Kamenets. Vsevolod Ignatovsky Library.

The Vsevolod Ignatovsky Regional Library is located in the very center of the small town of Kamenets. The library building was built during the time of the Polish state in the early 20th century. The library's history dates back to 1944. Initially, the institution was located in another room, but later moved to this two-story stone building. In 2005, the district library was named after fellow countryman Vsevolod Makarovich Ignatovsky (1881-1931).

V. Ignatovsky is the first president of the Belarusian Academy of Sciences, a historian, public and political figure. He was born in the Kamenetsky district in the town of Tokari, which is now located on the border with Poland. He studied at seminaries in Vilnius and Mogilev, and then at universities in St. Petersburg at the Faculty of History and Philology and at the University of Tartu. After the revolution, he was People's Commissar of Education and Agriculture. Chairman of the Institute of Belarusian Culture. The first president of the Academy of Sciences since 1929, the first director of the Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences. Professor of BSU.

During the Stalinist repressions, he was dismissed from his posts and expelled from the Communist Party as the leader of the "National Democratic Counterrevolution." After being interrogated by the GPU, he committed suicide.

Rehabilitated. The grave is located in Minsk at the Military Cemetery. A few years ago, a commemorative plaque was installed on the main facade of the building of the Kamianets Regional library.