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Church in the name of the Holy Life-Giving Trinity
The church in the name of the Holy Life-Giving Trinity in the village of Blon was built in 1826 in the classical style. The ancient iconostasis, painted in the classical style and decorated with carvings, has been preserved in the temple.
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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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Dzerzhinskaya Mount
Mount Dzerzhinskaya is considered the highest point in Belarus. It is located 30 kilometers from Minsk, near the city of Dzerzhinsk, on the outskirts of the village of Skirmantovo, and rises 345 meters above sea level. In the old days, mountains were often places of worship for people – it was on the hills, as...
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Kinetic Theater
The master of folk crafts Andrey Martynyuk created the only kinetic theater in the country, where dolls move to the music. In fact, it can be called an expanded and modernized version of the “Batleika”. In Dzerzhinsk “Balabukha” (this word is translated as” Kolobok”) there are several stage platforms on different levels. Genre walls reveal...
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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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Water Tower
The water tower in the Old Roads is one of the most notable sights of the city. It is located behind the railway station building. The building was erected at the turn of the XIX-XX centuries, has been perfectly preserved to our time and can be considered as a vivid example of industrial architecture of...
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Museum exposition of the Hero of Belarus M. S. Vysotsky
On August 1, 2008, in a house on the outskirts of ag. The house-museum of the Hero of Belarus, academician, general designer of MAZ Mikhail Stepanovich Vysotsky was opened in Semezhevo. The museum’s exposition is dedicated to the life and work of one of the founders of the Belarusian truck industry, an Honorary citizen of...
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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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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 Exaltation of the Holy Cross
The Church of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross was built by the architect August Klein in the Neo-Romanesque style with Neo-Gothic features. The first time the temple was damaged in the First World War, after the Second World War, the shrine was closed. Today, the church serves not only as a landmark of Belarus,...
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