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Sinyavka. The building of the former postal station.

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Landmark

Belarus, Minsk region, Kletsky district, Sinyavka village, 38 Shosseynaya St.

Description

The building of the former post office in Sinyavka is a remarkable example of late classicism architecture. Located near the Moscow-Brest highway, it is an important historical evidence of the era of development of the road infrastructure of the Russian Empire. Today, the building has been assigned the III category of value.

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Historical

Historical

Architectural monument

Architectural monument

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Ольга Ерёменко

08.08.2025

The building of the former postal station in the agro–town of Sinyavka is a remarkable example of late classicism architecture.

The postal station in this area was opened in 1843, long before the official launch of the Moscow-Warsaw highway in 1851, when 37 similar station houses were built along the highway.


Sinyavka station belonged to the 3rd category and served as an important point on the route of mail carriages and carriages. Twice a week there was a post office delivering correspondence from Moscow to Warsaw. The Belarusian traveler Pavel Shpilevsky, who visited the station in 1858, left a description of it in his book "Journey through the Polesie Region".


From the "Commemorative book of the Minsk province" for 1887, it is known about the work of Ivan Ramidaoka, a receptionist at the Sinyavka post office. He was awarded a medal for his participation in the war of 1855-1856 and the suppression of the uprising of 1863-1864. The station also consisted of the head of the telegraph station, Vladimir Polubinsky, a knight of the Order of St. Stanislaus, III degree, a graduate of the Bialystok Gymnasium, and two telegraph operators: Ivan Golub and Yuri Shlyager.


In addition to postal and telegraphic services, the station received various correspondence and provided horses for rides at a price of 3 kopecks per mile for one horse. 


Currently, the building belongs to RMM-65 in Nesvizh, which serves the adjacent section of the road.

Thanks to the major repairs carried out, the historical monument is in fairly good condition and continues to attract attention with its architecture and rich history.

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