Frequent persons on Belarus's street signs
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23 names / 442 streets
Vladimir Lenin
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Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician, and political theorist who was the founder and first leader of the Russian Soviet Federative...
Yuri Gagarin
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Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who, aboard the first successful crewed spaceflight, became the first human to journey into outer space. Travelling on Vostok 1, Gagarin...
Alexander Pushkin
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Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era. He is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet, as well as the founder of modern Russian...
Karl Marx
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Karl Marx was a German-born philosopher, economist, political theorist, historian, sociologist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. His best-known works are the 1848 pamphlet The Communist...
Mikhail Kalinin
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Mikhail Ivanovich Kalinin was a Soviet politician and Russian Old Bolshevik revolutionary. He served as head of state of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and later of the Soviet Union...
Yakub Kolas
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Yakub Kolas, real name Kanstantsin Mikhailovich Mitskievich was a Belarusian writer, dramatist, poet and translator. People's Poet of the Byelorussian SSR (1926), member (1928) and vice-president of...
Yanka Kupala
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Yanka Kupala, was the pen name of Ivan Daminikavich Lutsevich, a Belarusian poet and writer.
Maxim Gorky
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Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, popularly known as Maxim Gorky, was a Russian and Soviet writer and socialism proponent. He was nominated five times for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Before his success...
Maksim Bahdanovič
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Maksim Adamavich Bahdanovich was a Belarusian poet, journalist, translator, literary critic and historian of literature. He is considered one of the founders of the modern Belarusian literature.
Francysk Skaryna
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Francysk Skaryna was a Belarusian humanist, physician, and translator. He is known to be one of the first book printers in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and in all of Eastern Europe, laying the...
Maksim Tank
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Maksim Tank was a Belarusian Soviet poet, journalist and translator.
Oleg Koshevoy
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Oleg Vasilyevich Koshevoy was a Soviet partisan and one of the founders of the clandestine organization Young Guard, which fought the Nazi forces in Krasnodon during World War II between 1941 and...
Vera Kharuzhaya
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Vera Kharuzhaya was a Belarusian Communist writer, school teacher and activist from the Soviet Union deployed to Poland for sabotage and espionage operation during the interbellum. She was executed...
Petrus Brovka
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Pyotr Ustinovich Brovka was a Soviet Belarusian poet, more commonly recognized by his literary pseudonym Petrus Brovka.
Rosa Luxemburg
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Rosa Luxemburg was a Polish and naturalised-German revolutionary socialist, orthodox Marxist, and anti-War activist during the First World War. She became a key figure of the revolutionary socialist...
Karl Liebknecht
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Karl Paul August Friedrich Liebknecht was a German socialist and anti-militarist. A member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) beginning in 1900, he was one of its deputies in the...
Marat Kazey
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Marat Ivanovich Kazey was a Soviet partisan, scout, pioneer-hero, and posthumous Hero of the Soviet Union.
Kuzma Chorny
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Mikałaj Karłavič Ramanoŭski, also known by the pseudonym Kuźma Čorny was a Belarusian poet, writer, dramatist, and opinion journalist. He studied at the pedagogue school in Niaśviž from 1916 until...
Napoleon Orda
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Napoleon Mateusz Tadeusz Orda was a Polish-Lithuanian musician, pianist, composer, and artist, best known for numerous sketches of historical sites of the former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Vintsent Dunin-Martsinkyevich
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Vintsent Dunin-Marcinkievič was a Polish-Belarusian writer, poet, dramatist and social activist and is considered one of the founders of the modern Belarusian literary tradition and national school...
Ivan Turgenev
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Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was a Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, translator and popularizer of Russian literature in the West.
Рыгор Раманавіч Шырма
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Рыго́р Рама́навіч Шы́рма — беларускі харавы дырыжор, кампазітар
, педагог, фалькларыст, грамадскі дзеяч, публіцыст, літаратуразнавец.
Kandrat Krapiva
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Kandrat Krapiva was a Soviet and Belarusian writer, playwright, social activist, and literary critic. He was the winner of two Stalin Prizes in 1941 and 1951 and winner of the USSR State Prize in...