Events of February 5 in Belarusian and world history.

A day in history

1852 - the Hermitage was opened to the general public in St. Petersburg.

The Hermitage building on the banks of the Neva

1917 - as a result of the Mexican Revolution, the Constitution of the United States of Mexico was adopted.

1940 — the deportation of certain categories of the population from Western Belarus to the interior regions of the USSR began.

1958 -

ran for the post of president of the United Arab Republic (the united state of Syria and Egypt, which existed from February 1958 to September 1961).

1979 -

declared Iran an Islamic state.

2001 — an explosive device exploded at the "Belarusian Kalzavaya" metro station in Moscow.

They were born on this day

Leonid Shchemylev

1923

—

Belarusian painter, People's Artist of Belarus.

Died in 2021.

1930 —

Belarusian actor.

1964 —

, Belarusian historian

Rostislav Yankovsky in the role of Mr. Lover in the play of the same name

In memory

1637 -

, Belarusian writer, Uniate church worker, died.

1939 - historian

, president of the Academy of Sciences in 1931–1936, died in the Gulag.

1999 —

, American economist of Russian origin, Nobel Prize laureate in economics, died.

Syadnev , a Belarusian novelist and poet,

died in the American city of Glenkov .

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