarus.In June 1941, the Soviet NKVD mass-executed prisoners from Minsk in the nearby Tsagelnya forest...
  
  
• Chavusy
  Chavusy
  Chaussy, Chavusy or Chausy is a district town in the eastern Belarusian voblast of Mahilyow.It once was a substantial Jewish shtetl, which dated from the 17th century, as appears from a charter granted to the Jews January 11, 1667, by Michael Casimir Pacz, castellan of Vilna, and confirmed by King...
  
  
• Davyd-Haradok
  Davyd-Haradok
  Davyd-Haradok is a city in the southwestern Belarusian voblast of Brest. It has 7,681 inhabitants .-External links:* *...
  
  
• Dobruš
  Dobruš
  Dobrush is a town and region within the Homiel Voblast of Belarus. It is located on the Iput River. Mentioned for the first time in 1335.Dobrush is governed by a Regional Executive Committee, the chairman of which is Olga Mokhoreva. In 1986, the city suffered from heavy radioactive fallout from the...
  
  
• Drahičyn
  Drahicyn
  Drahichyn is a city in the Brest Province of Belarus, an administrative center of the Drahičyn district.-External links:*...
  
  
• Dziatłava
  Dziatłava
  Dzyatlava is a town in Belarus in the Hrodna voblast, about 165 km southeast of Hrodna. It is a railway station on the line between Baranavičy and Lida. The population is 8,900 ....
  
  
• Dzyarzhynsk
  Dzyarzhynsk
  Dzyarzhynsk or Dzerzhinsk; formerly "Koidanova" , in the Stoubcy district of Belarus, is a city with a history dating to the 11th century.-1st century–17th century:...
  
  
• Hancavičy
  Hancavicy
  Hancavichy, Hancavičy or Gantsevichi is a city in the Brest Region of Belarus, an administrative center of the Hantsavichy Raion.Volga-type radar near Hantsavichy is a part of Russian Early warning radar system .-External links:*...
  
  
• Haradok
  Haradok
  Haradok is a town in Vitebsk Province in Belarus with the population of 34,700 people. Approximately 14,000 people reside in the town itself around 30,000 people reside within the district. Haradok district is one of the largest in the country. The town is located on the north-east of Belarus and...
  
  
• Hlybokaye
  Hlybokaye
  Hlybokaye is a town in Vitebsk Oblast, Belarus, the capital of the Hlybokaye Raion . The first records about the settlement are dated 1514....
  
  
• Homyel
  Homyel
  Gomel ; also Homiel, Homel is the administrative center of Gomel Voblast and the second-largest city in Belarus. It has a population of 482,652...
  
  
• Horki
  Horki
  Horki is a city in the Mahiloŭ Province of Belarus, an administrative center of the Horki district. Horki district is situated in the North-East part of Mahiloŭ province. It was formed on 17 July 1924. It occupies 1284 km² and its population is about 52.6 thousand of people. The district is...
  
  
• Hrodna
  Hrodna
  Grodno or Hrodna , is a city in Belarus. It is located on the Neman River , close to the borders of Poland and Lithuania . It has 327,540 inhabitants...
  
  
• Iŭje
  Iuje
  Iwye is a town and former shtetl in Belarus in the Hrodna Province, 158 km east of Hrodna. It is a station on the railway line between Lida and Maladzyechna. The population of Iwye is 8,900 .- People :...
  
  
• Ivacevičy
  Ivacevicy
  Ivacevičy is a city in the Brest Province of Belarus, an administrative center of the Ivacevičy district.-External links:* * *...
  
  
• Ivanava
  Ivanava
  Ivanava is a city in the Brest Province of Belarus, an administrative center of the Ivanava district.First mentioned in 14th century, initially it was a village named Porkhovo. In 1423 it was granted by the king Władysław Jagiełło to the cathedral in Lutsk. Renamed to Janów, in 1465 it was granted...
  
  
• Jelsk
  Jelsk
  Jelsk is a town in Homiel Voblast, Belarus....
  
  
• Kalinkavichy
  Kalinkavichy
  Kalinkavičy , or Kalinkoviči, is a town in the Homiel Province of south-eastern Belarus. Kalinkavičy is located beside the Pripyat River, opposite the town of Mazyr, and is the site of one of country's most important railway junctions...
  
  
• Kamianiec
  Kamianiec
  Kamyanyets is a town in the Brest Voblast of Belarus and the center of the Kamenets Raion. The town is located in the northwestern corner of Brest voblast on the Liasnaja river, about 40 km north of Brest. As of 2002, the population was about 9,000 people...
  
  
• Kareličy
  Karelicy
  Kareličy is a town in Hrodna Province, Belarus, a raion center.The town was historically a center of a large Jewish community, its population in 1900 was 1,840.- People from Kareličy :* Ignacy Domeyko...
  
  
• Khoiniki
  Khoiniki
  Khoiniki is a town in Homiel Voblast, Belarus. In 1986, the city suffered from heavy radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl accident. It is located at ....
  
  
• Kletsk
  Kletsk
  Kletsk is a city in the Minsk voblast of Belarus, located on the Lan river. , it had ca. 10,000 inhabitants.- History :The town was founded in 11th century by the Dregovichs, who erected a large fort and a tribal centre there...
  
  
• Klimovichi
  Klimovichi
  Klimavichy is a city in the eastern Belarusian Mahilyow Voblast. Klimavichy is located east of Mahilyow on the bank of Kalinica River and is the administrative center of the Klimavichy Raion since 1924....
  
  
• Kobryn
  Kobryn
  Kobryn or Kobrin is a city in the Brest voblast of Belarus and the center of the Kobryn Raion. The city is located in the southwestern corner of Belarus where the Mukhavets River and Dnepr-Bug Canal meet. The city lies about 52 km east of the city of Brest. Kobryn is located at Latitude...
  
  
• Kosava, Belarus
• Krichev
  Krichev
  Krychaw or Krichev is a city in the eastern Belarusian Mahilyow Voblast. Krychaw is the administrative center of the Krychaw Raion. It is located on the Sozh River .Krychaw was first mentioned in 1136.-External links:* 36...
  
  
• Łahojsk
• Lakhva
  Lakhva
  Lakhva is a small town in southern Belarus, with a population of approximately 2100. Lakhva is considered to have been the location of one of the first, and possibly the first, Jewish ghetto uprisings of the Second World War.-Geography:Lakhva is located in the Luninets district of the Brest...
  
  
• Lepiel
  Lepiel
  Lepel is a town located in the center of the Lepiel District in the Vitebsk Province of Belarus near Lepiel Lake. Lepiel is situated at about and its population in the 1998 census was 19,400.The coat of arms of Lepel incorporates the Pahonia symbol....
  
  
• Lida
  Lida
  Lida is a city in western Belarus in Hrodna Voblast, situated 160 km west of Minsk. It is the fourteenth largest city in Belarus.- Etymology :...
  
  
• Liozna
  Liozna
  Liozna is an urban type settlement in Vitsebsk Voblast, Belarus, the capital of Liozna Raion. It is located close to the border with Russia by the Vitsebsk-Smolensk railroad branch and highway, on the Moshna River...
  
  
• Łuniniec
• Lyahavichy
  Lyahavichy
  Lyakhavichy is a city in the southwestern Belarusian voblast of Brest.For many centuries, it was part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania...
  
  
• Maladzyechna
  Maladzyechna
  Maladzyechna , is a city in the Minsk Voblast of Belarus, an administrative centre of the Maladzyechna district . It has 98,514 inhabitants and is located 72 km northwest of Minsk. Located on the Usha River, it has been a settlement since 1388 when it was part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania...
  
  
• Mazyr
  Mazyr
  Mazyr, also Mozyr is a city in the Homiel Province of Belarus on the Pripyat River about 210 km east of Pinsk and 100 km northwest of Chernobyl and is located at approximately . The population is 111,770 . The total urban area including Kalinkavičy across the river has a population of...
  
  
• Małaryta
• Meleshkovichi
  Meleshkovichi
  Myaleshkavichy is a village in Homel Voblast in Belarus. It is located 10 miles south west of Mazyr.By the Russian Empire Census of 1897 population of Myaleshkavichy was 1329 people of whom 127 were Jews....
  
  
• Miadzieł
• Mikachevitchy
  Mikachevitchy
  Mikashevichy is a city in the southwestern Belarusian voblast of Brest....
  
  
• Minsk
  Minsk
  - Ecological situation :The ecological situation is monitored by Republican Center of Radioactive and Environmental Control .During 2003–2008 the overall weight of contaminants increased from 186,000 to 247,400 tons. The change of gas as industrial fuel to mazut for financial reasons has worsened...
  
  
• Mir, Belarus
  Mir, Belarus
  Mir is an urban settlement in Kareličy raion, Hrodna Voblast, Belarus on the banks of Miranka River, about 85 kilometers southwest of the national capital, Minsk....
  
  
• Mogilev
  Mogilev
  Mogilev is a city in eastern Belarus, about 76 km from the border with Russia's Smolensk Oblast and 105 km from the border with Russia's Bryansk Oblast. It has more than 367,788 inhabitants...
  
  
• Motal'
  Motal'
  Motal is a township in Ivanava Raion of Brest Voblast located about 20 miles west of Pinsk on the Yaselda River in Belarus.-History:Motal was in the Kobryn Uezd of Grodno Governorate until the collapse of the Russian empire in 1917. Between World War I and World War II it was in the Drahichyn...
  
  
• Mstislavl
• Narowla
  Narowla
  Narowlya is a town in Homiel Voblast, Belarus. The population is 8329 people as of 2005. In 1986, the city suffered from heavy radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl accident....
  
  
• Navahradak
  Navahradak
  -Early history:First mentioned in the Sophian First Chronicle and Fourth Novgorod Chronicle in 1044 in relation to a war of Yaroslav I the Wise against Lithuanian tribes. It was also mentioned in the Hypatian Codex under 1252 as Novogorodok -Early history:First mentioned in the Sophian First...
  
  
• Navapolatsk
  Navapolatsk
  Navapolatsk is a city in Vitsebsk Province, Belarus, with a population of 107,458. Founded in 1958, it is located close to the city of Polatsk and the name literally means "New Polatsk".- History :...
  
  
• Niasviž
• Orsha
  Orsha
  Orsha is a city in Belarus in Vitebsk voblast on the fork of the Dnieper and Arshytsa rivers.-Facts:*Location: *Population: 125,000 *Phone code: +375 216*Postal codes: 211030, 211381–211394, 211396–211398-History:...
  
  
• Pastavy
  Pastavy
  Pastavy is a city in the Vitsebsk Voblast of Belarus, an administrative center of the Pastavy district. In 2009, Pastavy celebrated its 600th anniversary.-External links:* *...
  
  
• Petrtkow
  Petrtkow
  Petrykaw is a town in Homiel Voblast, Belarus....
  
  
• Pinsk
  Pinsk
  Pinsk , a town in Belarus, in the Polesia region, traversed by the river Pripyat, at the confluence of the Strumen and Pina rivers. The region was known as the Marsh of Pinsk. It is a fertile agricultural center. It lies south-west of Minsk. The population is about 130,000...
  
  
• Polatsk
  Polatsk
  Polotsk , is a historical city in Belarus, situated on the Dvina river. It is the center of Polotsk district in Vitsebsk Voblast. Its population is more than 80,000 people...
  
  
• Pruzhany
  Pruzhany
  Pruzhany is a town in Brest Voblast, Belarus. Pruzhany is the center of a district in Brest Region, Belarus. Its population is about 20.000 people. The town is located at the confluence of the Mukha River and the Vets Canal, which give the start to Mukhavets River.-History:Pruzhany has been known...
  
  
• Rahachow
  Rahachow
  Rahachow - also transliteratedRahačoŭ .The notable Rabbi, Yosef Rosen , known as the Rogatchover Gaon , was born and raised here. The artist Anatoli Lvovich Kaplan was born and brought up here, as was former NHL hockey player Sergei Bautin.- External links :*...
  
  
• Rečyca
• Salihorsk
  Salihorsk
  -History:The city it is one of the country's newest settlements: construction having begun in 1958.-Geography:Salihorsk in the south-west of Minsk province, not too far from Slutsk. It dists around from Minsk.-Sport:...
  
  
• Ščučyn
  Šcucyn
  Shchuchyn is a town in the Hrodna Voblast of Belarus. It is the center of the Shchuchyn district. The population is nearly 18,000.-History:...
  
  
• Shkloŭ
  Shklou
  Škłoŭ is a town in Mahilyow Voblast, Belarus, located 35 km north of Mogilev on the Dnieper river. It has a railway station on the line between Orsha and Mogilev. The population is 13,282...
  
  
• Slonim
  Slonim
  Slonim is a city in Hrodna Voblast, Belarus, capital of the Slonim District. It is located at the junction of the Shchara and Isa rivers, 143 km southeast of Hrodna. The population in 2008 was 50,800.-Etymology and historical names:...
  
  
• Slutsk
  Slutsk
  Slutsk is a town in Belarus, located on the Sluch River south of Minsk. As of 2010 its population is of 61,400).-Geography:The town is situated in the south-west of its Voblast, not too far from from the city of Soligorsk.-History:...
  
  
• Smarhon
  Smarhoń
  Smarhoń is a city in Hrodna Voblast, Belarus. It is located at . It was the site of Smarhoń air base, now mostly abandoned. Smarhoń is located 107 km from the capital, Minsk....
  
  
• Śmiłavičy
• Stolin
  Stolin
  Stolin is a town in the Brest Voblast of Belarus. Nowadays, Stolin is the center of the largest district in Brest voblast. The population of Stolin is 12,500 people . The Belarusian-Ukrainian border is about away, so Stolin is now a border city that hosts many Ukrainians on the market days...
  
  
• Stoŭptsy
  Stouptsy
  Stoubtsy or Stoŭbcy, also known as Stouptsy and Stolbtsy is a town in Minsk Province, Belarus, an administrative center of the Stowbtsy raion . It is located at , at the Nieman river. The population is near 16,000.-History:...
  
  
• Svetlahorsk
  Svetlahorsk
  Svietlahо́rsk is a town in Homiel Province of western Belarus. It is located by the river Biarezina and has 69,900 inhabitants .-Industry:Within Svietlаhorsk there are many industrial activities and organizations...
  
  
• Svislach
  Svislach
  Svislach is a town in the South-West of Hrodna voblast, Belarus, an administrative center of the Svislach district.It is connected with Vaŭkavysk by a railroad branch and with Hrodna by a highway...
  
  
• Tałačyn
• Tatarskaya Slabada
  Tatarskaya Slabada
  Tatarskaya Slabada is a historical settlement in Minsk, west and northwest of the old city centre. It is located on the low left bank of Svislach and was settled by Lipka Tatars from the 15th century to mid-20th century...
  
  
• Turaŭ
  Turau
  Turaŭ or Turaw is a town in the Zhytkavichy Raion of Homiel Province of Belarus and the former capital of the medieval Principality of Turov and Pinsk.-History:...
  
  
• Vassilyevichy
  Vassilyevichy
  Vassilyevichy is a city in Homiel Voblast, Belarus....
  
  
• Vaŭkavysk
  Vaukavysk
  Vawkavysk or Vaŭkavysk or Volkovysk is a town in the Hrodna Province of Belarus. It is the center of Vaŭkavysk district and has a population of around 48,000....
  
  
• Vałožyn
• Vetka
  Vetka
  Vetka is a small, historical town in Belarus, situated on the bank of the Sozh River.It is the principal centre in Vetka Raion in Gomel Region....
  
  
• Vileyka
  Vileyka
  Vileyka – town in Republic of Belarus, the capital of the Vileyka Raion in the Minsk Voblast. It is located on the river Viliya, 100 km to northwest from Minsk. First documental record: 16 November 1460....
  
  
• Vitebsk
  Vitebsk
  Vitebsk, also known as Viciebsk or Vitsyebsk , is a city in Belarus, near the border with Russia. The capital of the Vitebsk Oblast, in 2004 it had 342,381 inhabitants, making it the country's fourth largest city...
  
  
• Wysokie Litewskie
  Wysokie Litewskie
  Vysokaye is a town in Brest Voblast, Belarus.It is at an altitude of 524 feet. The approximate population for a 7 kilometer area from this point is 2300 people. There is a conflicting report that in 1991 the population was 5000 people...
  
  
• Zasłaŭje
• Zhabinka
  Zhabinka
  Zhabinka is a city in the southwestern Belarusian voblast of Brest. It is the administrative center of the Zhabinka Raion. Its population is 12,800.-History:The name was first mentioned in Russian official papers in 1817....
  
  
• Zhlobin
  Zhlobin
  Zhlobin is a city in the Homiel Voblast of Belarus, on the Dnieper river. As of 2005, the population is 75.866. The town was first mentioned in writing in 1492....
  
  
• Zhodzina
  Zhodzina
  Zhodzina , or Zhodino, is a city in Belarus, located in the Minsk Region, 50 km to north-east from Minsk. The city covers an area of 19 km² and has a population of 61,800 .-Geography:...
  
  
• Žytkavičy
  Žytkavicy
  Zhytkavichy is a town in the Homiel Province of Belarus, an administrative center of the Žytkavičy district. The population is near 16,600.- External links :**...
  
  

Minsk

• Minsk
  Minsk
  - Ecological situation :The ecological situation is monitored by Republican Center of Radioactive and Environmental Control .During 2003–2008 the overall weight of contaminants increased from 186,000 to 247,400 tons. The change of gas as industrial fuel to mazut for financial reasons has worsened...
  
  
• BELOMO
  BELOMO
  BelOMO or Belorusskoe Optiko-Mechanichesckoye Obyedinenie was founded in Minsk in 1971 in Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union, now Belarus. The main plant of this enterprise is the Minskiy Mechanichesckiy Zavod imeni S.I. Vavilova BelOMO or Belorusskoe Optiko-Mechanichesckoye Obyedinenie (Belarus...
  
  
• Belarus (tractor)
  Belarus (tractor)
  Belarus is a series of four-wheeled tractors produced since 1950 at the Minsk Tractor Plant, MTZ in Minsk, Belarus....
  
  
• Belarusfilm
  Belarusfilm
  Belarusfilm is the main film studio of Belarus.Founded in 1928 as Soviet Belarus studio in Leningrad, the studio was moved to Minsk in 1939...
  
  
• Belarusian State Technological University
  Belarusian State Technological University
  Belarusian State Technological University is a University in Minsk, Belarus specialized in engineering and technology. It was established in Gomel in 1930 as the Forestry Institute. In 1941 it was evacuated to Sverdlovsk, now Yekaterinburg. Returned to Gomel in 1944, but in 1946 relocated to...
  
  
• Belarusian State University
  Belarusian State University
  Belarusian State University , Minsk, Belarus, was founded on October 30, 1921. The BSU is a higher education establishment in the Republic of Belarus.-History:...
  
  
• Chelyuskinites Park
  Chelyuskinites Park
  Chelyuskinites Park is an urban forest park in Minsk, Belarus. The park's area is 78 hectares.The park contains an amusement park. Other attractions include a Children's Railroad, operated exclusively by teenagers, and a cinema Raduga . There is a Minsk Metro station "Park Chalyuskintsau" next to...
  
  
• Children's Railroad (Minsk)
• Dinamo Stadium (Minsk)
  Dinamo Stadium (Minsk)
  Dynama Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Minsk, Belarus. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of Dynama Minsk. The stadium has a seating capacity for 40,000 people. Dynama Stadium was constructed in 1934, but was destroyed during World War II and rebuilt in...
  
  
• Dinamo-93 Minsk
  Dinamo-93 Minsk
  FC Dinamo-93 Minsk was a Belarusian football club based in Minsk. They disbanded in 1998.-History:Dinamo-2 Minsk was founded in 1992 as a reserve team for Dinamo Minsk, replacing Dinamo-d Minsk, who competed in Soviet Double Top League before the dissolution of USSR. Dinamo-2 spent 1992 season in...
  
  
• Elektrit
  Elektrit
  Elektrit Radiotechnical Society was the biggest private-run company in Wilno in the interwar period. With over 1100 workers, the society produced approximately 50 thousand radio receivers annually. A large percentage of the production was exported abroad, mostly to Sweden, Germany, Czechoslovakia...
  
  
• F. C. Dinamo Minsk
  F. C. Dinamo Minsk
  Football Club Dinamo Minsk is a Belarusian football club playing in the capital city of Minsk. Their home games are played at the Dinamo-Yuni, capable of seating 4,500 spectators....
  
  
• FC MTZ-RIPO
  FC MTZ-RIPO
  FC Partizan Minsk is a Belarusian Premier League football team, part of Russian-Lithuanian businessman Vladimir Romanov's soccer holding which also includes Scottish Premier League club Hearts and Lithuanian A Lyga champion FBK Kaunas...
  
  
• FC Traktor
  FC Traktor
  FC Traktar Minsk is a now-defunct football team from Byelorussian SSR, was established in 1947 during building of Minsk Traktar Plant as a sport section for construction workers and later for local factory personal...
  
  
• FC Zvezda-BGU
  FC Zvezda-BGU
  FC Zvezda-BGU Minsk is a Belarusian football team, based in Minsk, Belarus.-History:The team was founded in 1996.Zvezda-VA-BGU made its debut in Premier League in 2002 and played there until 2005...
  
  
• Gorky Park (Minsk)
  Gorky Park (Minsk)
  Gorky Park is a public park in Minsk, Belarus.In is located near the Victory Square and the Yanka Kupala Park....
  
  
• History of Minsk
  History of Minsk
  Early East Slavs settled the forested hills of today's Minsk by the 9th century. They had been migrating from further south and pushing the preceding Balts northwards. The valley of Svislach river was settlement boundary between two Early East Slavs' tribal unions – Krivich and Dregovichs...
  
  
• Kurapaty
  Kurapaty
  Kurapaty is a wooded area on the outskirts of Minsk, Belarus, in which a vast number of people were executed between 1937 and 1941 by the Soviet secret police, the NKVD.The exact count of victims is uncertain, NKVD archives are classified in Belarus...
  
  
• MKAD (Minsk)
  MKAD (Minsk)
  MKAD is the name of the beltway that goes around Minsk, Belarus. The name is an abbreviation that means Minsk BeltWay . The 56.2 km road straddles the Minsk city limits.-History:...
  
  
• Minsk (motorcycle)
  Minsk (motorcycle)
  Minsk Motorcycle, or also known as Motovelo Corp, is a company that produces motorcycles. Minsk produces bicycles under its AIST brand. Motovelo is located in Minsk, the capital of Belarus.- History :...
  
  
• Minsk Blitz
  Minsk Blitz
  The Minsk Blitz was the heavy bombing of the city of Minsk in the USSR during the Second World War.During 24 June 1941 three waves of bombers, of 47 aircraft each, bombed Minsk. The anti-aircraft defense of the city was poorly organized, and panic ensued. Because the water supply was destroyed,...
  
  
• Minsk International Airport
  Minsk International Airport
  thumb|300pix|Minsk National Airport location within the limits of Kastrychnitski District of MinskMinsk National Airport , , former name is Minsk-2, is the main international airport in Belarus, located 42 km to the east of the capital Minsk, geographically lying in the territory of...
  
  
• Minsk Province (Belarus)
  Minsk Province (Belarus)
  Minsk Voblasc or Minsk Oblast is a province of Belarus with its administrative center being Minsk, although still being a separate administrative subdivision of Belarus...
  
  
• Minsk Terminal
  Minsk Terminal
  Minsk Passazhirsky is the main passenger rail terminal in Belarus. It is located in the centre of Minsk. It is sometimes called Minsk Ploshchad Lenina due to the metro station serving the terminal, or simply Minsk.-History:The station was built in 1873 as Vilenski vakzal, Vilnius station...
  
  
• Minsk Tractor Works
  Minsk Tractor Works
  Minsk Tractor Works may refer to two entities: a plant in Minsk, Belarus and a plant association in Belarus....
  
  
• Minsk-1
  Minsk-1
  Minsk-1 Airport is an airport located within the city limits of Minsk, Belarus, just a few kilometres south from the centre. It takes about 10 minutes by car or bus to reach the airport from the city centre. It has one 2000 m x 60 m runway, enabling aircraft of maximum weight of 63 tons to...
  
  
• Mińsk Voivodeship
  Minsk Voivodeship
  Minsk Voivodeship was a unit of administrative division and local government in Grand Duchy of Lithuania since 1413 and later in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth till the partitions of the Commonwealth in 1795...
  
  
• Niamiha
  Niamiha
  Niamiha is a river in Minsk. Today it is contained within a fabricated culvert.The first mention of the river in historical chronicles is connected with a disastrous Battle on the river Nemiga, which took place here in 1067, when the forces of the prince of Kievan Rus' defeated the forces of...
  
  
• Republican Institute for Vocational Education
  Republican Institute for Vocational Education
  The Republican Institute for Vocational Education is a higher education institution in Minsk, Belarus. Founded in December 1992, it is managed by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus.-Structure:...
  
  
• Traktor Stadium
  Traktor Stadium
  The Traktar Stadium, formerly known as Stadium of the VSS Red Banner , is the second largest multi-purpose stadium in Belarus. It was built as part of the citywide plan to create sport complex areas in every new suburb of Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic capital and to accommodate rapidly...
  
  
• Water féerie
  Water féerie
  "Water féerie" was a flashmob performance, initiated by several Belarusian youth opposition movements on May 14, 2005 on the 10th anniversary of the referendum .The action was in the form of boat racing under...
  
  

Villages in Belarus

• Maly Trostenets extermination camp
  Maly Trostenets extermination camp
  Maly Trastsianiets extermination camp , located near a small village on the outskirts of Minsk, Belarus, was the site of a Nazi extermination camp.- History :...
  
  
• Obech, Belarus
  Obech, Belarus
  Obech is a village in Belarus in the district of Brest, located at , 157.0 miles SW of Minsk. It was formerly a Jewish shtetl....
  
  
• Zdrawneva
  Zdrawneva
  Zdrawneva was a manor house and estate in Belarus. It is located in the municipality of Ruba .The Ilya Yefimovich Repin museum at the Zdravniovo estate was set up in 1988...
  
  
• Zdzitava
  Zdzitava
  Zdzitava is a village in the Biaroza rajon of the Brest voblast of Belarus located between the lakes chornaye and Sporawskaye on the Drahabuzh River with a population of fewer than 1000 people.-History:...
  
  

History of Belarus

• 30th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Belarussian)
• Battle of Bereza Kartuska (1919)
  Battle of Bereza Kartuska (1919)
  Battle of Bereza Kartuska was one of the first clashes between the organised forces of the Second Polish Republic and Soviet Russia and considered by some historians the first battle of the Polish-Soviet War....
  
  
• Battle of the Niemen River
  Battle of the Niemen River
  The Battle of the Niemen River was the second-greatest battle of the Polish-Soviet War. It took place near the middle Neman River between the cities of Suwałki, Grodno and Białystok...
  
  
• Belarusian Central Rada
  Belarusian Central Rada
  The Belarusian Central Rada was nominally the government of Belarus from 1943–44. It was a collaborationist government established by Nazi Germany within the occupation and colonial administration of Reichskommissariat Ostland.- Timeline :...
  
  
• Belarusian National Republic
  Belarusian National Republic
  The Belarusian People's Republic was a self-declared independent Belarusian state, which declared independence in 1918. It is also called the Belarusian Democratic Republic or the Belarusian National Republic, in order to distinguish it from Communist People's Republics...
  
  
• Belarusian resistance movement
  Belarusian resistance movement
  Belarusian resistance during World War II was focused towards Nazi Germany from 1941 until 1944. Belarus was one of the Soviet republics occupied during Operation Barbarossa...
  
  
• Berestia
  Berestia
  Berestia , or Land of Berestia is the part of Belarusian and Polish ethnic territory, bounded by the Bug River, Pripyat River, Yaselda River, and Narew River.-Cities:...
  
  
• Bielski partisans
  Bielski partisans
  The Bielski partisans were an organisation of Jewish partisans who rescued Jews from extermination and fought against the Nazi German occupiers and their collaborators in the vicinity of Nowogródek and Lida in German-occupied Poland...
  
  
• Black Ruthenia
  Black Ruthenia
  Black Ruthenia, Black Rus or Black Russia are variant conventional terms used for a region around Navahrudak , in the western part of contemporary Belarus on the upper reaches of the Neman River for the time period between the 13th and 14th centuries...
  
  
• Michael Boleslaw
  Michael Boleslaw
  Michael Žygimantaitis was the last male descendant of Kęstutis, Grand Duke of Lithuania. He supported his father Sigismund Kęstutaitis in power struggles with Švitrigaila. In 1435 he led his father's army to victory in the Battle of Pabaiskas. After his father's assassination in 1440, Michael...
  
  
• Boris stones
  Boris stones
  Boris Stones , also called Dvina Stones , are seven medieval artifacts erected along the bank of the Western Dvina between Polotsk and Drissa, Belarus. They probably predate Christianity in the area, but were inscribed in the 12th century with text and an image of Christ...
  
  
• Butaw
  Butaw
  Butautas or Butaw was a son of Kęstutis, Grand Duke of Lithuania. He attempted to depose his uncle Algirdas and usurp power in Lithuania, but failed and was forced into exile. He joined the court of the Holy Roman Emperor and even inspired a poem about conversion to Christianity...
  
  
• Butigeidis
  Butigeidis
  Butigeidis was the Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1285 to 1291. He is the first known and undisputed member of the Gediminids.He started his rule when the Livonian Order and the Teutonic Knights were finalizing their conquest of the Baltic tribes. In 1289, leading about 8,000 troops, Butigeidis...
  
  
• Butvydas
  Butvydas
  Butvydas was the Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1292 to 1295. His influence was strong during his brother Butigeidis' reign. This led some historians to believe, that they were co-rulers, much like the grandsons Algirdas and Kęstutis...
  
  
• Byelorussian SSR
  Byelorussian SSR
  The Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic was one of fifteen constituent republics of the Soviet Union. It was one of the four original founding members of the Soviet Union in 1922, together with the Ukrainian SSR, the Transcaucasian SFSR and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic...
  
  
• Chernobyl disaster
  Chernobyl disaster
  The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine , which was under the direct jurisdiction of the central authorities in Moscow...
  
  
• Chorny Kot
  Chorny Kot
  Čorny Kot was a German-trained Belarusian nationalist, anti-Soviet guerrilla unit during World War II.As part of the Nazis' effort to combat the enormous Soviet partisan movement in Belarus during the war, special units of local collaborationists were trained by the SS's Otto Skorzeny to...
  
  
• Cities of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
  Cities of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
  There were many major cities in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.-Capitals :*Voruta or Navahradak *Kernavė*Trakai*Vilnius-Centers of voivodships :*Brest*Minsk...
  
  
• Coat of arms of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
  Coat of arms of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
  The Coat of Arms of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was the symbol of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, representing the union of the Crown of the Polish Kingdom and Grand Duchy of Lithuania...
  
  
• Curzon Line
  Curzon Line
  The Curzon Line was put forward by the Allied Supreme Council after World War I as a demarcation line between the Second Polish Republic and Bolshevik Russia and was supposed to serve as the basis for a future border. In the wake of World War I, which catalysed the Russian Revolution of 1917, the...
  
  
• Dausprungas
  Dausprungas
  Dausprungas was older brother of Mindaugas, the first King of Lithuania. Dausprungas is mentioned only once in the peace treaty with Halych-Volhynia in 1219 among the 21 early dukes of Lithuania as one of the five elder dukes...
  
  
• Demetrius I Starshiy
  Demetrius I Starshiy
  Dmitry I Starshy or Dmitry of Bryansk was the second eldest son of Algirdas, Grand Duke of Lithuania, and his first wife Maria of Vitebsk. He was Duke of Bryansk from 1356 to 1379 and from 1388 to 1399....
  
  
• Druck
  Druck
  Druck or Drutsk or Дрюческъ in the Middle Ages), is a historical town in Belarus, 40 kilometres west of Mahilyow....
  
  
• Duchy of Polatsk
  Duchy of Polatsk
  The Principality of Polotsk, also known as the Kingdom of Polotsk or the Duchy of Polotsk was a medieval principality of the Early East Slavs, and was considered one of the constituent principalities within the Kievan Rus', although with a wide degree of autonomy. It was established around the...
  
  
• Duchy of Ruthenia
• Duchy of Zasłaŭje
• Eastern Vilnius region
• Erdywil
  Erdywil
  Erdvilas was one of the 21 early dukes of Lithuania who signed a treaty with Galicia–Volhynia in 1219. He and Vykintas are the two dukes of Samogitia mentioned in the treaty. This is supported by the fact that the eastern part of Samogitia supported King of Lithuania Mindaugas, while the western...
  
  
• Flag of Byelorussian SSR
  Flag of Byelorussian SSR
  This flag was adopted by the Byelorussian SSR on December 25, 1951. Prior to this, the flag was red with the Cyrillic characters БССР in gold in the top-left corner, surrounded by a gold border. Between 1937 and the adoption of the above flag in the 1940s, the flag was the same, but with a gold...
  
  
• Gediminids
  Gediminids
  The Gediminids were a dynasty of monarchs of Grand Duchy of Lithuania that reigned from the 14th to the 16th century. One branch of this dynasty, known as the Jagiellons, reigned also in Kingdom of Poland, Kingdom of Hungary and Kingdom of Bohemia...
  
  
• Gediminas of Lithuania
  Gediminas of Lithuania
  Gediminas was Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1315 or 1316 until his death. He is credited with founding this political entity and expanding its territory which, at the time of his death, spanned the area ranging from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea...
  
  
• Giligin
• Gimbut
• Ginwill
• Golden age of Belarusian history
  Golden age of Belarusian history
  The Golden age of Belarusian history is the metaphorical term, relating to the period of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Particularly, it is sometimes used in relation to the Belarusian history of the entire 16th century....
  
  
• Grand Duchy of Lithuania
  Grand Duchy of Lithuania
  The Grand Duchy of Lithuania was a European state from the 12th /13th century until 1569 and then as a constituent part of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth until 1791 when Constitution of May 3, 1791 abolished it in favor of unitary state. It was founded by the Lithuanians, one of the polytheistic...
  
  
• Hero-Fortress
  Hero-Fortress
  Hero-Fortress is the honorary title awarded to the Soviet Brest Fortress, now in Brest, Belarus in 1965 for the defence of the frontier stronghold during the very first weeks of the German-Soviet War of 1941 to 1945...
  
  
• Hetman
  Hetman
  Hetman was the title of the second-highest military commander in 15th- to 18th-century Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, which together, from 1569 to 1795, comprised the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, or Rzeczpospolita....
  
  
• Hetmans of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
  Hetmans of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
  Hetmans of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth were the highest-ranking military officers, second only to the King, in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The first Polish title of Grand Crown Hetman was created in 1505. The title of hetman was given to the leader of Polish Army and till 1581 it was...
  
  
• Jaunutis
  Jaunutis
  Jaunutis was the Grand Duke of Lithuania from his father Gediminas' death in 1341 until he was deposed by his elder brothers Algirdas and Kęstutis in 1345....
  
  
• Jeans Revolution
  Jeans Revolution
  The Jeans Revolution was a term used by the democratic opposition in Belarus and their supporters in the West to describe their effort and aspirations as regarding democratic changes in Belarus at the presidential elections of 2006...
  
  
• Jewna
  Jewna
  Jewna was daughter of Prince Ivan of Polatsk and wife of Gediminas, the Grand Duke of Lithuania, Ruthenia and Samogitia . She is mentioned in written sources only once – the Bychowiec Chronicle, a late and unreliable source...
  
  
• Jogaila
  Jogaila
  Jogaila, later 'He is known under a number of names: ; ; . See also: Jogaila : names and titles. was Grand Duke of Lithuania , king consort of Kingdom of Poland , and sole King of Poland . He ruled in Lithuania from 1377, at first with his uncle Kęstutis...
  
  
• Khatyn massacre
  Khatyn massacre
  Khatyn, Chatyń was a village in Belarus, in Lahojsk district, Minsk Voblast. On March 22, 1943, the population of the village was massacred during World War II by the 118th Schutzmannschaft battalion, formed in July 1942 in Kiev, mostly from Ukrainian collaborators, prisoners of war and...
  
  
• Kęstutis
  Kestutis
  Kęstutis was monarch of medieval Lithuania. He was the Duke of Trakai and governed the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, 1342–82, together with his brother Algirdas , and with his nephew Jogaila...
  
  
• Kiernus
• Kievan Rus'
  Kievan Rus'
  Kievan Rus was a medieval polity in Eastern Europe, from the late 9th to the mid 13th century, when it disintegrated under the pressure of the Mongol invasion of 1237–1240....
  
  
• Knyaz
  Knyaz
  Kniaz, knyaz or knez is a Slavic title found in most Slavic languages, denoting a royal nobility rank. It is usually translated into English as either Prince or less commonly as Duke....
  
  
• Koniuszy
• Koriat
  Koriat
  Karijotas or Koriat was the Duke of Navahrudak and Vaŭkavysk, one of the sons of Gediminas, Grand Duke of Lithuania...
  
  
• Kozlovichi Mental Asylum
  Kozlovichi Mental Asylum
  Kozlovichi Mental Asylum was an institution for the mentally ill in Randilovshchina, Grodno Province, Belarus. The wooden construction housing the building was built in 1905 and destroyed by fire on October 12, 2003...
  
  
• Kukowoyt
• Kurapaty
  Kurapaty
  Kurapaty is a wooded area on the outskirts of Minsk, Belarus, in which a vast number of people were executed between 1937 and 1941 by the Soviet secret police, the NKVD.The exact count of victims is uncertain, NKVD archives are classified in Belarus...
  
  
• Lakhva
  Lakhva
  Lakhva is a small town in southern Belarus, with a population of approximately 2100. Lakhva is considered to have been the location of one of the first, and possibly the first, Jewish ghetto uprisings of the Second World War.-Geography:Lakhva is located in the Luninets district of the Brest...
  
  
• Valeri Legasov
  Valeri Legasov
  Valery Alexeyevich Legasov was a prominent Soviet scientist in the field of inorganic chemistry, a member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. He is most famous for his work as the chief of the investigation committee of the Chernobyl disaster on April 26, 1986.-Early life and...
  
  
• Lipka Tatars
  Lipka Tatars
  The Lipka Tatars are a group of Tatars who originally settled in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania at the beginning of 14th century. The first settlers tried to preserve their shamanistic religion and sought asylum amongst the non-Christian Lithuanians...
  
  
• List of castles of Belarus
• List of early East Slavic states
• Lithuanian-Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic
  Lithuanian-Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic
  Lithuanian–Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic or Litbel was a Soviet socialist republic, that existed within the territories of modern Belarus and eastern Lithuania for approximately seven months during 1919. It was created after the merger of Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic and the...
  
  
• Lubart
  Lubart
  Liubartas was the ruler of Galicia–Volhynia, in present-day Ukraine. He was the youngest son of Gediminas, Grand Duke of Lithuania. Ca. 1320 or ca. 1323 he married a daughter of Andrew of Galicia and ruled Lutsk in eastern Volhynia. After Andrew and his brother Lev II died ca...
  
  
• Maly Trostenets extermination camp
  Maly Trostenets extermination camp
  Maly Trastsianiets extermination camp , located near a small village on the outskirts of Minsk, Belarus, was the site of a Nazi extermination camp.- History :...
  
  
• Manvydas
  Manvydas
  Manvydas or Monwid was the eldest son of Gediminas, Grand Duke of Lithuania, and inherited Kernavė and Slonim after his father's death in 1341. It is believed that he died in the Battle of Strėva in 1348.-References:...
  
  
• Military history of Belarus during World War II
  Military history of Belarus during World War II
  -September 1939 – June 1941:The Molotov-Ribbentrop Non-Aggression Pact of August 1939 had established a non-aggression agreement between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, and a secret protocol described how Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Romania would be divided between...
  
  
• Military settlement
  Military settlement
  Military settlements represented a special organization of the Russian military forces in 1810–1857, which allowed the combination of military service and agricultural employment.-The beginning of the reform:...
  
  
• Mindaugas
  Mindaugas
  Mindaugas was the first known Grand Duke of Lithuania and the only King of Lithuania. Little is known of his origins, early life, or rise to power; he is mentioned in a 1219 treaty as an elder duke, and in 1236 as the leader of all the Lithuanians...
  
  
• Mindowhowna
• Mingayl
• History of Minsk
  History of Minsk
  Early East Slavs settled the forested hills of today's Minsk by the 9th century. They had been migrating from further south and pushing the preceding Balts northwards. The valley of Svislach river was settlement boundary between two Early East Slavs' tribal unions – Krivich and Dregovichs...
  
  
• Mir yeshiva
  Mir yeshiva
  Mir Yeshiva or Mirrer Yeshiva may refer to:* Mir yeshiva * Mir yeshiva * Mir yeshiva...
  
  
• Mongol invasion of Rus
  Mongol invasion of Rus
  The Mongol invasion of Russia was resumed on 21 December 1237 marking the resumption of the Mongol invasion of Europe, during which the Mongols attacked the medieval powers of Poland, Kiev, Hungary, and miscellaneous tribes of less organized peoples...
  
  
• Montwił
• Morta
  Morta
  Morta was the Grand Duchess of Lithuania and later Queen of Lithuania . There is very little known about her life; even her pre-Christianised name is unknown...
  
  
• Mikhail Nikolayevich Muravyov-Vilensky
  Mikhail Nikolayevich Muravyov-Vilensky
  Count Mikhail Nikolayevich Muravyov was one of the most reactionary Russian imperial statesmen of the 19th century...
  
  
• Narymont
• Narymunt
  Narymunt
  Narimantas or Narymunt was the second eldest son of Gediminas, Grand Duke of Lithuania. During various periods of his life, he ruled Pinsk and Polatsk. In 1333 he was invited by Novgorod's nobles to rule and protect territories in the north, Ladoga, Oreshek and Korela...
  
  
• Occupation of Belarus by Nazi Germany
  Occupation of Belarus by Nazi Germany
  The occupation of Belarus by Nazi Germany occurred as part of the German invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941 and ended in August 1944 with the Soviet Operation Bagration.- Background :...
  
  
• Algirdas
  Algirdas
  Algirdas was a monarch of medieval Lithuania. Algirdas ruled the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from 1345 to 1377, which chiefly meant monarch of Lithuanians and Ruthenians...
  
  
• Pale of Settlement
  Pale of Settlement
  The Pale of Settlement was the term given to a region of Imperial Russia, in which permanent residency by Jews was allowed, and beyond which Jewish permanent residency was generally prohibited...
  
  
• Palemon
• Partitions of Poland
  Partitions of Poland
  The Partitions of Poland or Partitions of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth took place in the second half of the 18th century and ended the existence of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, resulting in the elimination of sovereign Poland for 123 years...
  
  
• Polish Autonomous District
  Polish Autonomous District
  Polish Autonomous Districts were national raions in the interbellum period possessing some form of a national autonomy in the Ukrainian and Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republics of the USSR...
  
  
• Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
  Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
  The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was a dualistic state of Poland and Lithuania ruled by a common monarch. It was the largest and one of the most populous countries of 16th- and 17th‑century Europe with some and a multi-ethnic population of 11 million at its peak in the early 17th century...
  
  
• Polish-Lithuanian-Muscovite Commonwealth
  Polish-Lithuanian-Muscovite Commonwealth
  The Polish–Lithuanian–Muscovite Commonwealth was a proposed state that would have been based on a personal union between the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Tsardom of Russia...
  
  
• Polish-Lithuanian-Ruthenian Commonwealth
  Polish-Lithuanian-Ruthenian Commonwealth
  Polish–Lithuanian–Ruthenian Commonwealth was a proposed European state in the 17th century that would replace contemporal Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The creation of a Duchy of Ruthenia was considered at various times, particularly during the 1648 Cossack insurrection against Polish rule in...
  
  
• Polish-Lithuanian-Teutonic War
  Polish-Lithuanian-Teutonic War
  The Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War or Great War occurred between 1409 and 1411, pitting allied Kingdom of Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania against the Teutonic Knights. Inspired by the local Samogitian uprising, the war began by Teutonic invasion of Poland in August 1409...
  
  
• Polonization
  Polonization
  Polonization was the acquisition or imposition of elements of Polish culture, in particular, Polish language, as experienced in some historic periods by non-Polish populations of territories controlled or substantially influenced by Poland...
  
  
• Pukuwer
• Republic of Central Lithuania
  Republic of Central Lithuania
  The Republic of Central Lithuania or Middle Lithuania , or simply Central Lithuania , was a short-lived political entity, which did not gain international recognition...
  
  
• Roman Danylovich
  Roman Danylovich
  Roman Danylovich , Prince of Black Ruthenia 1254–1258, Prince of Slonim?.He was born as a younger son of Danylo of Halych, a powerful prince of lands east from Poland and later king of those regions, which was most of the times called Volhynia or Ruthenia .In 1252 he was married to Gertrude,...
  
  
• Roman of Ruthenia
• Royal coronations in Poland
  Royal coronations in Poland
  Royal coronations in Poland officially began in 1025 and continued until 1764, when the final King of an independent Poland, Stanisław August Poniatowski, was crowned at St. John's Cathedral in Warsaw. Most Polish coronations took place at the Wawel Cathedral in Kraków, but crownings also occurred...
  
  
• Russification
  Russification
  Russification is an adoption of the Russian language or some other Russian attributes by non-Russian communities...
  
  
• Ryngold
  Ryngold
  Ryngold or Rimgaudas was a mythological Grand Duke of Lithuania from the Palemonids legends and father of Mindaugas, the first King of Lithuania . Ryngold, son of otherwise unknown Algimantas, is first mentioned in the second redaction of the Lithuanian Chronicle written c. 1515 and has no...
  
  
• Severians
  Severians
  The Severians or Severyans or Siverians were a tribe or tribal union of early East Slavs occupying areas to the east of the middle Dnieper river around the rivers Desna, Sejm and Sula on the territory of the archaeological Romny culture....
  
  
• Sigismund Kestutaitis
  Sigismund Kestutaitis
  Sigismund Kęstutaitis was the Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1432 to 1440. Sigismund was his baptismal name; Sigismund's pagan Lithuanian birth name is unknown. He was son of the Grand Duke of Lithuania Kęstutis and his wife Birutė....
  
  
• Sigismund Korybut
  Sigismund Korybut
  Sigismund Korybut was a duke from the Gediminid dynasty, best known as a military commander of the Hussite army and a governor of Bohemia and Prague during the Hussite Wars....
  
  
• Skirgaila
  Skirgaila
  Skirgaila , also known as Ivan; ca. 1353 or 1354 – 11 January 1397 in Kiev; baptized 1383/1384 as Casimir) was a regent of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania for his brother Jogaila from 1386 to 1392. He was son of Algirdas, Grand Duke of Lithuania, and his second wife Uliana of Tver.-Biography:After...
  
  
• Skirmunt
• Sluzk Affair
  Sluzk Affair
  The Sluzk Affair refers to the massacre of thousands of Jews and others that occurred in Slutsk, Belarus in the Soviet Union, in October 1941, near the city of Minsk while under German occupation during World War II. The perpetrators were a combination of Gestapo special forces and Lithuanian...
  
  
• Sovietization
  Sovietization
  Sovietization is term that may be used with two distinct meanings:*the adoption of a political system based on the model of soviets .*the adoption of a way of life and mentality modelled after the Soviet Union....
  
  
• Steksys
  Steksys
  Stekšys was a duke of Lithuania, killed in 1214 near Lielvārde during an attack against Livonia. He is one of the earliest mentioned Lithuanian dukes. He succeeded Daugirutis, duke killed in 1213...
  
  
• Svarn
  Svarn
  Shvarn or Shvarno was the knyaz of western parts of Galicia. An influential leader, he became involved in internal struggles of power within neighboring Grand Duchy of Lithuania and briefly was the Grand Duke...
  
  
• Sviatoslav Olgovich
  Sviatoslav Olgovich
  Sviatoslav Olgovich , Prince of Novgorod Novhorod-Siversky , Bilhorod Kyivsky and Chernihiv...
  
  
• Švitrigaila
  Švitrigaila
  Švitrigaila Švitrigaila Švitrigaila (ca 1370 – 10 February 1452; was the Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1430 to 1432. He spent most of his life in largely unsuccessful dynastic struggles against his cousins Vytautas and Sigismund Kęstutaitis.-Struggle against Vytautas:...
  
  
• Territorial changes of the Baltic States
  Territorial changes of the Baltic States
  Territorial changes of the Baltic states refers to the redrawing of borders of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia after 1940. The three republics, formerly autonomous regions ruled by the Baltic German nobility within the former Russian Empire, gained independence in the aftermath of World War I and the...
  
  
• Towtiwil
  Towtiwil
  Tautvilas or Towtwil was one of the sons of Kęstutis, Grand Duke of Lithuania, and a strong supported of his brother Vytautas the Great in his struggles against their cousin Jogaila....
  
  
• Treaty of Hadiach
  Treaty of Hadiach
  The Treaty of Hadiach was a treaty signed on 16 September 1658 in Hadiach between representatives of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Cossacks...
  
  
• Treniota
  Treniota
  Treniota was the Grand Duke of Lithuania .Treniota was the nephew of Mindaugas, the first and only king of Lithuania. While Mindaugas had converted to Christianity in order to discourage Livonian Order and Teutonic Knights attacks on Lithuania, becoming king in the process, Treniota remained a...
  
  
• Ivan Trubetskoy
  Ivan Trubetskoy
  Ivan Yurievich Trubetskoy was a Russian Field Marshal, promoted in 1728. He was a member of the inner circle of Tsar Peter I of Russia and husband to a daughter of Fyodor Golovin. Made a boyar in 1692, Trubetskoy commanded part of the Russian fleet during the Azov campaigns in 1696. In 1699, he...
  
  
• Nikita Trubetskoy
  Nikita Trubetskoy
  Prince Nikita Yurievich Trubetskoy was a Russian statesman and Field Marshal , minister of defense of Russia 1760....
  
  
• Nikolay Troubetzkoy
• Piotr Nikolaievich Troubetzkoy
• Yuri Troubetzkoy
• Traidenis
  Traidenis
  Traidenis was the Grand Duke Lithuania from 1270 till 1282. He is the second most prominent, after Mindaugas, Grand Duke of Lithuania in the 13th century. His reign ended a seven-year unrest period after Mindaugas was assassinated in 1263 and firmly established the Grand Duchy as a pagan state...
  
  
• Trubetsk
• Fiodor Trubetsky
• Iwan Trubetsky
• Nikita Kosoj Trubetsky
• Roman Trubetsky
• Symeon Trubetsky
• Symeon Perski Trubetsky
• Aleksey Trubetskoy
  Aleksey Trubetskoy
  Aleksey Nikitich Trubetskoy was the last Prince of Trubetsk 1634–1645, and 17 March 1660 – June 1672, the godfather of Peter I of Russia.Under Tsar Michael's rule Aleksey...
  
  
• Yuriy Trubetskoy
  Yuriy Trubetskoy
  Yuriy Trubetskoy was a Ruthenian Prince, boyar of the Trubetsky family. In 1657, Prince Jurij Trubetsky went to Moscow with his uncle Aleksandr Yurievitch Trubetzkoy...
  
  
• Michał Trubetsky
• Fiodor Trubecki
• Pawel Troubetzkoy
• Wigund-Jeronym Trubecki
• Vladimir Waloc Trubetsky
• Union of Brest
  Union of Brest
  Union of Brest or Union of Brześć refers to the 1595-1596 decision of the Church of Rus', the "Metropolia of Kiev-Halych and all Rus'", to break relations with the Patriarch of Constantinople and place themselves under the Pope of Rome. At the time, this church included most Ukrainians and...
  
  
• Union of Krewo
  Union of Krewo
  In a strict sense, the Union of Krewo or Act of Krėva was a set of prenuptial promises made in the Kreva Castle on 14 August 1385 by Jogaila, Grand Duke of Lithuania, in exchange for marriage to the underage reigning Queen Jadwiga of Poland...
  
  
• Union of Lublin
  Union of Lublin
  The Union of Lublin replaced the personal union of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania with a real union and an elective monarchy, since Sigismund II Augustus, the last of the Jagiellons, remained childless after three marriages. In addition, the autonomy of Royal Prussia was...
  
  
• Uyezd
  Uyezd
  Uyezd or uezd was an administrative subdivision of Rus', Muscovy, Russian Empire, and the early Russian SFSR which was in use from the 13th century. Uyezds for most of the history in Russia were a secondary-level of administrative division...
  
  
• Vaidotas
  Vaidotas
  Vaidotas or Wojdat was a son of Kęstutis, Grand Duke of Lithuania. In reliable historical sources he is mentioned only twice....
  
  
• Vaišvilkas
  Vaišvilkas
  Vaišelga or Vaišvilkas was the Grand Duke of Lithuania...
  
  
• Vajacki marš
  Vajacki marš
  Vajacki marš is the National anthem for the short-lived Belarusian People's Republic that existed in 1918. Currently the government of BNR exists in exile. The anthem was written by Makar Kraŭcoŭ and music by Uladzimier Teraŭski...
  
  
• Voivodeship
  Voivodeship
  Voivodship is a term denoting the position of, or more commonly the area administered by, a voivod. Voivodeships have existed since medieval times in Poland, Romania, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Russia and Serbia....
  
  
• Volost
  Volost
  Volost was a traditional administrative subdivision in Eastern Europe.In earlier East Slavic history, volost was a name for the territory ruled by the knyaz, a principality; either as an absolute ruler or with varying degree of autonomy from the Velikiy Knyaz...
  
  
• Vseslav of Polotsk
  Vseslav of Polotsk
  Vseslav of Polotsk , also known as Vseslav the Sorcerer or Vseslav the Seer, was the most famous ruler of Polotsk and was briefly Grand Prince of Kiev in 1068–1069. Together with Rostislav Vladimirovich and voivode Vyshata made up a coalition against the Yaroslaviches triumvirate...
  
  
• Vytenis
  Vytenis
  Vytenis was the Grand Duke of Lithuania from c. 1295 to c. 1316. He became the first of the Gediminid dynasty to rule for a considerable amount of time. In the early 14th century his reputation outshone that of Gediminas, who is regarded by modern historians as one of the greatest Lithuanian rulers...
  
  
• Water féerie
  Water féerie
  "Water féerie" was a flashmob performance, initiated by several Belarusian youth opposition movements on May 14, 2005 on the 10th anniversary of the referendum .The action was in the form of boat racing under...
  
  
• West Belarus
  West Belarus
  West Belarus is the name used in reference to the territory of modern Belarus which belonged to the Second Polish Republic between 1919 and 1939. The area of West Belarus was annexed into the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic following staged elections soon after the Nazi-Soviet Invasion of...
  
  
• White Russia
  White Russia
  White Russia or White Ruthenia is a name that has historically been applied to a part of the wider region of Ruthenia or Rus', most often to that which roughly corresponds to the eastern part of present-day Belarus including the cities of Polatsk, Vitsyebsk and Mahiliou. In English, the use of the...
  
  
• White Ruthenia
• Yaropolk II of Kiev
  Yaropolk II of Kiev
  Yaropolk II Vladimirovich , Prince of Pereyaslav , Velikiy Kniaz of Kiev , son of Vladimir II Monomakh and Gytha of Wessex. He fought in several campaigns against the Polovtsy , once in 1103 and again in 1116.After the death of his brother in 1132, Msitslav I the Great, Yaropolk received the...
  
  
• Yuriy of Ruthenia

Battles of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania

• Battle of Aizkraukle
  Battle of Aizkraukle
  The Battle of Aizkraukle or Ascheraden was a battle fought on March 5, 1279 between the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, led by Traidenis, and the Livonian Order near Aizkraukle in present-day Latvia. The Order suffered a great defeat: 71 knights, the Grand Master Ernst von Rassburg, and the leader of...
  
  
• Battle of Ţuţora (1620)
  Battle of Tutora (1620)
  The Battle of Ţuţora was a battle between the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Ottoman forces , fought from 17 September to 7 October 1620 in Moldavia, near the Prut River.- Prelude :Because of the failure of Commonwealth diplomatic mission to Constantinople, and violations of the Treaty of...
  
  
• Siege of Christmemel
  Siege of Christmemel
  The Siege of Christmemel was an unsuccessful siege of the Teutonic Knights' castle of Christmemel by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in autumn 1315....
  
  
• Battle of Durbe
  Battle of Durbe
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• Battle on the Irpen' River
  Battle on the Irpen' River
  The Battle on the Irpin River occurred in early 1320s between the armies of Gediminas, the Grand Duke of Lithuania, and Prince Stanislav of Kiev, allied with Oleg of Pereyaslavl' and Roman of Bryansk. On the small Irpin River about south west of Kiev, Gediminas resoundingly defeated Stanislav and...
  
  
• Battle of Kircholm
  Battle of Kircholm
  The Battle of Kircholm was one of the major battles in the Polish-Swedish War of 1600-1611. The battle was decided in 20 minutes by the devastating charge of Polish-Lithuanian cavalry, the Winged Hussars...
  
  
• Battle of Orsha
  Battle of Orsha
  The Battle of Orsha was fought on 8 September 1514, between the allied forces of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Kingdom of Poland, under the command of Hetman Konstanty Ostrogski, and the army of Grand Duchy of Moscow under Konyushy Ivan Chelyadnin and Kniaz Mikhail Golitsin...
  
  
• Battle of Pabaiskas
  Battle of Pabaiskas
  The Battle of Pabaiskas took place on September 1, 1435 near Ukmergė , by the Šventoji River in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania...
  
  
• Battle of Połonka
• Battle of Skuodas
  Battle of Skuodas
  The Battle of Skuodas or Schoden was a medieval battle fought in ca. 1259 near Skuodas in present-day Lithuania during the Northern Crusades. The Samogitian army of 3,000 invaded Courland and on their way back defeated the Livonian Order, killing 33 knights and many more low-rank soldiers...
  
  
• Battle of Stångebro
  Battle of Stångebro
  The Battle of Stångebro or Battle of Linköping took place at Linköping, Sweden on September 25, 1598, and effectively ended the personal union between Sweden and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, that had only existed since 1592...
  
  
• Battle of the Sun
  Battle of the Sun
  The Battle of Saule was fought on September 22, 1236 between the Livonian Brothers of the Sword and pagan Samogitians. Between 48 and 60 knights were killed, including the Livonian Master, Volkwin. It was the earliest large-scale defeat suffered by the orders in Baltic lands...
  
  
• Battle of Vedrosha
  Battle of Vedrosha
  The battle on the Vedrosha River was a battle in the course of the Russo-Lithuanian war of 1500-1503 which ended with a decisive Russian victory and proved to be of strategic significance...
  
  
• Battle of the Vorskla River
  Battle of the Vorskla River
  The Battle of the Vorskla River was a great battle in the medieval history of Eastern Europe. It was fought on August 12, 1399, between the Tatars, under Edigu and Temur Qutlugh, and the armies of Tokhtamysh and Grand Duke Vytautas of Lithuania...
  
  

Battles of the Polish-Lithuanian-Teutonic War

• Battle of Grunwald
  Battle of Grunwald
  The Battle of Grunwald or 1st Battle of Tannenberg was fought on 15 July 1410, during the Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War. The alliance of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, led respectively by King Jogaila and Grand Duke Vytautas , decisively defeated the Teutonic Knights, led...
  
  
• Battle of Koronowo
  Battle of Koronowo
  The Battle of Koronowo was a battle of the Polish-Lithuanian-Teutonic War. It took place on October 10, 1410, near the village of Łąsko Wielkie and ended in Polish-Lithuanian alliance victory.- External links :...
  
  
• Siege of Marienburg (1410)
  Siege of Marienburg (1410)
  The Siege of Marienburg was an unsuccessful two-month siege of the castle in Marienburg , the capital of the monastic state of the Teutonic Knights...
  
  

Battles of the Polish-Muscovite War (1605–1618)

• Battle of Dobrynichi
  Battle of Dobrynichi
  The Battle of Dobrynichi took place on 21 January 1605 between the armies of False Dmitriy I and Fyodor Mstislavsky near the village of Dobrynichi .-Prelude:...
  
  
• Battle of Klushino
  Battle of Klushino
  The Battle of Klushino was fought on 4 July 1610, between forces of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Grand Duchy of Moscow during the Polish-Muscovite War, part of Russia's Time of Troubles. The battle occurred near the village of Klushino near Smolensk...
  
  
• Siege of Smolensk (1609–1611)
• Siege of Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra
  Siege of Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra
  The Siege of Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra was an abortive attempt of the Polish-Lithuanian irregular army supporting False Dmitri II to capture the Trinity Monastery...
  
  

Chernobyl disaster

• Yury Bandazhevsky
• Bellesrad
  Bellesrad
  Bellesrad is short name for the State Institution for Radiation Monitoring and Radiation Safety of the Republic of Belarus. It is subordinated to the State Forestry Committee of the Council of Ministers of Republic of Belarus...
  
  
• Chernobyl
  Chernobyl
  Chernobyl or Chornobyl is an abandoned city in northern Ukraine, in Kiev Oblast, near the border with Belarus. The city had been the administrative centre of the Chernobyl Raion since 1932....
  
  
• Chernobyl Heart
  Chernobyl Heart
  Chernobyl Heart is a 2003 documentary film by Maryann DeLeo. The film won the Best Documentary Short Subject award at the 2004 Academy Awards....
  
  
• Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant
  Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant
  The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant or Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant is a decommissioned nuclear power station near the city of Pripyat, Ukraine, northwest of the city of Chernobyl, from the Ukraine–Belarus border, and about north of Kiev. Reactor 4 was the site of the Chernobyl disaster in...
  
  
• Chernobyl Shelter Fund
  Chernobyl Shelter Fund
  The Chernobyl Shelter Fund was set up in December 1997 with the purpose of funding the Shelter Implementation Plan . The main objective of the SIP, developed in a co-operative effort between the European Union, the United States and Ukraine, is to protect the personnel, population and environment...
  
  
• Chernobyl disaster
  Chernobyl disaster
  The Chernobyl disaster was a nuclear accident that occurred on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine , which was under the direct jurisdiction of the central authorities in Moscow...
  
  
• Chernobyl disaster effects
  Chernobyl disaster effects
  The Chernobyl disaster triggered the release of substantial amounts of radiation into the atmosphere in the form of both particulate and gaseous radioisotopes. It is the most significant unintentional release of radiation into the environment to date...
  
  
• Chernobyl in the popular consciousness
  Chernobyl in the popular consciousness
  The Chernobyl disaster, which occurred on April 26, 1986, was the world's greatest nuclear accident.-Literature:* The disaster is the plot-driving device in the 1988 Marvel Comics miniseries Meltdown, featuring Wolverine and Havok....
  
  
• Chernobyl2020
• Commission de recherche et d'information indépendantes sur la radioactivité
  Commission de recherche et d'information indépendantes sur la radioactivité
  The Commission for Independent Research and Information on Radioactivity is a French NGO which specializes in the analysis of radioactivity in the environment. It was created in the aftermath of the Chernobyl catastrophe on April 26, 1986...
  
  
• Elena Filatova
  Elena Filatova
  Elena Vladimirovna Filatova is a Ukrainian motorcyclist and photographer who uses the online nickname "KiddOfSpeed". Her website, containing a photo-essay of her purported solo motorcycle rides through Chernobyl's zone of alienation, gained her internet fame. It was later suggested that the...
  
  
• Igor Kostin
  Igor Kostin
  Igor Fedorovich Kostin was the only photographer in the world to take pictures of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster near Pripyat in Ukraine, on 26 April 1986 - the day of the worst nuclear accident in history...
  
  
• Klimovichi
  Klimovichi
  Klimavichy is a city in the eastern Belarusian Mahilyow Voblast. Klimavichy is located east of Mahilyow on the bank of Kalinica River and is the administrative center of the Klimavichy Raion since 1924....
  
  
• Valeri Legasov
  Valeri Legasov
  Valery Alexeyevich Legasov was a prominent Soviet scientist in the field of inorganic chemistry, a member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. He is most famous for his work as the chief of the investigation committee of the Chernobyl disaster on April 26, 1986.-Early life and...
  
  
• Liquidator (Chernobyl)
  Liquidator (Chernobyl)
  Liquidators , or "clean-up workers", is the name given in the former USSR to people who were called upon to work in efforts to deal with consequences of the April 26, 1986, Chernobyl disaster on the site of the event...
  
  
• New Safe Confinement
  New Safe Confinement
  The New Safe Confinement is the structure intended to contain the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl, Ukraine, part of which was destroyed by the Chernobyl disaster in 1986. The idea is to prevent the reactor wreck from leaking radioactive material into the environment...
  
  
• Pripyat River
  Pripyat River
  The Pripyat River or Prypiat River is a river in Eastern Europe, approximately long. It flows east through Ukraine, Belarus, and Ukraine again, draining into the Dnieper....
  
  
• Prypiat, Ukraine
  Prypiat, Ukraine
  Pripyat is a ghost town near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Kiev Oblast of northern Ukraine, near the border with Belarus....
  
  
• Adi Roche
  Adi Roche
  Adi Roche is a campaigner for peace, humanitarian aid, and education. She is the chief executive of Irish-based charity Chernobyl Children's Project International, and in November 2010 received the Health Award at the World of Children Awards ceremony.-Campaign work:As founder and chief executive...
  
  
• Shelter Implementation Plan
  Shelter Implementation Plan
  The Shelter Implementation Plan was developed in a cooperative effort among the European Union, the United States and Ukraine to protect the personnel, population and environment from the threat of the huge radioactive inventory of the Chernobyl Unit 4 Shelter...
  
  
• Slavutych
  Slavutych
  Slavutych is a new city in northern Ukraine, named after the Old Slavic name of the nearby Dnieper River. As of 2007, its population was 24,549.-Geography:...
  
  
• Threat of the Dnieper reservoirs
  Threat of the Dnieper reservoirs
  The water reservoirs of the Dnieper River in Ukraine pose a significant threat of a large-scale human-made disaster if their dams fail. Such a threat is typical for reservoir dams; however, the Dnieper reservoirs are especially dangerous because of the geographical conditions, as well as the...
  
  
• Zone of alienation
  Zone of alienation
  The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Zone, which is sometimes referred to as The Chernobyl Zone, The 30 Kilometer Zone, The Zone of Alienation, or simply The Zone The Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Zone, which is sometimes referred to as The Chernobyl Zone, The 30 Kilometer Zone, The Zone of...
  
  

East Slavic history

• East Slavs
  East Slavs
  The East Slavs are Slavic peoples speaking East Slavic languages. Formerly the main population of the medieval state of Kievan Rus, by the seventeenth century they evolved into the Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian peoples.-Sources:...
  
  
• Gostomysl
  Gostomysl
  Gostomysl is a legendary 9th-century posadnik of Novgorod who was introduced into the historiography by Vasily Tatishchev, an 18th-century historian. Gostomysl's rule is associated with the confederation of Northern tribes, which was formed to counter the Varangian threat in the mid-9th century...
  
  
• Novgorod Republic
  Novgorod Republic
  The Novgorod Republic was a large medieval Russian state which stretched from the Baltic Sea to the Ural Mountains between the 12th and 15th centuries, centred on the city of Novgorod...
  
  
• Polonization
  Polonization
  Polonization was the acquisition or imposition of elements of Polish culture, in particular, Polish language, as experienced in some historic periods by non-Polish populations of territories controlled or substantially influenced by Poland...
  
  
• Pskov Republic
  Pskov Republic
  Pskov, known at various times as the Principality of Pskov or the Pskov Republic , was a medieval state on the south shore of Lake Pskov. The capital city, also named Pskov, was located at the southern end of the Peipus–Pskov Lake system at the southeast corner of Ugandi, about southwest of...
  
  
• Truvor and Sineus
  Truvor and Sineus
  Truvor and Sineus according to the 12th-century Primary Chronicle were the brothers of Rurik of the Varangian Rus tribe.While Rurik settled in Novgorod, Sineous established himself at Belo Ozero, on the shores of lake Beloye. Truvor established himself at Izborsk.Truvor and Sineus died shortly...
  
  
• Vadim the Bold
  Vadim the Bold
  Vadim the Bold was a legendary chieftain of the Ilmen Slavs who led their struggle against Rurik and the Varangians in the 9th century.According to the Nikon Chronicle, an historic 16th century Russian chronicle that covered events of 859–1520 CE, the Novgorodians broke into rebellion against...
  
  

East Slavic manuscripts

• Bychowiec Chronicle
  Bychowiec Chronicle
  The Bychowiec Chronicle named the Letopis of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania is an anonymous 16th century chronicle of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Although one of the least reliable sources of the epoch, it is considered the most complete redaction of the Lithuanian Chronicles...
  
  
• Full Collection of Russian Chronicles
  Full Collection of Russian Chronicles
  The Complete Collection of Rus and Russian Chronicles is a series of volumes aimed at collecting all medieval East Slavic chronicles, with various editions published in Imperial Russia, the Soviet Union, and Russian Federation...
  
  
• Gertrude Psalter
  Gertrude Psalter
  The Gertrude Psalter is a medieval illuminated manuscript Psalter preserved in the municipal museum of Cividale, Italy...
  
  
• Halych-Volhynian Chronicle
  Halych-Volhynian Chronicle
  The Galician-Volhynian Chronicle is a historical record covering 1201–1292 in the history of the Principality of Galicia-Volhynia . The original chronicle did not survive; the oldest known copy is in the Hypatian Codex...
  
  
• Hypatian Codex
  Hypatian Codex
  The Hypatian Codex is a compendium of three chronicles: the Primary Chronicle, Kiev Chronicle, and Galician-Volhynian Chronicle. It is the most important source of historical data for southern Rus'...
  
  
• Ioachim Chronicle
  Ioachim Chronicle
  The Ioachim Chronicle , also spelled Joachim or Ioakim) is a chronicle discovered by the Russian historian Vasily Tatishchev in the 18th century...
  
  
• Izmaragd
  Izmaragd
  The Izmaragd is a Russian moral compilation work, surviiving in a number of manuscript copies, in codex form, the earliest written in the 14th century...
  
  
• A Journey Beyond the Three Seas
  A Journey Beyond the Three Seas
  A Journey Beyond the Three Seas is a Russian literary monument in the form of travel notes, made by a merchant from Tver Afanasiy Nikitin during his journey to India in 1466-1472....
  
  
• Kazan Chronicle
  Kazan Chronicle
  Kazan Chronicle or Story of the Tsardom of Kazan is a document written between 1560 and 1565 by a Muscovite chronicler. The chronicler introduces himself as a Russian who was held in captivity in Kazan for about 20 years until Ivan the Terrible sacked Kazan in 1552...
  
  
• Kiev Psalter of 1397
  Kiev Psalter of 1397
  The Kiev Psalter of 1397, or Spiridon Psalter, is one of the most famous East Slavic illuminated manuscripts, containing over three hundred miniatures...
  
  
• Laurentian Codex
  Laurentian Codex
  Laurentian Codex or Laurentian Chronicle is a collection of chronicles that includes the oldest extant version of the Primary Chronicle and its continuations, mostly relating the events in Northern Russia ....
  
  
• Legal Code of Pskov
  Legal Code of Pskov
  The Pskov Judicial Charter was the legal code of the Pskov Republic. It was issued in various redactions between 1397 and 1467, and was based on certain resolutions of the Pskovian city assembly or veche, princely decrees, provisions of the Russkaya Pravda and common law...
  
  
• Nominalia of the Bulgarian khans
  Nominalia of the Bulgarian khans
  The Nominalia of the Bulgarian khans is a short manuscript containing the names of some early Bulgar rulers, their clans, the year of their ascending to the throne according to the cyclic Bulgar calendar and the length of their rule, including the times of joint rule and civil war...
  
  
• Novgorod Codex
  Novgorod Codex
  The Novgorod Codex is the oldest book of Rus’, unearthed on July 13, 2000 in Novgorod. It is a palimpsest consisting of three bound wooden tablets containing four pages filled with wax, on which its former owner wrote down dozens, probably hundreds of texts during two or three decades, each time...
  
  
• Novgorod First Chronicle
  Novgorod First Chronicle
  The Novgorod First Chronicle or The Chronicle of Novgorod, 1016-1471 is the most ancient extant chronicle of the Novgorod Republic. It reflects a tradition different from the Kievan Primary Chronicle...
  
  
• Ostromir Gospel
  Ostromir Gospel
  The Ostromir Gospels is the second oldest dated East Slavic book...
  
  
• Peresopnytsia Gospels
• Primary Chronicle
  Primary Chronicle
  The Primary Chronicle , Ruthenian Primary Chronicle or Russian Primary Chronicle, is a history of Kievan Rus' from about 850 to 1110, originally compiled in Kiev about 1113.- Three editions :...
  
  
• Radziwiłł Chronicle
• Russkaya Pravda
  Russkaya Pravda
  Russkaya Pravda was the legal code of Kievan Rus' and the subsequent Rus' principalities during the times of feudal division.In spite of great influence of Byzantine legislation on the contemporary world, and in...
  
  
• Sudebnik
  Sudebnik
  Sudebnik of 1497 , a collection of laws, which was introduced by Ivan III and played a big part in the centralisation of the Russian state, creation of the nationwide Russian Law and elimination of feudal division....
  
  
• The Tale of Igor's Campaign
  The Tale of Igor's Campaign
  The Tale of Igor's Campaign is an anonymous epic poem written in the Old East Slavic language.The title is occasionally translated as The Song of Igor's Campaign, The Lay of Igor's Campaign, and The Lay of...
  
  
• Zadonshchina
  Zadonshchina
  Zadonshchina is a Russian literary monument of the late 14th century, which tells of the Battle of Kulikovo in 1380.- Redactions and the Prototext :Zadonshina exists in 2 redactions:...
  
  

Kievan Rus

• Kievan Rus'
  Kievan Rus'
  Kievan Rus was a medieval polity in Eastern Europe, from the late 9th to the mid 13th century, when it disintegrated under the pressure of the Mongol invasion of 1237–1240....
  
  
• Anna from Byzantium
• Architecture of Kievan Rus
  Architecture of Kievan Rus
  The medieval state of Kievan Rus incorporated parts of what is now modern Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus, and was centered around Kiev and Novgorod. Its architectural style quickly established itself after the adoption of Christianity in 988 and was strongly influenced by the Byzantine...
  
  
• Baptism of Kievan Rus'
  Baptism of Kievan Rus'
  The Christianization of Kievan Rus took place in several stages. In early 867, Patriarch Photius of Constantinople announced to other Orthodox patriarchs that the Rus', baptised by his bishop, took to Christianity with particular enthusiasm...
  
  
• Belozero Duchy
  Belozero Duchy
  Principality of Beloozero or Beloozero Duchy was a Russian principality or duchy. It was formed in 1238 after its detachment from the Principality of Rostov. The town of Beloozero became its capital. Gleb Vasilkovich was the first prince of Beloozero...
  
  
• Biritch
  Biritch
  Biritch in Ancient Rus was a herald, an announcer of the will of a knyaz, sometimes kniaz's deputy in police or diplomatic affairs, or tax collector...
  
  
• Boris and Gleb
  Boris and Gleb
  Boris and Gleb , Christian names Roman and David, respectively, were the first saints canonized in Kievan Rus' after the Christianization of the country....
  
  
• Boris stones
  Boris stones
  Boris Stones , also called Dvina Stones , are seven medieval artifacts erected along the bank of the Western Dvina between Polotsk and Drissa, Belarus. They probably predate Christianity in the area, but were inscribed in the 12th century with text and an image of Christ...
  
  
• Church of the Tithes
  Church of the Tithes
  The Church of the Tithes or Church of the Dormition of the Virgin was the first stone church in Kiev. It was built by the order of Grand Prince Vladimir the Great between 989 and 996 by Byzantine and local workers to commemorate the Baptism of Kievan Rus' and was originally named the "Church of...
  
  
• Coloman of Lodomeria
  Coloman of Lodomeria
  Coloman of Galicia-Lodomeria was a member of the Árpád dynasty. He was Prince of Halych and he became the first anointed and crowned King of Galicia-Lodomeria , followed by prince Andrew of Hungary...
  
  
• Culture of Ancient Rus
  Culture of Ancient Rus
  The culture of ancient Rus can be divided into different historical periods of the Middle Ages. During the Kievan period , the principalities of Kievan Rus’ came under the sphere of influence of the Byzantine Empire, one of the most advanced cultures of the time, and adopted Christianity...
  
  
• Cumans
  Cumans
  The Cumans were Turkic nomadic people comprising the western branch of the Cuman-Kipchak confederation. After Mongol invasion , they decided to seek asylum in Hungary, and subsequently to Bulgaria...
  
  
• Daniel of Halych
  Daniel of Halych
  Daniel I of Galicia or Daniel Romanovych or Danylo Halytskyi was a King of Galicia , Peremyshl , and Volodymyr...
  
  
• De Administrando Imperio
  De Administrando Imperio
  De Administrando Imperio is the Latin title of a Greek work written by the 10th-century Eastern Roman Emperor Constantine VII. The Greek title of the work is...
  
  
• Dobrynya
  Dobrynya
  Dobrynya was Vladimir the Great's maternal uncle and tutor who was later transformed into the invincible bogatyr Dobrynya Nikitich in the Russian folklore....
  
  
• Drevlyans
  Drevlyans
  The Drevlians were a tribe of Early East Slavs between the 6th and the 10th century, which inhabited the territories of Polesia, Right-bank Ukraine west of Polans, down the stream of the rivers Teteriv, Uzh, Ubort, and Stviga...
  
  
• Druzhina
  Druzhina
  Druzhina, Drużyna or Družyna in the medieval history of Slavic Europe was a retinue in service of a chieftain, also called knyaz. The name is derived from the Slavic word drug with the meaning of "companion, friend". -Early Rus:...
  
  
• Duchy of Polatsk
  Duchy of Polatsk
  The Principality of Polotsk, also known as the Kingdom of Polotsk or the Duchy of Polotsk was a medieval principality of the Early East Slavs, and was considered one of the constituent principalities within the Kievan Rus', although with a wide degree of autonomy. It was established around the...
  
  
• East Slavs
  East Slavs
  The East Slavs are Slavic peoples speaking East Slavic languages. Formerly the main population of the medieval state of Kievan Rus, by the seventeenth century they evolved into the Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian peoples.-Sources:...
  
  
• Etymology of Rus and derivatives
• Euphrosyne of Polatsk
  Euphrosyne of Polatsk
  Euphrosyne of Polotsk was the granddaughter of a prince of Polotsk, Vseslav....
  
  
• Full Collection of Russian Chronicles
  Full Collection of Russian Chronicles
  The Complete Collection of Rus and Russian Chronicles is a series of volumes aimed at collecting all medieval East Slavic chronicles, with various editions published in Imperial Russia, the Soviet Union, and Russian Federation...
  
  
• Garðaríki
  Garðaríki
  Garðaríki or Garðaveldi is the Old Norse term used in medieval times for the states of Kievan Rus'...
  
  
• George I of Halych
  George I of Halych
  Yuri I of Galicia was prince of Belz and King of Galicia-Volhynia or King of Rus' ....
  
  
• Georgius Tzul
  Georgius Tzul
  Georgius Tzul was a Khazar warlord against whom the Byzantine Empire and Mstislav of Tmutarakan launched a joint expedition in 1016....
  
  
• Gytha of Wessex
  Gytha of Wessex
  Gytha of Wessex was one of several daughters of Edith Swanneck by Harold II, the last Anglo-Saxon king of England.According to Saxo Grammaticus, two of Harold's sons and a daughter escaped to the court of their uncle, king Sweyn Estridsson of Denmark. They were treated by Sweyn with hospitality,...
  
  
• Igor Svyatoslavich
  Igor Svyatoslavich
  Igor Svyatoslavich the Brave was a Rus’ prince...
  
  
• Ingegerd Olofsdotter
• Kiev Expedition
  Kiev Expedition
  The intervention in the Kievan succession crisis of 1015–1019 by the Polish ruler Bolesław Chrobry was an episode in the struggle between Sviatopolk I Vladimirovich and his brother Yaroslav for the rulership of Kiev and Kievan Rus'...
  
  
• Kievian Letter
  Kievian Letter
  The Kievian Letter is an early 10th century letter written by a Khazarian Jewish community in Kiev. The letter, a Hebrew-language recommendation written on behalf of one member of their community, was part of an enormous collection brought to Cambridge by Solomon Schechter from the Cairo Geniza...
  
  
• Konstantin Dobrynich
  Konstantin Dobrynich
  Konstantin Dobrynich was an 11th-century posadnik of Novgorod. According to the Novgorod chronicles, he was the son of Dobrynya and wielded great influence at the court of his own cousin, Yaroslav the Wise....
  
  
• Kurya (khan)
• Leo I of Halych
  Leo I of Halych
  Lev I of Galicia became in turn Knyaz of Belz , Knyaz of Peremyshl, king of Halych and King of Rus' , Grand Prince of Kiev .-Family:...
  
  
• List of early East Slavic states
• Malusha
  Malusha
  Malusha/Malfrida historically is known as a housekeeper for Olga of Kiev and a concubine of Sviatoslav I of Kiev. According to Slavonic chronicles, she was the mother of Vladimir the Great and sister of Dobrynya...
  
  
• Metiga
  Metiga
  Metiga was a Pecheneg ruler who allied himself with Vladimir I of Kiev around the year 988 CE. Metiga assisted with the capture of Cherson by Vladimir, who converted to Christianity shortly after the town's fall to his forces....
  
  
• Mstislav the Bold
  Mstislav the Bold
  Mstislav Mstislavich the Bold was one of the most popular and active princes of Kievan Rus' in the decades preceding Mongol invasion of Rus. He was the maternal grandfather of Alexander Nevsky and the prince Leo of Galicia....
  
  
• Muscovite Manorialism
  Muscovite Manorialism
  - Origins of Russian/Muscovite Manorialism :At the passing of the first millennium AD, Europe was experiencing the full effects of the order and advances in social structure begun during the early Middle Ages; however, the structure and development offered by medieval European society were not...
  
  
• Novgorod Codex
  Novgorod Codex
  The Novgorod Codex is the oldest book of Rus’, unearthed on July 13, 2000 in Novgorod. It is a palimpsest consisting of three bound wooden tablets containing four pages filled with wax, on which its former owner wrote down dozens, probably hundreds of texts during two or three decades, each time...
  
  
• Old East Slavic language
  Old East Slavic language
  Old East Slavic or Old Ruthenian was a language used in 10th-15th centuries by East Slavs in the Kievan Rus' and states which evolved after the collapse of the Kievan Rus...
  
  
• Ostromir
  Ostromir
  Ostromir was a statesman, voivod and posadnik of Novgorod in 1054-1057 and probably for some decades previous....
  
  
• Ostromir Gospel
  Ostromir Gospel
  The Ostromir Gospels is the second oldest dated East Slavic book...
  
  
• Pechenegs
• Perun
  Perun
  In Slavic mythology, Perun is the highest god of the pantheon and the god of thunder and lightning. His other attributes were the fire, mountains, the oak, iris, eagle, firmament , horses and carts, weapons and war...
  
  
• Posadnik
  Posadnik
  Posadnik was the mayor in some East Slavic cities or towns. Most notably, the posadnik was the mayor of Novgorod and Pskov...
  
  
• Primary Chronicle
  Primary Chronicle
  The Primary Chronicle , Ruthenian Primary Chronicle or Russian Primary Chronicle, is a history of Kievan Rus' from about 850 to 1110, originally compiled in Kiev about 1113.- Three editions :...
  
  
• Putyata
  Putyata
  Putyata was the first tysyatsky of Novgorod whose name is found in Slavonic chronicles. According to the Ioachim Chronicle, he was active during the reign of Vladimir the Great and forced the Novgorodians to accept Christian faith "by sword", while the posadnik Dobrynya forced them into...
  
  
• Rogneda of Polotsk
  Rogneda of Polotsk
  Rogneda of Polotsk is the Slavic name for Ragnhild, whose father Ragnvald came from overseas and established himself at Polatsk in the mid-10th century....
  
  
• Rostislav of Slavonia
  Rostislav of Slavonia
  Rostislav Mikhailovich was a Rus' prince , and a dignitary in the Kingdom of Hungary....
  
  
• Rulers of Kievan Rus'
  Rulers of Kievan Rus'
  Grand Prince of Kiev was the title of the Kievan prince and the ruler of Kievan Rus' in the 9th–12th centuries....
  
  
• Rus' (people)
  Rus' (people)
  The Rus' were a group of Varangians . According to the Primary Chronicle of Rus, compiled in about 1113 AD, the Rus had relocated from the Baltic region , first to Northeastern Europe, creating an early polity which finally came under the leadership of Rurik...
  
  
• Russkaya Pravda
  Russkaya Pravda
  Russkaya Pravda was the legal code of Kievan Rus' and the subsequent Rus' principalities during the times of feudal division.In spite of great influence of Byzantine legislation on the contemporary world, and in...
  
  
• Ruthenia
  Ruthenia
  Ruthenia is the Latin word used onwards from the 13th century, describing lands of the Ancient Rus in European manuscripts. Its geographic and culturo-ethnic name at that time was applied to the parts of Eastern Europe. Essentially, the word is a false Latin rendering of the ancient place name Rus...
  
  
• Severia
  Severia
  Severia or Siveria is a historical region in present-day northern Ukraine and southwestern Russia, centered around the city of Novhorod-Siverskyi in Ukraine.-Severians:...
  
  
• Smerd
  Smerd
  Smerds were feudal-dependent peasants in Russia and some other Slavic countries. Sources from the 11th and 12th centuries mention smerds’ presence in the Kievan Rus Smerds (sing. smerd; in Russian: pl. смерды, sing. смерд ) were feudal-dependent peasants in Russia and some other Slavic countries....
  
  
• Sveneld
  Sveneld
  Sveneld was a 10th-century Varangian warlord in the service of Svyatoslav I of Kiev and his family...
  
  
• The Tale of Igor's Campaign
  The Tale of Igor's Campaign
  The Tale of Igor's Campaign is an anonymous epic poem written in the Old East Slavic language.The title is occasionally translated as The Song of Igor's Campaign, The Lay of Igor's Campaign, and The Lay of...
  
  
• Temple ring
  Temple ring
  Temple rings are part of Slavic medieval woman dress. Most were made of base metals such as copper alloys or iron, though silver and even gold were occasionally used...
  
  
• Tmutarakan
  Tmutarakan
  Tmutarakan was a Mediaeval Russian principality and trading town that controlled the Cimmerian Bosporus, the passage from the Black Sea to the Sea of Azov. Its site was the ancient Greek colony of Hermonassa . It was situated on the Taman peninsula, in the present-day Krasnodar Krai of Russia,...
  
  
• Ukrainian hryvnia
  Ukrainian hryvnia
  The hryvnia, sometimes hryvnya or grivna ; sign: ₴, code: , has been the national currency of Ukraine since September 2, 1996. The hryvnia is subdivided into 100 kopiyok. In medieval times, it was a currency of Kievan Rus'....
  
  
• Varangians
  Varangians
  The Varangians or Varyags , sometimes referred to as Variagians, were people from the Baltic region, most often associated with Vikings, who from the 9th to 11th centuries ventured eastwards and southwards along the rivers of Eastern Europe, through what is now Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.According...
  
  
• Veche
  Veche
  Veche was a popular assembly in medieval Slavic countries.In Novgorod, where the veche acquired the greatest prominence, the veche was broadly similar to the Norse thing or the Swiss Landsgemeinde.-Etymology:...
  
  
• Velikiy Novgorod
• Vladimir of Novgorod
  Vladimir of Novgorod
  Vladimir Yaroslavich reigned as prince of Novgorod from 1036 until his death. He was the eldest son of Yaroslav I the Wise of Kiev by Ingigerd, daughter of king Olof Skötkonung of Sweden....
  
  
• Vladimir-Suzdal
  Vladimir-Suzdal
  The Vladimir-Suzdal Principality or Vladimir-Suzdal Rus’ was one of the major principalities which succeeded Kievan Rus' in the late 12th century and lasted until the late 14th century. For a long time the Principality was a vassal of the Mongolian Golden Horde...
  
  
• Volhynians
  Volhynians
  Volhynians were a tribe or tribal union of Vlachs. They are mentioned in the Primary Chronicle as well as by the Bavarian Geographer. According to the latter, the Volhynians had seventy "cities" in the last half of the 10th century...
  
  
• Votchina
  Votchina
  Votchina or otchina was an East Slavic land estate that could be inherited. The term "votchina" was also used to describe the lands of a knyaz.The term originated in the law of Kievan Rus...
  
  
• Vsevolod III, Grand Prince of Vladimir
  Vsevolod III, Grand Prince of Vladimir
  Vsevolod III Yuryevich, or Vsevolod the Big Nest , was the Grand Prince of Vladimir during whose long reign the city reached the zenith of its glory. -Family:...
  
  
• Vshchizh
  Vshchizh
  Vshchizh was an old Russian town on the Desna River between the 11th and 13th centuries. Vshchizh was first mentioned in a chronicle of 1142. In the mid-12th century, it was an appanage town of Prince Svyatoslav Vladimirovich...
  
  
• Vyachko
  Vyachko
  Vyachko of Koknese, also Vetseke of Kokenhusen was the ruler of the Principality of Koknese in present-day Latvia, a vassal of Polotsk, who tried to establish himself as a local ruler first in Latvia and then in Estonia, and fought against the expansionism of the Livonian Knights at the turn of...
  
  
• Vyatichs
  Vyatichs
  The Vyatichi or Viatichi were a tribe of East Slavs who inhabited a part of the Oka basin.The Primary Chronicle names a certain tribal leader Vyatko as the forefather of the tribe, but the modern etymology places the word as a cognate to Veneti and Vandals. The Vyatichi were mainly engaged in...
  
  
• Vyshata
  Vyshata
  Vyshata was a Novgorodian general and voivode, whose father is supposed to have been posadnik Ostromir and whose son was another statesman, Yan Vyshatich...
  
  
• Vyshhorod
  Vyshhorod
  Vyshhorod is a city in the Kiev Oblast , in central Ukraine. It is the administrative centre of the Vyshhorodskyi Raion , and is located along the Dnieper River upstream from the national capital, Kiev...
  
  
• Yan Vyshatich
  Yan Vyshatich
  Yan Vyshatich was a Kievan nobleman and military commander . The last known representative of the Dobrynya dynasty, Yan Vyshatich was the son of Vyshata and grandson of Ostromir....
  
  
• Zalesye
  Zalesye
  Zalesye or Opolye is a historical region of Russia, comprising the north and west parts of Vladimir Oblast, the north-east of Moscow Oblast and the south of Yaroslavl Oblast. As a kernel of the medieval state of Vladimir-Suzdal, this area played a vital part in the development of Russian statehood...
  
  

Battles of Kievan Rus

• Battle of Dorostolon
  Battle of Dorostolon
  The Battle of Dorostolon was fought in 971 between the Byzantine Empire and forces of Kievan Rus. The Byzantines, led by John I Tzimisces, were victorious.- Background:...
  
  
• Battle on the Irpen' River
  Battle on the Irpen' River
  The Battle on the Irpin River occurred in early 1320s between the armies of Gediminas, the Grand Duke of Lithuania, and Prince Stanislav of Kiev, allied with Oleg of Pereyaslavl' and Roman of Bryansk. On the small Irpin River about south west of Kiev, Gediminas resoundingly defeated Stanislav and...
  
  
• Battle of the Kalka River
  Battle of the Kalka River
  The Battle of the Kalka River took place on May 31, 1223, between the Mongol Empire and Kiev, Galich, and several other Rus' principalities and the Cumans, under the command of Mstislav the Bold and Mstislav III of Kiev...
  
  
• Siege of Ryazan
  Siege of Ryazan
  Ryazan was the first Rus city to be besieged by the Mongol invaders under Batu Khan.In the autumn of 1237 the Mongol Horde led by invaded the Rus' principality of Ryazan...
  
  
• Battle of the Sit River
  Battle of the Sit River
  The Battle of the Sit River was fought in the northern part of the present-day Yaroslavl Oblast of Russia on March 4, 1238 between the Mongol Hordes of Batu Khan and the Rus' people under Grand Prince Yuri II of Vladimir-Suzdal during the Mongol invasion of Rus...
  
  
• Battle of the Stugna River
  Battle of the Stugna River
  The Battle of the Stugna River was a battle between the princes of Kievan Rus and the nomadic Cumans tribe . The Kievan forces were defeated....
  
  
• Battle of Zawichost
  Battle of Zawichost
  The Battle of Zawichost was a skirmish fought between Roman the Great of Galicia-Volhynia and Leszek I the White of Lesser Poland, along with his brother, Konrad I of Masovia. After declaring war and invading Lesser Poland, Roman and his forces were ambushed by the Poles in the vicinity of...
  
  

Rulers of Kievan Rus

• Askold and Dir
  Askold and Dir
  Askold and Dir are semi-legendary rulers of Kiev who, according to the Primary Chronicle, were two of Rurik's voivodes in 870s...
  
  
• Daniel of Halych
  Daniel of Halych
  Daniel I of Galicia or Daniel Romanovych or Danylo Halytskyi was a King of Galicia , Peremyshl , and Volodymyr...
  
  
• Yuri Dolgoruki
  Yuri Dolgoruki
  Prince Yuri I Dolgorukiy , also known as George I of Rus, was the founder of Moscow and a key figure in the transition of political power from Kiev to Vladimir-Suzdal following the death of his elder brother Mstislav the Great...
  
  
• Family life and children of Vladimir I
  Family life and children of Vladimir I
  Until his baptism, Vladimir I of Kiev was described by Thietmar of Merseburg as a great profligate . He had a few hundred concubines in Kiev and in the country residence of Berestovo. He also had official pagan wives, the most famous being Rogneda of Polotsk...
  
  
• Gleb of Kiev
  Gleb of Kiev
  Gleb Yuryevich , Prince of Kursk , Kanev , Pereyaslavl and Grand Prince of Kiev . Son of Yuri Dolgoruky....
  
  
• Igor II of Kiev
  Igor II of Kiev
  Igor II Olgovich , Prince of Chernigov and Grand Prince of Kiev . Son of Oleg Svyatoslavich of Chernigov . Saint - feast day: 5 June....
  
  
• Igor, Grand Prince of Kiev
  Igor, Grand Prince of Kiev
  Igor was a Varangian ruler of Kievan Rus' from 912 to 945.-Biography:...
  
  
• Ingvar of Kiev
  Ingvar of Kiev
  Ingvar Yaroslavich , Prince of Dorogobuzh, Prince of Lutsk, Grand Prince of Kiev , Prince of Volodymyr-Volynskyi . Son of Yaroslav Izyaslavich, great-grandson of Vladimir Monomakh....
  
  
• Iziaslav I of Kiev
  Iziaslav I of Kiev
  Iziaslav Yaroslavich , Kniaz' , Veliki Kniaz of Kiev , King of Rus'...
  
  
• Iziaslav II of Kiev
  Iziaslav II of Kiev
  Iziaslav II Mstislavich , Prince of Pereyaslav , Prince of Turov , Prince of Rostov , Prince of Vladimir and Volyn , Pereyaslavl , Velikiy Kniaz of Kiev , was the oldest son of Mstislav Vladimirovich, Kniaz' , and...
  
  
• Iziaslav III of Kiev
  Iziaslav III of Kiev
  Izyaslav III Davidovich , Prince of Chernigov and Grand Prince of Kiev . He was the son of Davyd Sviatoslavich of Chernigov....
  
  
• Iziaslav IV Vladimirovich
  Iziaslav IV Vladimirovich
  Iziaslav IV Vladimirovich , was the Prince of Terebovlya and Novgorod-Seversky and Grand Prince of Kiev . He was the son of Vladimir Igorevich....
  
  
• Michael of Chernigov
  Michael of Chernigov
  Saint Michael of Chernigov or Mikhail Vsevolodovich was a Rus' prince...
  
  
• Mikhail of Vladimir
  Mikhail of Vladimir
  Mikhalko Yuryevich , Prince of Torchesk , Vladimir and Suzdal and Grand Prince of Kiev ....
  
  
• Mstislav I of Kiev
  Mstislav I of Kiev
  Mstislav I Vladimirovich the Great was the Grand Prince of Kiev , the eldest son of Vladimir II Monomakh by Gytha of Wessex...
  
  
• Mstislav II of Kiev
  Mstislav II of Kiev
  Mstislav II Izyaslavich , Kniaz' of Pereyaslav, Volodymyr-Volynsky and Velikiy Kniaz of Kiev . Son of Izyaslav Mstislavich, Velikiy Kniaz' of Kiev....
  
  
• Mstislav III of Kiev
  Mstislav III of Kiev
  Mstislav Romanovich the Old , Prince of Pskov , Smolensk , Belgorod , Halych and Grand Prince of Kiev...
  
  
• Mstislav of Chernigov
  Mstislav of Chernigov
  Mstislav of Chernigov was the earliest attested ruler of Chernigov . He was Vladimir the Great's son, probably by Rogneda of Polotsk, although his exact position in the family has been disputed. It is not clear, for instance, whether Yaroslav the Wise was his younger or elder brother...
  
  
• Oleg I of Chernigov
  Oleg I of Chernigov
  Oleg Svyatoslavich of Chernigiv , sometimes also styled as of Tmutarakan, was a Rurikid prince whose equivocal adventures ignited political unrest in Kievan Rus at the turn of the 11th and 12th centuries....
  
  
• Oleg of Novgorod
  Oleg of Novgorod
  Oleg of Novgorod was a Varangian prince who ruled all or part of the Rus' people during the early 10th century....
  
  
• Olga of Kiev
  Olga of Kiev
  Saint Olga , or Olga the Beauty, hypothetically Old Norse: Helga In some Scandinavian sources she was called other name. born c. 890 died 11 July 969, Kiev) was a ruler of Kievan Rus' as regent Saint Olga , or Olga the Beauty, hypothetically Old Norse: Helga In some Scandinavian sources she was...
  
  
• Roman the Great
  Roman the Great
  Roman Mstislavich , also Roman Mstyslavych or Roman the Great, was a Rus’ prince, Grand Prince of Kiev ....
  
  
• Rostislav II of Kiev
  Rostislav II of Kiev
  Rostyslav Rurykovych , Prince of Torchesk , Grand Prince of Kiev , Prince of Vyshhorod , Prince of Halych . Son of Rurik Rostislavich.-References:...
  
  
• Rurik
  Rurik
  Rurik, or Riurik , was a semilegendary 9th-century Varangian who founded the Rurik dynasty which ruled Kievan Rus and later some of its successor states, most notably the Tsardom of Russia, until 1598....
  
  
• Rurik Rostislavich
  Rurik Rostislavich
  Ruryk Rostislavich , Prince of Novgorod , Belgorod Kievsky, presently Bilohorodka , Grand Prince of Kiev , Prince of Chernigov...
  
  
• Sviatopolk I of Kiev
  Sviatopolk I of Kiev
  Sviatopolk I Vladimirovich was the Kniaz' of Turov and Velikii Kniaz of Kiev whose paternity and guilt in the murder of brothers are disputed.-Early life:Sviatopolk's mother was a Greek nun captured by Sviatoslav I in Bulgaria and married to his lawful heir...
  
  
• Sviatopolk II of Kiev
  Sviatopolk II of Kiev
  Sviatopolk II Iziaslavich was supreme ruler of the Kievan Rus for 20 years, from 1093 to 1113. He was not a popular prince, and his reign was marked by incessant rivalry with his cousin Vladimir Monomakh...
  
  
• Sviatoslav I of Kiev
  Sviatoslav I of Kiev
  Sviatoslav I Igorevich ; , also spelled Svyatoslav, was a prince of Rus...
  
  
• Sviatoslav II of Kiev
  Sviatoslav II of Kiev
  Sviatoslav Iaroslavich was the Prince of Chernihiv from 1054 to 1073 and Grand Prince of Kiev from 1073 until his death...
  
  
• Sviatoslav III of Kiev
  Sviatoslav III of Kiev
  Sviatoslav III Vsevolodovich , Prince of Turov , Vladimir and Volyn , Pinsk , Novgorod-Seversky , Chernigov , Grand Prince of Kiev...
  
  
• Vladimir I of Kiev
  Vladimir I of Kiev
  Vladimir Sviatoslavich the Great Old East Slavic: Володимѣръ Свѧтославичь Old Norse as Valdamarr Sveinaldsson, , Vladimir, , Volodymyr, was a grand prince of Kiev, ruler of Kievan Rus' in .Vladimir's father was the prince Sviatoslav of the Rurik dynasty...
  
  
• Vladimir II Monomakh
  Vladimir II Monomakh
  Vladimir II Monomakh |Basileios]]) was a Velikiy Kniaz of Kievan Rus'.- Family :He was the son of Vsevolod I and Anastasia of Byzantium Vladimir II Monomakh |Basileios]]) (1053 – May 19, 1125) was a Velikiy Kniaz (Grand Prince) of Kievan Rus'.- Family :He was the son of Vsevolod I (married in...
  
  
• Vladimir II Mstislavich
  Vladimir II Mstislavich
  Vladimir III Mstislavich , Prince of: Dorogobuzh , Vladimir and Volyn , Slutsk , Tripolye and Grand Prince of Kiev . He was the son of Mstislav I Vladimirovich, grandson of Vladimir Monomakh...
  
  
• Vladimir III Rurikovich
  Vladimir III Rurikovich
  Vladimir IV Rurikovich , Prince of Pereyaslavl , Smolensk and Grand Prince of Kiev . Son of Rurik Rostislavich....
  
  
• Vseslav of Polotsk
  Vseslav of Polotsk
  Vseslav of Polotsk , also known as Vseslav the Sorcerer or Vseslav the Seer, was the most famous ruler of Polotsk and was briefly Grand Prince of Kiev in 1068–1069. Together with Rostislav Vladimirovich and voivode Vyshata made up a coalition against the Yaroslaviches triumvirate...
  
  
• Vsevolod I of Kiev
  Vsevolod I of Kiev
  Vsevolod I Yaroslavich , ruled as Grand Prince of Kiev from 1078 until his death.-Early life:...
  
  
• Vsevolod II of Kiev
  Vsevolod II of Kiev
  Vsevolod II Olgovich was the Prince of Chernigov and Grand Prince of Kiev , son of Oleg Svyatoslavich, Prince of Chernigov....
  
  
• Vsevolod IV of Kiev
  Vsevolod IV of Kiev
  Vsevolod IV Svyatoslavich the Red was a Rus' prince . His baptismal name was Daniil...
  
  
• Yaropolk I of Kiev
  Yaropolk I of Kiev
  Yaropolk I Svyatoslavich was a young and rather enigmatic ruler of Kiev between 972 and 980. His royal title is traditionally translated as "Prince"....
  
  
• Yaropolk II of Kiev
  Yaropolk II of Kiev
  Yaropolk II Vladimirovich , Prince of Pereyaslav , Velikiy Kniaz of Kiev , son of Vladimir II Monomakh and Gytha of Wessex. He fought in several campaigns against the Polovtsy , once in 1103 and again in 1116.After the death of his brother in 1132, Msitslav I the Great, Yaropolk received the...
  
  
• Yaroslav I the Wise
  Yaroslav I the Wise
  Yaroslav I, Grand Prince of Rus, known as Yaroslav the Wise Yaroslav I, Grand Prince of Rus, known as Yaroslav the Wise Yaroslav I, Grand Prince of Rus, known as Yaroslav the Wise (Old Norse: Jarizleifr; ; Old East Slavic and Russian: Ярослав Мудрый; Ukrainian: Ярослав Мудрий; c...
  
  
• Yaroslav II of Kiev
  Yaroslav II of Kiev
  Yaroslav II Iziaslavich , Prince of Turov , Novgorod , Lutsk and Grand Prince of Kiev . He was the son of Iziaslav II of Kiev and the brother of Mstislav II of Kiev....
  
  

East Slavic history stubs

• Anti-Slavism
  Anti-Slavism
  Anti-Slavism, also known as Slavophobia, a form of racism or xenophobia, refers to various negative attitudes towards Slavic peoples, most common manifestation being claims of inferiority of Slavic nations with respect to other ethnic groups...
  
  
• Battle of Dorostolon
  Battle of Dorostolon
  The Battle of Dorostolon was fought in 971 between the Byzantine Empire and forces of Kievan Rus. The Byzantines, led by John I Tzimisces, were victorious.- Background:...
  
  
• Battle on the Irpen' River
  Battle on the Irpen' River
  The Battle on the Irpin River occurred in early 1320s between the armies of Gediminas, the Grand Duke of Lithuania, and Prince Stanislav of Kiev, allied with Oleg of Pereyaslavl' and Roman of Bryansk. On the small Irpin River about south west of Kiev, Gediminas resoundingly defeated Stanislav and...
  
  
• Bychowiec Chronicle
  Bychowiec Chronicle
  The Bychowiec Chronicle named the Letopis of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania is an anonymous 16th century chronicle of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Although one of the least reliable sources of the epoch, it is considered the most complete redaction of the Lithuanian Chronicles...
  
  
• Garðaríki
  Garðaríki
  Garðaríki or Garðaveldi is the Old Norse term used in medieval times for the states of Kievan Rus'...
  
  
• Gertrude of Poland
  Gertrude of Poland
  Gertrude , princess of Poland, was the daughter of King Mieszko II of Poland and Richeza of Lotharingia.In 1043, she was married to Iziaslav I of Kiev. She had three sons, Yaropolk Iziaslavich, Mstislav and Sviatopolk II, by her husband.Her daughter Eupraxia later married her cousin's son Mieszko...
  
  
• Halych-Volhynian Chronicle
  Halych-Volhynian Chronicle
  The Galician-Volhynian Chronicle is a historical record covering 1201–1292 in the history of the Principality of Galicia-Volhynia . The original chronicle did not survive; the oldest known copy is in the Hypatian Codex...
  
  
• Hilarion of Kiev
  Hilarion of Kiev
  Hilarion or Ilarion was the first non-Greek Metropolitan of Kiev. While there is not much verifiable information regarding Ilarion's biography, there are several aspects of his life which have come to be generally accepted....
  
  
• Hypatian Codex
  Hypatian Codex
  The Hypatian Codex is a compendium of three chronicles: the Primary Chronicle, Kiev Chronicle, and Galician-Volhynian Chronicle. It is the most important source of historical data for southern Rus'...
  
  
• Ioachim Chronicle
  Ioachim Chronicle
  The Ioachim Chronicle , also spelled Joachim or Ioakim) is a chronicle discovered by the Russian historian Vasily Tatishchev in the 18th century...
  
  
• Iziaslav II of Kiev
  Iziaslav II of Kiev
  Iziaslav II Mstislavich , Prince of Pereyaslav , Prince of Turov , Prince of Rostov , Prince of Vladimir and Volyn , Pereyaslavl , Velikiy Kniaz of Kiev , was the oldest son of Mstislav Vladimirovich, Kniaz' , and...
  
  
• Iziaslav III of Kiev
  Iziaslav III of Kiev
  Izyaslav III Davidovich , Prince of Chernigov and Grand Prince of Kiev . He was the son of Davyd Sviatoslavich of Chernigov....
  
  
• Iziaslav IV Vladimirovich
  Iziaslav IV Vladimirovich
  Iziaslav IV Vladimirovich , was the Prince of Terebovlya and Novgorod-Seversky and Grand Prince of Kiev . He was the son of Vladimir Igorevich....
  
  
• Kijów Voivodeship
  Kijów Voivodeship
  The Kiev Voivodeship was a unit of administrative division and local government in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from 1471 until 1569 and of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland from 1569 until 1793 as part of Lesser Poland Province of the Polish Crown....
  
  
• Knyaz Konstantin Konstantinovich Ostrozhskiy
• Koleda
  Koleda
  Kolyada or koleda is an ancient Slavic winter ritual celebrating the Old New Year. It was later incorporated into Christmas. The word is still used in modern Belarusian , Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbian and Croatian, Slovak...
  
  
• Konstantin of Murom
  Konstantin of Murom
  The Holy and Blessed Prince Constantine of Murom was a direct descendant of Vladimir I of Kiev and the son of Prince Svyatoslav of Chernigov. His father at his request assigned him to rule the city of Murom, which at the time was inhabited by pagans, that he might spread Christianity in that...
  
  
• Konyushy
• List of early East Slavic states
• Liubech
  Liubech
  Liubech or Lyubech is a small ancient town connected with many important events since the times of the Kievan Rus'. It is currently a small settlement located in Ripky Raion, in the Chernihiv Oblast of northern Ukraine...
  
  
• Liškiava
  Liškiava
  Liškiava is a historic village in the Varėna district municipality, Lithuania. It is situated on the bank of Neman River, near the Lake Liškiavis. In 2005 its population was 37....
  
  
• Mstislav II of Kiev
  Mstislav II of Kiev
  Mstislav II Izyaslavich , Kniaz' of Pereyaslav, Volodymyr-Volynsky and Velikiy Kniaz of Kiev . Son of Izyaslav Mstislavich, Velikiy Kniaz' of Kiev....
  
  
• Namestnik
• Ostroh
  Ostroh
  Ostroh is a historic city located in Rivne Oblast of western Ukraine, located on the Horyn River. Ostroh is the administrative center of the Ostroh Raion and is itself designated as a special administrative subordination within the oblast...
  
  
• Pereyaslavets
  Pereyaslavets
  Pereyaslavets or Preslavets was a trade city located at the mouth of the Danube...
  
  
• Polish-Lithuanian-Ruthenian Commonwealth
  Polish-Lithuanian-Ruthenian Commonwealth
  Polish–Lithuanian–Ruthenian Commonwealth was a proposed European state in the 17th century that would replace contemporal Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The creation of a Duchy of Ruthenia was considered at various times, particularly during the 1648 Cossack insurrection against Polish rule in...
  
  
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• Posad
  Posad
  A posad was a settlement, often surrounded by ramparts and a moat, adjoining a town or a kremlin, but outside of it, or adjoining a monastery in the 10th to 15th centuries. Usually it was inhabited by craftsmen and merchants, known as posadskiye lyudi .In the Russian Empire a posad was a small...
  
  
• Ros' River
  Ros' River
  Ros is a river in Ukraine, 346 km in length, a right tributary of the Dnieper river. The Ros river finds its source in the village of Ordyntsi in Pohrebyschenskyi Raion, Vinnytsia Oblast....
  
  
• Rostislav I of Kiev
  Rostislav I of Kiev
  Rostislav Mstislavich , Kniaz' of Smolensk , Novgorod and Velikiy Kniaz of Kiev . He was the son of Mstislav I of Kiev and Christina Ingesdotter of Sweden....
  
  
• Saint Anthony of Kiev
  Saint Anthony of Kiev
  Anthony of Kiev was a monk and the founder of the monastic tradition in the Kievan Rus'. Also called Anthony of the Caves he, together with Theodosius of Kiev, co-founded Kiev Pechersk Lavra ....
  
  
• Sloboda
  Sloboda
  Sloboda was a kind of settlement in the history of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. The name is derived from the early Slavic word for "freedom" and may be vaguely translated as "free settlement"....
  
  
• Stanislav of Kiev
• Sviatoslav III of Kiev
  Sviatoslav III of Kiev
  Sviatoslav III Vsevolodovich , Prince of Turov , Vladimir and Volyn , Pinsk , Novgorod-Seversky , Chernigov , Grand Prince of Kiev...
  
  
• Sviatoslav Olgovich
  Sviatoslav Olgovich
  Sviatoslav Olgovich , Prince of Novgorod Novhorod-Siversky , Bilhorod Kyivsky and Chernihiv...
  
  
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• Temple ring
  Temple ring
  Temple rings are part of Slavic medieval woman dress. Most were made of base metals such as copper alloys or iron, though silver and even gold were occasionally used...
  
  
• Theodosius of Kiev
  Theodosius of Kiev
  Theodosius of Kiev is an 11th century saint who brought Cenobitic Monasticism to Kievan Rus' and, together with St Anthony of Kiev, founded the Kiev Caves Lavra...
  
  
• Tivertsi
  Tivertsi
  Tivertsi, a.k.a. Tivertsy, Tiverians is a tribe of early East Slavs which lived in the lands near the Dniester, and probably the lower Danube, that is in modern-day western Ukraine and Moldova and possibly in eastern Romania and southern Odessa oblast of Ukraine...
  
  
• Union of Brest
  Union of Brest
  Union of Brest or Union of Brześć refers to the 1595-1596 decision of the Church of Rus', the "Metropolia of Kiev-Halych and all Rus'", to break relations with the Patriarch of Constantinople and place themselves under the Pope of Rome. At the time, this church included most Ukrainians and...
  
  
• Uyezd
  Uyezd
  Uyezd or uezd was an administrative subdivision of Rus', Muscovy, Russian Empire, and the early Russian SFSR which was in use from the 13th century. Uyezds for most of the history in Russia were a secondary-level of administrative division...
  
  
• Viacheslav I of Kiev
  Viacheslav I of Kiev
  Viacheslav Vladimirovich , Prince of Smolensk , Turov , Pereyaslavl , Peresopnitsa , Vyshgorod and Grand Prince of Kiev ....
  
  
• Vladimir II Mstislavich
  Vladimir II Mstislavich
  Vladimir III Mstislavich , Prince of: Dorogobuzh , Vladimir and Volyn , Slutsk , Tripolye and Grand Prince of Kiev . He was the son of Mstislav I Vladimirovich, grandson of Vladimir Monomakh...
  
  
• Volost
  Volost
  Volost was a traditional administrative subdivision in Eastern Europe.In earlier East Slavic history, volost was a name for the territory ruled by the knyaz, a principality; either as an absolute ruler or with varying degree of autonomy from the Velikiy Knyaz...
  
  
• Votchina
  Votchina
  Votchina or otchina was an East Slavic land estate that could be inherited. The term "votchina" was also used to describe the lands of a knyaz.The term originated in the law of Kievan Rus...
  
  
• Yaropolk II of Kiev
  Yaropolk II of Kiev
  Yaropolk II Vladimirovich , Prince of Pereyaslav , Velikiy Kniaz of Kiev , son of Vladimir II Monomakh and Gytha of Wessex. He fought in several campaigns against the Polovtsy , once in 1103 and again in 1116.After the death of his brother in 1132, Msitslav I the Great, Yaropolk received the...
  
  
• Yaroslav II of Kiev
  Yaroslav II of Kiev
  Yaroslav II Iziaslavich , Prince of Turov , Novgorod , Lutsk and Grand Prince of Kiev . He was the son of Iziaslav II of Kiev and the brother of Mstislav II of Kiev....
  
  
• Šajkaši
  Šajkaši
  Šajkaši were the river troops guarding the Danube and Sava, and especially, the Port of Belgrade, against the Ottoman Empire from the 16th to the 19th century. At the time, the rivers were borders of the Kingdom of Hungary and Habsburg Empire with the Ottoman Empire. They had special military...
  
  

Elections in Belarus

• Elections in Belarus
  Elections in Belarus
  Belarus elects on national level a head of state - the president - and a legislature. The president is elected for a five year term by the people. The National Assembly has two chambers...
  
  
• 1995 Belarus Referendum
  1995 Belarus Referendum
  A four-question referendum was held in Belarus on 14 May 1995, alongside parliamentary elections. The four issues were the possibility of giving the Russian language equal status with Belarusian, whether new national symbols should be adopted, whether there should be economic integration with...
  
  
• 1996 Belarus Referendum
  1996 Belarus Referendum
  A seven-question referendum was held in Belarus on 24 November 1996. Four questions were put forward by President Alexander Lukashenko on changing the date of the country's independence day, amending the constitution, changing laws on the sale of land and the abolition of the death penalty...
  
  
• 2004 Belarus Referendum
  2004 Belarus Referendum
  A referendum on allowing President Lukashenko to stand in further elections was held in Belarus on 17 October 2004, alongside parliamentary elections. Lukashenko was nearing the end of his constitutionally-limited two terms, and the change would allow him to run for a third term...
  
  
• Belarusian presidential election, 2006
  Belarusian presidential election, 2006
  Presidential elections were held in Belarus on 19 March 2006. The result was a victory for incumbent President Alexander Lukashenko, who received 84.4% of the vote. However, western observers deemed the elections rigged...
  
  

Military history of Belarus during World War II

• Military history of Belarus during World War II
  Military history of Belarus during World War II
  -September 1939 – June 1941:The Molotov-Ribbentrop Non-Aggression Pact of August 1939 had established a non-aggression agreement between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union, and a secret protocol described how Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Romania would be divided between...
  
  
• Occupation of Belarus by Nazi Germany
  Occupation of Belarus by Nazi Germany
  The occupation of Belarus by Nazi Germany occurred as part of the German invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941 and ended in August 1944 with the Soviet Operation Bagration.- Background :...
  
  

Polish-Lithuanian Union

• Polish-Lithuanian Union
  Polish-Lithuanian Union
  The term Polish–Lithuanian Union sometimes called as United Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania refers to a series of acts and alliances between the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania that lasted for prolonged periods of time and led to the creation of the Polish–Lithuanian...
  
  
• Constitution of May 3, 1791
  Constitution of May 3, 1791
  The Constitution of May 3, 1791 was adopted as a "Government Act" on that date by the Sejm of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. Historian Norman Davies calls it "the first constitution of its type in Europe"; other scholars also refer to it as the world's second oldest constitution...
  
  
• Union of Grodno
• Union of Horodło
• Union of Krewo
  Union of Krewo
  In a strict sense, the Union of Krewo or Act of Krėva was a set of prenuptial promises made in the Kreva Castle on 14 August 1385 by Jogaila, Grand Duke of Lithuania, in exchange for marriage to the underage reigning Queen Jadwiga of Poland...
  
  
• Union of Lublin
  Union of Lublin
  The Union of Lublin replaced the personal union of the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania with a real union and an elective monarchy, since Sigismund II Augustus, the last of the Jagiellons, remained childless after three marriages. In addition, the autonomy of Royal Prussia was...
  
  
• Union of Mielnik
  Union of Mielnik
  The Act of Mielnik or Union of Mielnik was an attempt to unite the Kingdom of Poland with the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 1501. It was not ratified by the Lithuanian Seimas or by the Polish Sejm . The Act of Mielnik remained just a political project...
  
  
• Pact of Vilnius and Radom
  Pact of Vilnius and Radom
  The Pact of Vilnius and Radom was a set of three acts passed in Vilnius, Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and confirmed by the Crown Council in Radom, Kingdom of Poland in 1401. The union amended the earlier act of the Union of Krewo and confirmed the Ostrów Agreement...
  
  

Belarusian rulers

• List of rulers of Belarus
• Butigeidis
  Butigeidis
  Butigeidis was the Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1285 to 1291. He is the first known and undisputed member of the Gediminids.He started his rule when the Livonian Order and the Teutonic Knights were finalizing their conquest of the Baltic tribes. In 1289, leading about 8,000 troops, Butigeidis...
  
  
• Butvydas
  Butvydas
  Butvydas was the Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1292 to 1295. His influence was strong during his brother Butigeidis' reign. This led some historians to believe, that they were co-rulers, much like the grandsons Algirdas and Kęstutis...
  
  
• Daumantas of Lithuania
  Daumantas of Lithuania
  Daumantas or Dovmont was the Grand Duke of Lithuania in 1282/1283-1285.As a Grand Duke of Lithuania, Daumantas is mentioned in chronicles only once, and in absence of any other evidence, he is presumed to be a short ruled Grand Duke...
  
  
• Ginwill
• Gediminas of Lithuania
  Gediminas of Lithuania
  Gediminas was Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1315 or 1316 until his death. He is credited with founding this political entity and expanding its territory which, at the time of his death, spanned the area ranging from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea...
  
  
• Jaunutis
  Jaunutis
  Jaunutis was the Grand Duke of Lithuania from his father Gediminas' death in 1341 until he was deposed by his elder brothers Algirdas and Kęstutis in 1345....
  
  
• Kukowoyt
• Mindaugas
  Mindaugas
  Mindaugas was the first known Grand Duke of Lithuania and the only King of Lithuania. Little is known of his origins, early life, or rise to power; he is mentioned in a 1219 treaty as an elder duke, and in 1236 as the leader of all the Lithuanians...
  
  
• Mingayl
• Narymunt
  Narymunt
  Narimantas or Narymunt was the second eldest son of Gediminas, Grand Duke of Lithuania. During various periods of his life, he ruled Pinsk and Polatsk. In 1333 he was invited by Novgorod's nobles to rule and protect territories in the north, Ladoga, Oreshek and Korela...
  
  
• Pukuwer
• Rogneda of Polotsk
  Rogneda of Polotsk
  Rogneda of Polotsk is the Slavic name for Ragnhild, whose father Ragnvald came from overseas and established himself at Polatsk in the mid-10th century....
  
  
• Skirgaila
  Skirgaila
  Skirgaila , also known as Ivan; ca. 1353 or 1354 – 11 January 1397 in Kiev; baptized 1383/1384 as Casimir) was a regent of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania for his brother Jogaila from 1386 to 1392. He was son of Algirdas, Grand Duke of Lithuania, and his second wife Uliana of Tver.-Biography:After...
  
  
• Traidenis
  Traidenis
  Traidenis was the Grand Duke Lithuania from 1270 till 1282. He is the second most prominent, after Mindaugas, Grand Duke of Lithuania in the 13th century. His reign ended a seven-year unrest period after Mindaugas was assassinated in 1263 and firmly established the Grand Duchy as a pagan state...
  
  
• Treniota
  Treniota
  Treniota was the Grand Duke of Lithuania .Treniota was the nephew of Mindaugas, the first and only king of Lithuania. While Mindaugas had converted to Christianity in order to discourage Livonian Order and Teutonic Knights attacks on Lithuania, becoming king in the process, Treniota remained a...
  
  
• Vaišvilkas
  Vaišvilkas
  Vaišelga or Vaišvilkas was the Grand Duke of Lithuania...
  
  
• Vseslav of Polotsk
  Vseslav of Polotsk
  Vseslav of Polotsk , also known as Vseslav the Sorcerer or Vseslav the Seer, was the most famous ruler of Polotsk and was briefly Grand Prince of Kiev in 1068–1069. Together with Rostislav Vladimirovich and voivode Vyshata made up a coalition against the Yaroslaviches triumvirate...
  
  
• Vytautas the Great
  Vytautas the Great
  Vytautas ; styled "the Great" from the 15th century onwards; c. 1350 October 27, 1430) was one of the most famous rulers of medieval Lithuania. Vytautas was the ruler of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania which chiefly encompassed the Lithuanians and Ruthenians...
  
  
• Vytenis
  Vytenis
  Vytenis was the Grand Duke of Lithuania from c. 1295 to c. 1316. He became the first of the Gediminid dynasty to rule for a considerable amount of time. In the early 14th century his reputation outshone that of Gediminas, who is regarded by modern historians as one of the greatest Lithuanian rulers...
  
  

Ruthenia

• Ruthenia
  Ruthenia
  Ruthenia is the Latin word used onwards from the 13th century, describing lands of the Ancient Rus in European manuscripts. Its geographic and culturo-ethnic name at that time was applied to the parts of Eastern Europe. Essentially, the word is a false Latin rendering of the ancient place name Rus...
  
  
• Belarusian heraldry
  Belarusian heraldry
  The uses of heraldry in Belarus is used by government bodies, subdivisions of the national government, organizations, corporations and by families.-History:...
  
  
• Duchy of Ruthenia
• Okopy, Ternopil Oblast
  Okopy, Ternopil Oblast
  Okopy is a village in western Ukraine. It is located in the Borshchiv Raion of the Ternopil Oblast , and had its origins as a Polish fortress at the meeting of the Zbruch and Dniester rivers....
  
  
• Pukuwer
• White Ruthenia

2006 in Belarus

• Belarusian presidential election, 2006
  Belarusian presidential election, 2006
  Presidential elections were held in Belarus on 19 March 2006. The result was a victory for incumbent President Alexander Lukashenko, who received 84.4% of the vote. However, western observers deemed the elections rigged...
  
  
• Belarus at the 2006 Winter Olympics
  Belarus at the 2006 Winter Olympics
  Belarus competed at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. The team collected one medal, a silver in Freestyle Skiing.- Medalists :- Biathlon :MenWomen- Cross-country skiing :...
  
  
• Belarus at the 2006 Winter Paralympics
  Belarus at the 2006 Winter Paralympics
  Belarus participated in the ninth Winter Paralympics in Turin, Italy.Belarus entered six athletes in the following sport:*Nordic skiing: 3 male, 3 female-Medalists:-External links:**...
  
  

Belarusian history stubs

• Battle of Pabaiskas
  Battle of Pabaiskas
  The Battle of Pabaiskas took place on September 1, 1435 near Ukmergė , by the Šventoji River in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania...
  
  
• Battle of Połonka
• Battle of Vedrosha
  Battle of Vedrosha
  The battle on the Vedrosha River was a battle in the course of the Russo-Lithuanian war of 1500-1503 which ended with a decisive Russian victory and proved to be of strategic significance...
  
  
• Belarusian Marseillaise
  Belarusian Marseillaise
  The name "Belarusian Marseillaise" has been used to refer to two Belarusian patriotic songs.Above all, "Belarusian Marseillaise" is another name for the Belarusian song "We've slept for long" the author of whose lyrics is unknown. The song was reportedly heard for the first time in 1906, "among...
  
  
• Bychowiec Chronicle
  Bychowiec Chronicle
  The Bychowiec Chronicle named the Letopis of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania is an anonymous 16th century chronicle of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Although one of the least reliable sources of the epoch, it is considered the most complete redaction of the Lithuanian Chronicles...
  
  
• History of the Jews in Belarus
  History of the Jews in Belarus
  The Jews in Belarus were the third largest ethnic group in the country in the first half of the 20th century. Before World War II, Jews were the third among the ethnic groups in Belarus, and in cities and towns comprised more than 40% of the population. The population of cities such as Minsk,...
  
  
• List of early East Slavic states
• Lithuanian-Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic
  Lithuanian-Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic
  Lithuanian–Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic or Litbel was a Soviet socialist republic, that existed within the territories of modern Belarus and eastern Lithuania for approximately seven months during 1919. It was created after the merger of Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic and the...
  
  
• Milograd culture
  Milograd culture
  The Milograd culture is an archaeological culture, lasting from about the 7th century BC to the 1st century AD. Geographically, it corresponds to present day southern Belarus and northern Ukraine, in the area of the confluence of the Dnieper and the Pripyat, north of Kiev...
  
  
• Polish Autonomous District
  Polish Autonomous District
  Polish Autonomous Districts were national raions in the interbellum period possessing some form of a national autonomy in the Ukrainian and Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republics of the USSR...
  
  
• Polish-Lithuanian Union
  Polish-Lithuanian Union
  The term Polish–Lithuanian Union sometimes called as United Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania refers to a series of acts and alliances between the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania that lasted for prolonged periods of time and led to the creation of the Polish–Lithuanian...
  
  
• Polish-Lithuanian-Ruthenian Commonwealth
  Polish-Lithuanian-Ruthenian Commonwealth
  Polish–Lithuanian–Ruthenian Commonwealth was a proposed European state in the 17th century that would replace contemporal Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The creation of a Duchy of Ruthenia was considered at various times, particularly during the 1648 Cossack insurrection against Polish rule in...
  
  
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• Union of Grodno
• West Belarus
  West Belarus
  West Belarus is the name used in reference to the territory of modern Belarus which belonged to the Second Polish Republic between 1919 and 1939. The area of West Belarus was annexed into the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic following staged elections soon after the Nazi-Soviet Invasion of...
  
  
• Western Krai
  Western Krai
  Western Krai or Stolen Lands is an unofficial name, introduced in 1834 by a Polish historian Maurycy Mochnacki, of the westernmost parts of the Imperial Russia, but excluding the Kingdom of Poland...
  
  

Belarusian law

• Article 181 (Criminal Code of Belarus)
  Article 181 (Criminal Code of Belarus)
  Article 181 is an article of the criminal code of Belarus which forbids trafficking in people. Passed in 2001, the specific wording in Article 181 states that performing actions to "turning over or obtaining a dependent person" is considered human trafficking and deemed illegal...
  
  
• Capital punishment in Belarus
  Capital punishment in Belarus
  The provision for Capital Punishment in Belarus has been a part of the country since gaining independence from the Soviet Union. The current national constitution prescribes this punishment for "grave crimes." Later laws have clarified the specific crimes for which capital punishment can be used...
  
  
• Constitution of Belarus
  Constitution of Belarus
  The Constitution of the Republic of Belarus is the ultimate law of Belarus. Adopted in 1994, three years after the country declared its independence from the Soviet Union, this formal document establishes the framework of the Belarusian state and government and enumerates the rights and freedoms...
  
  
• Constitutional Court of Belarus
  Constitutional Court of Belarus
  The Constitutional Court of Belarus is one of the top-tier courts in the Eastern European country. Created in 1994, the Court is run under guidelines that were issued in 1997. The purpose of the court is to render justice in areas where the constitution has come into question, such as a local law...
  
  
• Gay rights in Belarus
  Gay rights in Belarus
  Both male and female same-sex sexual activity are legal in Belarus, but households headed by same-sex couples are not eligible for the same legal protections available to opposite-sex couples....
  
  
• Human rights in Belarus
  Human rights in Belarus
  Since the election of the country's first president, Aleksandr Lukashenko in July 1994, Lukashenko has steadily consolidated his power through authoritarian means. Government restrictions on freedom of speech and the press, peaceful assembly, and religion remain in place...
  
  
  • Censorship in Belarus
    Censorship in Belarus
    Censorship in Belarus, although prohibited by the country's constitution, is enforced by a number of laws. These include a law that makes insulting the president punishable by up to five years in prison, and another that makes criticizing Belarus abroad punishable by up to two years in prison.-...
    
    
• Supreme Court of Belarus
  Supreme Court of Belarus
  The Supreme Court of the Republic of Belarus is the highest-tier court inside of Belarus and acts as the final "court of review." Its general tasks include the oversight of lower-tier courts and can render justice in areas of general civil and criminal law...
  
  

Law enforcement in Belarus

• State Security Agency of the Republic of Belarus (KDB in Belarusian, KGB in Russian)
• Militsiya
  Militsiya
  Militsiya or militia is used as an official name of the civilian police in several former communist states, despite its original military connotation...
  
  
• Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus
  Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus
  Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus is a body of the Belarusian Government that is charged with the internal affairs of Belarus. Day to day law enforcement is carried out by the Militsiya. The Ministry is also tasked with providing security to state buildings and officials. Organizations such...
  
  
• Presidential Guard (Belarus)
  Presidential Guard (Belarus)
  The Belarusian Presidential Guard or officially the Presidential Security Service is a law-enforcement body that was designed to protect the President of Belarus and other high ranking officials and officers.However, the United States State Department stated that the Presidential Guard is a secret...
  
  

Belarusian media

• Media in Belarus
• Belarusian Association of Journalists
  Belarusian Association of Journalists
  The Belarusian Association of Journalists is a Belarusian non-governmental organisation aimed at ensuring freedom of speech and rights of receiving and distributing information and promoting professional standards of journalism" .It was founded in 1995...
  
  
• Internet in Belarus
• .by
  .by
  .by is the Internet country code top-level domain for Belarus. It is administered by The Operative-analytical center of the Republic of Belarus . The code "BY" originates from an alternative spelling of Belarus, Byelorussia, which was used during their inclusion in the Soviet Union...
  
  
• Censorship in Belarus
  Censorship in Belarus
  Censorship in Belarus, although prohibited by the country's constitution, is enforced by a number of laws. These include a law that makes insulting the president punishable by up to five years in prison, and another that makes criticizing Belarus abroad punishable by up to two years in prison.-...
  
  

Belarusian journalists

• Veronika Cherkasova
  Veronika Cherkasova
  Veronika Cherkasova was a Belarusian journalist, born in Minsk, Belarus. She was stabbed to death in her Minsk apartment on October 20, 2004.The killer, who inflicted over 20 stab wounds, has never been found...
  
  
• Siarhiej Dubaviec
  Siarhiej Dubaviec
  Siarhiej Dubaviec is a Belarusian journalist and writer.Graduated from the Belarusian State University journalism faculty....
  
  
• Andrej Dyńko
  Andrej Dynko
  Andrej Dyńko is a Belarusian journalist and chief editor of the oldest Belarusian weekly newspaper, Naša Niva, and one of the editors of the magazine Arche.He was arrested in the protests surrounding the 2006 Presidential Elections, spent ten days in Jail and has since published his prison...
  
  
• Ihar Hermianchuk
  Ihar Hermianchuk
  Ihar Hermianchuk was a famous Belarusian journalist and political activist....
  
  
• Piotra Sych
  Piotra Sych
  Piotra Sych , a Belarusian writer and journalist, born in Baturyna, Western Belarus, near Vileyka.He started his journalistic career in Wilno in 1930's, initially writing for the Polish language newspapers, and studying philosophy at the Wilno University...
  
  
• Dmitry Zavadsky
  Dmitry Zavadsky
  Dzmitry Zavadski was a Belarusian cameraman of Russian Public Television ORT.On July 7, 2000 Dzmitry Zavadski drove to the Minsk airport to meet colleague Pavel Sharamyet...
  
  

Newspapers published in Belarus

• Belorusy i rynok
  Belorusy i rynok
  Belorusy i rynok is the main business weekly newspaper published in Belarus.The newspaper was founded in 1990 under the name Belorusskij rynok and was one of the first private media in Belarus....
  
  
• Biełarus
• Homan
  Homan
  Homan is the Belarusian word , meaning "the loud talk of many people". It may also refer to:-Other uses:* Homan , Belarusian newspaper* Homan , Belarusian newspaper...
  
  
• Homan (1884)
  Homan (1884)
  Homan was the first illegal newspaper in Belarusian language, began in 1884, of the radical orientation. It was printed in Minsk on the hectograph. The publications promoted the idea of autonomy of Belarusian lands.-References:...
  
  
• Narodnaja Volya (newspaper)
  Narodnaja Volya (newspaper)
  Narodnaja Volya is an independent newspaper founded by Iosif Seredich and originally printed in Vilnius . Its circulation is 55,000. Since November 1997, printing was moved to Minsk in the private publishing house "Magic". It became Belarus' largest independent newspaper.Seredich was the...
  
  
• Naša Niva
  Naša Niva
  Nasha Niva is one of the oldest Belarusian weekly newspapers founded in 1906 and re-established in 1991.The current editor-in-chief is Andrej Skurko, who succeeded Andrej Dyńko....
  
  
• Zviazda
  Zviazda
  Zviazda is a state-owned daily newspaper in Belarus.It was founded in 1917 as an organ of the Minsk Committee of RSDLP.Zviazda has been twice closed down by the Russian Provisional Government but continued being published under different names...
  
  

See also List of newspapers in Belarus

Radio stations in Belarus

• List of radio stations in Belarus
• Belarusian Radio
• European Radio for Belarus
  European Radio for Belarus
  European Radio for Belarus is an international radio station based in Warsaw that provides independent news, information, and entertainment to the citizens of Belarus since February 2006...
  
  
• Radio Stil (Belarus)
  Radio Stil (Belarus)
  Radio 101.2 was a radio station in the Belarusian capital of Minsk. In 1995 and 1996 the radio station, which is at the frequency 101.2, was broadcasting news and was not affiliated with the national government....
  
  

Organizations based in Belarus

• Belarusian Helsinki Committee
  Belarusian Helsinki Committee
  The Belarusian Helsinki Committee is a non-governmental human rights organization established in 1995 and the sole remaining independent human rights group in Belarus...
  
  
• Committee for Standardization, Metrology and Certification of Belarus
  Committee for Standardization, Metrology and Certification of Belarus
  The Committee for Standardization, Metrology and Certification of Belarus is the International Organization for Standardization member body for Belarus....
  
  
• Union of Poles in Belarus
  Union of Poles in Belarus
  The Union of Poles in Belarus is an organization located in the Eastern European country of Belarus. The group, which has a membership of 20,000 people, represents the Polish minority in Belarus, numbering about 400,000, as per official data .Lately, the group has received international attention...
  
  
• World Association of Belarusians
  World Association of Belarusians
  The World Association of Belarusians "Baćkaŭščyna" is an international organisation uniting people of Belarusian descent globally. Currently 135 organisations of the Belarusian diaspora from 28 countries are members of Baćkaŭščyna.The organisation was founded in 1990...
  
  

Youth organizations based in Belarus

• Belarusian Republican Youth Union
  Belarusian Republican Youth Union
  The Belarusian Republican Youth Union , , transliteration: Belorusskij respublikanskij sojuz molodeži ) is a youth organization in Belarus. Its goals are to promote patriotism and to instill moral values into the youth of Belarus, using activities such as camping, sporting events and visiting...
  
  
• Belarusian Scout Association
  Belarusian Scout Association
  The Belarusian Scout Association is one of the nationwide Scouting organizations in Belarus. The association was founded in 1991 and liquidated in 2005 by the Supreme Court of Belarus, but still continues to operate...
  
  
• National Scout Association of Belarus
  National Scout Association of Belarus
  The National Scout Association of Belarus is one of several nationwide Scouting associations in Belarus...
  
  
• Scouting in Belarus
  Scouting in Belarus
  The Scout movement in Belarus consists of an unknown number of independent organizations. There are at least five nationwide associations as well as some regional associations...
  
  
• The Association of Belarusian Guides
  The Association of Belarusian Guides
  The Association of Belarusian Guides is the Belarusian member organization of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts , with a membership of 1,274 Girl Guides ....
  
  

Scouting in Belarus

• Scouting in Belarus
  Scouting in Belarus
  The Scout movement in Belarus consists of an unknown number of independent organizations. There are at least five nationwide associations as well as some regional associations...
  
  
• Belarusian Scout Association
  Belarusian Scout Association
  The Belarusian Scout Association is one of the nationwide Scouting organizations in Belarus. The association was founded in 1991 and liquidated in 2005 by the Supreme Court of Belarus, but still continues to operate...
  
  
• National Scout Association of Belarus
  National Scout Association of Belarus
  The National Scout Association of Belarus is one of several nationwide Scouting associations in Belarus...
  
  
• The Association of Belarusian Guides
  The Association of Belarusian Guides
  The Association of Belarusian Guides is the Belarusian member organization of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts , with a membership of 1,274 Girl Guides ....
  
  

Belarusian people

• Fabijan Abrantovich
  Fabijan Abrantovich
  Fabijan Abrantovich was a prominent religious and civic leader from Belarus...
  
  
• Stanisław Bułak-Bałachowicz
• Katsia Damankova
• Mikhail Doroshevich
  Mikhail Doroshevich
  Mikhail Doroshevich is a founder of , a Minsk-based news and analytical site covering developments in ICT in Belarus and , which provides daily news about information policy. DoWire.org Democracies Online features him as one of the most notable human rights bloggers on the Internet. Mr...
  
  
• Dregovichs
  Dregovichs
  The Dregoviches were one of the tribal unions of Early East Slavs, and inhabited the territories down the stream of the Pripyat River and northern parts of the right bank of the Dnieper river...
  
  
• Drevlyans
  Drevlyans
  The Drevlians were a tribe of Early East Slavs between the 6th and the 10th century, which inhabited the territories of Polesia, Right-bank Ukraine west of Polans, down the stream of the rivers Teteriv, Uzh, Ubort, and Stviga...
  
  
• Valery Fabrikant
  Valery Fabrikant
  Valery I. Fabrikant , is a Belarussian émigré and former associate professor of mechanical engineering at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada...
  
  
• Andrei Gromyko
  Andrei Gromyko
  Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko was a Soviet statesman during the Cold War. He served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet . Gromyko was responsible for many top decisions on Soviet foreign policy until he retired in 1987. In the West he was given the...
  
  
• Uładzimir Karvat
• Michaił Karčmit
• Vital Kramko
  Vital Kramko
  Vital Kramko is the chairman of "October" , an agricultural collective located in the Hrodna region. Kramko was awarded the title Hero of Belarus title "for selfless work and valiant efforts in the development of agricultural production." Kramko was awarded the title on 30 June 2001 from a decree...
  
  
• Litvins
• Pyotr Masherov
  Pyotr Masherov
  Pyotr Mironovich Masherov , - October 4, 1980) was the first secretary of Belarusian committee of the Communist Party of Soviet Union and a communist leader of Soviet Belarus.- Overview :...
  
  
• Vladimir Motyl
  Vladimir Motyl
  Vladimir Yakovlevich Motyl was a Soviet and Russian film director and scenarist.Vladimir Motyl was born in Lepiel, Belarus. His father was a Polish émigré, who was arrested in 1930 and sent to Solovki and died there the following year. Many of his other relatives suffered similar treatment...
  
  
• Pyotr Mstislavets
• Polochans
  Polochans
  Polochans were a tribe of early East Slavs, who inhabited the area in the middle of the Western Dvina in the 9th century. Alternative meaning: inhabitants of Polotsk....
  
  
• Nikolai Przhevalsky
  Nikolai Przhevalsky
  Nikolai Mikhaylovich Przhevalsky and Prjevalsky, ; —), was a Russian geographer of Polish background and explorer of Central and Eastern Asia. Although he never reached his final goal, Lhasa in Tibet, he travelled through regions unknown to the west, such as northern Tibet, modern Qinghai and...
  
  
• Andrey Romashevsky
• Anthony Sawoniuk
  Anthony Sawoniuk
  Anthony Sawoniuk, formerly Andrei Andreeovich Sawoniuk was a Belorussian Nazi collaborator from the town of Domaczewo in pre-war Poland . After taking part in the murder of Jews in his home town, he served in the SS and later with the Polish II Corps...
  
  
• Francysk Skaryna
• Svyatopolk-Mirsky
  Svyatopolk-Mirsky
  Svyatopolk-Mirsky is a family of Belarusian and Polish nobility that originated from northwestern Belarus.They first appeared in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the late 15th century as Mirski, a name probably derived from the town of Miory in the former Kievan Rus principate of Polotsk, although...
  
  
• Symon Budny
  Symon Budny
  Symon Budny was a Belarusian and Polish humanist, educator, hebraist, Bible translator, Church reformator, philosopher, sociologist and historian.-Christology:...
  
  
• Immanuel Velikovsky
  Immanuel Velikovsky
  Immanuel Velikovsky was a Russian-born American independent scholar of Jewish origins, best known as the author of a number of controversial books reinterpreting the events of ancient history, in particular the US bestseller Worlds in Collision, published in 1950...
  
  
• Michał Vituška
• Rostislav Yankovsky
  Rostislav Yankovsky
  Rostislav Ivanovich Yankovsky is a major Belarusian actor. He was born in Odessa 0n 5 February 1930, studied in Leninabad and debuted in the Tajik theatre in 1951. He has been working in the Minsk Drama Theatre since 1957 . Yankovsky was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1978 . He is the...
  
  
• Vladimir Yarets

Belarusian people by occupation

Belarusian singers

• Angelica Agurbash
  Angelica Agurbash
  Angelica Agurbash , born May 17, 1970, is a Belarusian singer and former model perhaps most known for representing Belarus at the Eurovision Song Contest 2005....
  
  
• Viktor Kalina
  Viktor Kalina
  Viktor Kalina - Belarusian singer in the genre of Russian chanson. Medic by education, master of sports in closed fight...
  
  
• Natalia Podolskaya
  Natalia Podolskaya
  Natalia Podolskaya is a Belarusian singer that performed for Russia at the Eurovision Song Contest on May 21, 2005 and was ranked #15. In 2008 she became a Russian citizen.-Early years:Natalia was born in 1982 in Mogilev, Belarus...
  
  
• Rusia
  Rusia
  Rusia is a settlement in the administrative district of Gmina Skarszewy, within Starogard County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately north-west of Skarszewy, north-west of Starogard Gdański, and south-west of the regional capital Gdańsk.For details of the history...
  
  
• Seryoga
  Seryoga
  Sergey Vasilyevich Parkhomenko is a popular Russian-Belarusian rapper and the owner of "KingRing" record label.-Career:Born in Gomel, Belarus, Seryoga grew up in a tough neighborhood. His music became a unique combination of Russian folk music with modern beats and original lyrics appealing to...
  
  
• Polina Smolova
  Polina Smolova
  Polina Smolova is a pop singer and the country's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 with the song Mum, with which she took part in the Eurovision semi-final. She is one of the most famous Belarusian pop singers, coming up with very poetic and lyrical songs...
  
  

Belarus born people

• S. Ansky
  S. Ansky
  Shloyme Zanvl Rappoport , known by his pseudonym S. Ansky , was a Russian Jewish author, playwright, and researcher of Jewish folklore....
  
  
• Menachem Begin
  Menachem Begin
  ' was a politician, founder of Likud and the sixth Prime Minister of the State of Israel. Before independence, he was the leader of the Zionist militant group Irgun, the Revisionist breakaway from the larger Jewish paramilitary organization Haganah. He proclaimed a revolt, on 1 February 1944,...
  
  
• Ignacy Domeyko
  Ignacy Domeyko
  Ignacy Domeyko or Domejko was a 19th-century geologist, mineralogist and educator who was born in Nesvizh, Imperial Russia , into a Polish-Lithuanian family...
  
  
• Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky
  Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky
  Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky was a Communist revolutionary, famous as the first director of the Bolshevik secret police, the Cheka, known later by many names during the history of the Soviet Union...
  
  
• Joseph Günzburg
  Joseph Günzburg
  Baron Joseph Günzburg Baron Joseph Günzburg Baron Joseph Günzburg (Baron Osip Gavrilovch Gintsburg, Барон Осип Гаврилович Гинцбург (or Iosif-Evzel, Иосиф-Евзель) , (1812, Vitebsk–January 12, 1878, Paris), was a Russian financier and philanthropist. He is the son of Gabriel Günzburg and the father...
  
  
• Simon Halkin
  Simon Halkin
  Simon Halkin was an Israeli poet, novelist, teacher, and translator.- Biography :Simon Halkin was born in Dovsk near Rogachev , then in the Russian Empire in 1899. He emigrated to New York City with his family in 1914. He lived and studied in the United States from 1914 to 1932...
  
  
• Ignacy Hryniewiecki
  Ignacy Hryniewiecki
  Ignaty Gryniewietsky , 1856 – 13 March 1881) was a member of the People's Will and the assassin of Tsar Alexander II of Russia.-Early life:...
  
  
• Bronislaw Kaminski
  Bronislaw Kaminski
  Bronislav Vladislavovich Kaminski was the commander of the S.S. Sturmbrigade R.O.N.A. , an anti-partisan formation made up of people from the so-called Lokot Autonomy territory in the Nazi Germany occupied areas of Russia, which was later...
  
  
• Tadeusz Kościuszko
  Tadeusz Kosciuszko
  Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kościuszko was a Polish–Lithuanian and American general and military leader during the Kościuszko Uprising. He is a national hero of Poland, Lithuania, the United States and Belarus...
  
  
• Eliza Orzeszkowa
  Eliza Orzeszkowa
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• Valeriy Serdyukov
  Valeriy Serdyukov
  Valery Pavlovich Serdyukov is the current governor of Leningrad Oblast in Russia.Serdyukov graduated from the Saint Petersburg Mining Institute with a degree in economics....
  
  

Belarusian Jews

• Zhores Ivanovich Alferov
  Zhores Ivanovich Alferov
  Zhores Ivanovich Alferov is a Soviet and Russian physicist and academic who contributed significantly to the creation of modern heterostructure physics and electronics. He is an inventor of the heterotransistor and the winner of 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics. He is also a Russian politician and has...
  
  
• Bernhard Baron
  Bernhard Baron
  Bernhard Baron was a Jewish cigarette-manufacturer and philanthropist. He was born at Brest-Litovsk , in poor circumstances, and brought up among the Don Cossacks at Rostov. His father took him to the United States when young; and there, after working at a tobacco factory, he began making the...
  
  
• Menachem Begin
  Menachem Begin
  ' was a politician, founder of Likud and the sixth Prime Minister of the State of Israel. Before independence, he was the leader of the Zionist militant group Irgun, the Revisionist breakaway from the larger Jewish paramilitary organization Haganah. He proclaimed a revolt, on 1 February 1944,...
  
  
• Isaac Dov Berkowitz
  Isaac Dov Berkowitz
  Isaac Dov Berkowitz , a Jewish and Israeli author, born in Slutsk, Russian Empire, now Belarus. He emigrated to and settled in the British Mandate of Palestine, today Israel, in 1928.-Works:...
  
  
• Chaim Berlin
  Chaim Berlin
  Chaim Berlin was an Orthodox rabbi and chief rabbi of Moscow from 1865 to 1889. He was the son of Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin....
  
  
• Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin
  Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin
  Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin, , also known as Reb Hirsch Leib Berlin, and commonly known by the acronym Netziv, was an Orthodox rabbi, dean of the Volozhin Yeshiva and author of several works of rabbinic literature in Lithuania.- Family :Berlin was born in Mir, Russia in 1816 into a family of Jewish...
  
  
• Brisk yeshivas and methods
  Brisk yeshivas and methods
  The Soloveitchik dynasty of rabbinic scholars and their students originated the Brisker method of Talmudic study, which is embraced by their followers in the Brisk yeshivas. It is so called because of the Soloveitchiks' origin in the town of Brisk, or Brest-Litovsk, located in what is now Belarus...
  
  
• Marc Chagall
  Marc Chagall
  Marc Chagall Art critic Robert Hughes referred to Chagall as "the quintessential Jewish artist of the twentieth century."According to art historian Michael J...
  
  
• Morris Raphael Cohen
  Morris Raphael Cohen
  Morris Raphael Cohen was an American philosopher, lawyer and legal scholar who united pragmatism with logical positivism and linguistic analysis. He was father to Felix S. Cohen....
  
  
• David Dubinsky
  David Dubinsky
  David Dubinsky was an American labor leader...
  
  
• Simon Dubnow
  Simon Dubnow
  Simon Dubnow was a Jewish historian, writer and activist...
  
  
• Avrohom Elyashiv
  Avrohom Elyashiv
  Rabbi Avrohom Elyashiv was the Av Beis Din of the city of Gomel and son-in-law of the famous kabbalist, Rabbi Shlomo Elyashiv, author of the Leshem Shevo V’Achlamah. He was also the father of Rabbi Yosef Shalom Eliashiv...
  
  
• Yakov Gamarnik
  Yakov Gamarnik
  Jankel Borysovych Pukhdykovych , better known as Jan Gamarnik or Yakov Gamarnik was a Soviet politician of Jewish ethnicity.-Biography:...
  
  
• Boris Gelfand
  Boris Gelfand
  Boris Abramovich Gelfand is a Belarus-born Israeli chess Grandmaster. He won the 2011 Candidates Tournament and will challenge Viswanathan Anand for the World Chess Championship 2012.-Biography:...
  
  
• Gesya Gelfman
  Gesya Gelfman
  Gesya Mirokhovna Gelfman ; , Russian revolutionary, member of Narodnaya Volya,...
  
  
• Chaim Ozer Grodzinski
  Chaim Ozer Grodzinski
  Chaim Ozer Grodzinski was a pre-eminent Av beis din , posek , and Talmudic scholar in Vilnius, Lithuania in the late 19th and early 20th centuries...
  
  
• Abraham Harkavy
  Abraham Harkavy
  Avraam/Albert Yakovlevich Harkavy , or Avraham Eliyahu ben Yaakov Harkavy was a Russian-Jewish historian and orientalist.-Biography:...
  
  
• History of the Jews in Belarus
  History of the Jews in Belarus
  The Jews in Belarus were the third largest ethnic group in the country in the first half of the 20th century. Before World War II, Jews were the third among the ethnic groups in Belarus, and in cities and towns comprised more than 40% of the population. The population of cities such as Minsk,...
  
  
• Dawid Janowski
  Dawid Janowski
  Dawid Markelowicz Janowski was a leading Polish chess master and subsequent French citizen....
  
  
• Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky
  Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky
  Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky, known as The Steipler or The Steipler Gaon , was a rabbi, Talmudic scholar, and posek .-Biography:...
  
  
• Avraham Yeshayahu Karelitz
  Avraham Yeshayahu Karelitz
  Avrohom Yeshaya Karelitz, , popularly known by the name of his magnum opus Chazon Ish, was a Belarusian born Orthodox rabbi who became leader of Haredi Judaism in Israel, where his final 20 years, from 1933 to 1953, were spent.-Birth and Youth:Born in Kosava , Karelitz was sent as a youth to study...
  
  
• Berl Katznelson
  Berl Katznelson
  Berl Katznelson was one the intellectual founders of Labor Zionism, instrumental to the establishment of the modern State of Israel, and the editor of Davar, the first daily newspaper of the workers' movement.-Biography:...
  
  
• Jakob Klatzkin
  Jakob Klatzkin
  Jakob Klatzkin, Yakov/Jakub Klaczkin , 1882 - 26 March 1948, Vevey, Switzerland) was a Jewish philosopher, publicist, publisher.He was a son of Rabbi Eliyahu Klaczkin ....
  
  
• Lakhva
  Lakhva
  Lakhva is a small town in southern Belarus, with a population of approximately 2100. Lakhva is considered to have been the location of one of the first, and possibly the first, Jewish ghetto uprisings of the Second World War.-Geography:Lakhva is located in the Luninets district of the Brest...
  
  
• Mir yeshiva
  Mir yeshiva
  Mir Yeshiva or Mirrer Yeshiva may refer to:* Mir yeshiva * Mir yeshiva * Mir yeshiva...
  
  
• Shmuel Plavnik
• Lev Polugaevsky
  Lev Polugaevsky
  Lev Abramovich Polugaevsky was an International Grandmaster of chess and frequent contender for the world chess championship, although he never achieved that title...
  
  
• Mendele Mocher Sforim
  Mendele Mocher Sforim
  Mendele Mocher Sforim , December 21, 1835 = January 2, 1836 , Kapyl — November 25, 1917 = December 8, 1917...
  
  
• Yitzhak Shamir
  Yitzhak Shamir
  ' is a former Israeli politician, the seventh Prime Minister of Israel, in 1983–84 and 1986–92.-Biography:Icchak Jeziernicky was born in Ruzhany , Russian Empire . He studied at a Hebrew High School in Białystok, Poland. As a youth he joined Betar, the Revisionist Zionist youth movement...
  
  
• Refael Shapiro
  Refael Shapiro
  Rabbi Refael Shapiro was the famed Rosh Yeshiva of the Volozhin yeshiva and a son-in-law of Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin . After the Volozhin yeshiva was closed down in 1892 by order of the Russian government, he reopened it, albeit on a smaller scale in 1899...
  
  
• Shimon Shkop
  Shimon Shkop
  Shimon Yehuda Hakohen Shkop was a rosh yeshiva in the Yeshiva Shaar Hatorah and in the Telshe yeshiva and a renowned Talmudic scholar. He was born in Torez in 1860. At the age of twelve he went to study in the Mir yeshiva, and at fifteen he went to Volozhin yeshiva where he studied six years...
  
  
• Chaim Shmuelevitz
  Chaim Shmuelevitz
  Chaim Leib Shmuelevitz, , was a member of the faculty of the Mirrer Yeshiva for more than 40 years, in Poland, Shanghai and Jerusalem, serving as Rosh yeshiva during its sojourn in Shanghai from 1941 to 1947, and again in the Mirrer Yeshiva in Jerusalem from 1965 to 1979...
  
  
• Chaim Soloveitchik
  Chaim Soloveitchik
  Chaim Soloveitchik , also known as Reb Chaim Brisker, was a rabbi and Talmudic scholar credited as the founder of the popular Brisker approach to Talmudic study within Judaism. He was born in Volozhin in 1853, where his father, Rabbi Yosef Dov Soloveitchik served as a lecturer in the famous...
  
  
• Joseph Soloveitchik
  Joseph Soloveitchik
  Joseph Ber Soloveitchik was an American Orthodox rabbi, Talmudist and modern Jewish philosopher. He was a descendant of the Lithuanian Jewish Soloveitchik rabbinic dynasty....
  
  
• Moshe Soloveichik
  Moshe Soloveichik
  Moshe Soloveitchik , was an Orthodox rabbi. He was the second son of renowned rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik and grandson of the Beis HaLevi. He married Pesya Feinstein, daughter of the renowned Rabbi of Pruzany, Rabbi Eliyahu Feinstein, and first cousins with Rabbi Moshe Feinstein.At the age of 31, he...
  
  
• Yitzchak Zev Soloveitchik
  Yitzchak Zev Soloveitchik
  Yitzchok Zev Halevi Soloveitchik , also known as Velvel Soloveitchik or as the Brisker Rov Yitzchok Zev Halevi Soloveitchik (Hebrew: יצחק זאב הלוי סולובייצ'יק), also known as Velvel Soloveitchik ("Zev" means "wolf" in Hebrew, and "Velvel" is the diminutive of "wolf" in Yiddish) or as the Brisker...
  
  
• Chaim Soutine
  Chaim Soutine
  Chaïm Soutine was a Jewish painter from Belarus. Soutine made a major contribution to the expressionist movement while living in Paris....
  
  
• Chaim Volozhin
  Chaim Volozhin
  Chaim Volozhin was an Orthodox rabbi, Talmudist, and ethicist. Popularly known as "Reb Chaim Volozhiner" or simply as "Reb Chaim", he was born in Volozhin when it was a part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth...
  
  
• Elchonon Wasserman
  Elchonon Wasserman
  Elchonon Wasserman was a prominent rabbi and rosh yeshiva in pre-World War II Europe. He was one of the Chofetz Chaim's closest disciples and a noted Torah scholar.-Biography:...
  
  
• Chaim Weizmann
  Chaim Weizmann
  Chaim Azriel Weizmann, , was a Zionist leader, President of the Zionist Organization, and the first President of the State of Israel. He was elected on 1 February 1949, and served until his death in 1952....
  
  
• Ossip Zadkine
  Ossip Zadkine
  Ossip Zadkine was a Belarusian-born artist who lived in France. He is primarily known as a sculptor, but also produced paintings and lithographs.-Early years and career:...
  
  

Belarusian Americans

• Bernhard Baron
  Bernhard Baron
  Bernhard Baron was a Jewish cigarette-manufacturer and philanthropist. He was born at Brest-Litovsk , in poor circumstances, and brought up among the Don Cossacks at Rostov. His father took him to the United States when young; and there, after working at a tobacco factory, he began making the...
  
  
• Morris Raphael Cohen
  Morris Raphael Cohen
  Morris Raphael Cohen was an American philosopher, lawyer and legal scholar who united pragmatism with logical positivism and linguistic analysis. He was father to Felix S. Cohen....
  
  
• Kirk Douglas
  Kirk Douglas
  Kirk Douglas is an American stage and film actor, film producer and author. His popular films include Out of the Past , Champion , Ace in the Hole , The Bad and the Beautiful , Lust for Life , Paths of Glory , Gunfight at the O.K...
  
  
• Michael Douglas
  Michael Douglas
  Michael Kirk Douglas is an American actor and producer, primarily in movies and television. He has won three Golden Globes and two Academy Awards; first as producer of 1975's Best Picture, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and as Best Actor in 1987 for his role in Wall Street. Douglas received the...
  
  
• David Dubinsky
  David Dubinsky
  David Dubinsky was an American labor leader...
  
  
• Leon Kobrin
  Leon Kobrin
  Leon Kobrin was a playwright in Yiddish theater, writer of short stories and novels, and a translator. As a playwright he is generally seen as a disciple of Jacob Gordin, but his mature work was more character-driven, more open and realistic in its presentation of human sexual desire, and less...
  
  
• Louis B. Mayer
  Louis B. Mayer
  Louis Burt Mayer born Lazar Meir was an American film producer. He is generally cited as the creator of the "star system" within Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in its golden years. Known always as Louis B...
  
  
• Natalia Mishkutenok
  Natalia Mishkutenok
  Natalia Yevgenievna Mishkutenok is a retired Russian pair skater who now works as a coach. With former partner Artur Dmitriev, she is the 1992 Olympic Champion.-Biography:...
  
  
• David Sarnoff
  David Sarnoff
  David Sarnoff was an American businessman and pioneer of American commercial radio and television. He founded the National Broadcasting Company and throughout most of his career he led the Radio Corporation of America in various capacities from shortly after its founding in 1919 until his...
  
  
• Simeon Strunsky
  Simeon Strunsky
  Simeon Strunsky, A.B. was a Jewish American essayist, born in Vitebsk, Russian Empire . His parents are Isidor S. and Perl Wainstein. He graduated from Columbia University in 1900...
  
  
• Mikałaj Sudziłoŭski
• Jan Zaprudnik
  Jan Zaprudnik
  Jan Zaprudnik is an American historian and publicist of Belarusian descent...
  
  
• Oscar Zariski
  Oscar Zariski
  Oscar Zariski was a Russian mathematician and one of the most influential algebraic geometers of the 20th century.-Education:...
  
  

Belarusian Russians

• Zhores Ivanovich Alferov
  Zhores Ivanovich Alferov
  Zhores Ivanovich Alferov is a Soviet and Russian physicist and academic who contributed significantly to the creation of modern heterostructure physics and electronics. He is an inventor of the heterotransistor and the winner of 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics. He is also a Russian politician and has...
  
  
• Sergei Gorlukovich
  Sergei Gorlukovich
  Sergei Vadimovich Gorlukovich is an association footballer who played manager and former international player.-International career:In international football, Gorlukovich played at the 1990 and 1994 FIFA World Cups, and also in Euro 1996. He made his debut for USSR on 19 October 1988 in a 1990...
  
  
• Andrei Makarevich
  Andrei Makarevich
  Andrey Vadimovich Makarevich is a Soviet and Russian rock musician, founder of the Russia's oldest still active rock band Mashina Vremeni .-Biography:Makarevich was born in Moscow to the parents of Belarusian and Jewish origin...
  
  
• Valeria Novodvorskaya
  Valeria Novodvorskaya
  Valeriya Ilyinichna Novodvorskaya is a liberal Russian politician, Soviet dissident, the founder and the chairwoman of the "Democratic Union" party, and a member of the editorial board of The New Times...
  
  
• Dmitri Shostakovich
  Dmitri Shostakovich
  Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a Soviet Russian composer and one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century....
  
  
• Georgy Shpak
  Georgy Shpak
  Georgy Ivanovich Shpak was the governor of Ryazan Oblast, Russia from 2004-2008.He was the commander of the Airborne Troops from 1996 to 2003. He was elected for the Rodina bloc.-References:...
  
  

Belarusian Canadians

• Valery Fabrikant
  Valery Fabrikant
  Valery I. Fabrikant , is a Belarussian émigré and former associate professor of mechanical engineering at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada...
  
  
• Albert Gretzky
• Walter Gretzky
  Walter Gretzky
  Walter Gretzky, CM, O.Ont is a Canadian who has been honoured for his contributions to minor hockey in Canada, and for his dedication to helping many local, provincial, and national charities...
  
  
• Wayne Gretzky
  Wayne Gretzky
  Wayne Douglas Gretzky, CC is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player and former head coach. Nicknamed "The Great One", he is generally regarded as the best player in the history of the National Hockey League , and has been called "the greatest hockey player ever" by many sportswriters,...
  
  
• Ivonka Survilla
  Ivonka Survilla
  Ivonka Survilla or Surviła is the current President of the Belarusian National Republic , the Belarusian government in exile.After emigration through East Prussia, she lived in Denmark, France and Spain before moving to Canada in 1969....
  
  

Belarusian nobility

• Szlachta
  Szlachta
  The szlachta was a legally privileged noble class with origins in the Kingdom of Poland. It gained considerable institutional privileges during the 1333-1370 reign of Casimir the Great. In 1413, following a series of tentative personal unions between the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom of...
  
  
• Butigeidis
  Butigeidis
  Butigeidis was the Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1285 to 1291. He is the first known and undisputed member of the Gediminids.He started his rule when the Livonian Order and the Teutonic Knights were finalizing their conquest of the Baltic tribes. In 1289, leading about 8,000 troops, Butigeidis...
  
  
• Butvydas
  Butvydas
  Butvydas was the Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1292 to 1295. His influence was strong during his brother Butigeidis' reign. This led some historians to believe, that they were co-rulers, much like the grandsons Algirdas and Kęstutis...
  
  
• Jan Karol Chodkiewicz
  Jan Karol Chodkiewicz
  Jan Karol Chodkiewicz was a famous Lithuanian military commander and one of the most prominent noblemen of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.-Biography:...
  
  
• Dymitr Korybut
  Dymitr Korybut
  Kaributas was a son of Algirdas, Grand Duke of Lithuania, and reigned in Severian Novgorod until 1393....
  
  
• Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky
  Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky
  Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky was a Communist revolutionary, famous as the first director of the Bolshevik secret police, the Cheka, known later by many names during the history of the Soviet Union...
  
  
• Erdywil
  Erdywil
  Erdvilas was one of the 21 early dukes of Lithuania who signed a treaty with Galicia–Volhynia in 1219. He and Vykintas are the two dukes of Samogitia mentioned in the treaty. This is supported by the fact that the eastern part of Samogitia supported King of Lithuania Mindaugas, while the western...
  
  
• Gediminas of Lithuania
  Gediminas of Lithuania
  Gediminas was Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1315 or 1316 until his death. He is credited with founding this political entity and expanding its territory which, at the time of his death, spanned the area ranging from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea...
  
  
• Gimbut
• Ginwill
• Jaunutis
  Jaunutis
  Jaunutis was the Grand Duke of Lithuania from his father Gediminas' death in 1341 until he was deposed by his elder brothers Algirdas and Kęstutis in 1345....
  
  
• Jewna
  Jewna
  Jewna was daughter of Prince Ivan of Polatsk and wife of Gediminas, the Grand Duke of Lithuania, Ruthenia and Samogitia . She is mentioned in written sources only once – the Bychowiec Chronicle, a late and unreliable source...
  
  
• Kiernus
• Knyaz
  Knyaz
  Kniaz, knyaz or knez is a Slavic title found in most Slavic languages, denoting a royal nobility rank. It is usually translated into English as either Prince or less commonly as Duke....
  
  
• Tadeusz Kościuszko
  Tadeusz Kosciuszko
  Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kościuszko was a Polish–Lithuanian and American general and military leader during the Kościuszko Uprising. He is a national hero of Poland, Lithuania, the United States and Belarus...
  
  
• Kukowoyt
• Lubart
  Lubart
  Liubartas was the ruler of Galicia–Volhynia, in present-day Ukraine. He was the youngest son of Gediminas, Grand Duke of Lithuania. Ca. 1320 or ca. 1323 he married a daughter of Andrew of Galicia and ruled Lutsk in eastern Volhynia. After Andrew and his brother Lev II died ca...
  
  
• Manvydas
  Manvydas
  Manvydas or Monwid was the eldest son of Gediminas, Grand Duke of Lithuania, and inherited Kernavė and Slonim after his father's death in 1341. It is believed that he died in the Battle of Strėva in 1348.-References:...
  
  
• Mindaugas
  Mindaugas
  Mindaugas was the first known Grand Duke of Lithuania and the only King of Lithuania. Little is known of his origins, early life, or rise to power; he is mentioned in a 1219 treaty as an elder duke, and in 1236 as the leader of all the Lithuanians...
  
  
• Mingayl
• Montwił
• Narymunt
  Narymunt
  Narimantas or Narymunt was the second eldest son of Gediminas, Grand Duke of Lithuania. During various periods of his life, he ruled Pinsk and Polatsk. In 1333 he was invited by Novgorod's nobles to rule and protect territories in the north, Ladoga, Oreshek and Korela...
  
  
• Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz
  Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz
  Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz was a Polish poet, playwright and statesman. He was a leading advocate for the Constitution of May 3, 1791.-Life:...
  
  
• Algirdas
  Algirdas
  Algirdas was a monarch of medieval Lithuania. Algirdas ruled the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from 1345 to 1377, which chiefly meant monarch of Lithuanians and Ruthenians...
  
  
• Konstanty Ostrogski
  Konstanty Ostrogski
  Konstanty Iwanowicz Ostrogski was a Lithuanian duke of slavonic origin and a Grand Hetman of Lithuania since September 11, 1497, until his death. As a speaker of the Ruthenian language he is considered to be one of the precursors of the Belarusian language and a national hero in Belarus.He...
  
  
• Palemon
• Palemonids
• Pukuwer
• Franciszka Urszula Radziwiłłowa
• Michał Kazimierz "Rybeńko" Radziwiłł
• Radziwiłł
• Princess Eugénie of Greece and Denmark
  Princess Eugénie of Greece and Denmark
  Princess Eugénie of Greece and Denmark was the youngest child and only daughter of Prince George of Greece and Denmark and his wife, Marie Bonaparte, daughter of Prince Roland Bonaparte...
  
  
• Sanguszko
  Sanguszko
  Sanguszko is a Polish-Lithuanian noble family of the Ruthenian Sanguszko is a Polish-Lithuanian noble family of the Ruthenian Sanguszko is a Polish-Lithuanian noble family of the Ruthenian (now Ukrainian stock from the Gediminid dynasty. Like other princely houses of Polish-Lithuanian...
  
  
• Sapieha
  Sapieha
  The Sapieha is a Polish-Lithuanian princely family descending from the medieval boyars of Smolensk. The family acquired great influence in the sixteenth century.-History:...
  
  
• Lew Sapieha
  Lew Sapieha
  Lew Sapieha . He was born in Astrouna , near Vitsebsk, Belarus. He became Great Secretary of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 1580, Great Clerk of the Grand Duchy in 1581, Court Chancellor of the GDL in 1585, Grand Chancellor of the GDL from 1589 until 1623, Voivode of Vilnius in 1621, Great...
  
  
• Kazimierz Siemienowicz
  Kazimierz Siemienowicz
  Kazimierz Siemienowicz , was a Polish-Lithuanian general of artillery, gunsmith, military engineer, artillery specialist and pioneer of rocketry. Born in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, he served the armies of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, a federation of Poland and the Grand Duchy, and in the...
  
  
• Skirgaila
  Skirgaila
  Skirgaila , also known as Ivan; ca. 1353 or 1354 – 11 January 1397 in Kiev; baptized 1383/1384 as Casimir) was a regent of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania for his brother Jogaila from 1386 to 1392. He was son of Algirdas, Grand Duke of Lithuania, and his second wife Uliana of Tver.-Biography:After...
  
  
• Traidenis
  Traidenis
  Traidenis was the Grand Duke Lithuania from 1270 till 1282. He is the second most prominent, after Mindaugas, Grand Duke of Lithuania in the 13th century. His reign ended a seven-year unrest period after Mindaugas was assassinated in 1263 and firmly established the Grand Duchy as a pagan state...
  
  
• Treniota
  Treniota
  Treniota was the Grand Duke of Lithuania .Treniota was the nephew of Mindaugas, the first and only king of Lithuania. While Mindaugas had converted to Christianity in order to discourage Livonian Order and Teutonic Knights attacks on Lithuania, becoming king in the process, Treniota remained a...
  
  
• Fiodor Trubecki
• Wigund-Jeronym Trubecki
• Vaišvilkas
  Vaišvilkas
  Vaišelga or Vaišvilkas was the Grand Duke of Lithuania...
  
  
• Vytenis
  Vytenis
  Vytenis was the Grand Duke of Lithuania from c. 1295 to c. 1316. He became the first of the Gediminid dynasty to rule for a considerable amount of time. In the early 14th century his reputation outshone that of Gediminas, who is regarded by modern historians as one of the greatest Lithuanian rulers...
  
  

Chodkiewicz

• Anna Eufrozyna Chodkiewicz
• Jan Karol Chodkiewicz
  Jan Karol Chodkiewicz
  Jan Karol Chodkiewicz was a famous Lithuanian military commander and one of the most prominent noblemen of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.-Biography:...
  
  
• Jan Kazimierz Chodkiewicz
  Jan Kazimierz Chodkiewicz
  Jan Kazimierz Chodkiewicz was a Polonized Lithuanian nobleman .Jan Kazimierz was Master of the Stables of Lithuania since July 20, 1633 and castellan of Vilnius since April 13, 1646. He married Zofia Pac on August 31, 1636, in Vilnius.He died in 1660 and was buried in Brzostownica Wielka,...
  
  
• Krzysztof Chodkiewicz
  Krzysztof Chodkiewicz
  Krzysztof Chodkiewicz or Katkevičius was a Polish-Lithuanian nobleman .Chodkiewicz held the title of Great Standard Bearer of Lithuania . In 1610, he was named Master of the Horse of Lithuania, in 1623, Castellan of Trakai, in 1633, Castellan of Vilnius, in 1636, Voivode of Vilnius Voivodship...
  
  
• Teresa Chodkiewicz
  Teresa Chodkiewicz
  Teresa Chodkiewicz was a Polish noble lady.She married Jan Dobrogost Krasiński about 1667....
  
  

Ostrogski

• Ostrogski
  Ostrogski
  Ostrogski was one of the greatest Ruthenian princely families of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.They were most likely of Rurikid stock and descended from Sviatopolk II of Kiev. Some scholars however claim their descent from Galicia-Volhynia line of Rurikid dynasty. Vasilko Romanovich Prince of...
  
  
• Aleksander Ostrogski
  Aleksander Ostrogski
  Prince Aleksander Ostrogski was a nobleman of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.He was voivode of the Wolhynian Voivodship since 1593. Married to Anna Kostka since 1592.-See also:* Lithuanian nobility* House of Ostrogski...
  
  
• Anna Alojza Ostrogska
  Anna Alojza Ostrogska
  Princess Anna Alojza Ostrogska was a Polish-Lithuanian noble lady.She married Jan Karol Chodkiewicz on November 28, 1620 in Jarosław....
  
  
• Coat of arms of Ostrogski
  Coat of arms of Ostrogski
  Ostrogski is a Polish coat of arms. It was used by several szlachta families during the times of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.-Notable bearers:Notable bearers of this coat of arms include:...
  
  
• Janusz Ostrogski
  Janusz Ostrogski
  Prince Janusz Ostrogski was a Polish-Lithuanian noble.Janusz Ostrog - statesman of the Commonwealth...
  
  
• Katarzyna Ostrogska (1560–1579)
• Katarzyna Ostrogska (1602–1642)
• Konstanty Ostrogski
  Konstanty Ostrogski
  Konstanty Iwanowicz Ostrogski was a Lithuanian duke of slavonic origin and a Grand Hetman of Lithuania since September 11, 1497, until his death. As a speaker of the Ruthenian language he is considered to be one of the precursors of the Belarusian language and a national hero in Belarus.He...
  
  
• Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski
  Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski
  Konstanty Wasyl Ostrogski was a Lithuanian prince, starost of Volodymyr-Volynskyi, marshal of Volhynia and voivode of the Kiev Voivodeship, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. He got married on January 1553 in Tarnów...
  
  
• Zofia Ostrogska
  Zofia Ostrogska
  Princess Zofia Ostrogska was a Polish-Lithuanian noble lady of Ruthenian origin.She was the wealthiest lady in Poland. She married Stanisław Lubomirski in 1613. Through this marriage he became an owner of 18 towns, 313 villages and 163 granges in the provinces of Kraków, Sandomierz, Ruthenia and...
  
  

Radzivil

• Radzivil
• Albrycht Stanislav Radzivil
• Albrycht Vladyslav Radzivil
• Aleksander Ludwig Radzivil
• Anna Christina Radzivil
• Anna Radzivil
• Anna Radzivil (1476–1522)
• Anthony Radzivil
• Antoni Radzivil
• Barbara Radzivil
• Boguslav Radzivil
• Carole Radzivil
• Cecylia Maria Radzivil
• Dominik Hieronim Radzivil
• Dominik Nikolaj Radzivil
• Princess Eugénie of Greece and Denmark
  Princess Eugénie of Greece and Denmark
  Princess Eugénie of Greece and Denmark was the youngest child and only daughter of Prince George of Greece and Denmark and his wife, Marie Bonaparte, daughter of Prince Roland Bonaparte...
  
  
• Gregori IV Radzivil
• Hieronim Florian Radzivil
• Hieronim Wincenty Radzivil
• Janush Radzivil (1579–1620)
• Janush Radzivil (1612–1655)
• Jezhy Radzivil
• Jezhy Radzivil (1556–1600)
• Joanna Katerina Radzivil
• Józef Nikolaj Radzivil
• Kniaz' Stanislav "Kniaginia Kochanku" Radzivil
• Kniaz' Stanislav Radzivil (1669–1719)
• Karolina Teresa Radzivil
• Katerina Barbara Radzivil
• Katerina Karolina Radzivil
• Kristina Radzivil
• Kristof Nikolaj "the Lightning" Radzivil
• Kristof Nikolaj Radzivil
• Kristof Radzivil
• Lee Radzivil
• Matvej Radzivil
• Michail Gedeon Radzivill
• Michail Hieronim Radzivil
• Michail Kazimir "Rybeńko" Radzivil
• Michail Kazimir Radzivil
• Nikolaj "the Black" Radzivil
• Nikolaj "the Red" Radzivil
• Nikolaj Kristof "the Orphan" Radzivil
• Nikolaj Kristof Radzivil
• Nikolaj VII Radzivil
• Mir Castle Complex
  Mir Castle Complex
  The Mirsky Castle Complex , is a UNESCO World Heritage site in Belarus located in the town of Mir in the Karelichy District of the Hrodna voblast, at , 29 km to the north-west from another World Heritage site, Nesvizh Castle....
  
  
• Niasvizh Castle
• Franciska Ursula Radzivilova
• Radzivill Chronicle
• Stanislav Albrecht Radzivil
• Tekla Róza Radzivil
• Zigmund Karol Radzivil

Trubetskoy

• Trubetskoy
  Trubetskoy
  Trubetskoy , Трубецкой , Трубяцкі , Trubecki , Trubetsky , Трубецький , Troubetzkoy , Trubezkoi or Trubetzkoy , is a Ruthenian Gediminid gentry family of Black Ruthenian stock, like many other princely houses of Grand Duchy of Lithuania, later prominent in Russian...
  
  
• Aleksey Trubetskoy
  Aleksey Trubetskoy
  Aleksey Nikitich Trubetskoy was the last Prince of Trubetsk 1634–1645, and 17 March 1660 – June 1672, the godfather of Peter I of Russia.Under Tsar Michael's rule Aleksey...
  
  
• Ivan Betskoy
  Ivan Betskoy
  Ivan Ivanovich Betskoi or Betskoy was a Russian school reformer who served as Catherine II's advisor on education and President of the Imperial Academy of Arts for thirty years...
  
  
• Coat of arms of Druck
  Coat of arms of Druck
  Druck is a Polish coat of arms. It was used by several szlachta families under the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.-History:The Druck coat of arms goes back to ancient times...
  
  
• Coat of arms of Pogoń Litewska
  Coat of arms of Pogon Litewska
  Pogoń Litewska - is a coat of arms used in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Appearing in medieval Lithuanian heraldry, it was later used by several szlachta families in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, primarily by those of Gediminid origin...
  
  
• Coat of arms of Trubetsky
  Coat of arms of Trubetsky
  Trubetsky - is a Ruthenian-Polish-Russian coat of arms. It is used by Trubetsky family in different times.-Notable bearers:Notable bearers of this coat of arms include:*Demetriusz I Starszy*Wigund-Jeronym Trubecki*Piotr Trubecki*Ivan Bolshoy Troubetzkoy...
  
  
• Demetrius I Starszij
• Dmitry Troubetskoy
  Dmitry Troubetskoy
  Dmitry Timofeyevich Troubetzkoy , Prince, was the claimant to the Russian throne 1612, governor of Siberia, "duke of Shenkursk"....
  
  
• Fiodor Trubetsky
• Grigory Troubetzkoy
• Igor Troubetzkoy
  Igor Troubetzkoy
  Prince Igor Nikolayevich Troubetzkoy was the driver of the first Ferrari to ever compete in Grand Prix Motor Racing. He drove a 2-litre Ferrari "Tipo" 166 in Monaco on May 16, 1948. Earlier that year he had won the Targa Florio with the Ferrari 166 Sport Allemano Spyder...
  
  
• Ivan Trubetskoy
  Ivan Trubetskoy
  Ivan Yurievich Trubetskoy was a Russian Field Marshal, promoted in 1728. He was a member of the inner circle of Tsar Peter I of Russia and husband to a daughter of Fyodor Golovin. Made a boyar in 1692, Trubetskoy commanded part of the Russian fleet during the Azov campaigns in 1696. In 1699, he...
  
  
• Iwan Trubetsky
• Jan Trubecki
• Michał Trubetsky
• Nestor Troubetzkoy
• Nikita Trubetskoy
  Nikita Trubetskoy
  Prince Nikita Yurievich Trubetskoy was a Russian statesman and Field Marshal , minister of defense of Russia 1760....
  
  
• Nikita Kosoj Trubetsky
• Nikolai Trubetzkoy
  Nikolai Trubetzkoy
  Prince Nikolai Sergeyevich Trubetzkoy was a Russian linguist and historian whose teachings formed a nucleus of the Prague School of structural linguistics. He is widely considered to be the founder of morphophonology...
  
  
• Nikolay Troubetzkoy
• Paolo Troubetzkoy
  Paolo Troubetzkoy
  Prince Paolo or Paul Troubetzkoy was an artist and a sculptor, of Russia's Troubetzkoy princely family, who was described by G.B. Shaw as "the most astonishing sculptor of modern times".-Life:He worked in Russia, America, England and Italy...
  
  
• Pawel Troubetzkoy
• Peter Troubetzkoy
  Peter Troubetzkoy
  Pyotr Petrovich Troubetzkoy, was a Russian diplomat, administrator and general.Troubetzkoy was born in Tulcin in 1822.His first wife was Varvara Yourievna Troubetzkoy.In 1844 he was appointed governor of Smolensk, and Orel....
  
  
• Pierre Troubetzkoy
• Piotr Nikolaievich Troubetzkoy
• Piotr Trubecki
• Roman Trubetsky
• Sergei Petrovich Troubetzkoy
  Sergei Petrovich Troubetzkoy
  Prince Sergei Petrovich Trubetskoy was one of the organizers of the Decembrist movement. Close to Nikita Mikhailovich Muravyov in his views, he was declared the group's leader on the eve of the December 26 uprising in 1825 but failed to appear, and instead sought refuge in the Austrian...
  
  
• Symeon Perski Trubetsky
• Symeon Trubetsky
• Fiodor Trubecki
• Wigund-Jeronym Trubecki
• Tõnu Trubetsky
  Tõnu Trubetsky
  Tõnu Trubetsky , also known as Tony Blackplait, is an Estonian punk rock/glam punk musician, film and music video director, and individualist anarchist.-Early life:...
  
  
• Vladimir Petrovich Trubetskoy
• Vladimir Waloc Trubetsky
• Yuri Troubetzkoy
• Yuriy Trubetskoy
  Yuriy Trubetskoy
  Yuriy Trubetskoy was a Ruthenian Prince, boyar of the Trubetsky family. In 1657, Prince Jurij Trubetsky went to Moscow with his uncle Aleksandr Yurievitch Trubetzkoy...
  
  

Belarusian people stubs

• Alaksandar Dubko
  Alaksandar Dubko
  Alaksandar Dubko was the former chairman of the Hrodna Regional Executive Committee. In 1994, he was a candidate for President of Belarus. He also served in the Belarus SSR Supreme Soviet and the USSR Supreme Soviet...
  
  
• Alaksandar Kazulin
  Alaksandar Kazulin
  Alaksandr Kazulin , is the former leader of the Belarusian Social Democratic Party and one of the candidates who ran for the office of President of Belarus on March 19, 2006....
  
  
• Aldona Ona of Lithuania
  Aldona Ona of Lithuania
  Aldona was the Queen of Poland , and the Princess of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. She was the daughter of Gediminas, Grand Duke of Lithuania.-Biography:Aldona married Casimir III of Poland, when he was 15 or 16 years old...
  
  
• Alyaksandr Sulima
• Alexander Medved
  Alexander Medved
  Alexander Vasiliyevich Medved is a famous Soviet/Russian Belarussian wrestler. He is considered by most to be the best freestyle wrestler of all time. He was the first person ever to win three gold medals in freestyle wrestling. FILA recognizes Medved as The Greatest Wrestler of the 20th Century...
  
  
• Andrei Dapkiunas
  Andrei Dapkiunas
  Andrei Dapkiunas is a Belarusian diplomat. From 2004 until 2011 - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary and the Permanent Representative of Belarus to the United Nations. Vice-President of the United Nations Economic and Social Council, ECOSOC...
  
  
• Andrei Mikhnevich
  Andrei Mikhnevich
  Andrei Anatolyevich Mikhnevich is a Belarusian shot putter with a personal best of 22.00 metres, set in 2008. He holds the Belarusian record indoors with a throw of 21.81 m at the national indoor championships....
  
  
• Andrei Rybakou
  Andrei Rybakou
  Andrei Rybakou is a Belarusian weightlifter who won silver medals in Men's 85 kg at the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics.In April 2006 he won the European Championship...
  
  
• Anthony Sawoniuk
  Anthony Sawoniuk
  Anthony Sawoniuk, formerly Andrei Andreeovich Sawoniuk was a Belorussian Nazi collaborator from the town of Domaczewo in pre-war Poland . After taking part in the murder of Jews in his home town, he served in the SS and later with the Polish II Corps...
  
  
• Anton Prylepau
  Anton Prylepau
  Anton Prylepau is an athlete from Belarus. He competes in archery.Prylepau competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's individual archery. He won his first match, advancing to the round of 32. In the second round of elimination, he was again victorious and advanced to the round of 16...
  
  
• Artem Kontsevoy
  Artem Kontsevoy
  Artem Kontsevoy is a football player from Belarus. He plays as a striker for BATE Borisov and the Belarus national team.-External links:...
  
  
• Bernhard Baron
  Bernhard Baron
  Bernhard Baron was a Jewish cigarette-manufacturer and philanthropist. He was born at Brest-Litovsk , in poor circumstances, and brought up among the Don Cossacks at Rostov. His father took him to the United States when young; and there, after working at a tobacco factory, he began making the...
  
  
• Boris Gelfand
  Boris Gelfand
  Boris Abramovich Gelfand is a Belarus-born Israeli chess Grandmaster. He won the 2011 Candidates Tournament and will challenge Viswanathan Anand for the World Chess Championship 2012.-Biography:...
  
  
• Butaw
  Butaw
  Butautas or Butaw was a son of Kęstutis, Grand Duke of Lithuania. He attempted to depose his uncle Algirdas and usurp power in Lithuania, but failed and was forced into exile. He joined the court of the Holy Roman Emperor and even inspired a poem about conversion to Christianity...
  
  
• Butvydas
  Butvydas
  Butvydas was the Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1292 to 1295. His influence was strong during his brother Butigeidis' reign. This led some historians to believe, that they were co-rulers, much like the grandsons Algirdas and Kęstutis...
  
  
• Coloman of Lodomeria
  Coloman of Lodomeria
  Coloman of Galicia-Lodomeria was a member of the Árpád dynasty. He was Prince of Halych and he became the first anointed and crowned King of Galicia-Lodomeria , followed by prince Andrew of Hungary...
  
  
• Demetrius I Starshiy
  Demetrius I Starshiy
  Dmitry I Starshy or Dmitry of Bryansk was the second eldest son of Algirdas, Grand Duke of Lithuania, and his first wife Maria of Vitebsk. He was Duke of Bryansk from 1356 to 1379 and from 1388 to 1399....
  
  
• Dmitri Dashinski
• Dmitry Debelka
  Dmitry Debelka
  Dmitry Debelka is a Belarusian wrestler who competed in the Men's Greco-Roman 97-130 kg at the 2000 Summer Olympics and won the bronze medal.-References:...
  
  
• Dmitry Zavadsky
  Dmitry Zavadsky
  Dzmitry Zavadski was a Belarusian cameraman of Russian Public Television ORT.On July 7, 2000 Dzmitry Zavadski drove to the Minsk airport to meet colleague Pavel Sharamyet...
  
  
• Eduard Malofeev
  Eduard Malofeev
  Eduard Vassilievich Malofeyev is a football coach and former international player who last managed of FC Pskov-747 Pskov.- Life and career :...
  
  
• Ellina Zvereva
  Ellina Zvereva
  Ellina Zvereva is a Belarusian discus thrower best known for winning the gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics. She became world champion in 1995, and again in 2001 after the disqualification of Natalya Sadova....
  
  
• Erdywil
  Erdywil
  Erdvilas was one of the 21 early dukes of Lithuania who signed a treaty with Galicia–Volhynia in 1219. He and Vykintas are the two dukes of Samogitia mentioned in the treaty. This is supported by the fact that the eastern part of Samogitia supported King of Lithuania Mindaugas, while the western...
  
  
• Franciszka Urszula Radziwiłłowa
• Frants Kostyukevich
  Frants Kostyukevich
  Frants Kostyukevich is a male race walker who represented the USSR and later Belarus.-Achievements:-External links:...
  
  
• Gennadiy Moroz
  Gennadiy Moroz
  Hennazdy Maroz is a Belarusian high jumper.In 2003 he equalled his indoor personal best of 2.30 metres to win the bronze medal at the World Indoor Championships. His outdoor personal best of 2.33 metres was set in July 2001 in Brest....
  
  
• Gennady Grushevoy
  Gennady Grushevoy
  Gennady Grushevoy is Professor of philosophy at the Belarusian State University since 1973. Elected member of the Belarus Parliament in 1990. Chairman of the board of Children of Chernobyl since its foundation in 1989. Recipient of Rafto Prize .-References:* . Rafto Foundation for Human Rights...
  
  
• George I of Halych
  George I of Halych
  Yuri I of Galicia was prince of Belz and King of Galicia-Volhynia or King of Rus' ....
  
  
• Hanna Batsiushka
  Hanna Batsiushka
  Hanna Batsiushka is a Belarusian weightlifter.She competed in the Women's 63 kg weight class at the 2004 Summer Olympics and won the silver medal, lifting 242.5 kg in total....
  
  
• Ihar Hermianchuk
  Ihar Hermianchuk
  Ihar Hermianchuk was a famous Belarusian journalist and political activist....
  
  
• Inna Zhukova
  Inna Zhukova
  Inna Zhukova Belarusian: Іна Іванаўна Жукава Ina Ivanawna Zhukava Russian: Инна Ивановна Жукова Inna Ivanovna Zhukova, born on September 6, 1986 in Krasnodar, Soviet Union, is a Belarusian individual Rhythmic Gymnast. She started rhythmic gymnastics in 1990 at age 4...
  
  
• Irina Yatchenko
  Irina Yatchenko
  Iryna Vasiliyevna Yatchenko is a Belarusian former discus thrower best known for winning two Olympic bronze medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics and 2004 Summer Olympics. She also became world champion at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics...
  
  
• Ivonka Survilla
  Ivonka Survilla
  Ivonka Survilla or Surviła is the current President of the Belarusian National Republic , the Belarusian government in exile.After emigration through East Prussia, she lived in Denmark, France and Spain before moving to Canada in 1969....
  
  
• Jaunutis
  Jaunutis
  Jaunutis was the Grand Duke of Lithuania from his father Gediminas' death in 1341 until he was deposed by his elder brothers Algirdas and Kęstutis in 1345....
  
  
• Jewna
  Jewna
  Jewna was daughter of Prince Ivan of Polatsk and wife of Gediminas, the Grand Duke of Lithuania, Ruthenia and Samogitia . She is mentioned in written sources only once – the Bychowiec Chronicle, a late and unreliable source...
  
  
• Katsia Damankova
• Koriat
  Koriat
  Karijotas or Koriat was the Duke of Navahrudak and Vaŭkavysk, one of the sons of Gediminas, Grand Duke of Lithuania...
  
  
• Larissa Loukianenko
  Larissa Loukianenko
  Larissa Loukianenko Russian: Лариса Лукьяненко Larisa Luk'yanenko was a Belarusian individual rhythmic gymnast....
  
  
• Lubart
  Lubart
  Liubartas was the ruler of Galicia–Volhynia, in present-day Ukraine. He was the youngest son of Gediminas, Grand Duke of Lithuania. Ca. 1320 or ca. 1323 he married a daughter of Andrew of Galicia and ruled Lutsk in eastern Volhynia. After Andrew and his brother Lev II died ca...
  
  
• Magomed Aripgadjiev
  Magomed Aripgadjiev
  Magomed Aripgadzhiyev or Mahamed Ali is a Belarusian boxer, who competed in the Men's Light Heavyweight at the 2004 Summer Olympics and won the silver medal...
  
  
• Manvydas
  Manvydas
  Manvydas or Monwid was the eldest son of Gediminas, Grand Duke of Lithuania, and inherited Kernavė and Slonim after his father's death in 1341. It is believed that he died in the Battle of Strėva in 1348.-References:...
  
  
• Maxim Tank
  Maxim Tank
  Maksim Tank was a Belarusian Soviet poet and translator. People's Poet of Belarus, 1968. He was Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic 1965-1971...
  
  
• Michael Boleslaw
  Michael Boleslaw
  Michael Žygimantaitis was the last male descendant of Kęstutis, Grand Duke of Lithuania. He supported his father Sigismund Kęstutaitis in power struggles with Švitrigaila. In 1435 he led his father's army to victory in the Battle of Pabaiskas. After his father's assassination in 1440, Michael...
  
  
• Michaił Karčmit
• Mihas' Klimovich
  Mihas' Klimovich
  Mikhas Klimkovich was a Belarusian poet, librettist, and author of the lyrics to the Anthem of the Byelorussian SSR.-Biography:...
  
  
• Mikalay Husowski
• Mikhail Grabovski
• Mikhail Marynich
  Mikhail Marynich
  Mikhail Marynich — an opposition leader in Belarus. He was a former minister of foreign economic affairs, and former ambassador of Belarus to Latvia....
  
  
• Mingayl
• Myechyslaw Ivanavich Hryb
  Myechyslaw Ivanavich Hryb
  Myechyslaw Ivanavich Hryb was the second Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of Belarus from January 28, 1994 to January 10, 1996. He succeeded Stanislav Shushkevich and was head of state to July 20, 1994, when Alexander Lukashenko replaced him in the new office called President of Belarus, and...
  
  
• Nadzeya Astapchuk
• Narymont
• Narymunt
  Narymunt
  Narimantas or Narymunt was the second eldest son of Gediminas, Grand Duke of Lithuania. During various periods of his life, he ruled Pinsk and Polatsk. In 1333 he was invited by Novgorod's nobles to rule and protect territories in the north, Ladoga, Oreshek and Korela...
  
  
• Natallia Mikhnevich
  Natallia Mikhnevich
  Natallia Mikhnevich is a Belarusian shot putter.She finished third at the 2000 World Junior Championships, but first appeared on the international athletics scene at the 2004 Olympics, where she finished 5th. She repeated this position at the World Athletics Final later that year, and in 2005 she...
  
  
• Natallia Sazanovich
  Natallia Sazanovich
  Natallia Sazanovich is a former Belarusian heptathlete. She won two Olympic medals, and achieved her personal best score of 6563 points at the 1996 Olympics. Sazanovich is also the 2001 World Indoor champion. She also competed at the 2004 Olympics, but withdrew after two...
  
  
• Natallia Solohub
  Natallia Solohub
  Natallia Solohub, sometimes spelt Sologub , is a Belarusian sprinter.She has won silver medals in 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2004 and 2006 World Indoor Championships, and a bronze medal in 4 x 100 metres relay at the 2005 World Championships.At the 2001 World Championships she failed a drugs test...
  
  
• Natallia Tryfanava
  Natallia Tryfanava
  Natallia Tryfanava is Belarusian music teacher who has won the World Sauna Championships three times. She was the first person outside Finland to win the women's class. In 2006 she became the runner-up after Leila Kulin from Helsinki.-Sources:...
  
  
• Natalya Baranovskaya
  Natalya Baranovskaya
  Natalia Hadjiloizou is a professional Cypriot swimmer, who made her Olympic debut at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta for Belarus....
  
  
• Natalya Shikolenko
  Natalya Shikolenko
  Natalya Shikolenko is a javelin thrower who represented USSR and later Belarus. She won an Olympic silver medal and a World Championship gold....
  
  
• Niescier Sakałoŭski
• Olga Kardopoltseva
  Olga Kardopoltseva
  -Achievements:-References:...
  
  
• Pavel Kastusik
  Pavel Kastusik
  -References:*-External links:**...
  
  
• Pavieł Maryjaŭ
• Polina Smolova
  Polina Smolova
  Polina Smolova is a pop singer and the country's entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 with the song Mum, with which she took part in the Eurovision semi-final. She is one of the most famous Belarusian pop singers, coming up with very poetic and lyrical songs...
  
  
• Pyotr Mstislavets
• Roman Danylovich
  Roman Danylovich
  Roman Danylovich , Prince of Black Ruthenia 1254–1258, Prince of Slonim?.He was born as a younger son of Danylo of Halych, a powerful prince of lands east from Poland and later king of those regions, which was most of the times called Volhynia or Ruthenia .In 1252 he was married to Gertrude,...
  
  
• Rostislav II of Kiev
  Rostislav II of Kiev
  Rostyslav Rurykovych , Prince of Torchesk , Grand Prince of Kiev , Prince of Vyshhorod , Prince of Halych . Son of Rurik Rostislavich.-References:...
  
  
• Rostislav Yankovsky
  Rostislav Yankovsky
  Rostislav Ivanovich Yankovsky is a major Belarusian actor. He was born in Odessa 0n 5 February 1930, studied in Leninabad and debuted in the Tajik theatre in 1951. He has been working in the Minsk Drama Theatre since 1957 . Yankovsky was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1978 . He is the...
  
  
• Ruslan Alekhno
  Ruslan Alekhno
  Ruslan Alekhno is a Belarussian singer who rose to popularity after winning Narodniy Artist 2 , the Russian version of Pop Idol.-Career:...
  
  
• Ryhor Reles
  Ryhor Reles
  Ryhor Reles - a Jewish-Belarusian writer, he was one of the last writers in Belarus that wrote in Yiddish....
  
  
• Ryta Turava
  Ryta Turava
  Ryta Turava is an athlete from Belarus, competing in race walking. She was born in Vitebsk....
  
  
• Sergei Aleinikov
  Sergei Aleinikov
  Sergei Yevgenyevich Aleinikov is a former football player from Belarus, now coach.-Career:He played for the USSR national football team, making 77 appearances for the USSR, scoring six goals, from 1984–91, when USSR made the final of Euro 88, losing to the Netherlands 0-2...
  
  
• Sergei Gaidukevich
  Sergei Gaidukevich
  Sergei Gaidukevich was the Liberal Democratic Party candidate in the 2006 elections for the office of President of Belarus, as well as in 2001 elections....
  
  
• Sergei Liakhovich
  Sergei Liakhovich
  Sergei "White Wolf" Liakhovich , is a Belarusian boxer and a former WBO heavyweight boxing champion.-Amateur career:Liakhovich, who represented Belarus at the 1996 Olympic Games, was a long-time amateur who won Bronze at the 1997 World Championships....
  
  
• Sergey Sidorsky
  Sergey Sidorsky
  Sergei Sergeevich Sidorsky was Prime Minister of Belarus from 10 July 2003 to 28 December 2010...
  
  
• Shlomo Heiman
  Shlomo Heiman
  Shlomo Heiman was a Rabbi, Talmudist, and Rosh Yeshiva of the most prominent yeshivas in Europe and America.-In Europe:In 1892, Reb Shlomo was born in Paritsh, Minsk in Belarus. His father was Rabbi Michel Heiman. When he was 12 years old, he went to Kaminetz yeshiva to study under R' Baruch Ber...
  
  
• Sigismund Kestutaitis
  Sigismund Kestutaitis
  Sigismund Kęstutaitis was the Grand Duke of Lithuania from 1432 to 1440. Sigismund was his baptismal name; Sigismund's pagan Lithuanian birth name is unknown. He was son of the Grand Duke of Lithuania Kęstutis and his wife Birutė....
  
  
• Sigismund Korybut
  Sigismund Korybut
  Sigismund Korybut was a duke from the Gediminid dynasty, best known as a military commander of the Hussite army and a governor of Bohemia and Prague during the Hussite Wars....
  
  
• Skirmunt
• Svarn
  Svarn
  Shvarn or Shvarno was the knyaz of western parts of Galicia. An influential leader, he became involved in internal struggles of power within neighboring Grand Duchy of Lithuania and briefly was the Grand Duke...
  
  
• Symon Budny
  Symon Budny
  Symon Budny was a Belarusian and Polish humanist, educator, hebraist, Bible translator, Church reformator, philosopher, sociologist and historian.-Christology:...
  
  
• Tatsiana Stukalava
  Tatsiana Stukalava
  Tatsiana Stukalava is a Belarusian weightlifter who competed in the Women's 63 kg weight class at the 2004 Summer Olympics and won the bronze medal, lifting 222.5 kg in total.-References:...
  
  
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• Towtiwil
  Towtiwil
  Tautvilas or Towtwil was one of the sons of Kęstutis, Grand Duke of Lithuania, and a strong supported of his brother Vytautas the Great in his struggles against their cousin Jogaila....
  
  
• Uladzimir Karyzny
  Uladzimir Karyzny
  Uladzimir Karyzny is a musical composer from Belarus. Karyzny co-wrote the lyrics of the current national anthem of Belarus, My Belarusy.-Biography:...
  
  
• Uladzimir Navumau
• Uładzimir Hančaryk
  Uładzimir Hančaryk
  Uładzimir Hančaryk , also sometimes referred to as Vladimir Goncharik , is a Belarusian politician....
  
  
• Uładzimir Karvat
• Vadim Devyatovskiy
  Vadim Devyatovskiy
  Vadim Anatolyevich Devyatovsky is a Belarusian hammer thrower.He finished fourth at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and in 2005 he won the World Championships silver medal. In July the same year he threw 84.90 metres, which currently is his personal best. He originally won a silver medal at the 2008...
  
  
• Vaidotas
  Vaidotas
  Vaidotas or Wojdat was a son of Kęstutis, Grand Duke of Lithuania. In reliable historical sources he is mentioned only twice....
  
  
• Vaišvilkas
  Vaišvilkas
  Vaišelga or Vaišvilkas was the Grand Duke of Lithuania...
  
  
• Valentin Belkevich
  Valentin Belkevich
  Valyantsin Byalkevich is a Belarusian football player. He is most notable for being a member of the Ukrainian club Dynamo Kyiv from 1996 to 2008 and their all time leader in assists...
  
  
• Valentina Tsybulskaya
  Valentina Tsybulskaya
  Valentina Ivanovna Tsybulskaya is a Belarusian race walker. She has won World Championships silver and bronze medals, but no Olympic medals although she participated in 1996, 2000 and 2004.-Achievements:- External links :*...
  
  
• Viktor Reneysky
  Viktor Reneysky
  Viktor Iosifovich Reneysky , born January 24, 1967 in Babruysk, is a sprint canoer from Belarus who won three Olympic medals for the USSR and Moldova in the C-2 event with his teammate Nikolaï Juravschi. He also won a total of nine world titles, more than any other Canadian canoe paddler of his...
  
  
• Vintsent Dunin-Martsinkyevich
• Vital Kramko
  Vital Kramko
  Vital Kramko is the chairman of "October" , an agricultural collective located in the Hrodna region. Kramko was awarded the title Hero of Belarus title "for selfless work and valiant efforts in the development of agricultural production." Kramko was awarded the title on 30 June 2001 from a decree...
  
  
• Vladimir Goncharik
• Vladimir Vasilkovich
  Vladimir Vasilkovich
  Vladimir Vasilkovich was a son of Vasilko Romanovich, prince of Volhynia, now part of Ukraine. He succeeded his father when the latter died in 1269, and was famous for numerous construction and reconstructions of town fortifications in Volhynia....
  
  
• Vladimir Veremeenko
  Vladimir Veremeenko
  Vladimir Veremeenko is a Belarusian professional basketball player. A power forward from Gomel, he was drafted by the Washington Wizards with the 48th pick in the 2006 NBA Draft. He started his career at Avtodor Saratov, then moved with this team from Saratov to Saint Petersburg and played for new...
  
  
• Vladimir Voltchkov
  Vladimir Voltchkov
  Vladimir Nikolayevich Voltchkov is a Belarusian tennis player. Voltchkov reached the semi-final at the 2000 Wimbledon, where, as a qualifer, he lost to Pete Sampras in straight sets...
  
  
• Vyacheslav Hleb
  Vyacheslav Hleb
  Vyacheslav Paŭlavich Hleb is a Belarusian footballer who currently plays for FSV Frankfurt.-Career:Hleb has had unsuccessful trials with Scottish Premier League sides Inverness Caledonian Thistle in 2005 and Hearts...
  
  
• Vyacheslav Yanovskiy
  Vyacheslav Yanovskiy
  Vyacheslav Evgenevich Yanovskiy is a Belarusian boxer who won a Light Welterweight Gold Medal at the 1988 Summer Olympics for the USSR. He began boxing at age 13. In 1988 he became the Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR...
  
  
• Vytenis
  Vytenis
  Vytenis was the Grand Duke of Lithuania from c. 1295 to c. 1316. He became the first of the Gediminid dynasty to rule for a considerable amount of time. In the early 14th century his reputation outshone that of Gediminas, who is regarded by modern historians as one of the greatest Lithuanian rulers...
  
  
• Yakub Kolas
  Yakub Kolas
  Yakub Kolas , real name Kanstantsin Mitskievich was a Belarusian writer, People's Poet of the Byelorussian SSR , and member and vice-president of the Belarusian Academy of Sciences.In his works, Yakub Kolas was known for his sympathy towards the ordinary Belarusian peasantry...
  
  
• Yanka Kupala
  Yanka Kupala
  Yanka Kupala — was the pen name of Ivan Daminikavich Lutsevich , a Belarusian poet and writer. Kupala is considered one of the greatest Belarusian-language writers of the 20th century.-Early life:...
  
  
• Yechezkel Levenstein
  Yechezkel Levenstein
  Yechezkel Levenstein, known as Reb Chatzkel, , was the mashgiach ruchani of the Mir yeshiva, in Mir, Belarus and during the yeshiva's flight to Lithuania and on to Shanghai due to the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany in World War II...
  
  
• Yevgeniy Misyulya
  Yevgeniy Misyulya
  Yevgeny Nikolayevich Misyulya is a Belarusian race walker. He has won two World Championships bronze medals, and even participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics at the age of 40. He is married to racewalker Natalya Misyulya.-Achievements:-References:*...
  
  
• Yulia Raskina
  Yulia Raskina
  Yulia Raskina is a former Individual rhythmic gymnast who won the All-Around Silver at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. She is Jewish....
  
  
• Yuriy of Ruthenia

Politics of Belarus

• Politics of Belarus
  Politics of Belarus
  The politics of Belarus takes place in a framework of a presidential republic, where by the President of Belarus is the head of state. Executive power is exercised by the government, in its top sits a prime minister, appointed by the President...
  
  
• A Day of Solidarity with Belarus
  A Day of Solidarity with Belarus
  A Day of Solidarity with Belarus is an action proposed by the Belarusian journalist Iryna Khalip, supported by the civic initiative We Remember and the Zubr movement....
  
  
• Belarusian Helsinki Committee
  Belarusian Helsinki Committee
  The Belarusian Helsinki Committee is a non-governmental human rights organization established in 1995 and the sole remaining independent human rights group in Belarus...
  
  
• Freedom Day (Belarus)
  Freedom Day (Belarus)
  Freedom Day is an unofficial holiday in Belarus, which is celebrated on March 25 to commemorate the creation on that date in 1918 of the Belarusian People's Republic ....
  
  
• Human rights in Belarus
  Human rights in Belarus
  Since the election of the country's first president, Aleksandr Lukashenko in July 1994, Lukashenko has steadily consolidated his power through authoritarian means. Government restrictions on freedom of speech and the press, peaceful assembly, and religion remain in place...
  
  
  • Censorship in Belarus
    Censorship in Belarus
    Censorship in Belarus, although prohibited by the country's constitution, is enforced by a number of laws. These include a law that makes insulting the president punishable by up to five years in prison, and another that makes criticizing Belarus abroad punishable by up to two years in prison.-...
    
    
• Jeans Revolution
  Jeans Revolution
  The Jeans Revolution was a term used by the democratic opposition in Belarus and their supporters in the West to describe their effort and aspirations as regarding democratic changes in Belarus at the presidential elections of 2006...
  
  
• Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus
  Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus
  Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus is a body of the Belarusian Government that is charged with the internal affairs of Belarus. Day to day law enforcement is carried out by the Militsiya. The Ministry is also tasked with providing security to state buildings and officials. Organizations such...
  
  
• Water féerie
  Water féerie
  "Water féerie" was a flashmob performance, initiated by several Belarusian youth opposition movements on May 14, 2005 on the 10th anniversary of the referendum .The action was in the form of boat racing under...
  
  
• Zubr (political organization)
  Zubr (political organization)
  Zubr was a civic youth organization in Belarus backed by the United States and western powers in opposition to President Alyaksandr Lukashenka. The organization drew inspiration from Otpor student movement which contributed to the overthrow of Slobodan Milošević in 2000, and from Gene Sharp's...
  
  

Foreign relations of Belarus

• Foreign relations of Belarus
  Foreign relations of Belarus
  The Byelorussian SSR was one of only two Soviet republics to be separate members of the United Nations . Both republics and the Soviet Union joined the UN when the organization was founded in 1945.-Prior to 2001:...
  
  
• Belarusian-American relations
  Belarusian-American relations
  Interstate relations between the United States and Belarus began in 1991 upon the dissolution of the Soviet Union, of which Belarus had been a part. However, the relations have turned sour due to accusations by the United States that Belarus has been undemocratic...
  
  
• Belarusian-European Union relations
• Belarus Democracy Act of 2004
  Belarus Democracy Act of 2004
  The Belarus Democracy Act of 2004 is a United States federal law that authorizes assistance for political parties, non-governmental organizations, and independent media working for democracy and human rights in Belarus. The act was signed by President George W. Bush and passed unanimously by the U.S...
  
  
• Eastern Vilnius region
• George A. Krol
  George A. Krol
  George Albert Krol is a United States foreign service officer and career member of the Senior Foreign Service with the rank of Minister-Counselor. As of June 2011, he is the U.S. Ambassador to Uzbekistan...
  
  
• List of Ambassadors from the United Kingdom to Belarus
• Territorial changes of the Baltic States
  Territorial changes of the Baltic States
  Territorial changes of the Baltic states refers to the redrawing of borders of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia after 1940. The three republics, formerly autonomous regions ruled by the Baltic German nobility within the former Russian Empire, gained independence in the aftermath of World War I and the...
  
  
• Union of Russia and Belarus
  Union of Russia and Belarus
  The Union State , semi-officially known as Union State of Russia and Belarus , is a supranational entity consisting of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus.- Creation :...
  
  

Political parties in Belarus

• List of political parties in Belarus
• Agrarian Party of Belarus
  Agrarian Party of Belarus
  The Agrarian Party is an agrarian and communist political party in Belarus that supports the government of president Alexander Lukashenko.It was created in 1992. Leader of the party is Mikhail Shimansky. The Agrarian Party obtained 3 seats during the 13 and 17 October 2004 Belarus House of...
  
  
• Beer Lovers Party (Belarus)
  Beer Lovers Party (Belarus)
  Beer Lovers Party of Belarus, or BLP was one of several Beer Lovers Parties created in some post-Soviet states, including Belarus. It was officially registered on December 30, 1993.According to its statute,...
  
  
• Belarusian Labour Party
  Belarusian Labour Party
  The Belarusian Labour Party is a political party in Belarus, that opposes the government of president Alexander Lukashenko. The leader of the party is Alexander Buchvostau....
  
  
• Belarusian People's Front
  Belarusian People's Front
  The BPF Party is a political party in Belarus. It was founded as the social movement Belarusian Popular Front "Revival" or BPF during the perestroika times by members of the Belarusian intelligentsia,...
  
  
• Belarusian Social Democratic Party (Assembly)
• Belarusian Social Democratic Party (People's Assembly)
  Belarusian Social Democratic Party (People's Assembly)
  The Belarusian Social Democratic Party is unregistered political party in Belarus which opposes the administration of President Alexander Lukashenko....
  
  
• Belarusian Socialist Sporting Party
  Belarusian Socialist Sporting Party
  The Belarusian Socialist Sporting Party is a political party in Belarus, that supports the government of president Alexander Lukashenko.It was created in 1994. Leader of the party is Vladimir Alexandrovich....
  
  
• Belarusian Women's Party "Nadzieja"
• Communist Party of Belarus
  Communist Party of Belarus
  The Communist Party of Belarus is a political party in Belarus, that supports the government of president Alexander Lukashenko. It was created in 1996. The leader of the party is Tatsyana Holubeva....
  
  
• Conservative Christian Party
  Conservative Christian Party
  The Conservative Christian Party of the Belarusian People's Front , is a political party in Belarus, that opposes the government of president Alexander Lukashenko...
  
  
• Democratic Centrist Coalition
  Democratic Centrist Coalition
  The Democratic Centrist Coalition was a political alliance in Belarus, that opposes the administration of president Alexander Lukashenko...
  
  
• European Coalition Free Belarus
  European Coalition Free Belarus
  The European Coalition Free Belarus is a political coalition in Belarus which opposes the administration of President Alexander Lukashenko.In legislative elections held between October 13–17, 2004, the ECFB was part of the Democratic Centrist Coalition which did not secure any seats.The coalition...
  
  
• Liberal Democratic Party of Belarus
  Liberal Democratic Party of Belarus
  The Liberal Democratic Party is a political party in Belarus. It was created in 1994. In the last legislative elections, 13-17 October 2004, the party won 1 out of 110 seats. The party adheres to an ideology similar to that of Liberal Democratic Party of Russia and advocates unification of Russia...
  
  
• Party of Communists of Belarus
  Party of Communists of Belarus
  The Belarusian United Left Party "Fair World" or the Belarusian Party of United LeftistsA Just World, known until October 2009 as the Party of Belarusian Communists , is a left-wing political party in Belarus, which opposes the government of president Alexander Lukashenko.Founded as the Party of...
  
  
• People's Coalition 5 Plus
  People's Coalition 5 Plus
  The People's Coalition 5 Plus was a political alliance in Belarus, that opposed the regime of president Alexander Lukashenko.At the last legislative elections, 13–17 October 2004, the alliance won no seats....
  
  
• Republic (Belarus)
  Republic (Belarus)
  Republic is a parliamentary group in Belarus which opposes the administration of President Alexander Lukashenko. In legislative elections held between October 13–17, 2004, the group did not secure any seats....
  
  
• Republican Party of Labor and Justice
  Republican Party of Labor and Justice
  The Republican Party of Labour and Juctice is a political party in Belarus, that supports the government of president Alexander Lukashenko. It was created in 1993. The leader of the party is Vasil Zadnyaprany....
  
  
• Social Democratic Party of Popular Accord
  Social Democratic Party of Popular Accord
  The Social Democratic Party of Popular Accord is a political party in Belarus, that opposes the government of president Alexander Lukashenko.It was created in 1997. Leader of the party is Sergey Yermak....
  
  
• United Civil Party of Belarus
  United Civil Party of Belarus
  The United Civil Party of Belarus is a centre-right, liberal-conservative party in Belarus. The party opposes the government of Alexander Lukashenko, generally participates in the country's elections, but doesn't have a single member in parliament...
  
  
• United Democratic Forces of Belarus
  United Democratic Forces of Belarus
  The United Democratic Forces of Belarus is a coalition of political parties participating as the main opposition group during the 2006 presidential election...
  
  
• Young Belarus
  Young Belarus
  Young Belarus is the youth political block, founded by "Young Front" and some leaders of democratic movement on March 14, 2004. In 2009 Young Belarus became just another youth political organisation in Belarus; later that year Young Belarus has divided on two separate wings, both claiming to be the...
  
  

Belarusian politicians

• Radasłaŭ Astroŭski
• Alaksandar Dubko
  Alaksandar Dubko
  Alaksandar Dubko was the former chairman of the Hrodna Regional Executive Committee. In 1994, he was a candidate for President of Belarus. He also served in the Belarus SSR Supreme Soviet and the USSR Supreme Soviet...
  
  
• Yakov Gamarnik
  Yakov Gamarnik
  Jankel Borysovych Pukhdykovych , better known as Jan Gamarnik or Yakov Gamarnik was a Soviet politician of Jewish ethnicity.-Biography:...
  
  
• Ihar Hermianchuk
  Ihar Hermianchuk
  Ihar Hermianchuk was a famous Belarusian journalist and political activist....
  
  
• Myechyslaw Ivanavich Hryb
  Myechyslaw Ivanavich Hryb
  Myechyslaw Ivanavich Hryb was the second Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of Belarus from January 28, 1994 to January 10, 1996. He succeeded Stanislav Shushkevich and was head of state to July 20, 1994, when Alexander Lukashenko replaced him in the new office called President of Belarus, and...
  
  
• Alaksandar Kazulin
  Alaksandar Kazulin
  Alaksandr Kazulin , is the former leader of the Belarusian Social Democratic Party and one of the candidates who ran for the office of President of Belarus on March 19, 2006....
  
  
• Anatoly Lebedko
  Anatoly Lebedko
  Anatoly Lebedko is a Belarusian politician and the head of the United Civil Party of Belarus.Born in the village of Triles, then part of the Stoŭbtsy Raion in the USSR's Minsk voblast , Lebedko emerged in the 1990s as one of the leading critics of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, whom...
  
  
• List of Belarusian Prime Ministers
• Alexander Lukashenko
  Alexander Lukashenko
  Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko has been serving as the President of Belarus since 20 July 1994. Before his career as a politician, Lukashenko worked as director of a state-owned agricultural farm. Under Lukashenko's rule, Belarus has come to be viewed as a state whose conduct is out of line...
  
  
• Pavieł Maryjaŭ
• Mikhail Marynich
  Mikhail Marynich
  Mikhail Marynich — an opposition leader in Belarus. He was a former minister of foreign economic affairs, and former ambassador of Belarus to Latvia....
  
  
• Pyotr Masherov
  Pyotr Masherov
  Pyotr Mironovich Masherov , - October 4, 1980) was the first secretary of Belarusian committee of the Communist Party of Soviet Union and a communist leader of Soviet Belarus.- Overview :...
  
  
• Alaksandar Milinkievič
  Alaksandar Milinkievic
  Aliaksandr Uładzimiravič Milinkevič is a Belarusian politician. He was nominated by the leading opposition parties in Belarus to run against incumbent Alexander Lukashenko in the presidential election on 19 March 2006.-Biography:...
  
  
• Uladzimir Naumau
  Uladzimir Naumau
  Uladzimir Naumau is a Belarusian politician.He was Minister of the Interior of Belarus and chairman of Belarus Ice Hockey Federation.-References:...
  
  
• Zianon Pazniak
  Zianon Pazniak
  Zianon Pazniak is a Belarusian nationalist politician, one of the founders of the Belarusian Popular Front and leader of the Christian Conservative Party of the BPF...
  
  
• Lew Sapieha
  Lew Sapieha
  Lew Sapieha . He was born in Astrouna , near Vitsebsk, Belarus. He became Great Secretary of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 1580, Great Clerk of the Grand Duchy in 1581, Court Chancellor of the GDL in 1585, Grand Chancellor of the GDL from 1589 until 1623, Voivode of Vilnius in 1621, Great...
  
  
• Stanislav Shushkevich
  Stanislav Shushkevich
  Stanislau Stanislavavich Shushkevich is a Belarusian politician and scientist. From September 28, 1991 to January 26, 1994 he was the first leader and head of state of independent Belarus after the dissolution of the Soviet Union...
  
  
• Mikałaj Sudziłoŭski
• Ivonka Survilla
  Ivonka Survilla
  Ivonka Survilla or Surviła is the current President of the Belarusian National Republic , the Belarusian government in exile.After emigration through East Prussia, she lived in Denmark, France and Spain before moving to Canada in 1969....
  
  
• Vincuk Viačorka
  Vincuk Viacorka
  Vincuk Viačorka is a Belarusian linguist, politician and the former leader of the Belarusian National Front , a Belarusian opposition party.Vincuk Viačorka was born on July 7, 1961 in Brest in the family of a Soviet bureaucrat....
  
  
• Vladimir Goncharik
• Jury Zacharanka
  Jury Zacharanka
  Colonel Yury Zakharanka was the Belarusian minister of internal affairs and oppositional politician abducted and probably killed in 1999....
  
  

Belarusian revolutionaries

• Gesya Gelfman
  Gesya Gelfman
  Gesya Mirokhovna Gelfman ; , Russian revolutionary, member of Narodnaya Volya,...
  
  
• Ignacy Hryniewiecki
  Ignacy Hryniewiecki
  Ignaty Gryniewietsky , 1856 – 13 March 1881) was a member of the People's Will and the assassin of Tsar Alexander II of Russia.-Early life:...
  
  
• Konstanty Kalinowski
  Konstanty Kalinowski
  Wincenty Konstanty Kalinowski , also known under his Polish and Lithuanian names of Konstanty Kalinowski or and Kostas Kalinauskas; 1838 – March 24, 1864) was a writer, journalist, lawyer and revolutionary...
  
  

Belarusian politics stubs

• 2004 Belarus Referendum
  2004 Belarus Referendum
  A referendum on allowing President Lukashenko to stand in further elections was held in Belarus on 17 October 2004, alongside parliamentary elections. Lukashenko was nearing the end of his constitutionally-limited two terms, and the change would allow him to run for a third term...
  
  
• All Belarusian People's Assembly
  All Belarusian People's Assembly
  The All Belarusian People's Assembly is a general meeting of the Belarusian Government with industry leaders and other top officials from every sector of the government. The citizens of Belarus are also permitted to take part of the discussion...
  
  
• Belarusian Helsinki Committee
  Belarusian Helsinki Committee
  The Belarusian Helsinki Committee is a non-governmental human rights organization established in 1995 and the sole remaining independent human rights group in Belarus...
  
  
• Belarusian Labour Party
  Belarusian Labour Party
  The Belarusian Labour Party is a political party in Belarus, that opposes the government of president Alexander Lukashenko. The leader of the party is Alexander Buchvostau....
  
  
• Belarusian Social Democratic Party (Assembly)
• Belarusian Social Democratic Party (People's Assembly)
  Belarusian Social Democratic Party (People's Assembly)
  The Belarusian Social Democratic Party is unregistered political party in Belarus which opposes the administration of President Alexander Lukashenko....
  
  
• Charter 97
  Charter 97
  Charter 97 is a declaration calling for democracy in Belarus and a human rights group taking its inspiration from the declaration.The document - whose title deliberately echoes the Czechoslovak human rights declaration Charter 77 twenty years earlier - was created on the anniversary of a referendum...
  
  
• Conservative Christian Party
  Conservative Christian Party
  The Conservative Christian Party of the Belarusian People's Front , is a political party in Belarus, that opposes the government of president Alexander Lukashenko...
  
  
• European Coalition Free Belarus
  European Coalition Free Belarus
  The European Coalition Free Belarus is a political coalition in Belarus which opposes the administration of President Alexander Lukashenko.In legislative elections held between October 13–17, 2004, the ECFB was part of the Democratic Centrist Coalition which did not secure any seats.The coalition...
  
  
• Freedom Day (Belarus)
  Freedom Day (Belarus)
  Freedom Day is an unofficial holiday in Belarus, which is celebrated on March 25 to commemorate the creation on that date in 1918 of the Belarusian People's Republic ....
  
  
• Party of Communists of Belarus
  Party of Communists of Belarus
  The Belarusian United Left Party "Fair World" or the Belarusian Party of United LeftistsA Just World, known until October 2009 as the Party of Belarusian Communists , is a left-wing political party in Belarus, which opposes the government of president Alexander Lukashenko.Founded as the Party of...
  
  
• People's Coalition 5 Plus
  People's Coalition 5 Plus
  The People's Coalition 5 Plus was a political alliance in Belarus, that opposed the regime of president Alexander Lukashenko.At the last legislative elections, 13–17 October 2004, the alliance won no seats....
  
  
• Republic (Belarus)
  Republic (Belarus)
  Republic is a parliamentary group in Belarus which opposes the administration of President Alexander Lukashenko. In legislative elections held between October 13–17, 2004, the group did not secure any seats....
  
  
• Republican Party of Labor and Justice
  Republican Party of Labor and Justice
  The Republican Party of Labour and Juctice is a political party in Belarus, that supports the government of president Alexander Lukashenko. It was created in 1993. The leader of the party is Vasil Zadnyaprany....
  
  
• Social Democratic Party of Popular Accord
  Social Democratic Party of Popular Accord
  The Social Democratic Party of Popular Accord is a political party in Belarus, that opposes the government of president Alexander Lukashenko.It was created in 1997. Leader of the party is Sergey Yermak....
  
  
• Template:Belarus-politics-stub
• United Civil Party of Belarus
  United Civil Party of Belarus
  The United Civil Party of Belarus is a centre-right, liberal-conservative party in Belarus. The party opposes the government of Alexander Lukashenko, generally participates in the country's elections, but doesn't have a single member in parliament...
  
  
• United Democratic Forces of Belarus
  United Democratic Forces of Belarus
  The United Democratic Forces of Belarus is a coalition of political parties participating as the main opposition group during the 2006 presidential election...
  
  
• Water féerie
  Water féerie
  "Water féerie" was a flashmob performance, initiated by several Belarusian youth opposition movements on May 14, 2005 on the 10th anniversary of the referendum .The action was in the form of boat racing under...
  
  
• Zubr (political organization)
  Zubr (political organization)
  Zubr was a civic youth organization in Belarus backed by the United States and western powers in opposition to President Alyaksandr Lukashenka. The organization drew inspiration from Otpor student movement which contributed to the overthrow of Slobodan Milošević in 2000, and from Gene Sharp's...
  
  

Religion in Belarus

• Belarusian Autocephalous Orthodox Church
  Belarusian Autocephalous Orthodox Church
  The Belarusian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, which has sometimes abbreviated its name as the "B.A.O. Church" or the "BAOC," aspires to be the self-governing national church of an independent Belarus, but it has operated mostly in exile since its formation, and even some publications of the church...
  
  
• Belarusian Greek Catholic Church
  Belarusian Greek Catholic Church
  The Belarusian Greek Catholic Church , sometimes called, in reference to its Byzantine Rite, the Belarusian Byzantine Catholic Church, is the heir within Belarus of the Union of Brest...
  
  
• Hinduism in Belarus
  Hinduism in Belarus
  Hinduism in Belarus has a very small following. There are three main Hindu groups in country. They are ISKCON, Brahmakumaris and The Light of Kailasa...
  
  
• Roman Catholicism in Belarus
  Roman Catholicism in Belarus
  The Roman Catholic Church in Belarus is part of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope and curia in Rome.The first Latin Rite diocese in Belarus was established in Turaŭ between 1008 and 1013....
  
  

Science and technology in Belarus

• BelKA
  BelKA
  BelKA was intended to be the first satellite of independent Belarus....
  
  
• Belarus (tractor)
  Belarus (tractor)
  Belarus is a series of four-wheeled tractors produced since 1950 at the Minsk Tractor Plant, MTZ in Minsk, Belarus....
  
  
• Bellesrad
  Bellesrad
  Bellesrad is short name for the State Institution for Radiation Monitoring and Radiation Safety of the Republic of Belarus. It is subordinated to the State Forestry Committee of the Council of Ministers of Republic of Belarus...
  
  
• ES EVM
  ES EVM
  ES EVM was a series of clones of IBM's System/360 and System/370 mainframes, released in the Comecon countries under the initiative of the Soviet Union since the 1960s. Production continued until 1998...
  
  
• ES PEVM
  ES PEVM
  ES PEVM was a Soviet clone of the IBM PC in 1980s.The computers and software were adapted in Minsk, Belarus, at the Scientific Research Institute of Electronic Computer Machines ....
  
  
• Minsk (motorcycle)
  Minsk (motorcycle)
  Minsk Motorcycle, or also known as Motovelo Corp, is a company that produces motorcycles. Minsk produces bicycles under its AIST brand. Motovelo is located in Minsk, the capital of Belarus.- History :...
  
  
• Minsk family of computers
  Minsk family of computers
  Minsk family of mainframe computers was developed and produced in the Byelorussian SSR from 1959 to 1975. Its further progress was stopped by a political decision of switching to IBM System/360 clone family known as ES EVM during the brief period of détente....
  
  
• National Academy of Sciences of Belarus
  National Academy of Sciences of Belarus
  The National Academy of Sciences of Belarus is the national academy of Belarus.-History:...
  
  

Belarusian scientists

• Yury Bandazhevsky
• Fiodar Fiodaraŭ
  Fiodar Fiodarau
  Fiodar Fiodaraŭ, , was a famous Belarusian physicist, whose scientific interests ranged from optics and spectroscopy to the theory of elementary particles.He was born in the village Turets in Karelichy Raion, Hrodna Voblast, Belarus...
  
  
• Gennady Grushevoy
  Gennady Grushevoy
  Gennady Grushevoy is Professor of philosophy at the Belarusian State University since 1973. Elected member of the Belarus Parliament in 1990. Chairman of the board of Children of Chernobyl since its foundation in 1989. Recipient of Rafto Prize .-References:* . Rafto Foundation for Human Rights...
  
  
• Yefim Karskiy
• Zianon Pazniak
  Zianon Pazniak
  Zianon Pazniak is a Belarusian nationalist politician, one of the founders of the Belarusian Popular Front and leader of the Christian Conservative Party of the BPF...
  
  
• Vladimir Platonov
  Vladimir Platonov
  - Academic career :In 1961 Platonov graduated with highest distinction from Belarus State University. Two years later he received his Ph.D. from Academy of Sciences of Belarus. Platonov received his Doctor of Science degree from the Academy of Sciences of USSR in 1967. Since 1972 he has been an...
  
  
• Stanislav Shushkevich
  Stanislav Shushkevich
  Stanislau Stanislavavich Shushkevich is a Belarusian politician and scientist. From September 28, 1991 to January 26, 1994 he was the first leader and head of state of independent Belarus after the dissolution of the Soviet Union...
  
  
• Kazimierz Siemienowicz
  Kazimierz Siemienowicz
  Kazimierz Siemienowicz , was a Polish-Lithuanian general of artillery, gunsmith, military engineer, artillery specialist and pioneer of rocketry. Born in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, he served the armies of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, a federation of Poland and the Grand Duchy, and in the...
  
  
• Mikałaj Sudziłoŭski
• Lev Vygotsky
  Lev Vygotsky
  Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky was a Soviet psychologist, the founder of cultural-historical psychology, and the leader of the Vygotsky Circle.-Biography:...
  
  
• Oscar Zariski
  Oscar Zariski
  Oscar Zariski was a Russian mathematician and one of the most influential algebraic geometers of the 20th century.-Education:...
  
  

Belarusian society

• Chernobyl Children's Project International
  Chernobyl Children's Project International
  Chernobyl Children's Project International is a United Nations-accredited international development, medical, and humanitarian organization that works with children, families and communities that continue to be affected by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster of 1986.- Purpose :The organization was...
  
  
• Demographics of Belarus
  Demographics of Belarus
  The Demographics of Belarus is about the demographic features of the population of Belarus, including population growth, population density, ethnicity, education level, health, economic status, religious affiliations, and other aspects of the population...
  
  
• Freedom Day (Belarus)
  Freedom Day (Belarus)
  Freedom Day is an unofficial holiday in Belarus, which is celebrated on March 25 to commemorate the creation on that date in 1918 of the Belarusian People's Republic ....
  
  
• Gay rights in Belarus
  Gay rights in Belarus
  Both male and female same-sex sexual activity are legal in Belarus, but households headed by same-sex couples are not eligible for the same legal protections available to opposite-sex couples....
  
  
• Human rights in Belarus
  Human rights in Belarus
  Since the election of the country's first president, Aleksandr Lukashenko in July 1994, Lukashenko has steadily consolidated his power through authoritarian means. Government restrictions on freedom of speech and the press, peaceful assembly, and religion remain in place...
  
  
  • Censorship in Belarus
    Censorship in Belarus
    Censorship in Belarus, although prohibited by the country's constitution, is enforced by a number of laws. These include a law that makes insulting the president punishable by up to five years in prison, and another that makes criticizing Belarus abroad punishable by up to two years in prison.-...
    
    
• Miss Belarus
  Miss Belarus
  The Miss Belarus Pageant is a bi-annual national beauty contest that has been held in Belarus since 1998. Winner represents Belarus in Miss World. The main award includes the Miss Belarus crown made out of 100 grams of white gold of with half a thousand precious and semiprecious stones...
  
  
• Poleszuk
  Poleszuk
  Poleszuk is the name given to the people who populated the swamps of Polesia.The Poleszuk dialect is close to the Ukrainian, Belarusian and Polish languages...
  
  
• Public holidays in Belarus
  Public holidays in Belarus
  National holidays in Belarus are classified into state holidays and other holidays and commemorative days, including religious holidays. Nine of them are non-working days. Other holidays and commemorative days...
  
  

Awards and decorations of Belarus

• Awards and decorations of Belarus
  Awards and decorations of Belarus
  Awards and decorations of Belarus are governed by the Law of the Republic of Belarus on State Awards of 18 May 2004.The highest award is the title of the Hero of Belarus...
  
  
• Hero of Belarus
  Hero of Belarus
  Hero of Belarus is the highest title that can be bestowed on a citizen of Belarus. The title is awarded to those "who perform great deeds in the name of freedom, independence and prosperity of the Republic of Belarus". The deed can be for military performance, economic performance or great service...
  
  

Sport in Belarus

• Belarusian national bandy team
• Belarus at the 2006 Winter Paralympics
  Belarus at the 2006 Winter Paralympics
  Belarus participated in the ninth Winter Paralympics in Turin, Italy.Belarus entered six athletes in the following sport:*Nordic skiing: 3 male, 3 female-Medalists:-External links:**...
  
  
• Belarus at the Olympics
  Belarus at the Olympics
  Athletes from Belarus began their Olympic participation at the 1952 Summer Games in Helsinki, Finland as part of the Soviet Union . After the Soviet Union disbanded in 1991, Belarus, along with four of the other fourteen former Soviet republics, competed in the 1992 Winter Olympics as the Unified...
  
  
• Belarusian national men's ice hockey team
  Belarusian national men's ice hockey team
  The Belarusian men's national ice hockey team is currently ranked 8th in the world by the IIHF in their 2009 World Ranking. The team is controlled by the Belarus Ice Hockey Federation. Arguably, the greatest moment in Belarusian hockey history was the victory over Sweden in the quarter-finals of...
  
  

Belarus at the European Championships in Athletics

• Belarus at the 2006 European Championships in Athletics
  Belarus at the 2006 European Championships in Athletics
  Belarus is represented by 36 athletes at the 2006 European Athletics Championships. They had surprising success with getting a 3rd place in the medal table, after their neighbours Russia and Germany.-Results:...
  
  

Football in Belarus

• Belarus national football team
  Belarus national football team
  The Belarus national football team represents Belarus in association football and is controlled by the Football Federation of Belarus, the governing body for football in Belarus. Belarus' home ground is Dinamo Stadium in Minsk...
  
  
• Belarus women's national football team
  Belarus women's national football team
  The Belarus women's national football team represents Belarus in international women's football. The team is governed by the Football Federation of Belarus .-History:...
  
  
• Football Federation of Belarus
  Football Federation of Belarus
  The Football Federation of Belarus is the governing body of football in Belarus. It organizes Belarusian Premier League, Belarusian national football team and the Belarus women's national football team. It is based in Minsk.-External links:...
  
  

Belarusian football competitions

• Belarusian Cup
  Belarusian Cup
  The Belarusian Cup is the main "knockout" cup competition in Belarusian football.The competition is a knockout tournament.-Finals:-Soviet time winners:Finals before independence were:...
  
  
• Belarusian Premier League
  Belarusian Premier League
  -Soviet era champions:*1934 BVO *1935 BVO *1936 BVO *1937 Dinamo *1938 Dinamo *1939 Dinamo *1940 DKA *1941-44 unknown...
  
  
• Belarusian First League
  Belarusian First League
  The Belarusian First League is the second division of professional football in Belarus. There are 16 teams in the competition. At the end of the season the winner gets promoted to Belarusian Premier League and runner-up advances to the promotion play-offs, while two lowest-placed teams get...
  
  

Belarusian footballers

• Sergei Aleinikov
  Sergei Aleinikov
  Sergei Yevgenyevich Aleinikov is a former football player from Belarus, now coach.-Career:He played for the USSR national football team, making 77 appearances for the USSR, scoring six goals, from 1984–91, when USSR made the final of Euro 88, losing to the Netherlands 0-2...
  
  
• Valentin Belkevich
  Valentin Belkevich
  Valyantsin Byalkevich is a Belarusian football player. He is most notable for being a member of the Ukrainian club Dynamo Kyiv from 1996 to 2008 and their all time leader in assists...
  
  
• Sergei Gorlukovich
  Sergei Gorlukovich
  Sergei Vadimovich Gorlukovich is an association footballer who played manager and former international player.-International career:In international football, Gorlukovich played at the 1990 and 1994 FIFA World Cups, and also in Euro 1996. He made his debut for USSR on 19 October 1988 in a 1990...
  
  
• Sasha Gotsmanov
  Sasha Gotsmanov
  Sasha Gotsmanov is an American-Belarusian soccer player, who spent one season in the MLS and two in the USL First Division....
  
  
• Sergei Gurenko
  Sergei Gurenko
  Sergei Gurenko or Syarhey Hurenka is a retired Belarusian football player and currently works as Head Coach for FC Torpedo Zhodino.-Clubs:...
  
  
• Alexander Hleb
• Vyacheslav Hleb
  Vyacheslav Hleb
  Vyacheslav Paŭlavich Hleb is a Belarusian footballer who currently plays for FSV Frankfurt.-Career:Hleb has had unsuccessful trials with Scottish Premier League sides Inverness Caledonian Thistle in 2005 and Hearts...
  
  
• Timofei Kalachev
  Timofei Kalachev
  Timofei Kalachev ; ; born 1 May 1981 in Mogilev) is a Belarusian footballer. He plays in midfield for FC Rostov and the Belarus national side....
  
  
• Vasily Khomutovsky
  Vasily Khomutovsky
  Vasil Iosifavich Khamutowski is a Belarusian football goalkeeper, who plays for FC Amkar Perm and the Belarus national team.-Football career:...
  
  
• Artem Kontsevoy
  Artem Kontsevoy
  Artem Kontsevoy is a football player from Belarus. He plays as a striker for BATE Borisov and the Belarus national team.-External links:...
  
  
• Vitali Kutuzov
  Vitali Kutuzov
  Vitali Vladimirovich Kutuzov is a Belarusian football player, who plays the Belarusian national team.- Career :In 2001 he joined Italian side A.C. Milan from BATE Borisov, Belarus. During the half of the season he spent with the team he failed to establish himself in the first team, playing only...
  
  
• Eduard Malofeev
  Eduard Malofeev
  Eduard Vassilievich Malofeyev is a football coach and former international player who last managed of FC Pskov-747 Pskov.- Life and career :...
  
  
• Yuri Puntus
  Yuri Puntus
  Yuri Puntus is a Belarusian football player and football manager. He quit playing football in 1987 because of an injury. Graduated from two universities: Belarusian Technological Institute in 1983 and Belarusian State University of Physical Culture in 1996...
  
  
• Maxim Romaschenko
  Maxim Romaschenko
  Maksim Yorevich Romaschenko is a Ukrainian-born Belarusian footballer. He is the record goalscorer for the Belarus national side with 20 goals...
  
  
• Alyaksandr Sulima

Belarusian football clubs

• List of football clubs in Belarus
• FC BATE
  FC BATE
  FC BATE Borisov is a Belarusian football team playing in the city of Borisov. They compete in the Belarusian Premier League and are the reigning champions. BATE are the only Belarusian team to have qualified for the group stage of the UEFA Champions League and for the group stage of the UEFA...
  
  
• F. C. Dinamo Minsk
  F. C. Dinamo Minsk
  Football Club Dinamo Minsk is a Belarusian football club playing in the capital city of Minsk. Their home games are played at the Dinamo-Yuni, capable of seating 4,500 spectators....
  
  
• FC Dnepr Mahilyow
  FC Dnepr Mahilyow
  FC Dnepr is a Belarusian football team, playing in the city of Mogilev. It currently competes in Belarusian Premier League. Their home stadium is Spartak Stadion-Name changes:*1960: founded as Knimik Mogilev*1963: renamed to Spartak Mogilev...
  
  
• FC Belshyna Babruisk
  FC Belshyna Babruisk
  FC Belshina Bobruisk is a Belarusian football club based in Bobruisk.-Achievements:* Belarusian SSR League** 1978, 1987* Belarusian Premier League** 2001* Belarusian Cup: 3** 1997, 1999, 2001-Current squad:As of September 2011...
  
  
• FC Darida Zhdanovichi
  FC Darida Zhdanovichi
  FC Darida Minsk Raion is a defunct Belarusian football club. Their home stadium was Darida Stadium, located in Kuntsevschina district in Minsk.- History :The team originally represented Minsk suburb Zhdanovichi, where their office was located...
  
  
• FC Dinamo Brest
  FC Dinamo Brest
  FC Dinamo Brest is a Belarusian football club based in Brest. They play in the Belarusian Premier League, the top division in Belarusian football.-Name changes:*1960: founded as Spartak Brest*1972: renamed to Bug Brest...
  
  
• FC Lakamatyu Minsk
  FC Lakamatyu Minsk
  FC SKVICH Minsk is a Belarusian football club based in Minsk, currently playing in Belarusian First League.-History:The team was founded in late 2000 by travel company SKVICH, which also had investments in sport and football projects for several years before...
  
  
• FC Lakamatyu Vitebsk
• FC Naftan Novopolotsk
  FC Naftan Novopolotsk
  FC Naftan Novopolotsk is an Belarusian football club based in Navapolatsk. They play in the Belarusian Premier League, the top division in Belarusian football...
  
  
• FC Slavia Mozyr
  FC Slavia Mozyr
  FC Slavia-Mozyr is a Belarusian football team, based in Mozyr, Belarus.-History:The team was founded in 1987 as Polesie Mozyr. Between 1987 and 1991 they played in Belarusian SSR league. From 1992 till 1995 they played in Belarusian First League. They changed their name to MPKC Mozyr since 1994-95...
  
  
• FC Torpedo Zhodino
  FC Torpedo Zhodino
  FC Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino is an Belarusian football club based in Zhodino. They play in the Belarusian Premier League, the top division in Belarusian football...
  
  
• FC Transmash Mogilev
  FC Transmash Mogilev
  FC Transmash Mogilev was a Belarusian football club based in Mogilev.-History:*1988: founded as Selmash Mogilev*1994: renamed to Transmash Mogilev*1998: merged with FC Dnepr Mogilev to form Dnepr-Transmash Mogilev...
  
  
• FC Gomel
  FC Gomel
  FC Gomel is a Belarusian football club, playing in the city of Gomel. Their new home stadium is Central Stadion.- History :Teams from Gomel played in Belarusian SSR championships since early 20's...
  
  
• FC MTZ-RIPO
  FC MTZ-RIPO
  FC Partizan Minsk is a Belarusian Premier League football team, part of Russian-Lithuanian businessman Vladimir Romanov's soccer holding which also includes Scottish Premier League club Hearts and Lithuanian A Lyga champion FBK Kaunas...
  
  
• FC Molodechno
  FC Molodechno
  FC Molodechno is a Belarusian football club based in Molodechno. They play in Belarusian Second League, the 3rd division in Belarusian football. Their home stadium is Molodechno City Stadium.- History :...
  
  
• FC Neman Grodno
  FC Neman Grodno
  FC Neman Grodno is a Belarusian football club from the city of Grodno, founded in 1964. Since 1992 participates in the top league of Belarus.-History:...
  
  
• FC Shakhtyor
  FC Shakhtyor
  FC Shakhtyor is a Belarusian Premier League football club, playing in the city of Soligorsk.-History:*1961: foundation*1971: Shakhtyor absorbed two local Soligorsk teams - Achievements :Belarusian Premier League:...
  
  
• FC Zvezda-BGU
  FC Zvezda-BGU
  FC Zvezda-BGU Minsk is a Belarusian football team, based in Minsk, Belarus.-History:The team was founded in 1996.Zvezda-VA-BGU made its debut in Premier League in 2002 and played there until 2005...
  
  

FC MTZ-RIPO

• FC MTZ-RIPO
  FC MTZ-RIPO
  FC Partizan Minsk is a Belarusian Premier League football team, part of Russian-Lithuanian businessman Vladimir Romanov's soccer holding which also includes Scottish Premier League club Hearts and Lithuanian A Lyga champion FBK Kaunas...
  
  
• Vladimir Romanov
  Vladimir Romanov
  Vladimir Nikolayevich Romanov ; born 1947 in Tver Oblast, Russian SFSR, USSR) is an ethnic Russian businessman who also holds Lithuanian citizenship following that country's independence from the Soviet Union. He is chairman of UBIG Investments which is the majority shareholder in Scottish Premier...
  
  
• FC Traktor
  FC Traktor
  FC Traktar Minsk is a now-defunct football team from Byelorussian SSR, was established in 1947 during building of Minsk Traktar Plant as a sport section for construction workers and later for local factory personal...
  
  
• Traktor Stadium
  Traktor Stadium
  The Traktar Stadium, formerly known as Stadium of the VSS Red Banner , is the second largest multi-purpose stadium in Belarus. It was built as part of the citywide plan to create sport complex areas in every new suburb of Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic capital and to accommodate rapidly...
  
  

FC MTZ-RIPO managers

• Alexandr Piskarev
  Alexandr Piskarev
  Alexandr Piskaryov is a Russian football player and manager.- Work history :* Krasnaya Presnya Moscow * Kareda * FC Khimki Moscow * FC Dinamo Minsk * Mostransgaz Gazoprovod...
  
  
• Yuri Puntus
  Yuri Puntus
  Yuri Puntus is a Belarusian football player and football manager. He quit playing football in 1987 because of an injury. Graduated from two universities: Belarusian Technological Institute in 1983 and Belarusian State University of Physical Culture in 1996...
  
  

Football venues in Belarus

• Atlant Stadium
  Atlant Stadium
  Atlant Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Navapolatsk, Belarus. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of FC Naftan Novopolotsk. The stadium holds 4,522 people....
  
  
• Dinamo Stadium (Brest)
  Dinamo Stadium (Brest)
  Regional Sport Complex Brestskiy , also known simply as OSK Brestskiy is a multi-use stadium in Brest, Belarus. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of FC Dinamo Brest. The stadium holds 10,060 people....
  
  
• Dinamo Stadium (Minsk)
  Dinamo Stadium (Minsk)
  Dynama Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Minsk, Belarus. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of Dynama Minsk. The stadium has a seating capacity for 40,000 people. Dynama Stadium was constructed in 1934, but was destroyed during World War II and rebuilt in...
  
  
• Horodskiy Stadium
  Horodskiy Stadium
  Haradski Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Barysaw, Belarus. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of BATE Borisov. The stadium has a maximum holding capacity of 5,402 people...
  
  
• Horodskiy Stadium (Maladzechna)
  Horodskiy Stadium (Maladzechna)
  Haradzki Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Maladzechna, Belarus. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of FC Molodechno. The stadium holds 4,800 people....
  
  
• Luch Stadium
  Luch Stadium
  Luch Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Homyel, Belarus. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of FC Gomel. The stadium holds 5,000 people....
  
  
• Neman Stadium
  Neman Stadium
  Neman Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Grodno, Belarus. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of FC Neman Grodno. The stadium holds 15,000 people.-External links:...
  
  
• Shakhtsyor Stadion
  Shakhtsyor Stadion
  Shakhtsyor Stadion is a multi-use stadium in Salihorsk, Belarus. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of Shakhtyor Soligorsk reserve team. The stadium holds 4,200 people....
  
  
• Spartak Stadion (Mahilyow)
• Spartak Stadium (Babruysk)
  Spartak Stadium (Babruysk)
  Spartak Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Babruysk, Belarus. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of FC Belshina Bobruisk. The stadium holds 3,700 people....
  
  
• Stadion Darida
  Stadion Darida
  Dinamo-Yuni Stadium is a football stadium in Minsk, Belarus. It is currently used for football matches and is the home stadium of FC Dinamo Minsk. The stadium holds 4,500 people and was opened in 2000....
  
  
• Torpedo Stadium (Zhodino)
  Torpedo Stadium (Zhodino)
  Tarpeda Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Zhodzina, Belarus. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of FC Tarpeda Zhodzina. The stadium was opened in 1981 and holds 3,020 people.-External links:...
  
  
• Traktor Stadium
  Traktor Stadium
  The Traktar Stadium, formerly known as Stadium of the VSS Red Banner , is the second largest multi-purpose stadium in Belarus. It was built as part of the citywide plan to create sport complex areas in every new suburb of Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic capital and to accommodate rapidly...
  
  
• Transmash Stadium
  Transmash Stadium
  Transmash Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Mogilev, Belarus. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of FC Transmash Mogilev. The stadium holds 7,000 people....
  
  
• Tsentral'nyi Sportkompleks
  Tsentral'nyi Sportkompleks
  Vitebsky Central Sport Complex is a multi-use sports complex in Vitebsk, Belarus. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of FC Vitebsk. The stadium holds 8,144 people.Prior to 2003 it was known as Dinamo Stadium....
  
  
• Zhdanovichi Stadion

FC MTZ-RIPO players

• Vyacheslav Hleb
  Vyacheslav Hleb
  Vyacheslav Paŭlavich Hleb is a Belarusian footballer who currently plays for FSV Frankfurt.-Career:Hleb has had unsuccessful trials with Scottish Premier League sides Inverness Caledonian Thistle in 2005 and Hearts...
  
  
• Artem Kontsevoy
  Artem Kontsevoy
  Artem Kontsevoy is a football player from Belarus. He plays as a striker for BATE Borisov and the Belarus national team.-External links:...
  
  
• Hamlet Mkhitaryan
  Hamlet Mkhitaryan
  Hamlet Mkhitaryan is an Armenian football midfielder, He is currently playing for Iranian club Damash Tehran. He was also a member of the Armenia national team.-Club career:...
  
  
• Alyaksandr Sulima

Belarusian ice hockey players

• Alexey Dmitriev
  Alexey Dmitriev
  Alexey Dmitriev is a Belarusian-born German professional ice hockey player currently playing for the Kölner Haie of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga.Dmitriev moved to Germany from Belarus as a 10-year-old with his family...
  
  
• Mikhail Grabovski
• Konstantin Koltsov
  Konstantin Koltsov
  Konstantin Yevgeniyevich Koltsov is a professional ice hockey player who currently plays for Salavat Yulaev Ufa.-Playing career:...
  
  
• Andrei Kostitsyn
  Andrei Kostitsyn
  Andrej Aliehavič Kaścicyn , better known as Andrei Kostitsyn, is a Belarusian professional ice hockey forward currently playing for the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League . The media have nicknamed him AK-46, a play on his initials and player number in reference to the Soviet AK-47...
  
  
• Sergei Kostitsyn
  Sergei Kostitsyn
  Siarhiej Aliehavič Kaścicyn , better known as Sergei Kostitsyn, is a Belarusian professional ice hockey winger currently playing for the Nashville Predators of the National Hockey League...
  
  
• Ruslan Salei
  Ruslan Salei
  Ruslan Albertovich "Rusty" Salei was a Belarusian professional ice hockey player. Salei played 14 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Detroit Red Wings, Colorado Avalanche, Florida Panthers and the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, who selected him ninth overall in the 1996 NHL Entry Draft...
  
  

Belarus at the Olympics

• Belarus at the Olympics
  Belarus at the Olympics
  Athletes from Belarus began their Olympic participation at the 1952 Summer Games in Helsinki, Finland as part of the Soviet Union . After the Soviet Union disbanded in 1991, Belarus, along with four of the other fourteen former Soviet republics, competed in the 1992 Winter Olympics as the Unified...
  
  
• Belarus Olympic Committee
  Belarus Olympic Committee
  The National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Belarus is one of many national Olympic committees that make up the International Olympic Committee...
  
  
• Belarus at the 1994 Winter Olympics
  Belarus at the 1994 Winter Olympics
  Belarus competed in the Winter Olympic Games as an independent nation for the first time at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway...
  
  
• Belarus at the 1996 Summer Olympics
  Belarus at the 1996 Summer Olympics
  Belarus competed in the Summer Olympic Games for the first time as an independent nation at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States...
  
  
• Belarus at the 1998 Winter Olympics
  Belarus at the 1998 Winter Olympics
  -Medalists:- Alpine skiing:Men- Biathlon:MenMen's 4 x 7.5 km relayWomenWomen's 4 x 7.5 km relay1A penalty loop of 150 metres had to be skied per missed target. 2One minute added per missed target.- Cross-country skiing:Men...
  
  
• Belarus at the 2000 Summer Olympics
  Belarus at the 2000 Summer Olympics
  - Gold:*Yanina Karolchik — Athletics, Women's Shot Put*Ellina Zvereva — Athletics, Women's Discus*Ekaterina Karsten — Rowing, Women's Single Sculls- Silver:*Yulia Raskina — Rhythmic Gymnastics, Women's Individual Competition...
  
  
• Belarus at the 2004 Summer Olympics
  Belarus at the 2004 Summer Olympics
  Belarus competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.Before gaining independence many Belarusian athletes competed for the USSR team: Vitaly Scherbo is a 6-times Olympic champion, Nellie Kim is five times Olympic champion, Olga Korbut, Olga Belova, Viktar Sidziak are 4-times Olympic...
  
  
• Belarus at the 2006 Winter Olympics
  Belarus at the 2006 Winter Olympics
  Belarus competed at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. The team collected one medal, a silver in Freestyle Skiing.- Medalists :- Biathlon :MenWomen- Cross-country skiing :...
  
  

Olympic competitors for Belarus

• Magomed Aripgadjiev
  Magomed Aripgadjiev
  Magomed Aripgadzhiyev or Mahamed Ali is a Belarusian boxer, who competed in the Men's Light Heavyweight at the 2004 Summer Olympics and won the silver medal...
  
  
• Nadzeya Astapchuk
• Igor Astapkovich
  Igor Astapkovich
  Ihar Astapkovich , born in Minsk, is a hammer thrower who won two Olympic medals, first representing the Soviet Union and later his home country of Belarus.-Biography:...
  
  
• Hanna Batsiushka
  Hanna Batsiushka
  Hanna Batsiushka is a Belarusian weightlifter.She competed in the Women's 63 kg weight class at the 2004 Summer Olympics and won the silver medal, lifting 242.5 kg in total....
  
  
• Dmitry Debelka
  Dmitry Debelka
  Dmitry Debelka is a Belarusian wrestler who competed in the Men's Greco-Roman 97-130 kg at the 2000 Summer Olympics and won the bronze medal.-References:...
  
  
• Lyudmila Gubkina
  Lyudmila Gubkina
  Lyudmila Gubkina is a Belarusian hammer thrower. Her personal best is 69.92 metres, achieved in August 2000 in Minsk.-Achievements:-External links:*...
  
  
• Eduard Hämäläinen
  Eduard Hämäläinen
  Eduard Hämäläinen is a retired decathlete from Finland and Belarus.-Biograpfhy:He originally competed for the Soviet Union and then Belarus after the Soviet dissolution, but changed nationality. His great-grandparents were deported from Finland to Turkestan in 1917...
  
  
• Dzimitry Hancharuk
  Dzimitry Hancharuk
  Dzimitry Hancharuk is a Belarusian shot putter. His best finishes include eighth place at the 1995 World Championships and ninth place at the 1996 Olympic Games. His personal best is 20.12 metres, achieved in June 2001 in Vaasa.-Achievements:-External links:...
  
  
• Konstantin Koltsov
  Konstantin Koltsov
  Konstantin Yevgeniyevich Koltsov is a professional ice hockey player who currently plays for Salavat Yulaev Ufa.-Playing career:...
  
  
• Yanina Karolchyk-Pravalinskaya
• Sergei Liakhovich
  Sergei Liakhovich
  Sergei "White Wolf" Liakhovich , is a Belarusian boxer and a former WBO heavyweight boxing champion.-Amateur career:Liakhovich, who represented Belarus at the 1996 Olympic Games, was a long-time amateur who won Bronze at the 1997 World Championships....
  
  
• Sergey Lishtvan
  Sergey Lishtvan
  Sergey Lishtvan is a Belarusian wrestler. At the 1996 Summer Olympics he won the silver medal in the men's Greco-Roman Heavyweight category. He has also competed at the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics, but has not won another medal.-References:...
  
  
• Larissa Loukianenko
  Larissa Loukianenko
  Larissa Loukianenko Russian: Лариса Лукьяненко Larisa Luk'yanenko was a Belarusian individual rhythmic gymnast....
  
  
• Kanstantsin Lukashyk
  Kanstantsin Lukashyk
  Kanstantsin Leonidovich Lukashyk is a Belarusian pistol shooter, most famous for winning the 50 metre pistol event at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, at the age of 16, shocking the world of competitive shooting...
  
  
• Vadzim Makhneu
  Vadzim Makhneu
  Vadzim Makhneu or Vadim Makhnev is a Belarusian flatwater canoer who has competed since 2000...
  
  
• Sergei Martynov (sport shooter)
  Sergei Martynov (sport shooter)
  Sergei Martynov is a Belarusian 50 m Rifle shooter, originally from Russia....
  
  
• Andrei Mikhnevich
  Andrei Mikhnevich
  Andrei Anatolyevich Mikhnevich is a Belarusian shot putter with a personal best of 22.00 metres, set in 2008. He holds the Belarusian record indoors with a throw of 21.81 m at the national indoor championships....
  
  
• Natallia Mikhnevich
  Natallia Mikhnevich
  Natallia Mikhnevich is a Belarusian shot putter.She finished third at the 2000 World Junior Championships, but first appeared on the international athletics scene at the 2004 Olympics, where she finished 5th. She repeated this position at the World Athletics Final later that year, and in 2005 she...
  
  
• Max Mirnyi
  Max Mirnyi
  Max Mirnyi is a professional tennis player from Belarus.Today Mirnyi is a doubles specialist, but he also enjoyed a good singles career, finishing in the top 50 in the world for seven straight years, as well as representing Belarus in Davis Cup competition since April 1994, where he holds a...
  
  
• Raman Piatrushenka
  Raman Piatrushenka
  Raman Piatrushenka is a Belarusian sprint canoer who has competed since 2000...
  
  
• Alena Popchanka
  Alena Popchanka
  Alena Popchanka is a 4-time Olympic freestyle and butterfly swimmer originally from Belarus. She swam for Belarus at the 1996, 2000 and 2004 Olympics...
  
  
• Natallia Sazanovich
  Natallia Sazanovich
  Natallia Sazanovich is a former Belarusian heptathlete. She won two Olympic medals, and achieved her personal best score of 6563 points at the 1996 Olympics. Sazanovich is also the 2001 World Indoor champion. She also competed at the 2004 Olympics, but withdrew after two...
  
  
• Maryia Smaliachkova
  Maryia Smaliachkova
  Mariya Viktorovna Smolyachkova is a female hammer thrower from Belarus. Her personal best throw is 74.65 metres, achieved in July 2008 in Minsk.-Achievements:-References:*...
  
  
• Sviatlana Sudak
  Sviatlana Sudak
  Sviatlana Sudak is a Turkish hammer thrower. She originally represented Belarus.-Belarus:On 5 June 1994 she set a new world record with 67.34 metres. Unfortunately, this happened before the IAAF recognized world records in hammer throw for women, so when Mihaela Melinte threw 66.86 metres on 4...
  
  
• Ivan Tikhon
  Ivan Tikhon
  Ivan Tsikhan, also spelled sometimes as Ivan Tikhon is a Belarusian hammer thrower. He is a three-time world champion, an Olympic medalist, and European champion.-Biography:...
  
  
• Volha Tsander
  Volha Tsander
  Volha Mikhaylovna Tsander is a female hammer thrower from Belarus. Her personal best throw is 76.66 metres, achieved in July 2005 in Minsk.-Achievements:-External links:*...
  
  
• Valeriy Tsilent
  Valeriy Tsilent
  Valeriy Tsilent is a Belarusian wrestler. At the 1996 Summer Olympics he won the bronze medal in the men's Greco-Roman Middleweight category.-References:...
  
  
• Ryta Turava
  Ryta Turava
  Ryta Turava is an athlete from Belarus, competing in race walking. She was born in Vitebsk....
  
  
• Ilona Usovich
  Ilona Usovich
  Ilona Usovich is a Belarusian sprinter.Together with Natallia Solohub, Anna Kozak and Svetlana Usovich she won a silver medal in 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships. The next year Ilona finished 4th over 400 metres at the 2005 European Indoor Athletics Championships...
  
  
• Vladimir Voltchkov
  Vladimir Voltchkov
  Vladimir Nikolayevich Voltchkov is a Belarusian tennis player. Voltchkov reached the semi-final at the 2000 Wimbledon, where, as a qualifer, he lost to Pete Sampras in straight sets...
  
  
• Irina Yatchenko
  Irina Yatchenko
  Iryna Vasiliyevna Yatchenko is a Belarusian former discus thrower best known for winning two Olympic bronze medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics and 2004 Summer Olympics. She also became world champion at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics...
  
  
• Igor Zhelezovski
  Igor Zhelezovski
  Igor Nikolayevich Zhelezovski is a former speed skater, considered to be one of the best sprinters ever, which resulted in his nickname "Igor the Terrible"...
  
  
• Aliaksandr Zhukouski
  Aliaksandr Zhukouski
  Aliaksandr Zhukouski is a Belarusian sprint canoer who has competed since 2001. He won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a silver and three bronzes .Zhukouski also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of fourth in the C-1 500 m event at Athens...
  
  
• Viktar Zuyev
  Viktar Zuyev
  Viktar Zuyev is a boxer from Belarus best known to win the heavyweight silver medal at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.-Career:The aggressive and hard punching southpaw won a silver medal at the Euro 2004....
  
  

Olympic tennis players of Belarus

• Victoria Azarenka
  Victoria Azarenka
  Victoria Azarenka is a Belarusian professional tennis player. Her career high and current ranking is world no. 3, which she first achieved on 12 September 2011. She became the highest-ranked Belarusian player ever, surpassing Natasha Zvereva by two spots....
  
  
• Max Mirnyi
  Max Mirnyi
  Max Mirnyi is a professional tennis player from Belarus.Today Mirnyi is a doubles specialist, but he also enjoyed a good singles career, finishing in the top 50 in the world for seven straight years, as well as representing Belarus in Davis Cup competition since April 1994, where he holds a...
  
  
• Natasha Zvereva
  Natasha Zvereva
  Natalya "Natasha" Zvereva, or Zverava is a former tennis player from Belarus. Zvereva was the first major athlete in the Soviet Union to demand publicly that she should be able to keep her tournament earnings...
  
  

Belarusian sportspeople

Belarusian athletes

• Nadzeya Astapchuk
• Igor Astapkovich
  Igor Astapkovich
  Ihar Astapkovich , born in Minsk, is a hammer thrower who won two Olympic medals, first representing the Soviet Union and later his home country of Belarus.-Biography:...
  
  
• Svetlana Buraga
  Svetlana Buraga
  Svetlana Buraga is a retired Belarusian heptathlete.-Achievements:-External links:...
  
  
• Vadim Devyatovskiy
  Vadim Devyatovskiy
  Vadim Anatolyevich Devyatovsky is a Belarusian hammer thrower.He finished fourth at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and in 2005 he won the World Championships silver medal. In July the same year he threw 84.90 metres, which currently is his personal best. He originally won a silver medal at the 2008...
  
  
• Oksana Dragun
  Oksana Dragun
  Aksana Drahun , aka Oksana Dragun, is a Belarusian sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres. Her personal best time is 11.28 seconds, achieved in July 2005 in Minsk....
  
  
• Vladimir Dubrovshchik
  Vladimir Dubrovshchik
  Vladimir Vladimirovich Dubrovshchik is a former Belarusian discus thrower who won the Olympic silver medal in 1996. He is also the 1994 European champion and 1995 World Championships silver medallist, and he finished fourth at the 1997 World Championships. In 2000 he set his personal best throw...
  
  
• Natalya Dukhnova
  Natalya Dukhnova
  Natalya Dukhnova is a Belarusian middle distance runner who mainly competes in the 800 metres. Her career peaked in the mid-90's and she became European indoor champion in 1994.-Achievements:-External links:...
  
  
• Lyudmila Gubkina
  Lyudmila Gubkina
  Lyudmila Gubkina is a Belarusian hammer thrower. Her personal best is 69.92 metres, achieved in August 2000 in Minsk.-Achievements:-External links:*...
  
  
• Eduard Hämäläinen
  Eduard Hämäläinen
  Eduard Hämäläinen is a retired decathlete from Finland and Belarus.-Biograpfhy:He originally competed for the Soviet Union and then Belarus after the Soviet dissolution, but changed nationality. His great-grandparents were deported from Finland to Turkestan in 1917...
  
  
• Dzimitry Hancharuk
  Dzimitry Hancharuk
  Dzimitry Hancharuk is a Belarusian shot putter. His best finishes include eighth place at the 1995 World Championships and ninth place at the 1996 Olympic Games. His personal best is 20.12 metres, achieved in June 2001 in Vaasa.-Achievements:-External links:...
  
  
• Vasiliy Kaptyukh
  Vasiliy Kaptyukh
  Vasiliy Kaptyukh is a Belarusian former discus thrower who won the Olympic bronze medal in 1996. He has in fact never won gold or silver medals in major competitions, and he finished fourth in major contests such as the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics, despite he even setting his personal best throw...
  
  
• Olga Kardopoltseva
  Olga Kardopoltseva
  -Achievements:-References:...
  
  
• Yanina Karolchyk-Pravalinskaya
• Frants Kostyukevich
  Frants Kostyukevich
  Frants Kostyukevich is a male race walker who represented the USSR and later Belarus.-Achievements:-External links:...
  
  
• Anna Kozak
  Anna Kozak
  Anna Kozak is a Belarusian sprinter.Together with Natallia Solohub, Ilona Usovich and Svetlana Usovich she won a silver medal in 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships. For the 2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships, the Belarusian team had substituted Svetlana Usovich with...
  
  
• Dmitri Markov
  Dmitri Markov
  Dmitri Markov is a retired Belarusian and Australian pole vaulter. He is a former world champion and current Oceanian record holder.-Biography:...
  
  
• Andrei Mikhnevich
  Andrei Mikhnevich
  Andrei Anatolyevich Mikhnevich is a Belarusian shot putter with a personal best of 22.00 metres, set in 2008. He holds the Belarusian record indoors with a throw of 21.81 m at the national indoor championships....
  
  
• Natallia Mikhnevich
  Natallia Mikhnevich
  Natallia Mikhnevich is a Belarusian shot putter.She finished third at the 2000 World Junior Championships, but first appeared on the international athletics scene at the 2004 Olympics, where she finished 5th. She repeated this position at the World Athletics Final later that year, and in 2005 she...
  
  
• Yevgeniy Misyulya
  Yevgeniy Misyulya
  Yevgeny Nikolayevich Misyulya is a Belarusian race walker. He has won two World Championships bronze medals, and even participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics at the age of 40. He is married to racewalker Natalya Misyulya.-Achievements:-References:*...
  
  
• Gennadiy Moroz
  Gennadiy Moroz
  Hennazdy Maroz is a Belarusian high jumper.In 2003 he equalled his indoor personal best of 2.30 metres to win the bronze medal at the World Indoor Championships. His outdoor personal best of 2.33 metres was set in July 2001 in Brest....
  
  
• Yulia Nesterenko
  Yulia Nesterenko
  Yulia Nestsiarenka, née Bartsevich is a Belarussian sprinter and a gold medalist in the 2004 Summer Olympics champion.Nestsiarenka won the women's 100 metres race at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens in 10.93 seconds, becoming the first white and first non-U.S. athlete to win this event since the...
  
  
• Alena Nevmerzhitskaya
  Alena Nevmerzhitskaya
  Alena Neumiarzhitskaya is a Belarusian sprinter.She won a bronze medal in 4 x 100 metres relay at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics together with Yulia Nestsiarenka, Natallia Solohub and Aksana Drahun...
  
  
• Aleksandr Potashov
  Aleksandr Potashov
  Aleksandr Potashov is a retired race walker who represented the USSR and later Belarus. He won the gold medal over 50 kilometres at the 1991 World Championships...
  
  
• Natalya Safronnikova
  Natalya Safronnikova
  Natallia Safronnikava, née Vinogradova is a Belarusian sprinter who mainly competes in the 200 metres.She won her first international medal at the 2001 IAAF World Indoor Championships, and entered the podium again in 2004...
  
  
• Natallia Sazanovich
  Natallia Sazanovich
  Natallia Sazanovich is a former Belarusian heptathlete. She won two Olympic medals, and achieved her personal best score of 6563 points at the 1996 Olympics. Sazanovich is also the 2001 World Indoor champion. She also competed at the 2004 Olympics, but withdrew after two...
  
  
• Natalya Shikolenko
  Natalya Shikolenko
  Natalya Shikolenko is a javelin thrower who represented USSR and later Belarus. She won an Olympic silver medal and a World Championship gold....
  
  
• Tatyana Shikolenko
  Tatyana Shikolenko
  Tatyana Shikolenko is a retired Russian javelin thrower whose greatest success was World Championship two silver medals. Her personal best throw of 67.20 metres was achieved in 2000...
  
  
• Maryia Smaliachkova
  Maryia Smaliachkova
  Mariya Viktorovna Smolyachkova is a female hammer thrower from Belarus. Her personal best throw is 74.65 metres, achieved in July 2008 in Minsk.-Achievements:-References:*...
  
  
• Natallia Solohub
  Natallia Solohub
  Natallia Solohub, sometimes spelt Sologub , is a Belarusian sprinter.She has won silver medals in 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2004 and 2006 World Indoor Championships, and a bronze medal in 4 x 100 metres relay at the 2005 World Championships.At the 2001 World Championships she failed a drugs test...
  
  
• Sviatlana Sudak
  Sviatlana Sudak
  Sviatlana Sudak is a Turkish hammer thrower. She originally represented Belarus.-Belarus:On 5 June 1994 she set a new world record with 67.34 metres. Unfortunately, this happened before the IAAF recognized world records in hammer throw for women, so when Mihaela Melinte threw 66.86 metres on 4...
  
  
• Ivan Tikhon
  Ivan Tikhon
  Ivan Tsikhan, also spelled sometimes as Ivan Tikhon is a Belarusian hammer thrower. He is a three-time world champion, an Olympic medalist, and European champion.-Biography:...
  
  
• Volha Tsander
  Volha Tsander
  Volha Mikhaylovna Tsander is a female hammer thrower from Belarus. Her personal best throw is 76.66 metres, achieved in July 2005 in Minsk.-Achievements:-External links:*...
  
  
• Valentina Tsybulskaya
  Valentina Tsybulskaya
  Valentina Ivanovna Tsybulskaya is a Belarusian race walker. She has won World Championships silver and bronze medals, but no Olympic medals although she participated in 1996, 2000 and 2004.-Achievements:- External links :*...
  
  
• Alesia Turava
  Alesia Turava
  Alesia Turava is a Belarusian middle distance runner. She is a former world record holder in 3000 metre steeplechase with 9:16.51 minutes, achieved in Gdansk on 27 July 2002...
  
  
• Ryta Turava
  Ryta Turava
  Ryta Turava is an athlete from Belarus, competing in race walking. She was born in Vitebsk....
  
  
• Ilona Usovich
  Ilona Usovich
  Ilona Usovich is a Belarusian sprinter.Together with Natallia Solohub, Anna Kozak and Svetlana Usovich she won a silver medal in 4 x 400 metres relay at the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships. The next year Ilona finished 4th over 400 metres at the 2005 European Indoor Athletics Championships...
  
  
• Irina Yatchenko
  Irina Yatchenko
  Iryna Vasiliyevna Yatchenko is a Belarusian former discus thrower best known for winning two Olympic bronze medals at the 2000 Summer Olympics and 2004 Summer Olympics. She also became world champion at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics...
  
  
• Ellina Zvereva
  Ellina Zvereva
  Ellina Zvereva is a Belarusian discus thrower best known for winning the gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics. She became world champion in 1995, and again in 2001 after the disqualification of Natalya Sadova....
  
  

Belarusian canoers

• Aliaksei Abalmasau
  Aliaksei Abalmasau
  Aliaksei Abalmasau is a Belarusian sprint canoer who has competed since 1998...
  
  
• Aliaksandr Kurliandchyk
  Aliaksandr Kurliandchyk
  Aliaksandr Kurliandchyk, is a Belarusian sprint canoer who competed from 2001 to 2006. He won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a silver and three bronzes .Kurliandchyk also finished sixth the C-2 500 m event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.-References:***...
  
  
• Vadzim Makhneu
  Vadzim Makhneu
  Vadzim Makhneu or Vadim Makhnev is a Belarusian flatwater canoer who has competed since 2000...
  
  
• Uladzimir Parfianovich
• Raman Piatrushenka
  Raman Piatrushenka
  Raman Piatrushenka is a Belarusian sprint canoer who has competed since 2000...
  
  
• Dzmitry Rabchanka
  Dzmitry Rabchanka
  Dzmitry Rabchanka is a Belarusian sprint canoer who has been competing since 2005. He won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds , two silvers , and one bronze .-References:***...
  
  
• Viktor Reneysky
  Viktor Reneysky
  Viktor Iosifovich Reneysky , born January 24, 1967 in Babruysk, is a sprint canoer from Belarus who won three Olympic medals for the USSR and Moldova in the C-2 event with his teammate Nikolaï Juravschi. He also won a total of nine world titles, more than any other Canadian canoe paddler of his...
  
  
• Dziamyan Turchyn
  Dziamyan Turchyn
  Dziamyan Turchyn is a Belarusian sprint canoer....
  
  
• Dzmitry Vaitsishkin
  Dzmitry Vaitsishkin
  Dzmitry Vaitsishkin is a Belarusian sprint canoer who has been competing since 2005. He won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds , two silvers , and one bronze .-References:***...
  
  
• Aliaksandr Zhukouski
  Aliaksandr Zhukouski
  Aliaksandr Zhukouski is a Belarusian sprint canoer who has competed since 2001. He won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a silver and three bronzes .Zhukouski also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of fourth in the C-1 500 m event at Athens...
  
  

Belarusian chess players

• Boris Gelfand
  Boris Gelfand
  Boris Abramovich Gelfand is a Belarus-born Israeli chess Grandmaster. He won the 2011 Candidates Tournament and will challenge Viswanathan Anand for the World Chess Championship 2012.-Biography:...
  
  
• Dawid Janowski
  Dawid Janowski
  Dawid Markelowicz Janowski was a leading Polish chess master and subsequent French citizen....
  
  
• Ratmir Kholmov
  Ratmir Kholmov
  Ratmir Dmitrievich Kholmov was a Russian chess Grandmaster. He won many international tournaments in Eastern Europe during his career, and tied for the Soviet Championship title in 1963, but lost the playoff...
  
  
• Lev Polugaevsky
  Lev Polugaevsky
  Lev Abramovich Polugaevsky was an International Grandmaster of chess and frequent contender for the world chess championship, although he never achieved that title...
  
  

Belarusian gymnasts

• Svetlana Boginskaya
  Svetlana Boginskaya
  Svetlana Leonidovna Boginskaya , is a Soviet/Belarusian gymnast. She was called the "Belarusian Swan" and the "Goddess of Gymnastics" because of her height, balletic grace, and long lines. She is especially renowned for the drama and artistry she displayed on floor exercise...
  
  
• Olga Korbut
  Olga Korbut
  Olga Valentinovna Korbut , also known as the Sparrow from Minsk, is a Belarusian, Soviet-born gymnast who won four gold medals and two silver medals at the Summer Olympics, in which she competed in 1972 and 1976 for the USSR team....
  
  
• Marina Lobatch
  Marina Lobatch
  Marina Vikentyevna Lobatch was a Soviet Individual Rhythmic Gymnast. She currently lives in Minsk with her husband, Dmitry Bogdanov, and their daughter, Irina, Where she is a coach and judge for the Belarusian Gymnastics Federation...
  
  
• Larissa Loukianenko
  Larissa Loukianenko
  Larissa Loukianenko Russian: Лариса Лукьяненко Larisa Luk'yanenko was a Belarusian individual rhythmic gymnast....
  
  
• Yulia Raskina
  Yulia Raskina
  Yulia Raskina is a former Individual rhythmic gymnast who won the All-Around Silver at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. She is Jewish....
  
  
• Vitaly Scherbo
  Vitaly Scherbo
  Vitaly Venediktovich Scherbo , born 13 January 1972 in Minsk, Byelorussian SSR, is a Belarusian and former Soviet artistic gymnast...
  
  
• Inna Zhukova
  Inna Zhukova
  Inna Zhukova Belarusian: Іна Іванаўна Жукава Ina Ivanawna Zhukava Russian: Инна Ивановна Жукова Inna Ivanovna Zhukova, born on September 6, 1986 in Krasnodar, Soviet Union, is a Belarusian individual Rhythmic Gymnast. She started rhythmic gymnastics in 1990 at age 4...
  
  

Belarusian sport wrestlers

• Dmitry Debelka
  Dmitry Debelka
  Dmitry Debelka is a Belarusian wrestler who competed in the Men's Greco-Roman 97-130 kg at the 2000 Summer Olympics and won the bronze medal.-References:...
  
  
• Sergey Lishtvan
  Sergey Lishtvan
  Sergey Lishtvan is a Belarusian wrestler. At the 1996 Summer Olympics he won the silver medal in the men's Greco-Roman Heavyweight category. He has also competed at the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics, but has not won another medal.-References:...
  
  
• Alexander Medved
  Alexander Medved
  Alexander Vasiliyevich Medved is a famous Soviet/Russian Belarussian wrestler. He is considered by most to be the best freestyle wrestler of all time. He was the first person ever to win three gold medals in freestyle wrestling. FILA recognizes Medved as The Greatest Wrestler of the 20th Century...
  
  
• Aleksandr Pavlov
• Valeriy Tsilent
  Valeriy Tsilent
  Valeriy Tsilent is a Belarusian wrestler. At the 1996 Summer Olympics he won the bronze medal in the men's Greco-Roman Middleweight category.-References:...
  
  

Belarusian tennis players

• Victoria Azarenka
  Victoria Azarenka
  Victoria Azarenka is a Belarusian professional tennis player. Her career high and current ranking is world no. 3, which she first achieved on 12 September 2011. She became the highest-ranked Belarusian player ever, surpassing Natasha Zvereva by two spots....
  
  
• Max Mirnyi
  Max Mirnyi
  Max Mirnyi is a professional tennis player from Belarus.Today Mirnyi is a doubles specialist, but he also enjoyed a good singles career, finishing in the top 50 in the world for seven straight years, as well as representing Belarus in Davis Cup competition since April 1994, where he holds a...
  
  
• Vladimir Voltchkov
  Vladimir Voltchkov
  Vladimir Nikolayevich Voltchkov is a Belarusian tennis player. Voltchkov reached the semi-final at the 2000 Wimbledon, where, as a qualifer, he lost to Pete Sampras in straight sets...
  
  
• Anastasiya Yakimova
  Anastasiya Yakimova
  Anastasiya Yakimova is a female tennis player from Belarus. She made it to the third round of the 2007 Australian Open, defeating Ai Sugiyama of Japan, a seeded player, on the way in the second round.-2009:...
  
  
• Natasha Zvereva
  Natasha Zvereva
  Natalya "Natasha" Zvereva, or Zverava is a former tennis player from Belarus. Zvereva was the first major athlete in the Soviet Union to demand publicly that she should be able to keep her tournament earnings...
  
  

Belarusian weightlifters

• Hanna Batsiushka
  Hanna Batsiushka
  Hanna Batsiushka is a Belarusian weightlifter.She competed in the Women's 63 kg weight class at the 2004 Summer Olympics and won the silver medal, lifting 242.5 kg in total....
  
  
• Andrei Rybakou
  Andrei Rybakou
  Andrei Rybakou is a Belarusian weightlifter who won silver medals in Men's 85 kg at the 2004 and 2008 Summer Olympics.In April 2006 he won the European Championship...
  
  
• Tatsiana Stukalava
  Tatsiana Stukalava
  Tatsiana Stukalava is a Belarusian weightlifter who competed in the Women's 63 kg weight class at the 2004 Summer Olympics and won the bronze medal, lifting 222.5 kg in total.-References:...
  
  
• Leonid Taranenko
  Leonid Taranenko
  Leonid Arkadevich Taranenko is a former Soviet/Belarusian weightlifter.- Weightlifting career :Taranenko trained at VSS Uradzhai in Minsk. His first major success took place at the 1980 Olympics, when, competing for the USSR, he won the gold medal in the 110 kilogram class with a 422.5 kg total...
  
  

Transport in Belarus

• Transport in Belarus
  Transport in Belarus
  This article is about transport in Belarus. For Soviet transportation, see Transport in the Soviet Union.- Railways :Rail transport in Belarus is operated by Belarusskaya Chyhunkatotal:5,512 kmcountry comparison to the world: 32...
  
  
• Dnieper-Bug Canal
  Dnieper-Bug Canal
  Dnieper–Bug Canal , or the Dneprovsko-Bugsky Canal is the longest inland ship canal in Belarus that connects the Mukhavets River, a tributary of the Bug River, and the Pina River, a tributary of the Pripyat River. Originally it was named Royal Canal , after the Polish king, since he was the...
  
  
• Marshrutka
  Marshrutka
  Marshrutka , from marshrutnoye taksi is a share taxi in the CIS countries, the Baltic states, and Bulgaria. Marshrutnoye taksi literally means routed taxicab...
  
  
• State Committee of Aviation
  State Committee of Aviation
  The State Committee of Aviation of the Republic of Belarus was established by the President of Belarus to coordinate aviation activity inside Belarus. It can be compared to the United States Federal Aviation Administration in its activities and duties...
  
  

Minsk Metro

• Minsk Metro
  Minsk Metro
  The Minsk Metro is a rapid-transit system that serves Minsk, the capital of Belarus. Opened in 1984, it presently consists of 2 lines and 25 stations totaling 30.3 kilometres...
  
  
• Avtozavodskaya Line
  Avtozavodskaya Line
  Avtozavodskaya Line is a line of the Minsk Metro. The line opened in 1990 and crosses the city on a Northwest-Southeast axis. Currently it comprises 14 stations and 18.1 kilometres of track.-Timeline:-Transfers:-Rolling stock:...
  
  
• Borisovskiy Trakt
  Borisovskiy Trakt
  Borisovsky Trakt is a Minsk Metro station on the Moskovskaya Line. Opened on November 7, 2007 the station's name is derived from the Borisov Highway which leads to a city that is northeast of Minsk....
  
  
• Moskovskaya Line
  Moskovskaya Line
  The Moskovskaya Line , is a line of the Minsk Metro. The line was opened along with the Metro in 1984 with the original eight station segment, and crosses the city on a Northeast-Southwest axis...
  
  
• Uruchie
• Vostok (Minsk Metro)
  Vostok (Minsk Metro)
  Vostok is a Minsk Metro station. Opened on December 30, 1986.The station's name not only implies its geographical location, as it was the easternmost station of Minsk metro for more than 20 years, but also its connotation with the Vostok space programme that ultimately led to the first manned...
  
  

Belarus stubs

• 1996 Belarus Referendum
  1996 Belarus Referendum
  A seven-question referendum was held in Belarus on 24 November 1996. Four questions were put forward by President Alexander Lukashenko on changing the date of the country's independence day, amending the constitution, changing laws on the sale of land and the abolition of the death penalty...
  
  
• Academy of Public Administration under the aegis of the President of the Republic of Belarus
  Academy of Public Administration (Belarus)
  The Academy of Public Administration under the aegis of the President of the Republic of Belarus , Minsk, is the leading higher educational establishment in a national education system of the Republic of Belarus and head establishment of education in system of training, retraining and in-service...
  
  
• Agriculture in Belarus
  Agriculture in Belarus
  Agriculture in Belarus is a shrinking sector of the Belarusian economy. The share of agriculture in GDP declined from 11.6% in 2000 to 7.4% in 2007, while the share of agriculture in total employment dropped from 14.1% to 9.9% over the same period...
  
  
• Aleksandra and Konstantin
  Aleksandra and Konstantin
  Aleksandra and Konstantin a Belarussian is the musical duo of singer Aleksandra Kirsanova and guitarist Konstantin Drapezo. They represented Belarus in their inaugural entry in the Eurovision Song Contest, singing "My Galileo" in the 2004 Contest....
  
  
• Basovišča
  Basovišca
  Basóvišča — the festival of Belarusian alternative and rock music, which is annually conducted by Belarusian Association of Students since 1990.The festival takes place during two July days in the Borak forest near Gmina of Gródek, Poland...
  
  
• Batory Square
  Batory Square
  Batory Square is the historical name of Soviet Square - the central square for the city of Hrodna in Belarus....
  
  
• BelAZ
  BelAZ
  BelAZ is a Belarusian manufacturer of haulage and earthmoving equipment based in Zhodzina. The factory opened its door in 1948 and has produced over 120,000 vehicles for use in the Soviet Union.BELAZ is a site for one of the largest Commonwealth of Independent States investment project...
  
  
• Belarus Ice Hockey Federation
  Belarus Ice Hockey Federation
  Belarusian Ice Hockey Association is the Belarusian national ice hockey federation. It was founded on March 6, 1992 and became a member of the IIHF in two months ....
  
  
• Belarus at the 1994 Winter Olympics
  Belarus at the 1994 Winter Olympics
  Belarus competed in the Winter Olympic Games as an independent nation for the first time at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway...
  
  
• Belarus at the 1996 Summer Olympics
  Belarus at the 1996 Summer Olympics
  Belarus competed in the Summer Olympic Games for the first time as an independent nation at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States...
  
  
• Belarus at the 1998 Winter Olympics
  Belarus at the 1998 Winter Olympics
  -Medalists:- Alpine skiing:Men- Biathlon:MenMen's 4 x 7.5 km relayWomenWomen's 4 x 7.5 km relay1A penalty loop of 150 metres had to be skied per missed target. 2One minute added per missed target.- Cross-country skiing:Men...
  
  
• Belarus at the 2006 Winter Paralympics
  Belarus at the 2006 Winter Paralympics
  Belarus participated in the ninth Winter Paralympics in Turin, Italy.Belarus entered six athletes in the following sport:*Nordic skiing: 3 male, 3 female-Medalists:-External links:**...
  
  
• Belarusfilm
  Belarusfilm
  Belarusfilm is the main film studio of Belarus.Founded in 1928 as Soviet Belarus studio in Leningrad, the studio was moved to Minsk in 1939...
  
  
• Belarusian Association of Journalists
  Belarusian Association of Journalists
  The Belarusian Association of Journalists is a Belarusian non-governmental organisation aimed at ensuring freedom of speech and rights of receiving and distributing information and promoting professional standards of journalism" .It was founded in 1995...
  
  
• Belarusian Autocephalous Orthodox Church
  Belarusian Autocephalous Orthodox Church
  The Belarusian Autocephalous Orthodox Church, which has sometimes abbreviated its name as the "B.A.O. Church" or the "BAOC," aspires to be the self-governing national church of an independent Belarus, but it has operated mostly in exile since its formation, and even some publications of the church...
  
  
• Belarusian Hockey League
• Belarusian State University
  Belarusian State University
  Belarusian State University , Minsk, Belarus, was founded on October 30, 1921. The BSU is a higher education establishment in the Republic of Belarus.-History:...
  
  
• Belarusian heraldry
  Belarusian heraldry
  The uses of heraldry in Belarus is used by government bodies, subdivisions of the national government, organizations, corporations and by families.-History:...
  
  
• Belarusian resistance movement
  Belarusian resistance movement
  Belarusian resistance during World War II was focused towards Nazi Germany from 1941 until 1944. Belarus was one of the Soviet republics occupied during Operation Barbarossa...
  
  
• Belarusian rock
  Belarusian rock
  Belarusian rock has been developing since the early 1980s. The most important rock bands include Mroja , Bonda, Krama, Kriwi, Lyapis Trubetskoy, Verasy, Open Space, Neuro Dubel, ULIS, Novaje Nieba, Palac, Accent, and TT-34....
  
  
• Belarusian-American relations
  Belarusian-American relations
  Interstate relations between the United States and Belarus began in 1991 upon the dissolution of the Soviet Union, of which Belarus had been a part. However, the relations have turned sour due to accusations by the United States that Belarus has been undemocratic...
  
  
• Boys And Girls (song)
  Boys And Girls (song)
  "Boys and Girls" was intended to be the Belarusian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005, to be performed in English by Angelica Agurbash. As it was not performed, the song enters a very exclusive group of only three of four songs to be announced as an entry before not being performed.The song...
  
  
• Children's Railroad (Minsk)
• Committee for Standardization, Metrology and Certification of Belarus
  Committee for Standardization, Metrology and Certification of Belarus
  The Committee for Standardization, Metrology and Certification of Belarus is the International Organization for Standardization member body for Belarus....
  
  
• Communications in Belarus
  Communications in Belarus
  The Media and telecommunications in Belarus are dominated by the state which owns most of the corporations and infrastructure.-Telephone system:Telephone lines in use: 3.969 million Mobile/cellular: 9.686 million...
  
  
• Dinamo Stadium (Minsk)
  Dinamo Stadium (Minsk)
  Dynama Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium in Minsk, Belarus. It is currently used mostly for football matches and is the home ground of Dynama Minsk. The stadium has a seating capacity for 40,000 people. Dynama Stadium was constructed in 1934, but was destroyed during World War II and rebuilt in...
  
  
• Drazdy conflict
  Drazdy conflict
  The Drazdy conflict was an incident in July 1998 involving the Government of Belarus and diplomats from other nations. It began by the leader of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko declaring the Drazdy Complex as property of the government and shutting it down for repairs...
  
  
• Dreamlin
  Dreamlin
  Dreamlin is an electronic music group from Belarus.Dreamlin, hailing from Minsk, Belarus started when Denis «C4» Korabkov, who used to play guitar with a local cult, psychedelic reggae band at the time met Egor Kunovsky, who had long been involved with music software and computers.In 2000, they...
  
  
• Electrokids
  Electrokids
  Electrokids - promo group that promoted electronic music in Minsk, Belarus. Electrokids were responsible for one of the most influential festivals of electronic music in post-soviet territories, System of Electronic Maddness and series of drum and bass events since 2003.Rooster of artists promoted...
  
  
• F. C. Dinamo Minsk
  F. C. Dinamo Minsk
  Football Club Dinamo Minsk is a Belarusian football club playing in the capital city of Minsk. Their home games are played at the Dinamo-Yuni, capable of seating 4,500 spectators....
  
  
• FC BATE
  FC BATE
  FC BATE Borisov is a Belarusian football team playing in the city of Borisov. They compete in the Belarusian Premier League and are the reigning champions. BATE are the only Belarusian team to have qualified for the group stage of the UEFA Champions League and for the group stage of the UEFA...
  
  
• FC Belshyna Babruisk
  FC Belshyna Babruisk
  FC Belshina Bobruisk is a Belarusian football club based in Bobruisk.-Achievements:* Belarusian SSR League** 1978, 1987* Belarusian Premier League** 2001* Belarusian Cup: 3** 1997, 1999, 2001-Current squad:As of September 2011...
  
  
• FC Darida Zhdanovichi
  FC Darida Zhdanovichi
  FC Darida Minsk Raion is a defunct Belarusian football club. Their home stadium was Darida Stadium, located in Kuntsevschina district in Minsk.- History :The team originally represented Minsk suburb Zhdanovichi, where their office was located...
  
  
• FC Dinamo Brest
  FC Dinamo Brest
  FC Dinamo Brest is a Belarusian football club based in Brest. They play in the Belarusian Premier League, the top division in Belarusian football.-Name changes:*1960: founded as Spartak Brest*1972: renamed to Bug Brest...
  
  
• FC Dnepr Mahilyow
  FC Dnepr Mahilyow
  FC Dnepr is a Belarusian football team, playing in the city of Mogilev. It currently competes in Belarusian Premier League. Their home stadium is Spartak Stadion-Name changes:*1960: founded as Knimik Mogilev*1963: renamed to Spartak Mogilev...
  
  
• FC Gomel
  FC Gomel
  FC Gomel is a Belarusian football club, playing in the city of Gomel. Their new home stadium is Central Stadion.- History :Teams from Gomel played in Belarusian SSR championships since early 20's...
  
  
• FC Lakamatyu Minsk
  FC Lakamatyu Minsk
  FC SKVICH Minsk is a Belarusian football club based in Minsk, currently playing in Belarusian First League.-History:The team was founded in late 2000 by travel company SKVICH, which also had investments in sport and football projects for several years before...
  
  
• FC Lakamatyu Vitebsk
• FC MTZ-RIPO
  FC MTZ-RIPO
  FC Partizan Minsk is a Belarusian Premier League football team, part of Russian-Lithuanian businessman Vladimir Romanov's soccer holding which also includes Scottish Premier League club Hearts and Lithuanian A Lyga champion FBK Kaunas...
  
  
• FC Molodechno
  FC Molodechno
  FC Molodechno is a Belarusian football club based in Molodechno. They play in Belarusian Second League, the 3rd division in Belarusian football. Their home stadium is Molodechno City Stadium.- History :...
  
  
• FC Naftan Novopolotsk
  FC Naftan Novopolotsk
  FC Naftan Novopolotsk is an Belarusian football club based in Navapolatsk. They play in the Belarusian Premier League, the top division in Belarusian football...
  
  
• FC Shakhtyor
  FC Shakhtyor
  FC Shakhtyor is a Belarusian Premier League football club, playing in the city of Soligorsk.-History:*1961: foundation*1971: Shakhtyor absorbed two local Soligorsk teams - Achievements :Belarusian Premier League:...
  
  
• FC Slavia Mozyr
  FC Slavia Mozyr
  FC Slavia-Mozyr is a Belarusian football team, based in Mozyr, Belarus.-History:The team was founded in 1987 as Polesie Mozyr. Between 1987 and 1991 they played in Belarusian SSR league. From 1992 till 1995 they played in Belarusian First League. They changed their name to MPKC Mozyr since 1994-95...
  
  
• FC Torpedo Zhodino
  FC Torpedo Zhodino
  FC Torpedo-BelAZ Zhodino is an Belarusian football club based in Zhodino. They play in the Belarusian Premier League, the top division in Belarusian football...
  
  
• FC Traktor
  FC Traktor
  FC Traktar Minsk is a now-defunct football team from Byelorussian SSR, was established in 1947 during building of Minsk Traktar Plant as a sport section for construction workers and later for local factory personal...
  
  
• FC Transmash Mogilev
  FC Transmash Mogilev
  FC Transmash Mogilev was a Belarusian football club based in Mogilev.-History:*1988: founded as Selmash Mogilev*1994: renamed to Transmash Mogilev*1998: merged with FC Dnepr Mogilev to form Dnepr-Transmash Mogilev...
  
  
• FC Zvezda-BGU
  FC Zvezda-BGU
  FC Zvezda-BGU Minsk is a Belarusian football team, based in Minsk, Belarus.-History:The team was founded in 1996.Zvezda-VA-BGU made its debut in Premier League in 2002 and played there until 2005...
  
  
• Football Federation of Belarus
  Football Federation of Belarus
  The Football Federation of Belarus is the governing body of football in Belarus. It organizes Belarusian Premier League, Belarusian national football team and the Belarus women's national football team. It is based in Minsk.-External links:...
  
  
• Gomelavia
  Gomelavia
  Gomelavia was an airline based in Gomel, Belarus. It was established in 1996 and operated domestic and regional, scheduled and chartered services, as well as aerial work using fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters. Its main base was Gomel Airport...
  
  
• Hinduism in Belarus
  Hinduism in Belarus
  Hinduism in Belarus has a very small following. There are three main Hindu groups in country. They are ISKCON, Brahmakumaris and The Light of Kailasa...
  
  
• House of Representatives of the Republic of Belarus
  House of Representatives of the Republic of Belarus
  Under the 1996 Constitution, the House of Representatives is the lower house of the parliament of Belarus.It consists of 110 deputies elected on the basis of universal, equal, free, and direct electoral suffrage by secret ballot . It is a majoritarian system, with the outcome decided by overall...
  
  
• State Security Agency of the Republic of Belarus
• KRIWI
  KRIWI
  KRIWI is a Belarusian folk and rock band. The band name literally means "a person belonging to the ancient Belarusian tribe of Kryvians".KRIWI is known for using a variety of European folk instruments and mixing them with modern technology of synthesizer and samples, with powerful vocals of Veranika...
  
  
• Khorovod
  Khorovod
  Khorovod is a Slavic art form, a combination of a circle dance and chorus singing, similar to Chorea of ancient Greece.- External links :*...
  
  
• Kirov Bridge
  Kirov Bridge
  Kirov Bridge is a bridge in Vitsebsk in Belarus. It stems across the Dzvina river....
  
  
• Krama (band)
• List of national parks of Belarus
• Meleshkovichi
  Meleshkovichi
  Myaleshkavichy is a village in Homel Voblast in Belarus. It is located 10 miles south west of Mazyr.By the Russian Empire Census of 1897 population of Myaleshkavichy was 1329 people of whom 127 were Jews....
  
  
• Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus
  Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus
  Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus is a body of the Belarusian Government that is charged with the internal affairs of Belarus. Day to day law enforcement is carried out by the Militsiya. The Ministry is also tasked with providing security to state buildings and officials. Organizations such...
  
  
• Minsk Automobile Plant
  Minsk Automobile Plant
  Minsk Automobile Plant is a state-run automotive manufacturer association in Belarus, one of the largest in Eastern and Central Europe.-History:...
  
  
• Minsk Terminal
  Minsk Terminal
  Minsk Passazhirsky is the main passenger rail terminal in Belarus. It is located in the centre of Minsk. It is sometimes called Minsk Ploshchad Lenina due to the metro station serving the terminal, or simply Minsk.-History:The station was built in 1873 as Vilenski vakzal, Vilnius station...
  
  
• Minsk Tractor Works
  Minsk Tractor Works
  Minsk Tractor Works may refer to two entities: a plant in Minsk, Belarus and a plant association in Belarus....
  
  
• Miss Belarus
  Miss Belarus
  The Miss Belarus Pageant is a bi-annual national beauty contest that has been held in Belarus since 1998. Winner represents Belarus in Miss World. The main award includes the Miss Belarus crown made out of 100 grams of white gold of with half a thousand precious and semiprecious stones...
  
  
• Mum (Eurovision song)
  Mum (Eurovision song)
  "Mum" was the Belarusian entry at the Eurovision Song Contest 2006, performed in English by Polina Smolova. As the previous Belarusian entry had not finished in the top 10, Smolova performed the song in the semi-final....
  
  
• My Galileo
  My Galileo
  "My Galileo" was the first entry by Belarus in the Eurovision Song Contest, performed at the 2004 Contest in English by Aleksandra and Konstantin...
  
  
• National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus
  National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus
  The National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus is the bicameral parliament that governs the Eastern European country of Belarus. The two chambers of the National Assembly are:*Council of the Republic- The upper house...
  
  
• Our Lady of the Gate of Dawn
  Our Lady of the Gate of Dawn
  Our Lady of the Gate of Dawn is the prominent painting of the Blessed Virgin Mary venerated by the faithful in the Chapel of the Gate of Dawn in Vilnius, Lithuania. The Renaissance painting, completed possibly in the first half of the 17th century, is an unusual portrayal of Madonna as she is...
  
  
• Parason
  Parason
  Parason is a rock band from Belarus, one of the winners of Basovišča in 2006. Leader of Parason is Andre Karp...
  
  
• Presidential Guard (Belarus)
  Presidential Guard (Belarus)
  The Belarusian Presidential Guard or officially the Presidential Security Service is a law-enforcement body that was designed to protect the President of Belarus and other high ranking officials and officers.However, the United States State Department stated that the Presidential Guard is a secret...
  
  
• Radio Stil (Belarus)
  Radio Stil (Belarus)
  Radio 101.2 was a radio station in the Belarusian capital of Minsk. In 1995 and 1996 the radio station, which is at the frequency 101.2, was broadcasting news and was not affiliated with the national government....
  
  
• Randomajestiq
  Randomajestiq
  Randomajestiq is a music project of musician Vladimir Hropov. Vladimir was born in 1976 and is currently a sound designer, composer and producer. In 1993 Vladimir started composing chiptunes on the AY-3-8910 fm-synth chip. With his experience in tracking, he moved to PC and current production...
  
  
• Republican Institute for Vocational Education
  Republican Institute for Vocational Education
  The Republican Institute for Vocational Education is a higher education institution in Minsk, Belarus. Founded in December 1992, it is managed by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus.-Structure:...
  
  
• Russian Colonialism
  Russian Colonialism
  Russian Colonialism extended over regions forming modern Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Finland and the Baltic countries, Moldavia, Central Asia, Siberia and the Caucasus. Its beginnings can be dated to the Muscovite conquest of the Republic of Novgorod in 1478 and its subsequent colonization by...
  
  
• SKA Minsk
  SKA Minsk
  SKA Minsk is a team handball club from Minsk, Belarus. Currently, SKA Minsk competes in the Belarusian First League of Handball.-Accomplishments:Vladimir Sebastian Schuwendt er ejer af klubben, han købte den i 2008 for en sum på 14,2 Mio ca....
  
  
• Shlomo Heiman
  Shlomo Heiman
  Shlomo Heiman was a Rabbi, Talmudist, and Rosh Yeshiva of the most prominent yeshivas in Europe and America.-In Europe:In 1892, Reb Shlomo was born in Paritsh, Minsk in Belarus. His father was Rabbi Michel Heiman. When he was 12 years old, he went to Kaminetz yeshiva to study under R' Baruch Ber...
  
  
• Stadion Darida
  Stadion Darida
  Dinamo-Yuni Stadium is a football stadium in Minsk, Belarus. It is currently used for football matches and is the home stadium of FC Dinamo Minsk. The stadium holds 4,500 people and was opened in 2000....
  
  
• Supreme Court of Belarus
  Supreme Court of Belarus
  The Supreme Court of the Republic of Belarus is the highest-tier court inside of Belarus and acts as the final "court of review." Its general tasks include the oversight of lower-tier courts and can render justice in areas of general civil and criminal law...
  
  
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• The Wall (short stories)
  The Wall (short stories)
  The Wall is a collection of short stories by the Belarusian writer Vasil Bykaŭ.-Description and background:The Wall deals with the tragic fate of Belarus, from Stalinist repressions and World War II battles that left Belarus in ruins to the dismal life of the Belarusian people in 1990s...
  
  
• TransAVIAexport Airlines
• Ufocom
  UfoCom
  The UFOCOM or Belorussian UFOlogical COMmunity is a non-commercial, non-government, non-registered public organization in Belarus. Founded in 2001, in Gorky, Belarus, as a group of enthusiasts, mostly students of Gorky state University, studiing paranormal phenomena in local area...
  
  
• Union of Poles in Belarus
  Union of Poles in Belarus
  The Union of Poles in Belarus is an organization located in the Eastern European country of Belarus. The group, which has a membership of 20,000 people, represents the Polish minority in Belarus, numbering about 400,000, as per official data .Lately, the group has received international attention...
  
  
• Volozhin yeshiva
  Volozhin yeshiva
  The Volozhin Yeshiva, also known as Etz Chaim Yeshiva, was a prestigious Lithuanian yeshiva located in the town of Volozhin, Russia, . It was founded by Rabbi Chaim Itzkovitz, a student of the famed Vilna Gaon, and trained several generations of scholars, rabbis, and leaders...
  
  
• Zdrawneva
  Zdrawneva
  Zdrawneva was a manor house and estate in Belarus. It is located in the municipality of Ruba .The Ilya Yefimovich Repin museum at the Zdravniovo estate was set up in 1988...
  
  

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