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Convent in honor of St. Blessed Xenia of St. Petersburg
The convent was founded in 2002 with the blessing of Metropolitan Filaret of Minsk and Slutsk, Patriarchal Exarch of All Belarus. A building for monks with a large refectory has been built on the territory of the monastery. There is also a subsidiary farm, where cows, sheep, chickens and a bee apiary are kept. Vegetables...
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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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The estate of the Narkevichi-Iodko “Nadneman”
The Belarusian naturalist, inventor, physician, professor of electrography and magnetism Yakov Narkevich-Iodko organized a meteorological station in his estate Nadneman. In the XIX century he made significant scientific discoveries in physics, medicine, agriculture. It is known that progressive experiments related to the use of electricity in various spheres of life were carried out on the...
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Geographical center of Belarus (D. Antonova)
According to scientists, the center of Belarus is located in the village of Antonova, Pukhovichi district, 67 kilometers southeast of Minsk. A scientifically based and mathematically verified fact: the center of Belarus is located at the coordinates of 53°31 ‘44.54″ north latitude and 28°02’41.90″ east longitude. The geodetic sign was installed on May 31, 1996.
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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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St. Nicholas Church
St. Nicholas Church in the village of Stankovo, built in the XIX century on the foundations of two churches of the XVIII century (a wooden church built by Prince Radziwill and the Uniate Peter and Paul Church). It is located in the center of the village, on the left bank of the Rapussa River. The...
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Branch of the Belarusfilm Film Studio
The site was opened in 1970. Over the years of its existence, Belarusian and Russian filmmakers have shot many famous films: “Pailinka”, “Little Red Riding Hood”, “Ruins shoot at point-blank range”, “Yemelyan Pugachev”, “Go and see”, “The Last Armored Train”, “Gray Legend”, “Anastasia Slutskaya”, “Man of War”, “Piranha Hunting” and many others.
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Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary
The stone church in Borisov was built in 1823 on the site of the wooden church of 1642, which burned down at the beginning of the XIX century. Priest Anufriy Gzovsky made a lot of efforts to revive the church. The current Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary was built in the style...
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Cosmonautics Museum
In 2013, a museum of cosmonautics was created at School No. 2 in Cherven. The main character of the exhibition is pilot-cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky, a native of the city, a former graduate of this school. Oleg Novitsky and his family members have repeatedly visited the museum, handed over to the museum the main exhibits –...
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Church of St. Michael the Archangel
The church in the village of Ivenets was built in the Baroque style in the middle of the 18th century under the command of Count Jan Sollogub. The church is a cross basilica, divided into 3 naves, above which rise five-tiered towers. Inside there are 3 altars, which are decorated with sculptural stucco in the...
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