🌟 Famous People of Pridvinye
Natives of the District — the Pride of Beshenkovichi Land
The Beshenkovichi land is famous for its people. In the village of Ostrovno, in the ancestral castle, the statesman of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Lev Ivanovich Sapieha (1557–1633), was born; in the urban settlement of Ulla — the Belarusian painter Ivan Fomich Khrutsky (1810–1885); in the urban settlement of Beshenkovichi — the graphic artist Solomon Borisovich Yudovin (1892–1954); in the village of Sanniki — the historian, academician of the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR, Timofey Sazonovich Gorbunov (1904–1969); in the village of Selishche — the artist Anatoly Alekseevich Tkachenok (1922–1994).
In the village of Sloboda, on September 16, 1946, the literary figure Zakonnіkov Sergey Ivanovich was born. In the village of Baboyedovo, on February 28, 1925, the painter Ivan Timofeevich Baboyedov was born.
Heroes of the Soviet Union
The title of Hero of the Soviet Union was awarded to 5 natives of the district:
- Konstantin Antonovich Abazovsky
- Mikhail Amosovych Vysogorets
- Lev Mikhailovich Dovator
- Ivan Ivanovich Strochko
- Mikhail Nikolaevich Tkachenko
Heroes of Labor and Socialist Labor
The title of Hero of Labor was awarded to:
- Bukman Mark Borisovich (1926)
The title of Hero of Socialist Labor was awarded to:
- Baranku Mikhail Stepanovich (1986)
- Dmitrichenko Alexander Petrovich (1966)
- Pankevich Konstantin Grigorievich (1971)
- Filipenko Vasily Ivanovich