Birth Name: Aliaksándar Ryhóravič Lukašénka
Place of Birth: Kopys, Vitebsk voblast, Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, Soviet Union (now Belarus)
Date of Birth: August 30, 1954
Ethnicity: Belarusian, Ukrainian
Alexander Lukashenko is a Belarusian politician and the president of Belarus.
Alexander is the son of Gregory ??? and Catherine Trofimovna Lukashenko. Alexander was raised only by his mother and was therefore given her surname. Catherine was born in Alexandria/Alieksandryja, Shklow Raion, Mogilev Voblast, Belarus, and grew up on a farm.
Alexander’s maternal grandfather was Trofim Ivanovich Lukashenko. Trofim was born and raised on the farm Panurka, within present Sumy oblast, Ukraine. It has been said that he had Cossack ancestry. The Cossacks are a Slavic ethnic group in Ukraine and Russian, native to the region where Trofim was born.
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