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2021 In Belarus
Events in the year 2021 in Belarus. Incumbents * President: Alexander Lukashenko * Prime Minister: Roman Golovchenko Events Ongoing — COVID-19 pandemic in Belarus *11 March - Belarus reports their first case of the Lineage B.1.1.7 of SARS-CoV-2, which originated in the United Kingdom. *23 May - Ryanair Flight 4978 Scheduled events *11 to 12 February - Allbelarusian People's Assembly *21 May to 6 June – Scheduled date for the 2021 IIHF World Championship, not to be co-hosted any more by Minsk, Belarus and Riga, Latvia. *7 to 13 June – Scheduled date for the 2021 World Modern Pentathlon Championships, to be moved from Minsk. Deaths *12 January – Philaret, Orthodox prelate (born 1935). *June – Raïssa Koublitskaïa, agricultural worker and politician (b. 1928). References {{Year in Europe, 2021 2020s in Belarus Years of the 21st century in Belarus Belarus Belarus Belarus,, , ; alternatively and formerly known as Byelorussia (from Russian ). off ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belarus
Belarus,, , ; alternatively and formerly known as Byelorussia (from Russian ). officially the Republic of Belarus,; rus, Республика Беларусь, Respublika 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 and with a population of 9.4 million, Belarus is the List of European countries by area, 13th-largest and the List of European countries by population, 20th-most populous country in Europe. The country has a hemiboreal climate and is administratively divided into Regions of Belarus, seven regions. Minsk is the capital and List of cities and largest towns in Belarus, largest city. Until 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 t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riga
Riga (; lv, Rīga , liv, Rīgõ) is the capital and largest city of Latvia and is home to 605,802 inhabitants which is a third of Latvia's population. The city lies on the Gulf of Riga at the mouth of the Daugava river where it meets the Baltic Sea. Riga's territory covers and lies above sea level, on a flat and sandy plain. Riga was founded in 1201 and is a former Hanseatic League member. Riga's historical centre is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, noted for its Art Nouveau/Jugendstil architecture and 19th century wooden architecture. Riga was the European Capital of Culture in 2014, along with Umeå in Sweden. Riga hosted the 2006 NATO Summit, the Eurovision Song Contest 2003, the 2006 IIHF Men's World Ice Hockey Championships, 2013 World Women's Curling Championship and the 2021 IIHF World Championship. It is home to the European Union's office of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC). In 2017, it was named the European Region of Gastronomy. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Years Of The 21st Century In Belarus
A year or annus is the orbital period of a planetary body, for example, the Earth, moving in Earth's orbit, its orbit around the Sun. Due to the Earth's axial tilt, the course of a year sees the passing of the seasons, marked by change in weather, the hours of daylight, and, consequently, vegetation and soil fertility. In temperate and subpolar climate, subpolar regions around the planet, four seasons are generally recognized: spring (season), spring, summer, autumn and winter. In tropics, tropical and subtropics, subtropical regions, several geographical sectors do not present defined seasons; but in the tropics#Seasons and climate, seasonal tropics, the annual wet season, wet and dry seasons are recognized and tracked. A calendar year is an approximation of the number of days of the Earth's orbital period, as counted in a given calendar. The Gregorian calendar, or modern calendar, presents its calendar year to be either a common year of 365 days or a leap year of 366 days, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020s In Belarus
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Origin Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a phoneme, so the derived Greek letter sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter ''samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ) "to hiss". The original name of the letter "sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the complica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 In Belarus
Events in the year 2021 in Belarus. Incumbents * President: Alexander Lukashenko * Prime Minister: Roman Golovchenko Events Ongoing — COVID-19 pandemic in Belarus *11 March - Belarus reports their first case of the Lineage B.1.1.7 of SARS-CoV-2, which originated in the United Kingdom. *23 May - Ryanair Flight 4978 Scheduled events *11 to 12 February - Allbelarusian People's Assembly *21 May to 6 June – Scheduled date for the 2021 IIHF World Championship, not to be co-hosted any more by Minsk, Belarus and Riga, Latvia. *7 to 13 June – Scheduled date for the 2021 World Modern Pentathlon Championships, to be moved from Minsk. Deaths *12 January – Philaret, Orthodox prelate (born 1935). *June – Raïssa Koublitskaïa, agricultural worker and politician (b. 1928). References {{Year in Europe, 2021 2020s in Belarus Years of the 21st century in Belarus Belarus Belarus Belarus,, , ; alternatively and formerly known as Byelorussia (from Russian ). off ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1928 In The Soviet Union
The following lists events that happened during 1928 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Incumbents * General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union – Joseph Stalin * Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Congress of Soviets – Mikhail Kalinin * Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union – Alexei Rykov Events * October 1 – The first five-year plan is implemented. May * 18 May – The Shakhty Trial begins. Births * 18 January – Alexander Gomelsky, basketball coach * 10 February – Alma Adamkienė, Lithuanian philologist, philanthropist and First Lady of Lithuania * 5 March – Yelizaveta Dementyeva, sprint canoeist * 7 March – Edgar Elbakyan, Armenian actor (d. 1988) * 10 April – Raïssa Koublitskaïa, Belarusian agricultural worker and politician (d. 2021) * 25 April – Yury Yakovlev, actor * 14 May – Algirdas Šocikas, Lithuanian Olympic heavyweight boxer (d. 2012) * 28 May – Ivan Kizimov, Olympi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raïssa Koublitskaïa
Raïssa Vladimirovna Koublitskaïa ( be, Раіса Уладзіміраўна Кубліцкая; 10 April 1928 – June 2021) was a Soviet Belarusian agricultural worker and politician who was the head of the cultivation of flax at the Kalinin collective farm from 1948 to her retirement in 1983. She served during the Great Patriotic War and was an elected deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic between 1967 and 1971. Koublitskaïa was twice the recipient of the Order of Lenin and also received the Medal "For the Capture of Königsberg", the Order of the Patriotic War, Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd class and the Hero of Socialist Labour. Biography On 10 April 1928, Koublitskaïa was born in the village of Kałyški, Liozna District, Minsk Region, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, Byelorussian SSR (today in Belarus). She was a graduate of the Kolyshansk Secondary School in the seventh grade in 1941. In October 1943, at the age of 15, Koub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philaret (Vakhromeyev)
Metropolitan Bishop, Metropolitan Philaret (russian: Митрополит Филарет, be, Мітрапаліт Філарэт, born Kirill Varfolomeyevich Vakhromeev, russian: Кирилл Варфоломеевич Вахромеев; 21 March 1935 in Moscow – 12 January 2021 in Minsk) was the emeritus Metropolitan of Minsk and Slutsk, the Patriarchal Exarch of All Belarus and the leader of the Belarusian Orthodox Church that is an exarchate, autonomous part of the Russian Orthodox Church. He resigned on 25 December 2013, and was succeeded by Pavel (Ponomaryov), Metropolitan Pavel . Biography Born in 1935 in Moscow, RSFSR, Kirill attended the Moscow Theological Academy in 1954 after spending a year in the seminary. During the course of his studies, he chose the name Filaret when he received the Tonsure#Monastic tonsure, monastic tonsure in 1959. Two years later, he graduated from the academy with a doctorate in theology. After serving in Minsk, Kaliningrad and Moscow, Fila ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 World Modern Pentathlon Championships ...
The 2021 World Modern Pentathlon Championships was held from 8 to 14 June 2021 in Cairo, Egypt. Originally championships were meant to be held in Minsk, Belarus, but due instability in Belarus championships been moved to Egypt. Medal table Medal summary Men Women Mixed References {{World championships in 2021 World Modern Pentathlon Championships World Championships 2021 in Egyptian sport International sports competitions hosted by Egypt Sports competitions in Cairo World Modern Pentathlon Championships The UIPM Senior World Championships is an annual global international competition in modern pentathlon. It was first held in 1949 under the organization of the International Modern Pentathlon Union (UIPM). Editions Note: The years in which champ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minsk
Minsk ( be, Мінск ; russian: Минск) is the capital and the largest city of Belarus, located on the Svislach and the now subterranean Niamiha rivers. As the capital, Minsk has a special administrative status in Belarus and is the administrative centre of Minsk Region (voblast) and Minsk District (raion). As of January 2021, its population was 2 million, making Minsk the 11th most populous city in Europe. Minsk is one of the administrative capitals of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU). First documented in 1067, Minsk became the capital of the Principality of Minsk before being annexed by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 1242. It received town privileges in 1499. From 1569, it was the capital of the Minsk Voivodeship, an administrative division of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. It was part of a region annexed by the Russian Empire in 1793, as a consequence of the Second Partition of Poland. From 1919 to 1991, aft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
President Of Belarus
The president of the Republic of Belarus ( be, Прэзідэнт Рэспублікі Беларусь; russian: Президент Республики Беларусь) is the head of state and head of government of Belarus. The office was created in 1994 with the passing of the Constitution of Belarus by the Supreme Soviet. This replaced the office of Chairman of the Supreme Soviet as the head of state. The tasks of the president include executing foreign and domestic policy, defending the rights and general welfare of citizens and residents, and upholding the Constitution. The president is mandated by the Constitution to serve as a leader in the social affairs of the country and to act as its main representative abroad. The duties, responsibilities and other transitional clauses dealing with the presidency are listed in Chapter Three, Articles 79 through 89, of the Constitution. The term for the president is five years, but due to a 1996 referendum, the election that was su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
