List of Famous people born in Minsk Region, Belarus

Anatoly Chubais

First Name Anatoly
Born on June 16, 1955 (age 68)

Anatoly Borisovich Chubais is a Russian politician and businessman who was responsible for privatization in Russia as an influential member of Boris Yeltsin's administration in the early 1990s. During this period, he was a key figure in introducing market economy and the principles of private ownership to Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union.

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Diana Arbenina

Дыяна Сяргееўна Кулачэнка
First Name Diana
Last Name Arbenina
Born on July 8, 1974 (age 49)

Diana Sergeyevna Arbenina is a Russian singer, musician, poet, and leader of the rock group Nochnye Snaipery.

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Felix Dzerzhinsky

First Name Felix
Last Name Dzerzhinsky
Born on September 11, 1877
Died on July 20, 1926 (aged 48)

Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky, nicknamed "Iron Felix", was a Bolshevik revolutionary and official. Born into Polish nobility, from 1917 until his death in 1926 Dzerzhinsky led the first two Soviet state-security organizations, the Cheka and the OGPU, establishing a secret police for the post-revolutionary Soviet regime. He was one of the architects of the Red Terror and decossackization.

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Alexander Parvus

Израиль Лазаревич Гельфанд
First Name Alexander
Last Name Parvus
Died on December 12, 1924

Alexander Lvovich Parvus, born Israel Lazarevich Gelfand and sometimes called Helphand in the literature on the Russian Revolution, was a Marxist theoretician, publicist and controversial activist in the Social Democratic Party of Germany.

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Chaïm Soutine

First Name Chaïm
Born on January 13, 1893
Died on August 9, 1943 (aged 50)

Chaïm Soutine was a Belarusian painter who made a major contribution to the expressionist movement while living and working in Paris.

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Oleg Novitskiy

First Name Oleg
Last Name Novitskiy
Born on October 12, 1971 (age 52)

Oleg Viktorovich Novitskiy, lieutenant colonel in the Russian Air Force, is a Russian cosmonaut.

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Lidia Yermoshina

First Name Lidia
Born on January 29, 1953 (age 71)

Lidia Mikhailovna Yermoshina is a Belarusian politician. She has been a member of the Central Election Commission of Belarus since 1992, and Chairwoman since 1996.

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Roman Golovchenko

First Name Roman
Last Name Golovchenko
Born on August 10, 1973 (age 50)

Roman Alexandrovich Golovchenko is a Belarusian politician who has been the Prime Minister of Belarus since 4 June 2020.

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Jacob Brafman

First Name Jacob
Last Name Brafman
Born on January 1, 1824
Died on December 16, 1879 (aged 55)

Iakov Aleksandrovich Brafman, commonly known as Jacob Brafman, was a Russian Jew from near Minsk, who became notable for converting first to Lutheranism and then the Russian Orthodox Church. He advanced conspiracy theories against the qahal and the Talmud. Brafman's works The Local and Universal Jewish Brotherhoods (1868) and The Book of the Kahal (1869) were foundational texts in establishing a theoretical basis to modern antisemitic thought in Russia and established a framework for themes later covered in The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

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Renald Knysh

First Name Renald
Born on September 10, 1931
Died on April 19, 2019 (aged 87)

Renald Ivanovich Knysh was a Soviet and Belarusian coach in artistic gymnastics best known as the coach of Olga Korbut. He is also an accused child rapist, with allegations from multiple gymnasts he coached. He was an Honored Сoach of the BSSR and the USSR, Honorary Сitizen of Grodno.

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