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Open Joint Stock Company “BELAZ – – the management company of the holding “BELAZ-HOLDING”
The world’s largest manufacturer of quarry dump trucks and transport equipment for the mining and construction industry. It occupies about 30% of the world market of especially heavy-duty dump trucks. The geography of equipment supplies includes more than 80 countries of the world, the load capacity of the world’s largest mining dump truck BELAZ-75710 is...
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Distillery building
In the village of Krasnevo, the building of the old distillery, which was founded in 1875 by the landowner Mikhail Grigoryevich Pokrevsky, has been preserved. The first product produced here was potato wine, which was highly valued by the locals and exported to Poland. After 1917, a distillery began operating here. The vinegar factory appeared...
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Settlement “Zamechak”
The ancient settlement “Zamechak” is the most ancient archaeological monument of Zaslavl. This place is popularly called “Rogneda’s Grave”. The small platform has a round shape and is surrounded by a moat and an earthen rampart. Excavations have shown that in the X century there was a fortified castle town here. This was the same...
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Vladimir Kovalenok
Krupshchyna is the birthplace of the pilot-cosmonaut, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, holder of three Orders of Lenin and many other high awards, Colonel-General of Aviation, Professor Vladimir Kovalenko. The cosmonaut was born in the village of Beloe, studied at the school of the village of Khotyukhovo, which now bears the name of Vladimir...
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The rite of the “Generous”
The rite of the “Generous” of the village of Rog of the Soligorsky district has the status of an intangible cultural value. This rite has been preserved in the form in which our ancestors knew it. “Shchedrets” are held on the night of January 13-14 with the participation of traditional masked characters. Its peculiarity is...
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Skachal Lake
Skachal Lake is considered the most mysterious and mysterious in Starodoroshchyna. According to one version, many years ago at this place the glacier formed a depression, which gradually began to swamp. From the depths of the soil, springs beat, greatly lowering the temperature. Therefore, in the summer, even in the hottest and hottest weather, when...
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The Zhabrovskys’ tomb and the grave of Vincent Dunin-Marcinkevich
The chapel-tomb of the Zhabrovsky family is located near the village of Padnevichi. The tomb was built in 1852 from rubble stone in the retrospective-Gothic style at the local cemetery and was used for a long time as a burial place for representatives of this gentry family, whose estate was located nearby. Also in the...
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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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The Wooden Spoon Museum
In the unique wooden spoon museum, you can see more than 300 exhibits from different parts of the country: large and small, ancient and modern spoons, appreciate the filigree of the master who carved them from wood, try to make a spoon yourself, hear their sound as musical instruments. The pearl of the museum is...
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Monument to potatoes
The first monument to potatoes in Belarus has been erected in the Deshenka agro-town. There is also the only school museum of this tuber in the republic: students should understand the importance and significance of the work of farmers. In the agro-town, fests, fairs, sports events and theatrical productions are organized in honor of potatoes.
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