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One of the oldest towns in the Molodechno region is today’s agricultural town of Gorodok, the first mention of which dates back to the mid-12th century (1161). Here you can see part of the ordinary buildings, a church, an ancient Jewish cemetery...

Not far from the village of Gorodok, Molodechno district, you can see the ruins of a water mill, which is often called the “Kalinovsky Mill”. The building is unfortunately very neglected, but is located in a picturesque location on the banks of the Western Berezina River. Built in the second...

In the suburbs of Minsk, not far from the agricultural town of Ozertso, a museum of folk architecture and everyday life is spread over a vast territory. The ethnographic complex is an open-air exhibition. The main objects are wooden buildings traditional for Belarusian culture...

Along the central Ivya Street, you can see the old ordinary buildings of the city and, of course, the main attraction - the Church of Saints Peter and Paul, but there is another interesting object - a water mill. The building was built on the river...

In the historical center of the city of Orsha, a water mill built in 1902 has been preserved. Today it houses a local ethnographic museum with a fairly extensive exposition. It is quite possible that before the construction of the stone, this place was more...

One of the unusual attractions of the Miory region is a waterfall on the Vyata River. The nearest settlements to it are the village of Mezhdurechye, Prudniki and Suromshchina. Today, this place has already become a popular tourist attraction, especially in the summer...

One of the attractions in the urban village of Zelva is an abandoned water mill. Today, this brick building arrives in a neglected form, but in the late 19th and early 20th centuries it was a quite technological object. The mill was originally...

One of the small, but interesting, sights of the urban village of Vidzy is located next to the massive church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary - this is an abandoned water mill. The building is a brick workshop with a high basement and an attic on one side,...

Once upon a time, on October 25, Belarus celebrated such a holiday as Miller's Day. In the old days, mills could be found almost everywhere. Many people always came there to replenish their stocks of flour. Millers were honored in villages...

If you move along the P26 highway from Tolochin to Vyshov, then along the way you can see an abandoned water mill near Drutsk. The ruins belong to the village of Kamennoe-Krivoye, Tolochinsky district. The building of the mill is made of red brick, three-storey, according to the project...