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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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Convent in honor of St. Blessed Xenia of St. Petersburg
The convent was founded in 2002 with the blessing of Metropolitan Filaret of Minsk and Slutsk, Patriarchal Exarch of All Belarus. A building for monks with a large refectory has been built on the territory of the monastery. There is also a subsidiary farm, where cows, sheep, chickens and a bee apiary are kept. Vegetables...
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Rukhov carpets
The technology of manufacturing an unusual attribute of the interior of Old Roads –paintings made of straw on a black canvas – is included in the State List of Historical and Cultural Values of Belarus. Rukhovo carpets appeared in the 50s of the 20th century in the small village of Rukhovo, near the Old Roads....
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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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St. Nicholas Church
St. Nicholas Church in the village of Stankovo, built in the XIX century on the foundations of two churches of the XVIII century (a wooden church built by Prince Radziwill and the Uniate Peter and Paul Church). It is located in the center of the village, on the left bank of the Rapussa River. The...
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Church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos
The monument of wooden architecture was built in 1894, 10 km from the district center in the small village of Khudovtsy. In 1888, Emperor Alexander III and his family were involved in a terrible accident. The train derailed, twenty people were killed then, but the royal family was not injured. In memory of this, this...
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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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Rusalie
In the Lubansky district, the ancient rite of the Rusalie, which appeared in pre-Christian times and symbolizes the end of spring in some Eastern Slavic regions, has been revived. Rusalnaya is called the week after Trinity. According to legend, it is at this time that the mermaids come out of the water and visit the...
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Caroling ceremony “Tsars”
The traditional New Year’s folk circumambulation rite is listed in the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage list and takes place annually on January 13 in ag. Semezhevo. According to local legend, in the 18th century, a military hospital of the Russian army was stationed in the vicinity of the village and before the New Year, soldiers...
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“Shkrabank “
In the village of Dorosino, a unique technique for decorating Easter eggs – “shkrabank” has been preserved. Marina Vakulchik, the director of the local House of Culture, owns an unusual technique. The folk master decorates Easter eggs exclusively with ancient sacred symbols. Each ornament: a line, a ribbon, a square on a red egg has...
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