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“Yuray”
The regional folk holiday “Yuray” is celebrated every year on May 6 in the village of Obchin. In the morning, a divine service is served with the participation of an Orthodox priest near the roadside guardian Cross. And from the cross, the Yurov round dance of girls and boys goes to the rye field. In...
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Minsk settlement
The archaeological complex of the IX-XI centuries is located near the village of Gorodishche. According to one hypothesis, it was the ancient Mensk, and after it was burned several times, the settlement was moved to the Svisloch and Nemiga rivers. This is one of the most important archaeological monuments of Belarus. High earthen ramparts, which...
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Kuzma Chorny Literary Museum
The future writer spent his childhood and youth in the village of Timkovichi. Here he graduated from a two-grade school, worked in the department of public education, worked as a teacher. The museum was created in 1962 by teachers and students of the Timkovichi secondary school, under the leadership of the former director of the...
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Chaim Soutine Space Museum in Smilovichi
In February 2008, an exhibition dedicated to one of the most famous artists of the Paris school, a native of Smilovichi Chaim Soutine, was opened in the Center for Creativity of Children and Youth. Soutine’s unique canvases adorn the best museums in America and Europe, they are purchased by collectors for tens of millions of...
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Church of the Assumption of the Most Holy Theotokos
Assumption Church in Novy Sverzhen village was also built according to Bernardoni project almost simultaneously with the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul church — in 1590. It is believed that the founder of the Orthodox church, as well as the Catholic one, was Nikolai Radziwill Sirotka. The wooden structure burned down, and a stone temple...
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Police retro cars
Near the building of the Soligorsky District Police Department there is a park of official police cars of the Soviet era. The exhibits do not just perform a decorative function, but symbolize the traditions laid down in the foundations of the service by the Soviet police, the continuity of the work of law enforcement agencies...
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Lake and the village of Svir
The picturesque lake shares its name with the ancient village of Svir, whose history begins with the 15th century, when the owners of the place were the princes of the Svir coat of arms “Fox”. The brothers Eric and Roman Svirsky were part of the local political elite, signed the acts of the Trotsky (in...
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Monument to Sofia Slutskaya
The bronze monument to the last representative of the princely family of Olelkovich, who was canonized by the Belarusian Orthodox Church in 1984, was installed in 2000 in the square on Maxim Bogdanovich Street. The gesture of Sofia’s left hand means a call to stop and think. Above the monument rises an arch with three...
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The Versailles Park Hotel
The country complex located on the picturesque shore of Lake Sergievskoye. On the well-groomed territory, you can walk along the paths in the French park, where there is a light and music fountain, benches and many flowers. A picturesque forest with a “Hut on chicken legs” and a small zoo will appeal to young tourists.
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Zamchishche
In the XIV century, a powerful wooden fortification with a high wall and towers appeared here. Subsequently, it was owned by representatives of various gentry families. The last of them were the Oginsky ones. At the beginning of the XVIII century, the Molodechno Castle turned into a stone palace, where there was even a greenhouse....
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