A monument to Prince Alexander Nevsky will be installed in Vitebsk within the next two years, Chairman of the Vitebsk City Hall Viktor Nikolaikin said at the meeting of the Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee which discussed the state program to promote tourism in Vitebsk Oblast on 26 March, BelTA has learned. In order to make the city more attractive for tourists we need to fulfill several conditions, and create more interesting objects, the Vitebsk mayor stressed. “We have been...

Vitebsk will host a festival of North European films in April 2015, BelTA learned from Director of the Mir Cinema House Tatyana Yekomasova. North European films of different genres will be screened at the cinema house at 19.00 every day from 23 till 29 April. The program of the festival features Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Danish, and Icelandic movies of 2013-2014. “The idea to hold the festival was suggested by the embassies of these countries. We already organized a similar event...

Nuns of the Convent of the Savior and St Euphrosyne will display new books published in the convent in the Mayakovsky Novopolotsk Central Library, BelTA learned from the institution. On 18 March the library will host a traditional meeting with the novitiates of the Convent of the Savior and St Euphrosyne dedicated to the Day of Orthodox Book. The nuns will tell about the history and present-day life in the convent and will display new books published there. These include Gates Visible...

Vitebsk will host an international investment forum on 19-20 March, which will be the first in a series of similar events in Belarus in 2015, BelTA learned from the Vitebsk Oblast Marketing Center. The center will hold the 12th edition of the Innovations. Investments. Prospects forum on 19-20 March. Similar events will be organized in Grodno and Gomel. Deputy Chairman of the Economy Committee of the Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee Konstantin Chernyi noted that this year’s edition...

Vitebsk will mark the 100th anniversary of the wedding of Marc Chagall with a culture project “Wedding extravaganza Lovers Over the Town,” BelTA learned from the Vitebsk City Hall. “On 25 July 2015 we will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the wedding of a romantic couple who have become a symbol of an artist’s love for a woman, that of Marc Chagall for Bella Rosenfeld. We could not pass by this event and arranged plans to mark it in a way that will make Vitebsk residents and...

Vitebsk Oblast has received a grant under Germany’s Federal Government program to support Belarus for rural tourism development, BelTA learnt from coordinator of the project “Development of rural tourism as one of the main areas for sustainable development in Vitebsk Oblast”, adviser at the Johannes Rau International Center for Education and Exchange in Minsk Oleg Kravchuk. “In summer 2014 the public council for rural tourism development in Vitebsk Oblast jointly with the public...