Elena Bormotova: Yesterday Belarus has suffered an irreparable loss. Actor Rostislav Yankovsky (86) and composer Sergei Kortes (81) died within two hours.
Rostislav Yankovsky was born in Odessa in the family of a repressed captain. He studied at the summer and even was a boxing champion of Tajikistan. And then joined the theater for the rest of his life and played numerous movie parts. For years, Yankovsky was the President, and then the Honorary Chairman of Festival "Listopad"
The actor was very upset by the death of his younger brother Oleg. His photograph was always there. As photos of his sons and grandsons.
Sergey Cortes was born at 35 in Chile. For 20 years he lived in Argentina, before the family ran from revolution to Minsk.
In Minsk Sergei Cortes entered the conservatory and studied as a composer and a pianist. Cortes composed music for many movies and vocal-symphonic cycle for the band Pesniary.
Legends will be buried in the East Cemetery of Minsk.












