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The Museum of Education will be set up in Vitebsk, deputy head of the education department of the Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee Tatiana Tsygankova told BelTA. The exposition of the museum will feature the rich historical material collected by local educational workers and ethnographers. Specialists managed to restore the chronology of educational sphere development in the Vitebsk oblast starting the Middle Ages. In particular, specialists discovered the documents which prove that it is...

In connection with the 70th anniversary of the founding and in recognition of exceptional achievements in the economic development, the Vitebsk, Gomel, Mogilev and Minsk oblasts have been awarded Honorary State Banner of the Republic of Belarus. President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko signed corresponding decrees on January 3, BelTA learnt from the presidential press service.

On December 29, OAO Vitebskie Kovry (Vitebsk Carpets) was registered as a resident of Free Economic Zone Vitebsk, BelTA learnt from FEZ Administration. As the resident of the zone, in the future the company plans to increase production, to extend a product line, to boost export. To make this the company is expected to invest Br14.3 billion in the production. According to specialists, by 2012 OAO Vitebskie Kovry intends to increase the production of carpets up to 7.2 million square...

A Nazi punitive operation coded as “Winter Forest” started in the Vitebsk oblast 65 years ago, on December 27, 1942. The operation aimed to suppress the partisan movement and civilians in Vitebsk, Gorodok, Mekhovoe, Polotsk and Sirotino regions of the Vitebsk oblast during the Great Patriotic War. The operation was conducted by SS division #286 with the aim to turn the territories in the rear of the left wing of the Centre group of armies “into the burnt-over land”. During the...

The Vitebsk oblast territorial fund Vitebskoblimuschestvo will arrange the first auction on December 17 to sell unused real estate with the starting price set at one basic amount (Br35,000 as of December 1), head of Vitebskoblimuschestvo’s auctions department Larisa Scheglova told BelTA. Four unfinished buildings with the total area of 5,400 square metres in the Polotsk region have been put up for auction. Their readiness varies from 9% to 29%. Their market value exceeds Br1 billion....

The restoration of the specimen of the 18th century architecture “Solyanyie Sklady” (salt storage facilities) in Vitebsk has been completed, Viktor Kibisov the chief of the culture department of the Vitebsk town council, told BelTA. The site will be interesting to see not only because this is an example of the 18th century architecture. Built in 1774 on the bank of the Western Dvina River, the storage facilities were used to store strategic stock of grain, flour and salt. The compound...