Yuri Gagarin

Yuri Gagarin

male, deceased (1968)
cosmonaut, Russian, Soviet cosmonaut, space, first man in space, first on orbit…fromSmolenskOblast
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, Hero of the Soviet Union, was a Soviet cosmonaut. On 12 April 1961, he became the first man in space and the first to...
Abraham Of Smolensk

Abraham Of Smolensk

male, deceased (1221)
monk, fromSmolenskOblast, abbot, Laity, smolensk, Last Judgement
Abraham of Smolensk was a monk of Smolensk, his birthplace, where he became a monk of the Bogoroditzkaja monastery. He is historically regarded as...

Nikolai Bogdanov-Belsky

male, deceased (1945)
painter, Russian, smolensk, riga, Imperial Academy of Arts, Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra…fromSmolenskOblast
Nikolai Petrovich Bogdanov-Belsky (1868-1945) was a Russian painter. Bogdanov-Belsky was born in near Smolensk in 1868. He studied art at the Semen...