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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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Hutten-Chapsky Palace in Priluki
The palace and park complex – the family residence of Count E. Gutten-Chapsky is located 15 km from Minsk. This ownership passed to Chapsky in the XIX century. Before that, according to historical information, the Oginsky, Ivanovsky, Gorvatty, Vishnevetsky owned the palace. Today, the Hutten-Chapsky Palace has been restored. Not far from the palace and...
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Multifunctional sports grounds
The project of the Presidential Sports Club “Sport for All” has opened multifunctional sports grounds in almost all district centers of the Minsk region. Sports grounds are never empty – fans of an active lifestyle of all ages, including pupils of sports institutions, are engaged here. All facilities are multifunctional, and are popular with people...
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Church of the Assumption of the Most Holy Theotokos
Assumption Church in Novy Sverzhen village was also built according to Bernardoni project almost simultaneously with the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul church — in 1590. It is believed that the founder of the Orthodox church, as well as the Catholic one, was Nikolai Radziwill Sirotka. The wooden structure burned down, and a stone temple...
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Trinity Church in the village of Zasvir
The Church of the Holy Trinity is the rarest architectural monument of the Sarmatian Baroque for Belarus. The church was built in the XVIII century to the already existing monastery of the Barefoot Carmelites. Today, services are held in the church, but only ruins remain of the monastery buildings.
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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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Traditions of straw weaving
Students of the folk straw weaving studio “Nathnenne” under the guidance of teachers are engaged not in souvenir work, but in creating exclusively costumes made of straw. Every summer, the children go to the field, where they manually reap rye or wheat, from the stems of which they then create unusual and amazing national costumes....
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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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Memorial plate in honor of Marat Kazey
The young partisan Marat Kazey heroically died near the village of Khoromitsky on May 11, 1944. Today, a memorial plate in honor of the pioneer hero is installed near the village.
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Ethnocultural complex “Nanosy”
On the territory of the ethnic village there are ten communal and two petty-bourgeois houses that look authentic and cozy at the same time. There are also many museums here – the museum of bread in a watermill and the museum of Old Belarusian life, the museum of coins, the museum of moonshine, the museum...
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