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Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east and northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Covering an area of 207,600 square kilometres (80,200 sq mi) and with a population of 9.2 million, Belarus is the 13th-largest and the 20th-most populous country in Europe. The country has a hemiboreal climate and is administratively divided into six regions. Minsk is the capital and largest city; it is administered separately as a city with special status. Between the medieval period and the 20th century, different states at various times controlled the lands of modern-day Belarus, including Kievan Rus', the Principality of Polotsk, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, and the Russian Empire. In the aftermath of the Russian Revolution in 1917, different states arose competing for legitimacy amid the Civil War, ultimately ending in the rise of the Byelorussian SSR, which became a founding constituent republic of the Soviet Union in 1922. After the Polish-Soviet War, Belarus lost almost half of its territory to Poland. Much of the borders of Belarus took their modern shape in 1939, when some lands of the Second Polish Republic... ()

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Olga Dihovichnaya(43)

Actress | Minsk (BY)

Olga Yuryevna Dykhovichnaya, born Golyak (Russian: О́льга Ю́рьевна Дыхови́чная; born 4 September 1980) is a Belarusian and Russian actress, producer and director.

Andrei Arlovski(45)

Actor | Bobruysk, Belorusskaya SSR, USSR [now Babruysk, Belarus]

Professional mixed martial artist competing in the UFC Heavyweight division.

Dmitri Iosifov(58)

Actor | Minsk / Мінск (BY)

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Aliaksiej Jaravienka(36)

Actor | Minsk (BY)

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Known for: Love in Chains

Igor Sigov(55)

Actor | Polotsk, Belorussian SSR (SU)

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Darya Zhuk(43)

Crew | Minsk, USSR (Belarus)

Belarus-born award-winning film director Darya Zhuk has been obsessing over filmmaking long enough to see her short films selected at SXSW, Tarkovsky, Oaxaca, Atlanta, Palm Springs, Koroche, Santa Fe Independent film festivals, to name a few. She is a graduate of Columbia University MFA program in Directing. Darya lives and creates between Minsk and Brooklyn. In 2015, she won the best female writer/director award from New York Women in Film and Television for her short film The Real American. Her feature debut Crystal Swan screened in the East of the West Competition at Karlovy Vary IFF 2018 and won the Grand Prix at the Odesa International Film Festival.

Vitaly Shlyappo(48)

Crew | Vitebsk, USSR [now Belarus]

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Vladimir Gostyukhin(78)

Actor | Sverdlovsk, Russian SFSR, USSR [now Yekaterinburg, Russia]

Vladimir Vasilyevich Gostyukhin (Russian: Владимир Васильевич Гостюхин, Belarusian: Уладзі́мір Васі́льевіч Гасцю́хін, born 10 March 1946) is a Soviet and Russian, Belarusian film and stage actor.

Yuliya Vysotskaya(50)

Actress | Novocherkassk, Rostovskaya, oblast, RSFSR (SU)

Julia Aleksandrovna Vysotskaya (Russian: Юлия Александровна Высоцкая; born 16 August 1973) is a Russian actress and television presenter.

Dimitry Elyashkevich(49)

Crew | Minsk / Мінск (BY)

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Anatoliy Kotenyov(65)

Actor | Sukhumi, USSR [now Georgia]

Anatoliy Vladimirovich Kotenyov (Russian: Анато́лий Влади́мирович Котенёв; born 1958) is a Russian/Belarusian actor. He began his screen career in 1985 and appeared in more than 120 Soviet, Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian movies and TV series. Probably the most important movie, he has played is As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me.

Andrey Kureychik(44)

Crew | Minsk, BSSR, USSR [now Belarus]

Andrey Kureychik was born on January 14, 1980 in Minsk, BSSR, USSR. He is a writer and director, known for Garash (2015), Party-Zan Film (2016) and Vyshe Neba (2013).

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Irina Tsyvina(† 55)

Actress | Minsk, Belarussian SSR (SU)

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Known for: Holy Moly!, Night Fun

Ivan Matskevich(† 70)

Actor | Grabovo, Grodno region, Belorussian SSR (SU)

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Nikolay Eryomenko(† 77)

Actor | Novosibirsk, RSFSR (SU)

Soviet and Belarusian film and theater actor. People's Artist of the USSR (1989). After graduating from a vocational school, he worked as a turner. In the Red Army since 1941. He added three years to get to the front at the age of 15. He graduated from junior lieutenant courses in Novosibirsk (1942). Member of World War II. The cavalryman of the 11th Cavalry Corps (reserve of the headquarters of the corps) was captured in July 1942 near Vyazma, near the village of Komary. He managed to survive in a Nazi concentration camp, escaped from captivity. After returning home, he was sent to a filtration camp in Vyshny Volochek; as a result of the verification, he was reinstated in the rank. After the war, he came to Vitebsk to his mother’s homeland, where she returned after a false notification of her son’s death. He took part in amateur performances, he was noticed and invited to the theater studio at the Belarusian Drama Theater named after Jan Kolas. There he met his wife, actress Galina Orlova. At the end of the studio in 1948 he worked as an actor in the theater (1948-1959). Since 1959 - actor of the Belarusian Drama Theater named after Jan Kupala (Minsk). He began acting in films in 1960. Member of the CPSU since 1964. He had two heart attacks. He died on June 30, 2000 as a result of a second heart attack. He was buried in Minsk at the Eastern cemetery.

Nikita Lavretski(30)

Crew | Minsk (BY)

Nikita Lavretski was born in 1994 in Minsk. In 2015, his debut feature film “Belarusian Psycho” became the best film of the National Competition of the Minsk International Film Festival “Listapad”. Since 2018, he has been studying film science at the graduate school of the Belarusian State Academy of Arts.

Olga Fadeyeva(45)

Actress | Minsk / Мінск (BY)

Olga Efimovna Fadeeva (Belarusian: Вольга Яфімаўна Фадзеева) is a Belarusian and Russian actress of theater and cinema. She is best known for her role as nurse Irina in the TV series Soldiers.

Known for: The Invincible

Rostislav Yankovsky(† 86)

Actor | Odessa, USSR [now Ukraine)

Rostislav Ivanovich Yankovsky (Belarusian: Расціслаў Іванавіч Янкоўскі; Ukrainian: Ростислав Іванович Янковський; Russian: Ростислав Иванович Янковский; 5 February 1930 – 26 June 2016) was a Belarusian actor. He was born in Odesa on 5 February 1930, studied in Leninabad and debuted in the Tajik theatre in 1951. Since 1957, he worked in the Minsk Drama Theatre. Yankovsky was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1978. He is the older brother of the more famous Oleg Yankovsky. His son Igor Yankovsky is also an actor. In 1994 he became the Chairman of the Minsk International Film Festival Listapad. He died in Minsk on 26 June 2016 in Minsk, Belarus, aged 86.

Andrey Sviridov(49)

Actor | Mahilioŭ (BY)

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Mikhail Ptashuk(† 59)

Crew | Fyedzyuki (BY)

Mikhail Nikolaevich Ptashuk (Russian: Михаил Николаевич Пташу́к, Belarusian: Міхаі́л Мікала́евіч Пташу́к); January 28, 1943 – April 26, 2002 was a Soviet and Belarusian film director and screenwriter.

Leonid Kuprido(56)

Crew | Minsk, BSSR, USSR, [now Belarus]

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Irina Brazgovka(69)

Actress | Кишинёв, СССР (Молдавия)

Irina Vladimirovna Brazgovka (Russian: Ирина Владимировна Бразговка; born November 12, 1954, Minsk) is a Soviet and Russian actress of theater and cinema.

Stefaniya Stanyuta(† 95)

Actress | Minsk, Russian Empire [now Belarus]

Stefanija Michajłaŭna Staniuta (Belarusian: Стэфанія Міхайлаўна Станюта; 30 April 1905 – 6 November 2000) was a Belarus–Soviet theater and movie actress. She was awarded as the 1988 People's Artist of the USSR. Stefanija was born on April 30, 1905, in Minsk in the family of the famous Belarusian artist Michaś Staniuta. As a child, she happened to attend the official meeting of Tsar Nicholas II with the Belarusian people. She studied at the parish school, then at the Minsk Women's Government Gymnasium. In 1926 she graduated from the Belarusan Drama Studio under the Moscow Art Theater (class of Valentin Smyshliayev and Sofia Giatsyntova). Since 1932 and until the end of her life Stefanija Staniuta worked at the Janka Kupala National Academic Theatre in Minsk. In total she played about 200 roles, including in movies from 1958 onward.

 

Svetlana Penkina(† 65)

Actress | Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (SU)

Svetlana Alexandrovna Mulyavina-Penkina (Russian: Светлана Александровна Мулявина-Пенкина; Belarusian: Святлана Аляксандраўна Пенкіна; 6 June 1951 – October 2016) was a Soviet actress.

Boris Laskin(† 69)

Crew | Orsha, Vitebsk region (RU)

Boris S. Laskin (July 22, 1914, Orsha — August 22, 1983, Moscow) — Soviet screenwriter, poet, novelist, playwright and author of humorous stories and interludes.

Andrey Dushechkin(64)

Actor | Minsk, BSSR, USSR, [now Belarus]

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Gennadi Shkuratov(† 57)

Actor | Minsk, Byelorussian SSR (SU)

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Vyacheslav Nikiforov(81)

Crew | Vesyoloe, Krasnodarski kray, RSFSR (SU)

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Andrey Dudarenko(† 92)

Actor | Savvushka (RU)

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Jacques Stany(† 86)

Actor | Minsk (BY)

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