Efim Semyonovich Minin (Belarusian: Яфім Сямёнавіч Мінін, Russian: Ефим Семёнович Минин); 20 October [O.S.

His grandfather, Timofei Ivanovich Minin, was the head of the Old Believers community, had 10 children and lived for 103 years.

After demobilisation in 1918 he entered the Vitebsk Art studio of Yehuda (Yuri) Pen; he was also a pupil of Solomon Judowin.

[4] During the period of mass repressions in January 1933, Vitaly Volsky, a member of the All-Union Cheka-GPU (he was briefly director of the Belarusian Art College when Minin returned to teach there), published an article in the national magazine Mastatsstva i revalutsiya entitled About the recurrence of national-democratism in the works of the artist Minin.

By the decision of the Commission of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs (NKVD) and the USSR Prosecutor's Office of 19 November 1937 he was sentenced to execution as a member of the Polish Military Organisation (POW), although it existed only during the First World War.