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Church of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary
One of the oldest churches in Belarus is located in the village of Vishnevo. On the facade of the church you can see the numbers 1424. This is the date when the first wooden Catholic church was built on this place, founded by Prince GDL Vytautas himself. The construction of a stone church on this...
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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 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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Ice rink
The opening of the Ice rink in Zhodino took place on September 26, 2015. The playground is designed for the development of winter sports, there are regular classes in short track groups for children aged 7 years and older; classes in ice hockey groups for children, mass skating, amateur hockey classes.
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“Sula”
The first park-museum of interactive history in Belarus “Sula” is located 49 kilometers from Minsk on the picturesque shore of the eponymous lake. Here a new world opens up, where the line between the material and the spiritual is blurred, the lost connection with the past is restored… Products and objects from different eras of...
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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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Abandoned mill
The Folvarok Pogost belonged to Dominik Radziwill, then representatives of the old German count family of Wittgenstein lived here. One of them in 1842 mentioned a watermill in the Churchyard during the inventory of property. In 1902, Mr. Gershenson laid a brick mill, which produced the first flour in 1908. Near the mill there was...
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Dzerzhinovo Museum-Estate
Dzerzhinovo is the birthplace of Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky (1877-1926), a revolutionary, Soviet statesman and party leader. Today, there is a House-museum of the Dzerzhinsky family, which houses an exhibition dedicated to the history of the Dzerzhinsky family, as well as the life and work of Felix Edmundovich.
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Kamenskiye Boulders
On the outskirts of the village of Kamennoye there is a geological natural monument of republican significance “Kamenskiye Boulders”. Two huge boulders of the Ice Age, located three meters from each other, were once brought by a glacier from the territory of Scandinavia during the Sozh glaciation 220-150 thousand years ago. These natural objects are...
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Vitovsky miraculous spring
20 kilometers from the Belarusian capital, near the village of Cherkasy, there is the Vitovsky miracle-working spring — a holy place endowed with God’s grace. Pilgrims constantly come here to find healing: some – from physical ailments, some — from mental ones. After visiting the holy spring, you can not only collect water, but also...
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