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The monument to the Hero of the Soviet Union Vasily Chebotarev and the partisan town
Vasily Chebotarev, an operative of the Smersh military counterintelligence department, died in June 1944 at the site of the memorial, having entered into a hand-to-hand fight with the enemy. Among the century-old pines, a section of the front line was recreated and a monument to the hero was erected. The memorial complex has become a...
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Spring Kipachka
Near the village of Oreshkovichi there is a spring of Boiling water, which is a hydrological monument of nature. The spring comes out of the ground with a characteristic bubbling that resembles boiling, which is why it was called Boiling Water. There is a belief that if you drink from it before dawn and throw...
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“JAZZ-TIME” Festival
Every year, Soligorsk becomes the jazz capital of Belarus for a few days. The International Jazz and Pop Music Competition “JAZZ-TIME” is held within the walls of the children’s art school, where young stars open up, and professional musicians present their new concert programs. The festival gathers numerous participants from Belarus and other countries of...
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The Stalin Line
The historical and cultural complex “Stalin’s Line” consists of restored fortifications of the Minsk fortified area, which were located on the defensive line of the USSR in the 1930s. At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, the retreating Red Army resisted the enemy here for several weeks. The open-air museum was created in 2005...
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Valentina Minskaya
Valentina Minskaya (nee Chernyavskaya, married Sulkovskaya) is the first person in the history of the Belarusian Orthodox Church to be canonized as a saint. She was born in 1888, grew up in the family of the rector of the church, studied at the Minsk Theological School. One day a woman appeared to her by the...
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Monument to the crew of the aircraft of Nikolai Gastello
Near p.There is a monument to Radoshkovichi on the site of the feat of the crew of captain N. F. Gastello. A dynamic sculptural portrait of Gastello is placed on the 9-meter stele. On the slope there is an inscription: “At this place, the glorious son of the Soviet motherland, the hero pilot N. Gastello,...
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The Elenskys ‘ estate in the village of Tucha
The cloud was first mentioned in the middle of the XVI century as the possession of the mother of Zhigimont II August, already in 1575 the place became part of the Radziwills ‘ possessions. The Elenskys, its last owners, came here in the XVIII century. At the end of the XVIII century, a central manor...
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Distillery building
In the village of Krasnevo, the building of the old distillery, which was founded in 1875 by the landowner Mikhail Grigoryevich Pokrevsky, has been preserved. The first product produced here was potato wine, which was highly valued by the locals and exported to Poland. After 1917, a distillery began operating here. The vinegar factory appeared...
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The trace stone
Between the villages of Gudovichi and Verkhles, in the cemetery, there is a trace stone of the VI-X centuries. The stone is located on a low hill, which is called the Holy Hill. The hill is a 52x53m area surrounded by a low rampart and a moat. In the center of the site there is...
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Holy Resurrection Church
This is the only surviving architectural monument of the XVII century in Kletsk. Marshal Stanislav Kazimir Radziwill allocated a building in the center of Kletsk for the Dominican monastery, and on May 24, 1683, the church was solemnly built. Already on June 6, 1684, the church was consecrated under the title of the Annunciation of...
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