orchestra of the republic of belarus, honored artist of russia, evgeny bushkov, having started learning to play the violin at the age of 5 years. performed with a symphony orchestra for the first time. in the early nineties, bushkov conducted intensive concert activity as a soloist. he took part in festivals in monte carlo, kalmar, and madrid. his concerts took place in many cities of russia, germany, france, austria, italy, scotland, usa, mexico. evgeny bushkov's conducting debut took place in 1999 with the international festival orchestra. in since 2009, evgeniy robertovich has been the chief conductor of the state chamber orchestra of the republic of belarus, the ensemble led by him went on concerts in june 2015 , the debut performance in austria was a great success, and in 2016 the first in the history of the belarusian chamber orchestra took place on tour in the usa. on may 10, 1883 , ivan mikhailovich fedorov was born into the family of a belarusian peasant, aka yanko mavr, one of the founders of belarusian children's literature, honored worker of culture of the bssr, appeared in