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Naliboki forest
Naliboki forest is the largest forest area on the territory of Belarus, its name comes from the nearby village of Naliboki. There is a republican landscape reserve, it covers an area of almost 87 thousand hectares. In addition to a large network of farmsteads, bicycle routes and eco-trails are equipped for tourists here. There are...
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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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Vytautas Belt
One of the most valuable museum items in Belarus – the belt of the era of Vytautas the Great, the most famous ruler of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania was discovered as part of a treasure near the village of Lithuania in the Molodechno district in the early 1990s. For a long time it was...
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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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The embankment of the city pond
The embankment in the center of Columns is a favorite place of rest for citizens and guests of the district center. A large-scale reconstruction of the reservoir was carried out here, the territory adjacent to the water surface was landscaped, a decorative fountain was built. Small architectural forms, gazebos, playgrounds, pedestrian and bicycle paths, lighting...
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Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary
The stone church in Borisov was built in 1823 on the site of the wooden church of 1642, which burned down at the beginning of the XIX century. Priest Anufriy Gzovsky made a lot of efforts to revive the church. The current Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary was built in the style...
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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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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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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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