Doctor of Historical Sciences (1990), Professor (1999) of the Department of Theory and History of State and Law of the Academy of Management under the President of the Republic of Belarus.

Born on October 21, 1939, at the Borkovichi railway station in the Verkhnedvinsk district of the Vitebsk region of the BSSR.

In 1966, he graduated from the Faculty of History of Belarusian State University with a degree in "History and Social Studies".

He worked as a lecturer, then as the director of the Republican Komsomol School under the Central Committee of the BRSM of Belarus in 1966-1971. From 1975 to 1984, he was the secretary of the party committee at the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR. From 1984 to 2006, he was the head of department and deputy director of the Institute of History of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. From 2010 to 2015, he was a professor at the Department of Theory and History of State and Law of the Academy of Management under the President of the Republic of Belarus.

In 1990, he defended his dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Historical Sciences on the topic "Ideological and Educational Work among the Working People of the Belarusian Ssr (1970-1980)".

Awards:

Medal "For Labor Valor" (1981)

Certificate of Honor of the Supreme Soviet of the Belarusian Ssr (1980)

Prize named after Academician V. A. Koptiug of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus and the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2003).

Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor, Head of the Department of History of Belarus in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period of the Institute of History of the Nasb.

B.F. Shimuk's childhood fell during the harsh war years. After the liberation of Belarus by Soviet troops, he continued his studies at school and then enrolled in the Borisov Pedagogical College, which he graduated from in 1950. He was assigned to the Posad Primary School in the Logoisk district, his place of origin. However, he was soon drafted for military service in the Baltic Fleet.

After being discharged from the reserve, Boris Filippovich decided to continue his education. He was drawn to history and enrolled in the Faculty of History at the Minsk Pedagogical Institute. From 1958, he began teaching at the Gornovskaya Secondary School in the Minsk region. Soon after, he became the deputy director of the same school.

In 1973, Boris Filippovich, along with his wife Maria Matveevna Kostina, a teacher of Russian language, and their son Andrey, moved to work at the Novo-Svolnyanskaya School in the Verkhnedvinsk district. Here, he began working on the creation of a local history museum at the school. During the process of collecting materials, he discovered that the famous geographer, geologist, and paleontologist Ivan Dementievich Chersky was born in Svolno. B.F. Shimuk became inspired by the idea of creating a museum dedicated to the renowned countryman. He actively engaged in gathering information, sent inquiries to museums in Verkhne-Kolymsk and Irkutsk, spent considerable time in the country's archives, and contacted the Geographical Society of the USSR.

The research work to restore the memory of I.D. Chersky in his homeland did not go unnoticed. In 1979, Boris Filippovich was awarded a Certificate of Honor from the Geographical Society of the USSR "For great merits to Soviet geography and the Geographical Society of the USSR." He was also awarded the honorary title of a member of the Geographical Society of the USSR.

In Chersky's homeland, thanks to the efforts of Boris Filippovich and the financial assistance of the Belarusian Geographical Society, as well as the support of the district, a memorial stone (a 15-ton boulder) with a memorial plaque was erected in 1988. The inscription reads: "Here was born the famous Belarusian geologist and geographer, explorer of Siberia, Chersky Ivan Dementievich, 3(15).V.1845 – 25.VI.(7.Vii).1892."

After a new school building was constructed in Volyntsy in 1990, Boris Filippovich began to actively promote the idea of establishing a state local history museum named after Ivan Dementievich Chersky in the old premises.

On October 20, 1992, at the persistent initiative of B.F. Shimuk, the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee adopted Resolution No. 242 "On the establishment of a local history museum in the village of Volyntsy, Verkhnedvinsk district." B.F. Shimuk was appointed as the museum's director. Thanks to B.F. Shimuk, the museum of our famous countryman I.D. Chersky is known far beyond the borders of Belarus.

B.F. Shimuk passed away on October 30, 2008. He is buried in the village of Volyntsy.

I. Chersky was part of a partisan detachment directly led by Kastu Kalinoski, the leader of the uprising in Belarus. He remained in the detachment for only about four weeks before being captured. The Vitebsk military field court sentenced him to indefinite conscription service in Siberia, with confiscation of property and deprivation of his noble title.

By the decision of the tribunal, Chersky was to serve in Blagoveshchensk, in the Amur Line Battalion. However, while passing through Tobolsk, I. Chersky bribed his way out with five gold coins, which his mother had sewn into the lining of his coat and which he had kept "for a rainy day." Chersky was allowed to serve his sentence in Omsk, in the West Siberian Line Battalion.

On his way to Omsk, I. Chersky met the renowned naturalist a. L. Chekanovsky, who instilled in him an interest in studying nature and collecting various specimens. Thanks to his good education, Chersky was soon transferred to the officers' assembly as a batman. He now spent a lot of time in the library.

Due to an aggravated heart condition in 1869, I. D. Chersky, who had risen to the rank of feldwebel, was deemed unfit for military service and discharged without the right to leave. He lived in Omsk for another two years, earning a living by giving lessons in music, ballroom dancing, and French.

In 1871, the Siberian Department of the Russian Geographical Society, with Middendorff's support, obtained permission for I. D. Chersky to move to Irkutsk, the "capital of Siberia." In 1878, I. D. Chersky married Mavra Pavlovna Ivanova, a native of Irkutsk. She became his assistant in his scientific expeditions.

The most important of Chersky's works belong to the St. Petersburg period of his activity. In 1886, his "Report" on the geological study of the coastal strip of Lake Baikal, with a detailed geological map, was published; in 1888, a geological study of the Siberian postal route from Lake Baikal to the eastern slope of the Urals; and in 1891, a voluminous "Description of Collections of Post-Tertiary Mammals Collected by the Novosibirsk Expedition," which is a complete osteological monograph of the remains of post-tertiary mammals not only from the Novosibirsk Islands but also from all of Siberia.

Ivan Dementievich Chersky died of tuberculosis on June 25 (July 7), 1892, during an expedition to Northeastern Siberia. He was buried on the bank at the mouth of the Omolon River.

A leading scientist in the field of rocks, an outstanding researcher of near-ore alterations, the founder of the mineralogical study of secondary quartzites in the USSR, Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences (1940), Professor (1952), author of over 70 scientific works, and mentor to a whole galaxy of talented geologists.

Nikolai Ivanovich Nakovnik was born in 1895 in the village of Nakovniki, Disna Uyezd, Vitebsk Governorate, into a peasant family.

Scientific activity: graduated from the Faculty of Geology of Leningrad University (1930). From 1924 to 1936 - researcher at Geolkoma-TsNIGRI, from 1931 to 1938 - assistant, associate professor at Leningrad Mining Institute; from 1936 to 1940 - senior researcher at the Institute of Geology of the USSR Academy of Sciences; during the Great Patriotic War (1941–1945) - geologist of the Ural and West Siberian Geological Administrations; from 1949 to 1951 - geologist of the Kazakh Geological Administration; from 1951 to 1953 - associate professor and professor, head of the Department of Petrology at Kazakh State University; from 1953 to 1955 - professor at Belarusian State University (Faculty of Geology and Geography), from 1959 to 1975 - senior researcher, then consultant at Vsegei (All-Union Geological Research Institute of the Ministry of Geology of the USSR).

Studied the geological structure and mineral resources of Central Kazakhstan, the Urals, and Western Siberia. Discovered the largest industrial corundum deposit Semiz-Bugu in Kazakhstan, large deposits of molybdenum, tungsten, copper, cobalt - Akchatau, Sayak, and developed methodological techniques for studying altered rocks around ore bodies.

N.I. Nakovnik made a significant contribution to the creation of the mineral resource base of the USSR and Kazakhstan. Nikolai Ivanovich Nakovnik died in 1975 in Leningrad.

Born in the city of Drissa (Verkhnedvinsk). Palmbach's father was a surgeon, and his mother was a teacher of foreign languages at the Vitebsk Men's Gymnasium. They lived first in the city of Drissa at their grandfather's mill, and later in Vitebsk on Ofitserskaya Street near the Smolensk market. Alexander had five brothers.

From 1906 to 1915, a. A. Palmbakh studied at the Vitebsk Gymnasium, which he graduated from with a gold medal. A. P. Potseluevsky, who later became a renowned Turkologist and Arabist, was a year older and studied at the same gymnasium. Under his influence, Palmbakh began studying Arabic and became interested in Eastern philology and philosophy.

In 1915, he enrolled in the Petrograd Polytechnic Institute, from which he was drafted into the army. During World War I, he commanded an artillery platoon on the Western Front. In 1917, he returned to Vitebsk and passed external examinations at the Vitebsk branch of the Moscow Archaeological Institute.

He worked as an accountant in the provincial executive committee, a teacher, and the chairman of the village organization of education workers in Liozno.

In 1919, he was drafted into the Red Army. After demobilization in 1921, he worked as a teacher in Liozno.

In 1922, he moved to Moscow, where he worked in a school, and from 1924 to 1930, in the editorial office of the magazines "Murzilka" and "Young Builders." From 1925, he was a lecturer and associate professor of languages at the Communist University of the Toilers of the East. He taught at the Chelyabinsk Pedagogical Institute. In 1930, as part of a group of scientists from the USSR Academy of Sciences, he arrived in the city of Kyzyl. He conducted scientific research at the Tuvan Research Institute of Language, Literature, and History.

In 1960, he was elected a professor at Tuvan University. In 1963, a. A. Palmbakh was awarded the title of Honored Worker of Literature and Art of the Tuvan Assr. He was awarded 4 orders.

A. A. Palmbakh is one of the creators of the Tuvan writing system, and one of the authors of "Grammar of the Tuvan Language" and "Fundamentals of Tuvan Philology." Under his editorship, the Russian-Tuvan and Tuvan-Russian dictionaries were published. He participated in the creation of the first Tuvan primers and textbooks for schools, and translated (under the literary pseudonym a. Temir) works of Tuvan poets and writers into Russian.

A. A. Palmbakh was also engaged in literary creation, writing short stories, essays, and poems.

Born in the village of Sarya, Verkhnedvinsk district, Vitebsk region, BSSR in 1961.

In 1984 he graduated from the Faculty of History of Bsu, and in 1988 from postgraduate studies at Bsu.

Worked as a lecturer, senior lecturer, associate professor at the Faculty of History of Bsu. Was elected Secretary of the Komsomol Committee of Bsu.

In 1992-1997 - Head of the Department of International Relations of Bsu.

Since November 1997 - doctoral student at the Faculty of International Relations of Bsu.

In 2000-2008 - Deputy Dean of the Faculty of International Relations of Bsu.

Since September 1, 2008, he has been the Dean of the Faculty of International Relations of Belarusian State University. His research interests include topical issues of the foreign policy of the Republic of Belarus, its relations with European states, the domestic and foreign policy of France, the place and role of the Baltic region countries in modern world politics, global problems of world development and their impact on our country.

Author of numerous scientific publications on the indicated issues, including those published abroad, as well as a monograph and a textbook recommended by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus. Member of the Academic Council of Bsu, Chairman of the Editorial Board of the "Journal of International Law and International Relations"

In September 2013, he was awarded the Certificate of Honor of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus.

On November 19, 2014, V. G. Shadursky was awarded the Medal of F. Skorina for many years of fruitful work, exemplary performance of official duties, and a significant personal contribution to achieving high creative indicators in the education system.

He was born into the family of a minor nobleman (titular councillor). He grew up in the estate of Novoye Selo, located near the Belarusian-Latvian border, on the right bank of the Western Dvina, at the mouth of the Rositsa River. In August 1859, Kosciuszko-Valyuzhinich entered the preparatory department of the Institute of the Corps of Mining Engineers in St. Petersburg. In 1865, he left the capital without completing his studies and returned home, where for three years he "was engaged in agriculture on his father's estate." In 1868, he entered the service of the Daugavpils-Vitebsk Railway Administration as an assistant chief engineer. In 1879, Karl Kazimirovich moved to Sevastopol for treatment of a lung disease; in Sevastopol, he began working in the administration of the Lozovo-Sevastopol Railway (initially as a clerk, and then as a senior accountant).

In 1881, he left his service and, having bought a house in Sevastopol, began studying the history of Crimea, became the unofficial editor of the newspaper "Sevastopolsky Listok," and in 1882 organized the Circle of Lovers of Crimean History and Antiquities, with a museum and library.

In 1888, K. K. Kosciuszko-Valyuzhinich, on the recommendation of V. N. Yurgevich, Vice-President of the Odessa Society, became the site manager and subsequently the head of the "Depot of Local Antiquities" — an archaeological museum in Chersonesus Taurica, which was built at the insistence of Karl Kazimirovich on the shore of Quarantine Bay.

He worked in his post for 20 years. Karl Kazimirovich Kosciuszko-Valyuzhinich died on December 14 (27), 1907, in Sevastopol, at the Red Cross hospital, from pneumonia. He was buried in the Chersonesus Monastery, as stated in the obituary, "jointly by Catholic and Orthodox clergy." His grave with a tombstone, which is a fragment of a marble column with an inscription, has been preserved on the territory of the "Chersonesus Taurica" reserve. It is located on the alley leading to the sea.

Archaeological Research

In 1892, K. K. Kosciuszko-Valyuzhinich was elected a member of the Imperial Archaeological Commission. He was a full member or corresponding member of a significant number of scientific societies of his time, including the Moscow Numismatic Society, the Tauric Scientific Archival Commission, and others.

K. K. Kosciuszko-Valyuzhinich initiated large-scale excavations of the agora of Chersonesus Taurica. During the excavations of the ancient settlement, he discovered the defensive structures (walls) of the city, residential quarters and streets, shops and workshops, public buildings, basilicas, and the water supply system. A significant number of archaeological finds were sent to the Hermitage "for the Highest Review." During the period of archaeological research in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Chersonesus became the largest object of archaeological research in the Russian Empire.