The famous Belarusian writer who often described

historic events in the form of detective stories. His novels are "King

Stahh's Wild Hunting", "Impossible to Forget" , "Olshansky Black Castle" and some others.

• V. Korotkevich

• V.Bykov

• M. Bagdanovich

• Y. Kolas

In Vilno ... founded

the first printing-house and published The Small Travelling Book in 1522 and later The Apostle.

• Francisk Skaryna

• Efrosinya Polotskaya

• Kirill Turovsky

... did a lot of charitable work, opened schools and hospital, taught other people, wrote and rewrote books by hand.

• Efrosinia Polotskaya

• Dr. Francisak Skaryna

• Kirill Turovsky

His best works are “New Land”, “Na Rostanyakh”, “Simon the Musician” where he showed the best features of the Belarusian national character.

• Yanka Kupala

• Yakub Kolas

• Maxim Bogdanovich

..... translated works of European classics (92 works of 36 authors from Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, French and German) into Belarusian.

• Kupala

• Yakub Kolas

• Maxim Bagdanovich

А musician, composer, collector of Belarusian folklore. He founded a popular Belarusian band famous for their beautiful songs, arrangements, great instrumentalists and vocalists.

• E. Khanok

• I. Luchenok

• V. Mulyavin

Belarusian physicist and academic, the inventor of the heterotransistor and the winner of 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics.

• Zhores Alferov

• Pavel Sukhoi

• Boris Kit

The greatest figure in Belarusian painting of the 19th cen­tury was a portrait and still life painter.

• Marc Chagall

• Ivan Khrutsky

• Mikhail Savitsky

The National Academic Theatre of Belarus was named in his honour.

• Yanka Kupala

• Yakub Kolas

• Maxim Bogdanovich

His works are in a wide range of artistic formats, including painting, drawings, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramics, tapestries and fine art prints. He created his own style in painting.

• Marc Chagall

• Ivan Khrutsky

• Mikhail Savitsky