Mogilev - Notable Natives

Notable Natives

  • Abe Anellis, microbiologist
  • David Pinski, Yiddish playwright
  • Ilya Garelik, guitarist for The Delta Rasa
  • Irving Berlin, American composer
  • Issai Schur, mathematician
  • Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam, physicist
  • Lev Polugaevsky, International Grandmaster of chess
  • Matest M. Agrest, ethnologist and mathematician
  • Mikałaj Sudziłoŭski, revolutionary and scientist
  • Modest Altschuler, orchestra conductor
  • Otto Schmidt, scientist, mathematician, astronomer, geophysicist, statesman, academician
  • Petr Elfimov, musician
  • Spiridon Sobol, Belarusian enlightener and printer, in 1631 he published the first ABC-book in Belarus
  • Andrey Melnikov, soldier and recipient of Hero of the Soviet Union award

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