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People from Yelninsky Uyezd

  • El LissitzkyLazar Markovich Lissitzky was born on the 23rd of November 1890 in Pochinok, a small Jewish community southeast of Smolensk.
  • Mikhail GlinkaMikhail Ivanovich Glinka was born in the village of Novospasskoye, not far from the Desna River. His early years were spent inside a room kept at 18 degrees…