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Vitsebsk

Vitsebsk (Belarusian Віцебск (Vitsebsk), Russian Витебск (Vitebsk)) is a city with about 400,000 inhabitants in Belarus, near the border with Russia and Latvia. It is the capital of Vitsebsk voblast.

Vitsebsk developed from a harbour on the Daugava River (in Belarusian, Dzvina).

Vitsebsk is the birthplace of:

• Marc Chagall, famous painter
• Zhores Ivanovich Alferov, physicist

In January 1991, Vitsebsk celebrated the first Marc Chagall Festival. In June 1992, a monument to Chagall was erected on his native Pokrovskaja street and a memorial inscription was done on the wall of his house.

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