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Yanka Kupala Museums in Vyazynka and Yakhimovshchina
The creation of the branch of the Yanka Kupala Literary Museum in Vyazynka was led by Vladislava Lutsevich, the poet’s wife and the first director of the museum. The tenants ‘ house has been preserved here, where Ivan Lutsevich, the future national poet of Belarus Yanka Kupala, was born in 1882. The museum has archival...
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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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The building of the former hospital
The old hospital was built when the Russian-Japanese war began. The Art Nouveau building with some neo-Gothic elements belonged to the Nesvizh ordination of the Radziwills, the hospital buildings housed several dozen patients. The hospital operated until 1917, then it was closed for several years due to lack of funding. In 1995, the building was...
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Lake and the village of Svir
The picturesque lake shares its name with the ancient village of Svir, whose history begins with the 15th century, when the owners of the place were the princes of the Svir coat of arms “Fox”. The brothers Eric and Roman Svirsky were part of the local political elite, signed the acts of the Trotsky (in...
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Church of the Icon of the Mother of God “The Deliverer”
The temple was built in 1997-1998 by the architect Vladimir Danilenko and is stylized in the forms of ancient Russian architecture. The lower crypt church is illuminated in the name of the Holy Great Martyr Panteleimon.
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The church of the saints Cosmas and Damian
The church of saints Cosmas and Damian in Vishnevo began to be built immediately after the uprising of Kastus Kalinovsky was defeated. In 1865, it was consecrated. Temples of this type are often called “muravyovka” after the governor-general, who led the suppression of the rebellion, and then – the new administrative structure of the Belarusian...
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Church of the Ascension of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Budslav
It was built in the XVIII century in the style of the Vilna Baroque with the use of separate parts of the stone church of the XVII century, once consecrated in honor of St. Barbara. An authentic wooden altar of the XVII century by Italian masters has been preserved here. But, first of all, the...
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Slutsk Gymnasium
The history of the gymnasium No. 1 in Slutsk dates back to 1617, when Janusz Radziwill founded a Calvinist school in the city, which today is considered the oldest school in Belarus. In 1838, the wooden building of the gymnasium was replaced by a stone one. Part of this building has been preserved to this...
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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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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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