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Order Of Francysk Skaryna
The Order of Francysk Skaryna ( be, О́рдэн Францы́ска Скары́ны) is an award of Belarus. It is named after Francysk Skaryna, one of the first book printers in Cyrillic script. Order of Francysk Skaryna is a single level award that was instituted on 13 April 1995; it is awarded for significant contributions in the fields of art, literature, historical study, etc. Notable recipients * Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow * Zhores Alferov * Nadezhda Babkina * Yuri Bashmet * Nikolay Baskov * Pavel Borodin * Vasil Bykaŭ * Pierre Cardin * Andrzej Ciechanowiecki * Viktor Drobysh * Mohamed ElBaradei * Valentin Elizariev * Vladimir Gostyukhin * Yury Grigorovich * Mykola Hnatyuk * Philipp Kirkorov * Igor Luchenok * Yury Luzhkov * Igor Makarov (businessman) * Vladimir Mulyavin * Tamara Nizhnikova * Aleksandra Pakhmutova * Vladimir Vasilievich Rusakevich * Viktor Sadovnichiy * Mikhail Savitsky * Gennadiy Seleznyov * Alexander Tikhanovich * Pavel Yakubovich * Rostislav Ya ... [...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] |
Viktor Drobysh
Viktor Yakovlevich Drobysh (russian: Ви́ктор Я́ковлевич Дро́быш; born June 27, 1966, Leningrad, Russian SFSR) is a Russian composer and music producer, Honored Artist of Russia (2010). Song Author group ''Buranovskiye Babushki'' Party for Everybody, who took 2nd place at Eurovision 2012. From 1996 he worked in Germany. After working in Germany, Drobysh moved to Finland, where he created the duet ''Pets''. In 2004, Drobysh participated as a co-producer in the talent show '' Fabrika Zvyozd'' of Channel One Russia. In 2006, he single-handedly led the 6th season of the project. In August 2004, Viktor Drobysh's Producer Centre was created. It was engaged in promoting the groups ''Tootsie'', ''K.G.B.'', ''Chelsea'', ''Princessa Avenue'' and ''Ultrafiolet'', as well as solo artists, such as Yulia Mikhalchik, Natalia Podolskaya, Stas Piekha, Dmitry Koldun, Zara, Avraam Russo, Sogdiana Fedorinskaya, Prokhor Chaliapin Prokhor Andreevich Chaliapin (russian: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Vasilievich Rusakevich
Vladimir Vasilievich Rusakevich (, born 13 September 1947) is a retired Belarusian politician and Ambassador. *In 1963 he began his career, as the head of the library and teacher in the high school of Hotynitskoy in the Hantsavichy District *From 1970 to 1971 he was director of a school in the Ivatsevichy District. *He has held several senior positions in the Komsomol, the party, and was chairman of the executive committee Hantsavichy and Deputy Chairman of the Brest Regional Executive Committee. *From 1973 to 1994 he was Deputy member of the District, Regional Council. *From 1990 to 1995 he was member of the Supreme Council of Belarus. *from March to December 1994 he was member of the commission on the work of the Soviets of People's Deputies and the development of self-government. *In 1991 he was Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Council. *From 1994 to 1996 he was Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Belarus and supervised culture, education, science, sports, health and socia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aleksandra Pakhmutova
Aleksandra Nikolayevna Pakhmutova (russian: Александра Николаевна Пахмутова ; born 9 November 1929) is a Soviet and Russian composer. She has remained one of the best-known figures in Soviet and later Russian popular music since she first achieved fame in her homeland in the 1960s. She was awarded the People's Artist of the USSR in 1984. Biography She was born on November 9, 1929 in Beketovka (now a neighborhood in Volgograd), Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, and began playing the piano and composing music at an early age. She was admitted to the prestigious Moscow Conservatory and graduated in 1953. In 1956, she completed a post-graduate course led by composer Vissarion Shebalin. Her career is notable for her success in a range of different genres. She has composed pieces for the symphony orchestra (The Russian Suite, the concerto for the trumpet and the orchestra, the Youth Overture, the concerto for the orchestra); the ballet Illumination; music for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamara Nizhnikova
Tamara Nikolaevna Nizhnikova (russian: Тамара Николаевна Нижникова; 9 March 1925 – 15 February 2018) was a Belarusian opera singer. Born in Samara on 9 March 1925, Nizhnikova attended the Moscow Conservatory before joining what later became National Opera and Ballet of Belarus. Prior to her retirement in 1976, Nizhnikova was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labour, and named a People's Artist of the USSR. She later received the Order of Friendship of Peoples, and the Order of Francysk Skaryna The Order of Francysk Skaryna ( be, О́рдэн Францы́ска Скары́ны) is an award of Belarus. It is named after Francysk Skaryna, one of the first book printers in Cyrillic script. Order of Francysk Skaryna is a single level awar .... References 1925 births 2018 deaths Soviet women opera singers Musicians from Samara, Russia Recipients of the Order of Francysk Skaryna Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples People's Artist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Mulyavin
Vladimir Georgievich Mulyavin (russian: Влади́мир Гео́ргиевич Муля́вин; be, Уладзімер Георгіевіч Мулявін (Uladzimer Heorhijevič Muliavin); 12 January 1941 – 26 January 2003) was a Belarusian and Russian rock musician and the founder of the folk-rock band Pesniary. Biography Vladimir Mulyavin was born in Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg) in the family of a worker at the Uralmash plant. He started playing the guitar at the age of 12. In 1956, after graduating from school, he entered Sverdlovsk Musical School, department of stringed instruments. He was expelled from the school for misconduct and an overt interest in jazz, nevertheless he was reinstated after some time, and he left the school by own initiative. Between 1958 and 1963, he worked as a staff musician at different regional orchestras. In 1963, he was offered a job with the Belarusian State Philharmony and moved to Belarus. In 1965—1967 Mulyavin conducted his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Igor Makarov (businessman)
Igor Viktorovich Makarov (russian: Игорь Викторович Макаров; born 5 April 1962 Ashkhabad, Turkmen SSR, Soviet Union) is the President of ARETI International Group (formerly known as ITERA International Group). A former professional cyclist and member of the USSR national cycling team, Igor Makarov has, since his retirement from competition, been a key supporter and sponsor of international cycling and serves on the UCI Management Committee since 2011. In June 2022, ''Forbes'' estimated Makarov's net worth at $2.1 billion. Early life Makarov was born as the only child of his parents in Ashkhabad, Turkmen SSR in 1962. From 1979 to 1986, Makarov was a cyclist for the Soviet team, winning medals and awards, and became acquainted with Saparmurat Niyazov or ''Turkmenbashy'' who ruled the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic and later Turkmenistan from 1985 to 2006. He graduated from Turkmen State University in 1983, then served in the Soviet Army. The name ARETI ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yury Luzhkov
Yury Mikhailovich Luzhkov ( rus, Ю́рий Миха́йлович Лужко́в, p=ˈjʉrʲɪj mʲɪˈxajləvʲɪtɕ lʊˈʂkof; 21 September 1936 – 10 December 2019) was a Russian politician who served as mayor of Moscow from 1992 to 2010. Before the election of Gavriil Popov as the first mayor of Moscow, he also headed the capital in 1990-1991 as chairman of the Mosgorispolkom. He was the vice-chairman and one of the founders of the ruling United Russia party. During Luzhkov's time, Moscow's economy expanded and he presided over large construction projects in the city, including the building of a new financial district. At the same time, he was accused of corruption, bulldozing historic buildings, and poor handling of traffic, as well as the city's smog crisis during the 2010 Russian wildfires. On 28 September 2010, Luzhkov was fired from his post by a decree issued by President Dmitry Medvedev. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Igor Luchenok
Igor Mikhailovich Luchenok (Belarusian: Iгар Міхайлавіч Лучанок, Ihar Michajlavič Lučanok, Russian: Игорь Михайлович Лученок; 6 August 1938 in Minsk — 12 November 2018 in Minsk) was a Belarusian composer, People's Artist of the Byelorussian SSR (and People's Artist of the USSR), and chairman of the Belarusian Union of Composers. Biography Luchenok worked in various genres — vocal-symphonic, chamber-instrumental, chamber-vocal, but most fruitfully — in song. From his works formed the repertoire of Pesniary, Syabry, Verasy, Joseph Kobzon, Sofia Rotaru, Valentina Tolkunova, Maria Pakhomenko, Lev Leshchenko, Victor Vuyachich, Eduard Khil Eduard Anatolyevich Khil ( rus, Эдуа́рд Анато́льевич Хиль, , ɨdʊˈart ɐnɐˈtolʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ˈxʲilʲ; 4 September 1934 – 4 June 2012), often anglicized as Edward Hill, was a Soviet-Russian baritone singer. Khil be ... and many others. References External l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philipp Kirkorov
Philipp Bedrosovich Kirkorov PAR (russian: Филипп Бедросович Киркоров; bg, Филип Бедросов Киркоров, Filip Bedrosov Kirkorov; born 30 April 1967) is a Bulgarian-born Russian pop singer. He is a five-time winner of the "Best Selling Russian Artist" title at the World Music Awards ceremonies. Biography Philipp Kirkorov was born on 30 April 1967 in Varna, Bulgaria. His father, Bedros Kirkorov, is a Bulgarian-born singer of Armenian descent. In 1990, Kirkorov won the Grand Prix in the competition "Shlyager-90" (Hit-90) in Leningrad with the song "Nebo i Zemlya" (Sky and Earth). In 1992, his music video to the song "Atlantida" was selected as "Music Video of the Year". His popularity began to spread outside of Russia and he toured in the United States, Canada, Germany, and Israel. In 1994, he proposed to Alla Pugacheva and she accepted. On 13 January the couple announced their engagement in Moscow. On 15 March the marriage was regist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mykola Hnatyuk
Mykola Vasylyovych Hnatyuk or Mykola Vasyliovych Hnatiuk ( uk, Микола Васильович Гнатюк; born 14 September 1952) is a Soviet, Ukrainian singer, popular in the early 1980s. In 1979 he won the Grand Prix at the Dresden Pop Music Festival with David Tukhmanov's ''I Dance With You'' (russian: link=no, Я с тобой танцую). A year later ''Dancing on the Drum'' (russian: link=no, Танец на барабане, penned by Raimonds Pauls) brought Hnatyuk the 1980 Sopot Intervision Song Contest Grand Prix,He scored 36 ponts and shared the first place with four other performers: Marion Rung (Finland, ''Where Is the Love''), Marika Gombitova (Czechoslovakia, ''I Want to Share with You''), Jigsaw (UK, ''Sky High'') and Vox (Poland, ''Banana Song'') and made him famous at home. A year later came out ''Bird of Fortune'' (russian: link=no, Птица счастья, by the Pakhmutova- Dobronravov songwriting team), another huge hit for him. In 1988 H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yury Grigorovich
Yury Nikolayevich Grigorovich (russian: Ю́рий Никола́евич Григоро́вич; born 2 January 1927 in Leningrad) is a Soviet and Russian dancer and choreographer who dominated the Russian ballet for 30 years. Grigorovich was born into a family connected with the Imperial Russian Ballet. He graduated from the in 1946 and danced as a soloist of the until 1962. His staging of |
