Beba Shlosberg
photografer, artist
Sergey Zhilevich
artist, poet
Viktor Saganovich
artist
Izya Shlosberg
artist, author
photografer, artist
artist, poet
artist
artist, author
The Artfact Club unites multi-talented individuals who have already proven their significance in art, literature, sports, performance, and other creative fields. Most members of the club possess two or more talents simultaneously. The geographical scope of the members' activities spans both hemispheres of the Earth. All the artists in the club have experience in international exhibitions, the scientists have confirmed their status through scientific works and awards, and most authors are winners of various competitions and have publications in dozens of books and journals.
The club's history begins in the mid-1980s in Belarus. A group of artists came together for joint exhibitions both in the country and abroad. After 2000, poets, writers, and musicians joined the artists, followed later by scientists. Each member has a biography rich in creativity across various fields.
The club is private, and new members join by invitation or recommendation.
Scientist, astrophysicist, PhD, follower of the many-worlds ideas of Hugh Everett, the author of the term Everett. Organized and leads video discussions about Everett with other physicists, philosophers and even psychiatrists. One of the most famous Russian-language science fiction writers. He began publishing in magazines at the age of fifteen. Today, he is the author of more than 30 books, many publications in collections and magazines, editor of the Milky Way magazine.
Author of a course on the development of creative imagination and ten popular science books. Laureate of literary awards in the field of science fiction: Aelita (analogous to the American Hugo Award), the I. A. Efremov Award, the A. R. Belyaev Award, etc.
A famous bard, one of the ten most famous songwriters in the country. Performs on stage at the most famous halls and venues, solo and with the most popular performers both in Russia and in many countries. A wonderful, recognizable by style, very soulful poet and musician. Plays the guitar and piano.
The children are talented, like their mother. Son Anton Dolin is a famous film critic, husband is a film director. The family's universal favorite is a shaggy poodle.
Graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute. Candidate of Technical Sciences in two specialties, associate professor in the specialty "Navigation Instruments"; author of articles published in the journals "Aerospace Instrumentation", "Gyroscopy and Navigation", "World of Avionics" and others, winner and prize-winner of conferences of young scientists
Passionate competition participant and multiple winner of online tournaments. From 2008 to 2013, editor of the magazine "RBZh-Azimuth" (Odessa); as a compiler and editor, she took part in the work on the anthologies "Adventure Called Life" (2009), "Tomorrow Will Be the Wind" (2010) and "Azimuth 2010" (a joint project of "RBZ-Azimuth" and Hannah Concern Inc (USA)).
The novel "The First Judge of the Labyrinth", co-authored with Marina Drobkova under the pseudonym Alexey Kirsanov received the "Golden Caduceus" in the nomination "Best Debut Book".
Alexander Gabriel was born in 1961 in Minsk. He studied at the Faculty of Industrial Heat Power Engineering at the Belarusian National Technical University (1978–1983), defended his PhD thesis in 1988, and worked as a research fellow at a scientific institute. After 1992, he engaged in commercial and banking activities, and in 1997, he emigrated with his family to the United States, where he changed his profession to software tester. He continues to work in this field to this day. For many years he has been one of the most famous Russian-language poets, author of seven poetry books, and has around a hundred publications in online and print editions.
He is a three-time laureate of the Nikolay Gumilyov Award.
Boris Kokotov was born in 1946 in Moscow. He received a technical education and worked as a research fellow at one of the Moscow research institutes. He has a number of articles and more than forty author's certificates for inventions in the field of applied electrical engineering. Boris Kokotov's literary activity began in the mid-1960s, his first collection of poems, "Prints," appeared in 1970. Since 1991, Boris Kokotov has lived in Baltimore.
He is the author of eight collections of poems in Russian and two in English, as well as a number of translations from German, English and American poetry. His poems and translations have been published in magazines, almanacs and anthologies in Russia, the USA and Germany.
Alexander Marshak received the M.S. degree in applied mathematics from Tartu University, Estonia, in 1978 and the Ph.D. degree in numerical analysis from the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Novosibirsk, Russia, in 1983. In 1978, he joined the Institute of Astrophysics and Atmospheric Physics in Estonia, where he worked for 11 years. In 1989, he received an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship and worked for two years with Gottingen University, Germany. In 1991, he joined GSFC, first working for SSAI, then UMBC/JCET, and finally, NASA/GSFC, where he has been since January 2003.
Dr. Marshak has published over 200 refereed papers, books, and chapters in edited volumes.
The couple began their creative careers while studying together at the Oil and Gas Institute in Moscow. Both are excellent soloists, and have long had their imitators and followers, with the poetic part being Svetlana's privilege, and the musical accompaniment being Alexander's. They write music together. Over the years of the duo's existence, the Mendelevs have performed hundreds of times in Russia, Israel, the USA, Germany and other countries. The main theme of their songs is love for people, family, and country.
They are modern, they are relevant, they do not try to please, but they are imitated.
MIFI graduates. Professor Alexander Moiseyev prefers not to talk about his scientific career, although the devices created by Alexander Moiseyev have been flying in space for many years. His achievements have been appreciated not only by NASA, but also by previous companies working on space, where he had to work.
However, the spouses themselves are more proud of their sports achievements than their scientific ones, although they have medals and other awards in both areas. In rock climbing, the Moiseyevs reached the level of candidates for master of sports, and have cycled all over Europe. Larisa, using her experience as a rider, managed to cross Altai.
The list of their sports achievements is not yet complete.
Peter Slutsky graduated from the Igumnoff College of Music of Moscow in the former Soviet Union. He came to US early 1990s and resided in Baltimore, where in time he founded the first Russian theater (Russian Amateur Drama Theatre) where he performed as an actor and producer till 1996, creating numerous plays by the famous Russian dissident writers (A. Galich, V. Vysotskiy, etc.) Here in US he took an extensive vocal operatic training and has become an active recitalist and interpreter of Russian music. On stage Peter has created unforgettable images of Germont ("La Traviata"), Figaro (("Marriage of Figaro"), Belcore ("Elixir of Love"), Tevye ("Fiddler on the roof") and many others. He is known for outstanding acting abilities, distinctive musical identity and unique beauty and color of his voice.
Peter has pioneered with the "New Russian Theatre" Company, MD to perform in the original adaptations of M. Glinka's "Ruslan and Lyudmila", and A. Markov's "Queen Ester". For some years Peter directed and presented New Year shows at the Russian Embassy in Washington for English-speaking kids. His recitalist activity has taken him to many venues and music festivals all along the East Coast. Peter has always been interested in preserving and popularizing the style of Russian romantic song (romance), where he is looking for combining the originality with a new blend of music, poetry and instruments.
Director, theater and film actor, TV presenter, organizer and host of concerts and shows, singer and poet Leonid Stepanov hails from Kaliningrad, where, after graduating from university and later receiving a theater education, he worked for ten years as a TV presenter, then a radio presenter, and later as a theater director, organizer and host of various shows. He also presented and opened concerts of many leading stars who came to Kaliningrad.
Possessing incredible ingenuity, he came up with interesting moves and solutions not only on stage, but even when solving technical issues.
In the USA, Leonid staged several performances in collaboration with Nonna Kaler, with the Baltimore group BHAT and with a children's group.
A graduate of the Vitebsk Institute of Art and Graphics, he exhibited his works for the first time at the city museum at the age of seventeen. He is engaged in sculpture and painting, and is fond of poetry. A member of the ArtFact group, he has exhibited his works several times outside of Belarus, where he currently lives, namely in Germany, Poland, Russia, France and Spain, the USA, and participated in Sotheby's. He created a sculpture garden, which includes more than a hundred wooden, stone and marble sculptures. Whole buses of tourists come to admire the artist's work and his famous garden.
Several of his sculptures have been commissioned by the mayor's office for cities in Belarus.
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