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Memorial complex “Zyslov”
The island near the village of Starosek became the center of the partisan movement and an airfield during the Great Patriotic War. Since August 1941, a hard-to-reach area in the thicket of the forest has served as a safe haven for the underground Komsomol regional committee, the headquarters of partisan formations and brigades, newspaper editorial...
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“Raubichi”
The Republican Olympic Training Center for Winter Sports “Raubichi” is a multifunctional sports complex and a center for Olympic sports. The history of the sports complex begins in 1972, when the International Biathlon Federation decided to hold the Biathlon World Championship in the USSR. As a result of the reconstruction of 2009-2014, a number of...
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Caroling ceremony “Tsars”
The traditional New Year’s folk circumambulation rite is listed in the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage list and takes place annually on January 13 in ag. Semezhevo. According to local legend, in the 18th century, a military hospital of the Russian army was stationed in the vicinity of the village and before the New Year, soldiers...
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Branches of the State Literary and Memorial Museum of Yakub Kolas
In the small homeland of Yakub Kolas in the Stolbtsovsky district there is a branch of the museum “Nikolayevshchina”, which unites the memorial estates of Akinchitsy, Lastok, Albut and Smolnya. The Akincitsy estate is the first place of service of Mikhail Mickiewicz, the poet’s father, who lived here with his family in 1881-1883. On the...
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Alba Forest Park
The name of the park was given in honor of the Italian city of Alba Longa, which was called the mother of Rome. Nikolai Christopher Radziwill Sirotka began creating Radziwill parks in the style of Italian landscape art of the Renaissance after numerous trips to Europe. Later, Alba was built by Mikhail Kazimir Rybonka in...
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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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Sports and entertainment center
The center consists of an ice arena with 2,200 seats, a universal sports hall with bleachers, a swimming pool with 4 lanes with elements of an aqua park. There are also 2 tennis courts, volleyball, basketball and mini-football courts at the disposal of sports lovers. On the basis of the center, the Minsk Regional Comprehensive...
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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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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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Weaving Festival “Matchyny Krosny»
The festival has been held for decades. Several hundred weavers from different regions of Belarus come to the Old Roads to share the secrets of ancient craftsmanship. In addition to master classes, the festival includes a parade of handbrakes and a large fair, which is full of beautiful original patterns and ornaments.
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