of a Polesian szlachta family Mikhail Glinka, composer, descendant of Smolensk szlachta Sofya Kovalevskaya, Russian mathematician who made noteworthy contributions to analysis, partial differential equations and mechanics. Dmitry Shostakovich, composer, descendant of a participant of the November uprising Several Russian noble families (Trubetskoy, Belsky and others) were originally Belarusian szlachta that fled to Muscovy Pavel Sukhoi, constructor and designer Nikolai Nikolayevich Yudenich, commander of the Russian Imperial Army during World War I, leader of the anti-communist White movement in Northwestern Russia during the Civil War. Andrey Vilkitsky, hydrographer and surveyor. Ivan Khrutsky, painter Osip Kozlovsky - composer Iosif Goshkevich, an Imperial Russian diplomat and Orientalist Ivan Solonevich - philosopher, historian, writer, editor, publisher, publicist and conservative political activist. Pavel Malyantovich -Minister of Justice of the Provisional Government (1917), Supreme Prosecutor of Russia (1917). Boris Vilkitsky, Russian hydrographer and surveyor. Yefim Karskiy, linguist-Slavist, ethnographer and paleographer, founder of Belarusian linguistics, literary studies and paleography, a member of numerous scientific institutions, and author of more than 100 works on linguistics, ethnography, paleography and others. Nikolai Sudzilovsky, a revolutionary and scientist. Lev Dovator, Soviet major-general during WW2 Mikhail Khodaryonok - journalist, military observer for Gazeta.Ru and Vesti FM, and a Reserve Colonel of the Russian Federation Vasily Sokolovsky, Soviet general and Marshal of the Soviet Union who led Red Army forces on the Eastern Front during World War II. Ivan Yakubovsky, Marshal of the Soviet Union, twice made a Hero of the Soviet Union and serving as commander-in-chief of the Warsaw Pact from 1967 to 1976. Yanka Kupala, poet and writer. Vasily Yushkevich, Soviet Army colonel general. Lev Artsimovich, a Soviet physicist, academician of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (1953) Viktor Yanukovych, the fourth President of Ukraine Aleksandra Bortich, Actress Innokenty Smoktunovsky, a Soviet actor acclaimed as the "king of Soviet actors". Kazimir Malevich, Ukraine-born Russian painter of Belarusian-Polish origin Georgy Mondzolevski, Soviet former volleyball player Ruslan Salei, ice hockey player Sergei Drozd, ice hockey player Sergei Ignashevich, former professional footballer who played as central defender and is currently the manager of Russian Football National League club Torpedo Moscow. Andrey Makarevich, Soviet and Russian rock musician and the founder of Russia's oldest still active rock band Mashina Vremeni (Time Machine). Artyom Borovik - journalist and media magnate. Vladimir Kovalyonok, Soviet cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy, Russian cosmonaut Yury Olesha - Russian and Soviet novelist References External links Russia and Belarus: an ethnocultural dialogue (in Russian)