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unusual facts about Battle of Białystok–Minsk



1992–93 Belarusian First League

Niva Samokhvalovichi changed their name to Niva-Trudovye Rezervy Samokhvalovichi, SKIF-RShVSM Minsk were renamed to AFViS-RShVSM Minsk and Kolos Ustye to Kolos-Stroitel Ustye.

1st Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party

The 1st Congress of the RSDLP (Russian: Российская социал-демократическая рабочая партия, РСДРП) was held between March 13–March 15 (March 1–March 3, O.S.) 1898 in Minsk, Russian Empire (now Belarus) in secrecy.

Aeroflot Flight 892

Aeroflot Flight 892 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Minsk to East Berlin, which crashed on 12 December 1986 due to pilot error, killing seventy-two of the eighty-two passengers and crew on board.

Aleh Mikhalovich

Aleh Mikhalovich (born on 1 August 1989 in Pervomaysky, Minsk) is a male freestyle wrestler from Belarus.

Alla Kliouka Schaffer

Alla Kliouka Schaffer (b. February 18, 1970 in Minsk, Belarus) is a Belorussian actress, and former wife of Ken Schaffer, best known for her role as Svetlana Kirilenko on the HBO TV series The Sopranos.

Belarusian Great Patriotic War Museum

The museum first opened shortly after the liberation of Minsk from the Nazi invaders, on 25 October 1944, making it the first World War II museum to open during the course of the war.

The Belarusian Great Patriotic War Museum is a museum in Minsk, Belarus.

Belavia

On 14 February 2008, Belavia Flight 1834, a Bombardier CRJ-100ER en route from Yerevan, Armenia, to Minsk hit its left wing on the runway during takeoff from Zvartnots International Airport, subsequently crashing on the ground, flipping over and coming to a stop inverted near the runway.

Brett Connolly

Connolly returned to the under-18 team the following year for the 2010 IIHF World U18 Championships in Minsk and Bobruisk, Belarus.

Byaroza Raion

An important railway branch connecting voblsc center Brest and capital Minsk goes through the Biaroza rajon.

Coherent Solutions

In 2003, eight years later, Epshteyn established a development center in Minsk, Belarus, Europe.

Dreamlin

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.

European Radio for Belarus

Programming is prepared by teams of Belarusian journalists working in Warsaw and in Minsk together with a network of reporters in the regions of Belarus.

Fanipol

Fanipol is situated near the M-1 (E-30) highway, which runs from Brest to Moscow through Minsk (Brest-Minsk-Moscow).

Harry S. Truman Little White House

In April, 2001, Secretary of State Colin Powell opened a week of OSCE peace talks, led by Minsk Group Co-Chairman Carey Cavanaugh between President Robert Kocharyan of Armenia and Heydar Aliyev of Azerbaijan.

Heilprin

The fourth branch is that of Jehiel ben Solomon ben Jekuthiel of Minsk, author of "Seder ha-Dorot", whose son Moses succeeded him in the rabbinate, and whose grandson, Löb b.

Herman Darewski

Born in Minsk, and musically trained in Vienna, he worked in London, for the first 15 years of the new century, as a composer of light songs, some of which were written for the new theatre form, revue.

Horace Greasley

Guy Walters asserted categorically that the soldier in the picture was not Greasley, stating that the picture is held by the US National Archives and the caption details show it was taken in Minsk (in Belarus) in mid-1941, that it was taken by a photographer for a propaganda film and identifies the soldier as Soviet from his cap, and that the officers in the picture are the same officers who appear in the film with Himmler.

Independent Jewish Workers Party

The party was also joined by figures from the Minsk faction of Poale Zion, such as Joseph Goldberg and Hayyah Kagan.

Isaac Mayer Dick

He married while still young and while living with his wife's parents in Nesvizh, Minsk, became acquainted with a Catholic priest that clandestinely taught him the German language.

Jacob ben Aaron

Jacob ben Aaron of Karlin (died at Karlin, government of Minsk, 1855) was a Russian rabbi and author.

John Klier

In 1991, he was one of the first foreign scholars to undertake in-depth research on the Jews in Soviet archives, and mined resources in the coming years in Kiev, Moscow, St Petersburg and Minsk.

Josef Vašíček

The team was traveling to Minsk to play their opening game of the season, with its coaching staff and prospects.

Kemerovo Institute of Food Science and Technology

At the end of the festival, "Cambridge" was invited to play in the television program "The First League" in Minsk.

Latvia in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest

The broadcaster has selected Šarlote Lēnmane to represent Latvia at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2010 in Minsk with the song "Viva La Dance".

Leila Ismailava

Leila was born in the family of Rizvan Islam oglu Ismayilov, the native city of Agdam (Azerbaijan), and Halina Ivanauna Ruzhantsova, the native city of Minsk.

Markus Glaser

He took a doctorate in philosophy and theology before being ordained in Minsk in 1907.

Mikhail Panov

On 2 July 1944, it met with 2nd Guards Tank Corps of the 3rd Belorussian Front outside Minsk, encircling the German forces inside the city.

Minsk State Linguistic University

Minsk State Linguistic University is a university in Minsk, Belarus.

Moshe Dluznowsky

Berta was born in Minsk, emigrated to the United States at an early age.

Muscovite–Lithuanian Wars

Glinski started retreating towards Moscow and attempted to capture Minsk, Slutsk, Mstsislaw, Krychaw.

National Bolshevik Party

In Belarus, a Pentecostal church in Minsk was vandalised in 2006, with the NBP emblem drawn on its walls.

Nikolai Patrushev

In 1974—1975 he attended the Higher Courses of the KGB with the USSR Council of Ministers in Minsk.

Nochum Shtif

Following the First Zionist Congress in Basel in 1897, he became an ardent Zionist and helped establish the radical student Zionist organization, Molodoy Izrail (Young Israel), and also participated in the 1902 Minsk Zionist Conference.

Nurhan Çınar

She played in the Turkey U18 girls' national team, and won the bronze medal at the 2011 EuroHockey U18 Girls' Championship III held in Smolevichi, Minsk, Belarus.

Passport system in the Soviet Union

The document declared that all citizens at least sixteen years old residing in cites, towns, and urban workers' settlements, as well as residing within one hundred kilometres of Moscow and Leningrad, within fifty kilometres of Kharkov, Kiev, Minsk, Rostov-on-Don and Vladivostok and within the hundred-kilometre zone along the Western border of the USSR were required to have a passport with propiska.

Pavel Pabst

On 19 April 2005, 120 years after its premiere, Pabst's 'Lost Concerto' was performed by Panagiotis Trochopoulos at a concert given in Minsk by the Belarusian State Academic Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Marius Stravinsky.

Polish I Corps in Russia

After the temporary breakdown of the Brest-Litovsk peace negotiations on February 10, the Corps also received a status of auxiliary unit from the Germans and joined the German offensive against the Bolsheviks on February 18, taking Minsk.

Regina Tyshkevich

An international conference "Discrete Mathematics, Algebra, and their Applications", sponsored by the Central European Initiative, was held in Minsk, Belarus, October 2009 in honor of her 80th birthday.

Riad Ahmadov

In that year he attended the Higher School of the Soviet Committee for State Security (also known as KGB) in Minsk and completed his training at the Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov KGB Academy in Moscow.

Ryan Garlock

Still, he was selected to play in the 2004 CHL Top Prospects Game and to play for Team Canada at the 2004 IIHF World U18 Championships, in Minsk.

Sedmoi Kontinent

As of July 2010, the company had 121 supermarkets and 4 hypermarkets in Moscow and the Moscow Oblast, 10 supermarkets in Kaliningrad Oblast and one hypermarket in each of the following locations: Ryazan, Chelyabinsk, Minsk (Belarus), Perm, Belgorod and Yaroslavl.

Sergei Levteev

Sergei Levteev graduated with honors from the Minsk Radioengineering Institute (presently, Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics), the faculty of automatics and computer engineering.

Sergey Yaromko

In his early career Yaromko played in Belarusian SSR league for Burevestnik Minsk, before leaving to play a few seasons in Central Asia and Poland.

Speak of the Dead

The band go back to the album Lingua Mortis themes and atmospheres in the suite that opens the album, called "Suite Lingua Mortis" that consists in 8 parts, using a full symphonic orchestra recorded in Minsk, Belarus.

Sweden in the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2010

On 1 October SVT revealed their entry for Minsk: 13 year old Josefine Ridell was selected to represent Sweden with the song "Allt jag vill ha" (Everything I want), written by Josefine, four-time Eurovision songwriter Thomas G:son, 2009 Azeri contestant Arash, Robert Uhlmann and Johan Bejerholm.

Syarhey Shtanyuk

Shtaniuk was born in Minsk and played in the Belarusian Premier League for Dynamo-93 and Dynamo Minsk before him and two team mates Pavel Michalevitsj and Aleh Poetsila decided to join Dutch amateur club Quick 1888 based in Nijmegen.

Vadim Garbuzov

2009 his partner Kathrin Menzinger was fit again, and in 2010 they reached another Final of an important Ten Dance Competition and were placed 6th at the European Cup in Minsk.

XIM, Inc.

It is headquartered in San Francisco and has 5 offshore development centers in Moscow, Obninsk, Ulyanovsk, Minsk and Gomel.


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