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05 Jun

“Yurievsky Karagod”: for the wealth of the earth.

11.08.2023
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The village of Pogost (Zhitkovichi district of the Gomel region) will celebrate its 500th anniversary in 2020! In 2010, the village fel...

05 Jun

Traditions & Festivals

“Vozhdenie Suly”: a gift from antiquity

11.08.2023
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Do you know what "Vozhdenie Suly" is? This Belarusian rite was held in the village of Markovichi, Gomel region. Sula is a spear, a thro...

05 Jun

Family Attractions, Traditions & Festivals

The Medieval Festival “The White Caste”

11.08.2023
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The Belarusian people are proud of the country's past and its traditional culture. The medieval festival "The White Caste" is arranged ...

05 Jun

Family Attractions, Traditions & Festivals

The International Arts Festival Slavonic Bazaar in Vitebsk

11.08.2023
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Organized by Belarus, Russia and Ukraine, the first festival was held in Vitebsk on 18 July 1992. It was designed to introduce city res...

05 Jun

Traditions & Festivals

Spring Greeting

11.08.2023
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This cycle includes such holidays as "Maslenitsa", "Vialikdzen'" (Easter), "Yur'ya" and others.Each celebration is characterized by spe...

05 Jun

Traditions & Festivals

Radunitsa: taking care of ancestors

11.08.2023
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Radunitsa, spring dzyady - this is an old pagan holiday of the Eastern Slavs. This day (and the whole preceding week) is called «Parent...

01 Jun

Family Attractions, Museums, Traditions & Festivals

Museum of Old Folk Crafts and Technologies Dudutki

11.08.2023
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Close to the village of Dudichi, next to the complex there once stood the mansion of the Yelsky family that turned Dudichi into a big c...

01 Jun

Traditions & Festivals

Kupala Night in Belarus

11.08.2023
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Many nations across the globe have holidays related to the summer solstice: St. John Day in Western Europe, Jani (or Ligo) in Latvia, I...

01 Jun

Traditions & Festivals

Kalyady

11.08.2023
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From late December into January, groups of villagers dress up in costumes and go house-to-house singing traditional “kaliadki” songs, f...

01 Jun

Family Attractions, Museums, Traditions & Festivals

History and Culture Museum-Reserve Zaslavl

11.08.2023
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Some marvelous historical monuments have survived in Zaslavl. All of them were brought together in 1986 to make part of the History and...