Famous People Born In Gomel

Yuri Foreman is an Israeli boxer who currently fights out of Brooklyn, New York City, New York. From 2009 to 2010, he was the WBA super welterweight champion. Nicknamed the Boxing Rabbi, Foreman pursued Jewish religious studies and was ordained as a rabbi in 2014. He has also appeared in TV shows and films like Jimmy Kimmel Live and Fighting.

Vladimir Veremeenko is a Belarusian basketball player. In 2005, he was part of the Dynamo Saint Petersburg team that won the FIBA Europe League championship title. In 2011, he helped BC UNICS win its first EuroCup title. Vladimir Veremeenko has also won three Russian Basketball Cups so far in his career.

Elena Rzhevskaya was a writer who also worked as a war interpreter for the Soviet Union. She is best remembered for her memoir, Memories of a War-time Interpreter, according to which she was part of the Soviet unit that was tasked with finding Adolf Hitler's corpse. According to Rzhevskaya, Hitler's body was found on 4 May 1945 by Ivan Churakov.

Kanstantsin Sivtsov is a Belarusian retired road bicycle racer. He was part of Team Sky that won a bronze medal at the 2013 UCI Road World Championships in Tuscany, Italy. Kanstantsin Sivtsov received a four-year ban for using a banned substance called Erythropoietin (EPO) and he announced his retirement while serving the ban. 

Sergey Sidorsky is a Belarusian politician who served as the prime minister of Belarus from 2004 to 2010. After starting his career as an electrician, Sidorsky went on to establish himself as a prominent political figure in Belarus. Sergey Sidorsky is also credited with authoring over 40 monographs and scientific publications.