Communicative Area: speaking about the prominent people of Belarus
Look at the list of names below. What do you think all these people have in common?
Kirk Douglas, Ralph Lauren, Yanka Kupala, Yakub Kolas, Vladimir Korotkevich, Isaac Asimov, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Svetlana Alexievich, Olga Korbut, Yulia Raskina, Inna Zhukova, Max Mirnyi, Viktoria Azarenko, Yulia Nesterenko, Yanina Korolchik, Ellina Zvereva, Daria Domracheva, Anton Saroka, Alexander Medved, Boris Gelfand, Marc Chagall, Kazimir Malevich, Ossip Zadkine, Vladimir Vyshnevski, Michal Oginski, Vladimir Mulyavin, Ignat Domejko, Alexander Chizhevsky, Zhores Alferov, Haim Weizman, Shimon Peres, Petr Klimuk, Vladimir Kovalenok, Vasil Bykov, Boris Kit.
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Write a short paragraph (10+ sentences) about a famous Belarusian to add to the lecture here in comments.
Maria Slonimskaya
ReplyDeleteFrancysk Skaryna is a famous belarusian scientist and typographer of the 16th century. He was born in the ancient and historical town of Polotsk around 1490, in the family of the merchant Luka Skorina. Francysk Skaryna received his primary education at the Bernardine monastery, then he was studying for a long time at the University of Cracow, and he also graduated as a Doctor of Medicine in the University of Padua in 1512.
Writer published his first book "The Psalter" in 1517 in Prague. It is considered to be the first book in the Belarusian language. "Malaya Padarozhnaya Knizhytsa" (Eng.: "The Little Travel Book" ) is one of the first natural science works in the East Slavic language. It had some astronomy concepts, and a calendar of solar and lunar eclipses. In 1525 Skorina published his last work "The Apostle", then he went to travel to European countries. But Francysk Skaryna was not only a writer and typographer, he also successfully translated 23 Bible books. During his travels, Francysk faced the church disapproval. He was excommunicated for heretical ideas, and some of his books were burned. After that scientist didn't engage in typography.
Today he is the most famous historical figure of Belarus. Dozens of streets and avenues are named in honor of a philosopher, scientist, doctor and typographer. There are also a lot of monuments. Belarusians are proud of Francysk Skaryna and memory of him will live for centuries and even more.
Yanka Kupala (Ivan Dominikovich Lutsevich) - a classic of Belarusian literature. Ivan was born in the family of a small tenant on 7 July 1882 in the village of Vyzynka of the Vilnius Governorate.
ReplyDeleteHe studied in Petersburg and Moscow, and earned as much money as he could. He worked as a handyman, as an employee in a shop, giving private lessons, and for the soul, composing poetry.
His first poem «Man» was printed in 1905 by the Russian newspaper «North-West Region». And since 1907 by he was not only published in the newspaper «Our Niva», but also became its editor. The main composition of the magazine, were Yanka Kupala, Jakub Kolas, Maxim Bogdanovich and Zmitrok Byadula. Young writers became the founders of new Belarusian literature.
Kupala was the first to translate into Belarusian «Word about the regiment of Igor», using this work to appeal people to the unity.
During the Great Patriotic War, Kupala wrote many patriotic journalism and poems against fascist invaders which were very popular with the people.
On June 28, 1942, Yanka Kupala, who had stayed at the hotel «Moscow», suddenly, strangely and mysteriously dies.
Agatha Berezovskaya.
ReplyDeleteThe history of our country is really rich and huge. Our Motherland is full of outstanding people, as well as their discoveries too. Now I am going to tell you about Otto Yulievich Schmidt, who made a great contribution to the development of cosmological science and led an expedition to Antarctica. He was born on September 30, 1891, Mogilev. His family spoke three languages: Russian, Latvian and German. But he feld himself like a Russian man. He showed interest in science since his childhood and graduated from school successfully. His scientific works and researchers were appreciated by society very much. Otto Schmidt developed the hypothesis of the formation of bodies of the solar system and discovered many theorems for the development of mathematics. Also this courageous man explored the northern polar territories. In 1932 he led an expedition of Sibiryakov name, which made the first voyage in history along the Northern Sea Route in one navigation. His discoveries helped the development of not only the science around the world, but also mankind itself. He became a hero of the Soviet Union and received the Order of the Red Star. And I really can say that Otto Schmidt is really outstanding person.