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2019 In Belarus
Events in the year 2019 in Belarus. Incumbents * President: Alexander Lukashenko * Prime Ministers: Syarhey Rumas Events Sports *January 21–27: The 2019 European Figure Skating Championships were held in Minsk. *Juni 21–30: 2019 European Games are hosted by the city of Minsk. Deaths *2 January – Jerzy Turonek, Polish-Belarusian historian (b. 1929). *4 February – Leu Mazurkevich, football player and manager (b. 1939). *9 February – Siamion Domash, politician (b. 1950). *19 April – Renald Knysh, artistic gymnastics coach (b. 1931). References {{Year in Europe, 2019[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerzy Turonek
Jerzy Turonek (; 26 April 1929 – 2 January 2019) was a Polish-Belarusian historian. He was born in Dūkštas into the family of West Belarusian political activist in the Second Polish Republic's Wilno Voivodeship. Biography After World War II, Turonek graduated from the Higher School for Planning and Statistics in Warsaw in 1952, and later worked for the Polish foreign trade chamber where he was analysing the international chemicals market and worked at the European economic commission in Geneva. In the early 1960s, Turonek began researching the Belarusian national movement of the early 20th century, Polish-Belarusian relations in the 20th century, and the history of the Roman Catholic Church. In 1986, he became a Doctor of History. Turonek is the author of monograph ''Białoruś pod okupacją niemiecką'' (Belarus under the German occupation) published in 1993 by Książka i Wiedza. Copies of his monograph shipped to Belarus for distribution were confiscated by the KGB ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Years Of The 21st Century In Belarus
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2010s In Belarus
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2019 In Belarus
Events in the year 2019 in Belarus. Incumbents * President: Alexander Lukashenko * Prime Ministers: Syarhey Rumas Events Sports *January 21–27: The 2019 European Figure Skating Championships were held in Minsk. *Juni 21–30: 2019 European Games are hosted by the city of Minsk. Deaths *2 January – Jerzy Turonek, Polish-Belarusian historian (b. 1929). *4 February – Leu Mazurkevich, football player and manager (b. 1939). *9 February – Siamion Domash, politician (b. 1950). *19 April – Renald Knysh, artistic gymnastics coach (b. 1931). References {{Year in Europe, 2019[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renald Knysh
Renald Ivanovich Knysh (, ; 10 September 1931 – 19 April 2019) was a Soviet and Belarusian coach in artistic gymnastics. Considered one of gymnastics' pioneering coaches, he was the coach of Olga Korbut. He was later accused of child rape by Korbut and other gymnasts he coached. He was an Honored Сoach of the BSSR and the USSR and Honorary Сitizen of Grodno. Biography Knysh was born in Kapyl, Minsk Region in September 1931, and was the Belarusian junior champion in 1949. He began coaching in 1953 at the Grodno children's sports school No. 3. He was the coach of Olympic champions Yelena Volchetskaya (1964) and Korbut (1972 and 1976), as well as Soviet national champion Tamara Alekseeva. After the 1972 Olympics, as part of the Soviet delegation, Knysh met with US President Richard Nixon. After the 1980 Olympic Games, he left the sport. He lived in Mineralnye Vody, Tallinn and Kaliningrad. In 1989, he returned to Grodno and wrote his memoirs. He worked on drafting a prop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Siamion Domash
Siamion Mikalayevich Domash (, ; 2 January 1950 – 9 February 2019) was a Belarusian politician and trades unionist. He was Chairman of Grodno Region in 1994. He was registered to run in the 2001 Belarusian presidential election Presidential elections were held in Belarus on 9 September 2001. The election should have been held in 1999, but a revised constitution adopted in 1996 extended incumbent Alexander Lukashenko's term for another two years. Lukashenko was re-elec ..., but exited from the campaign, endorsing Vladimir Goncharik. He died of a heart attack in 2019. References External links Биография на People’s History {{DEFAULTSORT:Domash, Siamion Mikalayevich 1950 births 2019 deaths Candidates for President of Belarus People from Lyakhavichy district Belarus State Economic University alumni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leu Mazurkevich
Leu Mazurkevich (; September 1939 – 4 February 2019) was a Belarusian footballer and football coach. He is the first coach in the history of Belarusian football club BATE Barysaw. External links Лев Мазуркевич: «Наш взлёт был стремительным»— «Всё о футболе», №7 (561), с. 14 1939 births 2019 deaths Belarusian football managers FC BATE Borisov managers People from Khoiniki district {{Belarus-footy-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerzy Turonek Portret
Jerzy is the Polish version of the masculine given name George. The most common nickname for Jerzy is Jurek (), which may also be used as an official first name. Occasionally the nickname Jerzyk may be used, which means "swift" in Polish. People *Jerzy, ''nom de guerre'' of Ryszard Białous, Polish World War II resistance fighter * Jerzy Andrzejewski, Polish writer * Jerzy Bartmiński, Polish linguist and ethnologist * Jerzy Braun (other), several people * Jerzy Brzęczek, Polish footballer and manager * Jerzy Buzek, Polish politician and former Prime Minister and former President of the European Parliament * Jerzy Dudek, Polish footballer * Jerzy Fedorowicz, Polish actor and theatre director * Jerzy Ficowski, Polish poet and translator * Jerzy Grotowski, Polish theatre director and theorist * Jerzy Hoffman, Polish film director, screenwriter, and producer * Jerzy Jarniewicz, Polish poet, literary critic, translator and essayist * Jerzy Janiszewski, Polish artist * Jerz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belarus
Belarus, officially the Republic of 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. Belarus spans an area of with a population of . The country has a hemiboreal climate and is administratively divided into Regions of Belarus, six regions. Minsk is the capital and List of cities and largest towns in Belarus, largest city; it is administered separately as a city with special status. For most of the medieval period, the lands of modern-day Belarus was ruled by independent city-states such as the Principality of Polotsk. Around 1300 these lands came fully under the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and subsequently by the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth; this period lasted for 500 years until the Partitions of Poland, 1792-1795 partitions of Poland-Lithuania placed Belarus within the Belarusian history in the Russian Empire, Russian Empire for the fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 European Games
The 2nd European Games 2019 (, ''Jeŭrapiejskija huĺni 2019''; , ''Yevropeyskiye igry 2019''), also known as the 2019 European Games or Minsk 2019 (; ), were held in Minsk, Belarus, from 21 June to 30 June 2019. The games featured 200 events in 15 sports (23 disciplines). Around 4,000 athletes from 50 countries participated. Ten of the sports offered qualification opportunities for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. The opening ceremony at the Dinamo Stadium (Minsk), Dinamo Stadium was held on 21 June, and the closing ceremony at the same venue was held on 30 June. The logo of the games was "Fern flower, paparać-kvietka"—a plant that plays an important role in the culture of the Slavs. The slogan of the event is "Bright Year, Bright You", which also makes reference to the national domain of the Republic of Belarus and the official international shortening—BY. Host selection A number of countries and cities expressed their interest to host the second European Games ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minsk
Minsk (, ; , ) is the capital and largest city of Belarus, located on the Svislach (Berezina), Svislach and the now subterranean Nyamiha, Niamiha rivers. As the capital, Minsk has a special administrative status in Belarus and is the administrative centre of Minsk region and Minsk district. it has a population of about two million, making Minsk the Largest cities in Europe, 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 mentioned in 1067, Minsk became the capital of the Principality of Minsk, an appanage of the Principality of Polotsk, before being annexed by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 1242. It received town privileges in 1499. From 1569, it was the capital of Minsk Voivodeship, an administrative division of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. It was part of the territories annexed by the Russian Empire in 1793, as a consequence of the Second Part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
