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In the 60s of the last century, the film “Through the Cemetery”, based on the story of the same name by Pavel Nilin, was released on cinema screens. It’s interesting to watch the film even today to see gorgeous shots of Minsk (the “Lower” market, Kalvaria flashes here). Eat...

Thanks to the film “Beloved,” which was released in 1965, we have the opportunity to admire Minsk at that time. This film contains not only gorgeous plans of the city, but also almost priceless aerial footage taken...

A little over 50 years ago, the premiere of the action-packed film “The World Guy,” produced by the Belarusfilm studio, was shown on the screens of Soviet cinemas. The main character of this film is an engineer at the Minsk MAZ plant, so some of the scenes were filmed...

The three-part Soviet film "Three Funny Shifts" was released in 1978 and is a comedy for children about camp life. For fans of historical places, it will be especially interesting to watch the second series, Mikoshi's Mistake,...

It turns out that in the Kirovsky district, Mogilev region, there is an exemplary agricultural town of Belarus - Myshkovichi. Here, in 1931, a collective farm was formed with the cinematic name "Dawn", which was originally planned to be one of the best in the entire union. Thanks to...

The main attraction of Ruzhany, the Sapieha Palace, is well known to both residents of Belarus and tourists. And the place itself is often included in various TOPs and sightseeing trips. There is also a rather interesting fact associated with this object: ...

Minsk is full of interesting places and worthy sights, and its central part is curious to one degree or another with almost every building. So, for example, on Independence Avenue you can see the unique post-war architecture. In this article...

An interesting monument of industrial architecture of the USSR has been preserved in the Braslav district, Vitebsk region, not far from the village of Drisvyaty. The Friendship of Peoples hydroelectric power plant on the Prorva River is a kind of reminder of the once friendly moods of Lithuania, Latvia and Belarus, whose representatives...

A few years ago, we had a material on the site dedicated to Soviet skateboarding, and specifically "Skate Museum of the USSR". The article ended with the thoughts and wishes of Gleb Benciovsky (note the author of the museum) about a stationary site where you can deploy the entire ...

 USSR Skate Museum Today we will tell you not about a typical Minsk landmark, but rather about an unusual collection that has grown into a real museum. Gleb Bentsiovsky - the head of the Minsk skateboard school Destroyer, a skater with great experience and a person with his own...