1. Belarus is a landlocked country located in Eastern Europe, bordered by Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania and Latvia. The capital and largest city is Minsk.
2. Belarus has a population of over 9 million, mostly comprised of Belarusians and Russians. The main religions are Eastern Orthodox and other Christian denominations.
3. Belarus has a presidential republic form of government led by President Alexander Lukashenko. The economy relies on manufacturing, including tractor production, and the currency is the Belarusian ruble.
38. Some Famous Belarusians Tadeusz Kosciuszko, political and military figure of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Rzeczpospolita), leader of the rebellion in 1794. National hero of Belarus, Poland and the USA, honorary citizen of France. Vladimir Kovalenok is one of those who pioneered space exploration. USSR pilot-cosmonaut.
39. Marc Chagall was a Belarusian and French painter. A specialist in easel and book painting, theatre sets and costumes, stained glass windows, applied arts and sculpture. Composed of thousands of inlaid chips in over 250 colors, Marc Chagall’s mosaic artwork The Four Seasons portrays six scenes of Chicago.
40. Francysk Skaryna is the Belarusian and East-Slavonic publishing pioneer. He was born in Polotsk approximately in 1490. Vasil Bykov was a Belarus prose writer and playwright writer. The Alpine Ballad and The Dead Don't Feel Pain , and in the 1970s Sotnikov , The Obelisk , Live to See the Dawn and To Go and Not to Return . These works have marked Vasil Bykov as one of the greatest writers about war in the 20th century.
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