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Vitsebsk

Vitsebsk (Russian Витебск, Vitebsk) is a city in Belarus close to the border to Russia and Latvia with about 400,000 inhabitants.

Vitsebsk was the place of birth of:

Marc Chagall, famous painter
Zhores Ivanovich Alferov, physicist

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