Infobox ethnic group group Belarusians image File Collage of Belarusians.JPG 200px caption small Cyril of Turaw Euphrosyne of Polatsk Francysk Skaryna Lew Sapieha Jan Czeczot Konstanty Kalinowski Vintsent Dunin Martsinkyevich Stanis aw Bu ak Ba achowicz Alaiza Pashkievich Yanka Kupala Yakub Kolas Branis a Tara kievi Branislaw Tarashkevich Pyotr Masherov Piatro Mashera Pavel Sukhoi Pavel Sukhi Maksim ... , particularly other East Slavs ref http www.ethnologue.com 5C 15 show family.asp?subid 90707 ref Belarusians ... File Historical borders of Belarusians.png thumb 300px left Ethnic territory of Belarusians br Legend ... skiy M. Dovnar Zapol skiy 1919 Legend 000000 Modern state boundaries Belarusians also form minorities ... of 20th century Belarusians constituted a majority in the regions around Smolensk . Citation ... in the early 20th century. During Soviet times, many Belarusians were Population transfer in the Soviet ... from Harvcoltxt Underhill et al 2009 . Belarusians show the characteristic R1a genes of the male ... 378506 pmid 13680527 pmc 1180600 ref Genetical studies show that genetically Belarusians have ... chromosome between Belarusians, Poles, central southern Russians and Ukrainians, and it is overlapped ... Belarusians documents A separation of subpopulations along the south north line, which is demonstrated ..., has been noted east west gradient is insignificant. ref Genetic portrait of modern Belarusians mitochondrial ... Russians that opposed the Bolshevik s during the Russian Civil War and similar forms. Belarusians ... Rus and the Principality of Polatsk . Most Belarusians are descendants of the East Slav tribes Dregovichs ... ref In 13th 18th centuries Belarusians were mostly known under the name of Ruthenians ... War I Belarusians revived their own statehood, with varying degrees of independence first as the short ... of Belarus Krivichs List of Belarusians ethnic group Litvins Radimichs References and notes Reflist ... uz Belaruslar pl Bia orusini pt Bielorrussos ro Belaru i ru simple Belarusians sk Bielorusi ... more details
Infobox Ethnic group group Belarusians in Russia br br image File Dmitri1.jpg ... Orthodox Church Russian Orthodox , br minority Roman Catholic . Belarusians are a major ethnic group ... live in the regions of Moscow , St. Petersburg , Kaliningrad , Karelia . Most Belarusians in Russia are migrants from modern Belarus or their descendants, while a minor part of Belarusians in Russia are indigenous population of border regions with Belarus. Geography A minor part of Belarusians in Russia ... 1408 and 1514. According to the census of the Russian Empire , some Belarusians lived in the territories of modern Smolensk Oblast , Bryansk Oblast . A small number of Belarusians used to live in the modern ... Belarusians of Russia to promote and develop Belarusian cultural life and education. A system ... join Moscow universities. St. Petersburg After the Partition of Poland , Belarusians started migrating ... to 1910 the number of Belarusians in St. Petersburg grew 23 times and reached 70,000. By the end of that period Belarusians were the biggest ethnic minority in the city ref http by.ethnology.ru win belinspb.htm ref . During the First World War for some period up to one million Belarusians lived in the city ... of January uprising January November uprising s. During the period 1885 1914, 550 thousand Belarusians ... the Belarusian Romantic nationalism national revival movement also affected Siberian Belarusians ... regions In the 18th century Belarusians lived in several gubernya s of European Russia. Belarusian ... Belarusians settled in Republic of Karelia Karelia , Arkhangelsk Oblast , the Komi Republic , and Kaliningrad ... NATIONS, UNLIKE THOSE WITH AUTONOMIES IN RU, HAVE THEIR OWN STATES Belarusians are the second largest .... Modern state Number of Belarusians in Russia style background efefef Year style background efefef ... right 807,970 Because of cultural closeness of Belarusians to Russians and weakly expressed national identity, Belarusians are more than other ethnic minorities exposed to assimilation in Russia. Despite ... more details
The Association of Belarusians in Great Britain lang be is an organisation in the United Kingdom uniting members of the Belarusians in the United Kingdom Belarusian diaspora . After the end of World War II , several thousands ethnic Belarusians landed in Britain. Most of these people were former soldiers of the Polish Anders Army . In 1946 the Association of Belarusians in Great Britain was established. The organisation had branches in London , Manchester and Bradford , it owned several buildings including the Belarusian House in London. ref http www.zbvb.org.uk ZBVB beginning.htm ref Under the support of the association, the Anglo Belarusian Society was established in 1954 with the aim to promote Belarusian British contacts. ref http www.zbvb.org.uk ZBVB activities.htm ref Alena Michaluk is the head of the association. Notable members Ceslaus Sipovich Alexander Nadson References references External links http www.zbvb.org.uk Category 1946 establishments in the United Kingdom Category Belarusian diaspora Category Organisations based in the United Kingdom Category British people of Belarusian descent be be x old ... more details
Image Backauscyna.jpg thumb right Logo File 5 ZBS 2009.jpg thumb left 5th World Congress of Belarusians in Minsk , 2009 The World Association of Belarusians Ba ka yna IPA be bats kau t na Belarusian pronunciation , lit. Fatherland Belarusian language Belarusian is an international organisation uniting people of Belarusians Belarusian descent globally. Currently 135 organisations of the Belarusian diaspora from 28 countries are members of Ba ka yna. The organisation was founded in 1990. Since that the organisation is promoting Belarusian culture in Belarus and abroad by publishing numerous books on Belarusian culture and the history of Belarusians abroad, organising conferences, including World Congresses of Belarusians every five years. Current president of Ba ka yna is Alena Mako skaja . Head of Council is Nina yd o skaja . External links http www.zbsb.org eng index.shtml Official website http www.charter97.org eng news 2005 07 20 ales Alyaksei Marachkin Elected Head of Batskaushchyna Category Organizations based in Belarus Category Organizations established in 1990 Category 1990 establishments in Belarus Category International nongovernmental organizations Category Belarusian diaspora be be x old pl Zjednoczenie Bia orusin w wiata Ba kauszczyna ... more details
Infobox ethnic group group Belarusians in the United Kingdom br small image poptime Belarusian born residents br 1,154 2001 UK Census br Other estimates br 5,000 N.Hardzijenka estimate popplace Throughout the United Kingdom, especially London , Manchester langs British English Belarusian language Belarusian Russian language Russian rels Eastern Orthodox , Greek Catholic , Roman Catholic , Jewish related Baltic people in the United Kingdom Baltic people , Polish British , Ukrainian diaspora in the United Kingdom , Russians in the United Kingdom The Belarusian disapora in the United Kingdom lang be is composed of Belarusian people Belarusian migrants and British born people of Belarusian ancestry in the United Kingdom . The 2001 UK Census recorded 1,154 Belarusian born people living in the UK, ref name OECD cite web url http www.oecd.org dataoecd 18 23 34792376.xls title Country of birth database publisher Organisation for Economic Co operation and Development accessdate 8 April 2010 ref while one historian estimates that 5,000 Belarusians live in the UK. ref name Budzma http budzma.org foreign natallya hardziyenka byelaruskaya dyyaspara w vyalikabrytanii z e2 80 99yava wnikalnaya na zakhadzye.html ... around 10 to 12 thousand Belarusians arrived in the UK after the war. A significant portion ... the Association of Belarusians in Great Britain , the Anglo Belarusian Society and the Professional Union of Belarusians in Britain . There is a Belarusian Religious and Cultural Centre in Northern Finchley ... Belarusians in Britain http absociety.org.uk Anglo Belarusian Society http www.zbvb.org.uk Association of Belarusians in Great Britain http sites.google.com site skarynalibrary Belarusian library in London http pubb.org.uk Professional Union of Belarusians in Britain PUBB Notable British ... dates date October 2010 DEFAULTSORT Belarusians In The United Kingdom Category British people of Belarusian ... more details
Kliauko Alexander S. Potupa See also Grand Duchy of Lithuania Belarusians list of people from Belarus External links http www.belarusguide.com as heritage famous.html Famous Belarusians DEFAULTSORT List Of Belarusians Ethnic Group Category Lists of people by ancestry Belarusians ethnic group ... more details
October 29 30, 1937 executions in Belarus refers to a mass extermination of Belarus ian writers, artists and statespeople by USSR Communist authorities. This event marks the peak of the Great Purge and Soviet repressions in Belarus repressions in the Soviet Union Soviet controlled East Belarus . More than 100 notable persons have been executed on that days, most of them in the night between 29 and 30 October 1937. The innocence of most of the executed has later been admitted by the Soviets after Stalin s death. On September 7, 1937, Joseph Stalin has signed a List of persons to be judged by a Soviet Military commission. The list was also signed by Vyacheslav Molotov , Lazar Kaganovich , Klim Voroshilov and Nikolay Yezhov . The results of the trials related to persons from the Belarusian SSR are formulated in a different list dated 15 September 1937 and signed by Stalin, Molotov and the senior state security official Vladimir Tsesarsky . The list of people from the Belarusian SSR sentenced to execution included 103 persons, 6 more persons have been sentenced to 10 and more years of concentration camps. The initial list has been extended by the NKVD of the Belarusian SSR. People added to the list by the NKVD of Belarus are market with an asterisk in the list below. The executions took place in the Minsk internal NKVD prison known as the Amerikanka . A notable part of the executed people were ethnic Belarusian Jews Jews . According to historian Leanid Marakou , between March 3, 1937 and May 22, 1930 over 100 thousand people have become victims of repressions by the Soviet authorities. List of executed persons Barys Abukhou Mikalay Arabey , head of primary education department of the Communist Party of Byelorussia Navum Aronau Ihnat Afanasyeu , lecturer and pedagogue Anatol Auhustsinovich , head of construction department at the Soviet of People s Commissars government of Belarus of Belarus Siamion Babkou Heorhi Barzunou Vadzim Bashkevich , senior official at the People ... more details
Wiktionary Belarusian may refer to Something of, or related to Belarus Belarusians people from Belarus, or of Belarusian descent . See also Demographics of Belarus and Culture of Belarus . For specific Belarusians, see List of Belarusians . Belarusian language Byelorussian SSR Belarusian cuisine See also Special Allpages Belarusian List of all pages beginning with Belarusian Belorussky disambiguation disambig Long comment to avoid being listed on short pages de Wei russisch es Bielorruso it Bielorusso pt Bielorrusso ... more details
seealso List of Belarusians Dynamic list This is a list of famous Belarus ian musician s and singer s col begin col break Contredanse Dreamlin KRIWI Lituus N.R.M. P.L.A.N. Parason Reido RIMA ULIS Kraski Stary Olsa col end See also List of Belarusians List of Belarusian actors and actresses Lists of musicians Belarus topics Category Lists of musicians by nationality Belarusian Category Belarusian musicians ... more details
Multiple issues unreferenced October 2009 orphan September 2010 notability September 2009 context September 2009 The Renaissance Generation lang be , Pakalennie Adrad ennia is a program of the Third Way Belarus Third Way , targeting young, active and talented Belarusians living in Belarus and foreign countries. The aim of the program is to help the formation of a sustainable and influential community of active and intelligent young Belarusians belonging to different professional and ideological fields, living in Belarus or being part of the Diaspora , who are motivated to support democratic changes in Belarus and its transformation into the state with an open society and successful economy in the long term. Since 2007, in cooperation with partners from Slovakia , Germany , Poland , Baltic states and Scandinavia n countries, a number of educational, network and informational projects has been carried out by the group. Category Belarusian diaspora be ... more details
Voranava district is a district in Western Belarus, in Hrodna Voblast Hrodna Province . Its administrative center is the town of Voranava . Demography Ethnic composition Poles 83 Belarusians 10.5 Lithuanians and others comprise the rest. Hrodna Voblast Belarus geo stub coord missing Belarus Category Districts of Grodno Region be be x old es Rai n de Voranava lt Varanavo rajonas pl Rejon woronowski ru uk ... more details
to a decline in the number of people identifying themselves as Belarusians according ... 2000s. The World Association of Belarusians based in Minsk is the international organization uniting ... Democratic Republic is in exile since 1919 and acts as a consolidating centre for many Belarusians ... Belarusians in Russia The Belarusian minority in Russia consists mainly of emigrants from Belarus .... Most Russian Belarusians live in Moscow , St. Petersburg and Siberia. Poland main Belarusian minority ... like Warsaw and Krakow . Lithuania According to censuses of early 20th century, Belarusians consisted ... in London main Belarusians in the United Kingdom Several thousand Belarusian refugees and soldiers ... Yanukovych , a Ukrainian president of Belarusian descent Most Belarusians diaspora in Ukraine appeared as a result of migration of Belarusians to the Ukrainian SSR in Soviet times. Lviv has been an important ... V Belarusians abroad today problems and perspectives, report by Natallia Hardzijenka at the 5th World Congress of Belarusians in 2009 External links http www.zbsb.org World Association of Belarusians http www.by375.in.ua A web portal for Belarusians in Ukraine http www.belaruscanada.com ... more details
Belarusization lang be was a policy of advancement of the Belarusian language and recruitment and promotion of Belarusians ethnic Belarusians within the Government of Belarus government of Belarusian SSR and the Communist Party of Byelorussia Belarusian Communist Party , conducted by the government of BSSR in the 1920s . Together with the 1920s policy of Ukrainization in the Ukrainian SSR , as well as other similar policies in other parts of the Soviet Union , it constituted the Soviet policy of korenization , an attempt by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to win favor with non Russian ethnic groups by reversing the effects of Russification forced Russification within the Russian Empire and promotion of national cultures in Soviet republics. Plan for Belarusization History of Belarus The official policy of Belarusization was instituted in 1924 by the Central Executive Committee of the BSSR by creation of a special commission headed by A. I. Khatskevich. The special commission recommended the following measures Transition of the Belarusian Republic s institutions and Belarusian units of the Red Army to the Belarusian language . Promotion of ethnic Belarusians to leadership positions within the Communist Party of Byelorussia party , Government of Belarus government and trade union labor unions . Organization of educational institutions in the Belarusian language, development of Belarusian literature and more. The transition of Belarusian republic s institutions to the Belarusian language was planned to take place over a period of one to three years. Results of Belarusization By 1927, 80 of BSSR s civil servants were fluent in Belarusian language. By 1928, 80 of schools in BSSR were transitioned to Belarusian as the language of instruction. End of Belarusization However, with the rise of Stalinism in the 1930s, and the concurrent return of the policies of Russification , Belarusization was quickly reversed, along with Ukrainization and all the othe ... more details
Unreferenced date January 2012 Blok Mniejszo ci Narodowych IPA pol bl m j t i nar d v x , Bloc of National Minorities BMN , was a political party in the Second Polish Republic , representing a coalition of various ethnic minorities in Poland, primarily Ukrainians, Belarusians, Jews and Germans. The Bloc was co founded by Yitzhak Gruenbaum , a Polish Jewish politician. BMN took part in the Polish legislative election, 1922 , Polish legislative election, 1928 and Polish legislative election, 1930 , doing very well in the 1922 elections 19.5 and the second largest party and 28 elections 14 and the third largest party . In 1930 elections which were considered not free, it fared poorly 3 and the ninth largest party . In the political shakedown following the 1930 elections, the Bloc was dissolved. In the Second Polish Republic, ethnic minorities constituted 1 3 of total population. Notable members Belarusians Branis a Tara kievi Jan Stankievi Adam Stankievi DEFAULTSORT Bloc Of National Minorities Category Defunct political parties in Poland Category History of Poland 1918 1939 Category Political parties established in 1922 Category 1930s disestablishments Category Political parties of minorities Category 1922 establishments in Poland Poland party stub be x old ca Bloc de les Minories Nacionals pl Blok Mniejszo ci Narodowych ru uk ... more details
There are currently around 1.2 million Russian people Russians in Belarus , ref http folk.uio.no palk PRIO 20Diaspora.htm ref which accounts for 11.4 of the population of Belarus and builds up the largest national minority in the country. ref http bibl.sh.se baltic countryfacts.htm ref Many Russian Belarusians are descendants of people who migrated to Belarus during the Soviet times, as technical specialists and military or administrative personnel. fact date December 2009 There is also a minor group of Old Believers who settled in Belarus in the Middle Ages . fact date December 2009 In early Soviet times the Moscow appointed Belarusian government was largely fact date December 2009 formed from non Belarusians like the Panteleimon Ponomarenko or Nikolay Gikalo . There is a large proportion of ethnic Russians among the current political leadership around Alexander Lukashenka . fact date December 2009 Censuses show a constant decline of the number of people identifying themselves as Russians in Belarus due to the process of cultural assimilation assimilation . fact date December 2009 See also Ethnic Russians in post Soviet states References Reflist Russian diaspora Category Belarusian people of Russian descent Category Ethnic groups in Belarus Category Russian diaspora Belarus Belarus stub ... more details
Krambambula is a Belarusians Belarusian band from Minsk , started by Lavon Volski also the founder of N.R.M. . The name of the band is derived from a popular Belarusians Belarusian ref name Bel http sb.by ?area content&articleID 33845 ref tincture alcoholic tincture of the Krambambula drink same name . The band combines traditional Belarussian folk melodies with modern pop music in humorous and satirical ways. Often they take traditional Belarussian songs and convert them into rock or Hip hop music hip hop numbers for example in http www.youtube.com watch?v DIovK7D0K20 Turysty or vice versa. ref http wyborcza.pl 1,76842,4315804.html ref . Some of their songs are pastiches of tunes that were well known during the cold war era in the Eastern Bloc countries for example, their rendition of the theme song of the popular Czterej pancerni i pies Four tank men and a dog Polish TV show. References reflist External links Commons category Krambambula http bialystok.gazeta.pl bialystok 1,35233,4092397.html http www.krambambula.by engl Krambambula s website Category Belarusian musical groups Category Belarusian rock music groups Category Belarusian folk music groups be x old ru fi Krambambulja uk ... more details
Originally Anglo Belarusian Belarusian was a part of the Association of Belarusians in Great Britain . Because of the growing interest of the British public in Belarus and Belarusians, it was established as a separate organisation on 16 March 1954. The Society s object is diffusion, interchange and publication of knowledge relating to the Belarusian people, their land, history and culture. The first president of the Anglo Belarusian Society was William David Ormsby Gore . A long serving President of the Society was Frances Ward Lady Phipps , wife of Eric Phipps . Another woman who was actively involved in Anglo Belarusian Society was Katharine Macmillan , a vice chairman of the Conservative Party in 1968. She served first as the organisation s Vice President and then President. Despite its Anglo label, the Society was by no means intended to exclude Scotland, Wales and other parts of the UK. Among the early cultural activities of the Society was the publication of a regular pamphlet on Belarus and the organisation of concerts of Belarusian church chants, folk songs and dances in Westminster Cathedral Hall in 1950s. Since 1965 the Society also published the Journal of Byelorussian Studies . External Links http absociety.org.uk Anglo Belarusian Society web site http www.axnh62.dsl.pipex.com ABS journal.htm Journal of Byelorussian Studies Category Organisations based in England ... more details
Belarusians 1903.jpg thumb Belarusians, 1903 Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth Poland first acquired a Ruthenians Ruthenian predominant ancestors of modern Belarusians minority in 16th century, when after ... Nowogr dek Voivodeship in Second Polish Republic were Belarusians according to official Polish census ... or West Belarus , inhabited by both Belarusians and Poles. According to the Polish census of 1921 , there were around 1 million Belarusians in the country. According to Soviet sources, there were 3 million Belarusians in 1921. ref http books.google.com books?id AP2Hh3LVGaUC&pg PA250&dq 1931 Poland ..., INDIANA UNIVERSITY,BLOOMINGTON ref Most historians estimate the number of Belarusians in Poland at that time ... Belarusians formed 3.1 of the populations of the Second Polish Republic, mostly inhabiting the Administrative ... Polish Gymnasium school gymnasia in areas inhabited by Belarusians in 1927. Citation needed date July ... Davies ref name Stosunki Increasingly, Belarusians in Poland faced extensive Polonization , though ... and Western Ukraine , some Belarusians welcomed unification with Belorussian SSR , although attitudes ... from 1939, with the exception of a brief period of Nazi occupation, almost all Belarusians previously ... and linguist Branislaw Tarashkyevich . Citation needed date July 2007 1989 present File Belarusians in Poland, 2002.png thumb Belarusians in Poland, 2002 The Belarusian minority has been active ... on 20 May 2007, the Belarusians again submitted their own electoral committee, which for the first ... number of Belarusians in northwest Poland, but some Polish Belarusians were relocated ... more details
Belarusians The Roman Catholic Church in Belarus is part of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church , under the spiritual leadership of the Pope and curia in Rome . The first Latin Rite diocese in Belarus was established in Tura between 1008 and 1013. Roman Catholicism was a traditionally dominant religion of Belarusian nobility the szlachta and of a large part of the population of West Belarus. Nowadays there are 1,402,605 Catholics in the country around 15 of the total population ref name data2009 http www.catholic.by 2 en belarus dioceses.html Official site of the Roman Catholic Church in Belarus. Statistical data 2009 03 01 ref . Most of these belong to the Latin Rite dioceses. A small minority are of Byzantine Rite , forming the particular Belarusian Greek Catholic Church , which is in union with the Holy See and follows the Byzantine Church Slavonic Slavonic ritual. Poles in Belarus Polish and Lithuanians Lithuanian minorities in Belarus are predominantly Latin Rite Catholics, but over 1 mln Latin Rite Catholics are ethnic Belarusians over 15 of ethnic Belarusians total . The Greek Catholics are mostly ethnic Belarusians , with some Ukrainians . Hierarchy One metropolitan archdiocese Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Minsk Mohilev Minsk Mohilev 610,490 Roman Catholics ref name data2009 Three suffragan diocese s Roman Catholic Diocese of Grodno Grodno 591,000 believers ref name data2009 Roman Catholic Diocese of Pinsk Pinsk 50,115 believers ref name data2009 Roman Catholic Diocese of Vitebsk Vitebsk 151,000 Roman Catholics ref name data2009 Metropolitan Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz is the leader of the Latin Rite Catholic Church in Belarus. See also Belarusian Greek Catholic Church References reflist External links http www.catholic.by The Roman Catholic Church in Belarus official website and the central Belarusian catholic web portal http nunciature.catholic.by The Apostolic Nuntiature in Belarus http www.zmk.ngo.by Parta Ma adych ... more details
Niva lang be is a weekly newspaper in Belarusian language published by the Belarusian minority in Poland . The newspaper was founded in 1956 in Bia ystok for Belarusians living in Poland. Niva was an important factor uniting the Belarusian minority in the region. Chief editor is Eugeniusz Wappa . External links http niva.iig.pl Niva on line http svaboda.org articlesfeatures culture 2006 10 613B7E20 F5A1 49C4 9522 F8A71FF44DC0.html Niva celebrates its 50 years http www.belarusguide.com main petition.htm Appeal to stop persecution of Niva Category Belarusian diaspora Category Newspapers published in Poland Category Belarus Poland relations Belarus stub Poland newspaper stub be 1956 be x old pl Niwa tygodnik ... more details
Polekhs are a sub ethnic group of Russians settled along the Desna River and Seym River and mixed with local populations of Belarusians and Lithuanians . Most of them retained the Russian Orthodox religion , with some turning to Roman Catholicism . ref Olson, James Stuart. An Ethnohistorical Dictionary of the Russian and Soviet Empires . Greenwood Press, 1994. ISBN 0 313 27497 5, http www.amazon.com gp sitbv3 reader?asin 0313274975&pageID S07R&checkSum AoLkJzpPdGiNMHLOByGQQ6 20WUGCA q3myr0CcwN4s5c p. 554 ref References reflist Category Ethnic groups in Russia russia stub ethnic stub cv ru ... more details
Languages of country Belarus image image size caption official Belarussian language Belarussian , Russian language Russian unofficial main regional vernacular indigenous minority Polish language Polish , Ukrainian language Ukrainian immigrant foreign sign keyboard keyboard image source extralabel extra Belarusian language Belarusian and Russian language Russian are the official languages according to the Constitution of Belarus Article 17 . The constitution guarantees preservation of the cultural heritage of all ethnic minorities, including their languages Article 15 . Russian, and not Belarusian, is the dominant language in Belarus, spoken normally at home by 63 of the population 1999 census . Even among ethnic Belarusians nearly 60 normally speak Russian at home. Ukrainians and Jews also speak mostly Russian. Poles are the ethnic group who most frequently use Belarusian at home 58 , but the rest speak mainly Russian, with less than 5 reporting Polish as the language normally used within the family. Language normally spoken at home, of population in respective ethnic group ref name language http belstat.gov.by homep ru perepic p6.php Language spoken at home , 1999 census. ref class wikitable Nationality Population, br 000 Belarusian Russian Other language Total population thou. 10,045 36.7 62.8 0.5 Belarusians 8,159 41.3 58.6 0.1 Russians 1,142 4.3 95.7 Poles 396 57.6 37.7 4.7 Ukrainians 237 10.2 83.6 6.2 Jews 28 3.8 95.7 0.5 reflist Languages of Europe Category Languages of Belarus bn de Sprachen in Wei russland ru ... more details
Unreferenced stub auto yes date December 2009 Image Biala Podlaska Voivodship 1975.png thumb right Biala Podlaska Voivodeship Bia a Podlaska Voivodeship Lang pl wojew dztwo bialskopodlaskie was a unit of administrative division and local government in Poland in the years 1975&ndash 1998, superseded by Lublin Voivodeship . Its capital city was Bia a Podlaska . This voivodeship has the highest percentage of ethnic Belarusians in Poland. Major cities and towns Bia a Podlaska 56,300 inhabitants in 1995 osice Mi dzyrzec Podlaski Parczew Radzy Podlaski Terespol See also Voivodeships of Poland Voivodeships of Poland 1975 1998 coord missing Lublin Voivodeship DEFAULTSORT Biala Podlaska Voivodeship Category Former voivodeships of Poland 1975 1998 Lublin geo stub de Woiwodschaft Bia a Podlaska it Voivodato di Bia a Podlaska pl Wojew dztwo bialskopodlaskie zh ... more details
Vyacheslav Vladimirovich Kuznetsov lang be lang ru born 15 June 1955 in Vienna is a Belarusians Belarusian classical music composer. Selected works Diary of a Madman , Opera in 1 act after Nikolai Gogol ref http belarusopera.by afisha 271 ref Capriccio for viola solo 1988 Heterophony for oboe, violin and viola 1993 References reflist External links http www.composers21.com compdocs kuznetsv.htm Vyacheslav Kuznetsov at the Living Composers Project Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Kuznetsov, Vyacheslav ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION Composer DATE OF BIRTH 15 June 1955 PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Kuznetsov, Vyacheslav Category Living people Category 1955 births Category 20th century classical composers Category Belarusian composers Belarus composer stub ... more details
Refimprove date June 2008 Ukrainians Image Ukraine Polissya.png 170px thumb left Polesia marked in yellow on a map of Ukraine Image Kobryn Local People ca1916 Tomek.jpg 170px thumb left Poleszuks 1916 Image Migration of Serbs.png 170px thumb left Polesia Proto Slavs Belarusians Poleszuk Polish language Polish spelling lang be , Pala uk lang ua , Polishchuk lang ru , Poleshchuk is the name given to the people who populated the swamps of Polesia . The Poleszuk dialect is close to the Ukrainian language Ukrainian , Belarusian language Belarusian and Polish language Polish languages. Although recently most scholars assign it as a dialect of Ukrainian language Ukrainian , Citation needed date September 2010 it maintains many local peculiarities and is notably distinct from other Slavic languages and dialects of the area. The Primary Chronicle uses the name Dregovichs for an ancient Slavic tribe settled between Pripyat river Pripyat and Western Dvina rivers. The name comes from the Slavic word dregva or dryhva swamp . This tribe is thought to be the ancestors of modern Poleszuks Citation needed date July 2011 . In 11th and 12th centuries the land was administrated by the Prince of Turov . Citation needed date July 2011 Inhabitants of remote areas of modern Belarus and Poland , the Poleszuks did not develop their own national identity until relatively recently. Hence when asked for their nationality in Imperial Russian and then Polish census es, many of them answered tutejszy , meaning local , and were categorized either as other nationalities , Polish people Poles , Belarusians or Russian people Russians , depending mostly on their religion and political situation. In the Polish census of 1931 approximately 800,000 people declared themselves to be locals rather than Poles or Belarusians. Citation needed date September 2010 During and after the World War II , the Poleszuks along with Belarusian people developed a strong sense of identity and current ... more details
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