The article presents the history of a series of 10 scientific conferences called „Famous Inhabitants of the Minsk Region in the XIXth and XXth centuries”, organized in Minsk from 2004 to 2016. The conferences were to achieve two goals: to develop Polish and Belarusian biographical studies on the famous people from Minsk from the 19th and 20th centuries, and to bring together historians of both nationalities dealing with the history of Belarus in the 19th and 20th centuries. The author analyzes 10 volumes of the „Excellent Inhabitants of the Minsk Region in XIX-XX centuries”, according to their volumes, the content of the articles and the languages in which they were written.
