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Mayor Of Minsk
The Mayor of Minsk,; russian: Глава Минска, translit=Glava Minska officially the Chairman of the Minsk City Executive Committee; russian: Председател Минского городского исполнительного комитета, translit=Predsedatel Minskogo gorodskogo ispolnitelnogo komiteta, link=no is the chief executive of the city of Minsk, the capital of Belarus. The mayor of Minsk is appointed by the President of Belarus, and has existed in its current form since the Russian Revolution of 1917 established the Minsk Urban Executive Committee in the city. Previously, Minsk was self-governing from the granting of Magdeburg rights in 1496 until its integration into the Russian Empire. List of mayors (since 1917) 1917–1941 * Boris Pozern (1917) * Isidor Lyubimov (1917) * Kārlis Landers (1917) * (1918–1919) * Kazimierz Cichowski (1919) * (1920–1921) * (1922–1923) * (1924) * (1924) * (1924–1929) * (1929–1930) * (1931 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Independence Avenue (Minsk)
Independence Avenue ( be, праспект Незалежнасці, russian: проспект Независимости) (''Praspiekt Niezaliežnasci'') is the main street of Minsk, the capital of Belarus. Independence Avenue crosses Minsk radially from its centre towards the North-East. Length of the avenue is about . Notable landmarks Key landmarks located from West to East: * Independence Square ** The House of Government **Minsk City Hall ** Church of Saints Simon and Helena **Belarusian State University * KGB Headquarters * October Square ** Palace of the Republic ** Museum of the Great Patriotic War ** Belarus State Circus ** Central House of Officers **Trade Unions Palace of Culture * Aleksander Garden Square * Yanka Kupala Park * Gorky Park * Victory Square * Church of Holy Trinity *Yakub Kolas Square * Kalinin Square *Central Botanical Garden of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus * Čaliuskincaŭ Park *National Library of Belarus. World Heritage status Ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kārlis Landers
Kārlis Landers (Russian: Карл Иванович Ландер, ''Karl Ivanovich Landers''; 5 April 1883, Courland province – 29 July 1937, Moscow) was a Latvian Bolshevik revolutionary, Soviet statesman, official of the Soviet state security of the Cheka and OGPU, as well as an historian and journalist. Early life and revolutionary career Landers was born in the Vērgale Parish in a peasant family and was raised by his grandparents after the death of his parents at a young age. After graduating from secondary school, he started to work as a teacher. Ever since he was a teenager, Landers was sympathetic towards socialism and was involved in the Tolstoyan movement, however, after getting arrested and spending jail time with social democrats, he was disillusioned with Christian socialism and became a committed Marxist. In 1905, Landers joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party and was involved in revolutionary activities in Latvia, Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mayors Of Minsk
In many countries, a mayor is the highest-ranking official in a municipal government such as that of a city or a town. Worldwide, there is a wide variance in local laws and customs regarding the powers and responsibilities of a mayor as well as the means by which a mayor is elected or otherwise mandated. Depending on the system chosen, a mayor may be the chief executive officer of the municipal government, may simply chair a multi-member governing body with little or no independent power, or may play a solely ceremonial role. A mayor's duties and responsibilities may be to appoint and oversee municipal managers and employees, provide basic governmental services to constituents, and execute the laws and ordinances passed by a municipal governing body (or mandated by a state, territorial or national governing body). Options for selection of a mayor include direct election by the public, or selection by an elected governing council or board. The term ''mayor'' shares a linguistic or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Pavlov (politician)
Mikhail Yakovlevich Pavlov; be, Міхаі́л Я́каўлевіч Па́ўлаў, translit=Mikhail Yakaulievich Paulau (1 September 1952 – 6 June 2010) was a Belarusian politician who was mayor of Minsk from 2000 to 2010. Biography He graduated from a secondary school in Mogilev, Machine-Building Institute and the Academy of National Economy by the Government of Russian Federation. He has specialized as an engineer-technician for welding equipment and technologies and manager of higher qualification. He started working as an electric welder in Valozhyn region. After serving in the army, for ten years he headed several big machine-building enterprises in the city of Baranovichi Baranavichy ( ; be, Бара́навічы, Łacinka: , ; russian: Бара́новичи; yi, באַראַנאָוויטש; pl, Baranowicze) is a city in the Brest Region of western Belarus, with a population (as of 2019) of 179,000. It is not ... as a general manager and he was elected ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Yermoshin
Vladimir Vasilyevich Yermoshin ( be, Уладзі́мір Васі́левіч Ярмо́шын, tr. ''Uladzimir Vasilevich Yarmoshyn''; russian: Влади́мир Васи́льевич Ермо́шин; born 26 October 1942) is a politician from Belarus. Prime Minister He served as was Prime Minister of Belarus from 18 February 2000 to 1 October 2001. Yermoshin exercised his Prime Ministerial office under the Presidency of Alexander Lukashenko. Mayor of Minsk Yermoshin previously served as Mayor of Minsk, capital of Belarus, from 1995 to 2000. See also * Politics of Belarus The politics of Belarus takes place in a framework of a presidential republic with a bicameral parliament. The President of Belarus is the head of state. Executive power is nominally exercised by the government, at its top sits a ceremo ... References 1942 births Living people People from Pronsky District Prime Ministers of Belarus {{Belarus-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Gerasimenko
Alexander Mikhailovich Gerasimenko; russian: Александр Михайлович Герасименко (15 January 1946 – 2 August 2017) was a Belarusian politician and diplomat. He served as the mayor of Minsk, the nation's capital, from 1991 until 1995. (The office of mayor is also known as the Chairman of the Minsk City Executive Committee). Gerasimenko was later appointed chairman of the Council of the Elders. Additionally, Gerasimenko served as the Ambassador of Belarus to Bulgaria and Greece (1995–2000), as well as Latvia. On 4 September 1994 Gerasimenko held a joint opening ceremony for the Minsk International Educational Centre (IBB Minsk) together with Herbert Schnoor, the State-Minister of Northern Rhine-Westphalia. Gerasimenko joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs In many countries, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is the government department responsible for the state's diplomacy, bilateral, and multilateral relations affairs as well as for providin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Marynich
Mikhail Afanasievich Marynich ( be, Міхаіл Апана́савіч Марыніч; russian: Михаил Афанасьевич Маринич, 13 January 1940 — 17 October 2014) was a Belarusian diplomat, public figure, and opposition leader from Homiel Voblast. He was a Minsk city mayor, minister of foreign economic affairs and ambassador. He was also the inspirational leader for Zubr, a youth resistance movement. In 2001 Marynich resigned from his position of Belarus Ambassador to Latvia, made a public statement against the Belarus political regime and ran for the Presidency. He was among the first public officials in Belarus to resign and start a political fight against Alexander Lukashenko. Such a step was seen as a large risk given that a number of Lukashenko's opponents disappeared or were killed in the late 1990s. After the election Marynich established the Business Initiative NGO and became one of the opposition leaders who had immense support and respect from his f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Kovalev (politician)
Mikhail Vasilyevich Kovalev (; 16 August 1925 – 5 July 2007) was the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic from 10 January 1986 to 7 April 1990. He led the BSSR when the Chernobyl disaster happened in neighboring Ukraine. He was preceded by Vladimir Brovikov Vladimir Ignatevich Brovikov ( Belarusian: Уладзімір Ігнатавіч Бровікаў) (12 May 1931 – 10 February 1992) was the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic from 8 July 1983 to 10 Jan ... and succeeded by Vyacheslav Kebich, who then served as the first Prime Minister of independent Belarus. He was born on 16 August 1925 in Dubrovytsia, Klimovichi district, Mogilev. Kovalev fought during World War II with the Red Army. In 1954, he graduated from the Leningrad Mining Institute. He participated in the Great Patriotic War, was wounded twice. After 1948 he worked at the Minsk Engine Plant. From 1954 - 1962 he was ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vacłaŭ Ivanoŭski
Vacłaŭ Łieanardavič Ivanoŭski (, also known as Vatslaw Ivanowski or Wacław Iwanowski; 25 May 1880 – 7 December 1943) was a Belarusian political and public figure of the first half of the 20th century. Early years Ivanoŭski was born into an upper middle class family on the Liabiodka estate in the Vilnius Governorate of the Russian Empire (now within the village of Halavičpolie, in Belarus' Grodno Region). In 1898 he graduated from the 5th Warsaw Gymnasium and entered the St. Petersburg Institute of Technology in the Department of Chemistry, which he finished in 1904. He went on to study abroad in Denmark and Germany. In 1909 he received a doctorate from the Technical University of Munich. On return to the Russian Empire in 1910, he embarked upon a career in the area of microbiology and worked at the Ministry of Agriculture in St. Petersburg and the Vilnius Society of Agriculture. Involvement in the Belarusian independence movement Apart from his career as a sc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazimierz Cichowski
Kazimierz Cichowski (Russian: ''Казимир Генрихович Циховский'') (7 December 1887 – 26 October 1937) was a Polish-Soviet communist activist and politician, Bolshevik revolutionary and nobleman. Along with Vincas Mickevičius-Kapsukas, he played an important role in establishing the Soviet regime in Lithuania and the Lithuanian–Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic. Biography Cichowski was born in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski. He joined the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania in 1907. In 1907–1909 he studied at the University of Liège, and in 1910–1913 at Sorbonne University. During the Russian Revolution, he joined the Bolshevik party and from November 1917 he was the deputy Commissar for Polish affairs of the Central Executive Committee of the Lithuanian–Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (LitBel), where he soon advanced to more prominent positions (Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Congress of Sov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isidor Lyubimov
Isidor Yevstigneyevich Lyubimov (russian: Исидор Евстигнеевич Любимов; 13 May 1882 – 27 November 1937) was a Russian revolutionary and Soviet politician. Lyubimov was Mikhail Frunze's closest associate during the Russian revolution and civil war. Biography Early revolutionary career Lyubimov was born into a peasant family. After graduating from school he worked as a tailor and later as a teacher. Lyubimov joined the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party in 1902. At the end of 1905 he was removed from teaching by the Zemstvo administration for unreliability. He went underground and devoted himself entirely to party work. From 1906 to 1907 he worked as a professional revolutionary in Ivanovo-Voznesensk and was the responsible leader of the elections to the 2nd and 3rd State Dumas in the Vladimir Province. In 1908 he moved to Moscow and worked as a carpenter. From October 1908 to November 1909 he was a carpenter in the ... [...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] |
