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Famous Natives of Orsha

See also category: People from Orsha
  • Francis Dzierozynski, Polish pioneer Jesuit in America
  • Piotra Holub (Golub Petr Semionovich) (1913–1953), artist, author of many well-known Soviet propaganda posters, such as "болтун находка для шпиона" and many others
  • Uladzimir Karatkievich, Belarusian writer
  • Sergei Kolevatykh, artist
  • Boris Laskin (1914–1983), Soviet writer and poet, author of many Soviet propaganda hit songs ("Броня крепка, и танки наши быстры!", "Три танкиста, три веселых друга...", "Помирать нам рановато - есть у нас еще дома дела");
  • Paul Phillip Levertoff (born Feivel Levertoff), pioneering Hebrew-Christian scholar of the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century
  • Mikhail Marynich, opposition politician, who was imprisoned in Orsha
  • Georgy Mondzolevsky, 2-time Olympic volleyball champion
  • Gershon Shufman, Hebrew author, known as 'Gimel Shufman'
  • Dmitriy Snezhko (Dzmitry Sniazhko), Esperanto activist, author of the first Belarusian-Esperanto dictionary
  • Abraham Dob Baer Ben Solomon, rabbi in Orsha in the second half of the eighteenth century
  • Frida Vigdorova, Soviet writer and journalist, famous for writing "White book" after Joseph Brodsky trial, in support of human rights in USSR (ru:Вигдорова, Фрида Абрамовна)
  • Lev Vygotsky, psychologist
  • Boris Zakharchenya (1928–2005), physicist, academician, a member of the praesidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences, specialist in optics and spectroscopy;
  • Nathan Zarkhi (1900–1935), Soviet playwright and film writer
  • Kanstantsin Zaslonau (Konstantin Zaslonov), Soviet partisan (there is a monument of Zaslonau in Orsha)
  • Igor Zhelezovsky (Ihar Zhalezouski), Olympic medalist speed skater

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