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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] |
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] |