on july 20, 1948, anatoly kashtalapov, a dancer, musician, folklorist, honored artist of the republicbelarus, was born in mogilev. head of the belarusian state folk music ensemble. it is sacredly known that the young artist served as a prototype of a dancer, who is depicted on mosaic panels of houses opposite the national library of belarus on the basis of folklore collected in different regions of belarus and processed by him. anatoly koshmalapov created a number of musical choreographic songs based on the musical compositions of dances that made up the golden fund of belarusian culture. july 22, 1936 in the south of russia in the village of danilovka, volgograd region, valentina gaevaya was born. choreographer, people's artist of the bssr, she dreamed of a stage since childhood, but received a non-artistic education, and choreographic , by the will of fate, valentina ivanovna ended up in belarus and in 1974 created the now legendary ensemble. a good combatant understood that it was possible to create a high-level dance group only on the basis of a national creative heritage. she got