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Outstanding People of Belarus

Belarus is a talented nation. Many achivements of Belarusian writers, musicians, sportsmen, scientist are marked as significant for the world.  Among those who made the greatest contribution to the development of Belarusian culture and science are Euphrosynya Polotskaya, Kirill Turovsky, Symon Budny and Francisk Scoryna.

The names of Yanka Kupala, Maxim Bogdanovich, Vladimir Korotkevich, Vasil Bykov are world-famous. 

But the most famous is Svetlana Alexievich who has become the only Nobel Prize winner in Literature from Belarus. She was born in 1948. After finishing school Alexievich entered the Belarusian State University and became a correspondent for the literary magazine "Neman" in Minsk. Her most famous books are dedicated to World War II, the Soviet-Afghan War and the Chernobyl Disaster.  In 2015 Svetlana was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. 

Belarusian sportsmen are also known in the world. Among the sports stars are Olga Korbut, Maxim Mirny, Alexander Medved and Darya Domracheva. 

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