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The rite of “Gukanne viasny”
This Belarusian custom is one of the most cheerful and optimistic. To speed up the arrival of spring, this national holiday is arranged, which coincides with the church holiday – the Annunciation. Girls start to click on spring, they sing spring songs. The whole village usually participated in the ceremony: they danced, played and laughed...
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“The Great Stone”
The Chinese-Belarusian Industrial Park “Great Stone “is a special economic zone located in the Minsk region, 25 km from the capital and the National Airport”Minsk”. The priority goal of the park is the development of high-tech export-oriented industries. The Great Stone Park is one of the key platforms of the “One Belt, One Road” initiative...
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The estate of the Drutskys-Lyubetskys
The estate, located in the village of Novoye Pole, 25 km from Minsk, is an architectural monument of the XIX century. To date, the ice house, the park and the manor house, which was built in the classical style and diluted with Baroque features, have been preserved. Initially, the estate and the surrounding lands belonged...
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Bonch-Osmolovsky Manor
It is located in the village of Blon and was first mentioned in 1513. At the beginning of the XIX century, the estate belonged to the landowners Osovsky. But after the uprising of 1863, it was confiscated and transferred to the possession of the official Bonch-Osmolovsky. Anatoly Bonch-Osmolovsky had a huge home library, in his...
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Church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos
The monument of wooden architecture was built in 1894, 10 km from the district center in the small village of Khudovtsy. In 1888, Emperor Alexander III and his family were involved in a terrible accident. The train derailed, twenty people were killed then, but the royal family was not injured. In memory of this, this...
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Peter and Paul Church
It was built in 1840 by the famous Minsk architect Struyev in the retrospective-Russian style on the site of a wooden church at the expense of the owners of the Uzda city – Zavisha family. In 1905, this temple underwent a major renovation. The main decoration of the interior is carved iconostases covered with gilding....
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Church of St. Nicholas in Logoysk
The stone church was built in 1866. In 1907, the icon of the Mother of God, which was considered lost, was returned to Logoysk, which the locals have long revered as miraculous. In the 80s of the twentieth century, the church was painted by icon painters from Sergiev Posad. The altar was decorated with scenes...
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House-estate of I. H. Kolodeev
The manor house, where Ivan Kolodeev, a historian, a founding member of the Russian Military Imperial Society, a chamberlain of His Majesty’s Court, the founder of the Novo – Borisovsky Pоsad, a collector who collected the largest collection of Napoleonics in Europe, a bibliophile, a patron of the arts, lived and worked in the late...
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Minsk National Airport
In 1977, the construction of the main air gate of the Republic of Belarus, one of the largest airports in Eastern Europe, was started. An area of 740 hectares was allocated for the construction of a new airport complex “Minsk-2” in the Smolevichi district. In June 1982, for the first time, a Tu-134 aircraft landed...
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Church of the Ordination of the Most Holy Theotokos
Built in the village of Gruzdovo in 1871, the church is an architectural monument of folk wooden architecture. The church is made entirely of wood, in classical forms for churches of the late 19th century. The shrine of the temple is the miraculous icon of the Mother of God of Gruzdovskaya of the early 15th...
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