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*Andrei Arlovski, grew up and lived in Minsk before moving to the US to fight in the Ultimate Fighting Championship |
*Victoria Azarenka, former World No. 1 tennis player and 2012 and 2013 Australian Open winner, born in Minsk moving to Arizona at 16 |
*Yuri Bessmertny, kickboxer |
*Svetlana Boginskaya, gold medal-winning gymnast at the 1988 and 1992 Olympics, birthplace |
*Isaac Boleslavsky, chess grandmaster |
*Darya Domracheva, gold (4 times) and bronze medal-winning biathlete at the 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympics |
*Boris Gelfand, chess Grandmaster |
*Max Geller (born 1971), Israeli Olympic wrestler |
*Alexei Ignashov, kickboxer, multiple Muay Thai and K-1 world champion |
*Oleg Karavayev, wrestler and Olympic champion |
*Isaak Mazel, chess master |
*Max Mirnyi, tennis player |
*Artsiom Parakhouski (born 1987), basketball player |
*Yulia Raskina, individual rhythmic gymnast, won the All-Around Silver at the 2000 Sydney Olympics |
* Roman Rubinshteyn (born 1996), Belarusian-Israeli basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League |
*Yuri Shulman, chess grandmaster |
*Mark Slavin, Israeli Olympic Greco-Roman wrestler and victim of the Munich massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics |
*Anna Smashnova (born 1976), Belarusian-born Israeli tennis player |
*Roman Sorkin (born 1996), Belarusian-born Israeli basketball player in the Israeli Basketball Premier League |
*Diana Vaisman (born 1998), Belarusian-born Israeli sprinter |
==Twin towns – sister cities== |
Minsk is twinned with: |
* Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (2007) |
* Ankara, Turkey (2007) |
* Bangalore, India (1986) |
* Beijing, China (2016) |
* Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan (1997) |
* Bonn, Germany (1993) |
* Changchun, China (1992) |
* Chişinău, Moldova (2000) |
* Detroit, United States (1979) |
* Dushanbe, Tajikistan (1998) |
* Eindhoven, Netherlands (1994) |
* Gaziantep, Turkey (2018) |
* Hanoi, Vietnam (2004) |
* Havana, Cuba (2005) |
* Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (2008) |
* Islamabad, Pakistan (2015) |
* Kaluga, Russia (2015) |
* Łódź, Poland (1992) |
* Murmansk, Russia (2014) |
* Nizhny Novgorod, Russia (2017) |
* Nottingham, England, UK (1986) |
* Novosibirsk, Russia (2012) |
* Rostov-on-Don, Russia (2018) |
* Sendai, Japan (1973) |
* Shanghai, China (2019) |
* Shenzhen, China (2014) |
* Tbilisi, Georgia (2015) |
* Tehran, Iran (2006) |
* Ufa, Russia (2017) |
* Ulyanovsk, Russia (2015) |
==Significant depictions in popular culture== |
* Minsk is one of the starting towns of Lithuania in the turn-based strategy game Medieval II: Total War: Kingdoms. |
* In the American sitcom Friends, recurring-character David "the Science Guy" (Hank Azaria) has a romance with Phoebe Buffay, one of the main characters, in the first season of the series, but breaks her heart when he decides to leave for Minsk on a three-year research trip. In the show, Minsk is incorrectly referred to as being located in Russia, despite taking place after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. |
* In Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Worf in the season finale suggests repeatedly to Chief Miles O'Brien to move his family to Minsk. |
== See also == |
* List of squares in Minsk |
== References == |
==Bibliography== |
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== External links == |
* 34mag city guide a city guide for Minsk |
* Minsk city on the official website of Belarus |
* Why Minsk Is Not Like Other Capitals. |
* Lost In Translation In Minsk – The "Real Belarus" Travel Tips. |
* The Minsk Herald online magazine in English |
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* Photos of old Minsk |
* Photos of Minsk during World War II |