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| | Vitebsk region (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | Vitebsk area has given to slavic culture and the world such great enlighteners like Ephrosinia of Polotsk, Simeon of Polotsk, first print ing editor Frantsysk Skorina. |
 | | The pages of life and creativity of the writers and poets are connected with this land: Yanka Kupala, Yakub Kolas, Alexander Pushkin, Gavriil Derszavin, Taras Shevchenko, Nikolai Gogol, Ivan Lagechnikov, Anrew Delvig, Vladimir Korotkevich, Mikhas Lynkov, Petrus Brovka, Vasil Bykov, Ivan Bunin, Yan Rainis, Kornei Chukovsky, Alexander Grin, Gleb Uspensky and many others. |
 | | The biographies of the musicians and composers are connected with Vitebsk: Leonid Sobinov, Ivan Solertinsky, Anton Rubinshtein, Mark Fradkin, whose names are immortalized in the names of streets, areas, parks. |
| www.regadmin.vitebsk.by /eng/vitreg (280 words) |
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