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2 unusual facts about Belarusian


Leon Tuhan-Baranowski

Leon Tuhan-Baranowski (22 June 1907, St Petersburg – 27 April 1954, Frankfurt) was a Polish-Belarusian chess player and composer.

Born in Sankt Petersburg into a Roman Catholic family with noble roots (Tartar and Belarusian descent).


Agrest

Evgeny Agrest (born 1966), Belarusian–Swedish chess grandmaster

Aida Nikolaychuk

The interruption of her performance by the two X-factor judges Seryoga, a Belarusian rapper, and Ihor Kondratiuk, has been questioned.

Angelica Agurbash

Her original song, Boys and Girls, a rock ballad themed after the Beslan school hostage crisis, was chosen by a jury after a pre-selection vote by Belarusian viewers.

Anton Suryapin

On 24 July, Suryapin still had been not been released from prison, leading BBC News and other sources to conclude that charges had been filed against him, as Belarusian law only allows ten days of detention without charge.

Barys Tasman

He predicted the success of Belarusian sport stars Max Mirnyi and Vladimir Voltchkov, the main sensation of Olimpics-2004 Yulia Nestsiarenka and others.

Belarusian Australian

One major group of Belarusian immigrants to the Australia are Belarusian Jews who migrated starting in the mid-19th century, facing discrimination in the Russian Empire, of which Belarus was part of at the time.

Belarusian Great Patriotic War Museum

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

Belarusian phonology

As an East Slavic language, Belarusian phonology is very similar to Russian phonology, and also rather similar to Ukrainian phonology.

Biebrza

While most of the population of the region speaks standard Polish, some people in the upper river basin (municipalities of Lipsk, Dąbrowa Białostocka and partly Sztabin) speak a local dialect of Belarusian (called by them prosty jazyk - "the simple language").

Collective Security Treaty Organization

The Belarusian President defended himself against this criticism by citing former Russian President Vladimir Putin's invitation of Askar Akayev to Russia after he was ousted as President of Kyrgyzstan during the 2005 Tulip Revolution.

Culture of Belarus

The first Olympic medal for the Soviet Union was won by Belarusian Mikhail Krivonosov at the 1956 Summer Olympic Games held in Melbourne, Australia.

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.

FC Polotsk

Polotsk is a Belarusian professional football lub based in Polotsk, Vitebsk Region, Belarus.

FC Stroitel Vitebsk

FC Kolos Ustye was founded in 1989 in Ustye, Vitebsk Voblast, and until 1991 it was playing in Belarusian SSR league.

Fiodar Fiodaraŭ

He was a son of village school teachers, but his father, Ivan Mikhailavich Fiodarau, later became a famous Belarusian writer.

Herr Mannelig

The ballad has recently been performed and recorded by the following notable artists: In Extremo, Garmarna, Hedningarna (in Swedish), Haggard (in Italian), Heimataerde (in German) and Litvintroll (in Belarusian).

Hryb

Myechyslaw Hryb (born 1938), Belarusian politician and President of Belarus

Igor Luchenok

Igor Luchenok (Belarusian: Iгар Лучанок, Ihar Luchanok, Russian: Игорь Лученок; born 6 August 1938 in Maryina Horka) is a Belarusian composer, People's Artist of Belarus (and People's Artist of the USSR), and chairman of the Belarusian Union of Composers.

Kałduny

Kalduny refers to dumplings in Belarusian and other Slavic cuisines.

Kamyanyets

The tower is often called Bielaja Vieža (alternative transliteration: Belaya Vezha), which means White Tower or White Fortress in Belarusian, because after its foundation it was tiled in white.

Litvin

Others, to the contrary, propose the idea of a unification with the modern Republic of Lithuania basing on common roots of the Belarusian and modern Lithuanian statehood in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

According to Belarusian historian Anatol Hrytskievich, lands of modern north-western Belarus constituted the major part of historical Lithuania and one should therefore not associate the medieval Grand Duchy of Lithuania exclusively with the modern Republic of Lithuania.

Łukasz

Derived family names: Łukaszewski, Łukaszewicz/Łukasiewicz/Lukashevich, Lukash (as transliterated from Ukrainian and Belarusian), Lukashenko(Ukr.)/Lukashenka(Bel.)

Maksim Bahdanovič

After finishing school in 1911 Bahdanovich went to Belarus to meet important figures of the Belarusian Renaissance: Vaclau Lastouski, Ivan Luckievich and Anton Luckievich.

Natallia

Natallia Tryfanava, Belarusian music teacher; won the World Sauna Championships three times

Nikolay Yakovlevich Kiselyov

Subsequently escaping to join up with Soviet partisans active in Nazi-occupied Belarus, he became chief of staff of the Pobeda ("Victory") detachment of the Mstitel ("Avenger") partisan battalion, which formed in the summer of 1942 in the forests just north of the Belarusian capital, Minsk.

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.

Piotra Sych

After the war he spent some time in England before moving to Munich, Germany in 1951 where he started publishing a magazine in Belarusian.

Pope John Paul II's relations with the Eastern Orthodox Church

Resistance from the Russian Orthodox Church and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, however, meant the visit never happened.

Robert Maaskant

In June 2013, Maaskant signed a one and a half-year contract with Belarusian side Dinamo Minsk.

Ryhor Baradulin

Ryhor Baradulin is a member of the Belarusian Writer's Union and the Belarusian PAN-center (and was President of the center during 1990-1999), a member of the BPF Party.

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.

Shvedova

Anastasiya Shvedova (born 1979), Belarusian, formerly Russian, pole vaulter

Soviet–Lithuanian Peace Treaty

Modern Belarusian historiography regards the treaty, especially the cession of ethnic Belarusian territories to Lithuania (primarily Hrodna, Shchuchyn, Lida, Ashmyany, Smarhon, Pastavy, Braslaw, but also the contemporary Vilnius Region with Vilna) as a unilateral act by the Soviet authorities that disregarded the national interests of the Belarusian people, aimed at immediate military and political gains.

Stepanovich

Stepanóvich (Russian, Belarusian) or Stepanovych (Ukrainian) is an East Slavic-language surname.

Uladzimir Karyzna

He worked as a teacher of the Belarusian and Russian language and literature in the Opovsk middle school of the Braslaw raion of the Vitsebsk Voblast.

Uladzimir Nyaklyayew

In 2009 in the section “Belarusian books overview” one book of Nyaklyayew’s poems and prose works was edited with the preface written by Ryhor Baradulin.

Vassili Nesterenko

Since 1990, he had been the director of the Belarusian Independent Institute of "Belrad", created in 1989 with the help of Andrei Sakharov, Ales Adamovich and Anatoly Karpov.

Vera Rich

Ceslaus Sipovich, she started also translating Belarusian poetry.

Viacorka

Vincuk Viačorka (born 1961), Belarusian scientist, politician and activist

Viva Belarus!

Based on a true story of Franak Viacorka, activist of the Belarusian opposition, co-author of the screenplay for the film.

Vladimir Mulyavin

After his discharge from the army returned to the Belarusian State Philharmony and in 1968, he created the folk pop and rock group "Liavony".

Vyacheslav Kuznetsov

Vyacheslav Nikolayevich Kuznetsov (born 1947), Belarusian politician who served as Acting Chairman of the Supreme Soviet in 1994

Zachar Šybieka

He is a member of International Association for Belarusian Studies (IAB) and of the Belarusian Historical Society.


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