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Soligorsk, Lyuban and Starodorozhsky districts: Soligorsk-Chizhevichi-Urechye-Starosek-Polozhevichi-Starye Dorogi-Zaluzhye.

Description

Our tour opens with the Cathedral in Soligorsk, which houses unique icons, as well as other elements of church art reflecting the rich spiritual, national and historical life of the region.


Then we will see the monument in the center of Soligorsk, which consists of 10 concrete steles resembling unfolded flower petals. It is noteworthy that the construction of Soligorsk began from the memorial stone laid here.


In the village of Chizhevichi we will see a wooden Orthodox church, built in 1808 and consecrated in honor of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary.


The Soligorsk terricons are an unusual place called the Belarusian Mars, because there are truly unique landscapes similar to Martian ones: mountains of red-gray color, whose height sometimes reaches 120 meters! Belaruskali Museum of Labor Glory houses the remains of the oldest animals on our planet, which are 350-360 million years old.


Next, we will find the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in the village of Urechye, which has been repeatedly destroyed and rebuilt.


The next location of our tour will be Zyslov, a small island where an airfield was created in 1942, the first one organized by the partisans on the territory of Belarus.


The manor of the ancient Belarusian Dashkevich family, built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, has been preserved in the village of Polozhevichi. Now a local museum of local lore has been created in the building, which we will visit.


In Starye Dorogi, we will see a water tower erected at the junction of the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as the first private museum of fine arts in Belarus, whose exhibits reflect the rich and dramatic history of Belarus, from ancient times to the present day.


We finish our route at St. George's Church in Zaluzhye, built in the 18th century.


All this and much more awaits you to meet interested and inquisitive tourists!

Come here and get to know the sights and beauties of these places better!

Author: Артём Ерёменко

Trip details

Travel time:

3h 14min

Sightseeing time:

5h

Distance (km):

190.6 km

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Driving

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