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Scouting in Belarus

• Refer to the Belaruski Skaowting book (1997), by Ales' Lozka.

• Refer to the Web page, A Chronicle of Scouting in Eastern Europe: Belarus

  Ab'yadnannye Belarusskikh Skautau WWW: http://www.cacedu.unibel.by/partner/scouts/scout.htm E-Mail: belscout@bsa.lingvo.minsk.by Approximately 1000 members Founded in April, 1992

• Two national organizations exist:
  • The Belarusian Scout Association (BSA) Ab'yadnannye Belarusskikh Skautau based in Mensk

    Belarus 220013, g. Mensk, vul. a/ya 365

    Tel: 375 (17) 237-3746       Tel:/Fax: 232-5751

    E-Mail: scout@bsa.lingvo.minsk.by       khadyka@nsys.minsk.by

    Chairperson (1998): Nikolai Grakov

  • The Belarusian Scout Organization in Hrodna
    Note: no contact information at this time.

    
    

  • And there are regional organizations as well:
    • Belarusian Scout Association, Baranovichi Detachment

      Belarus 225320, Brestskaya vobl., g. Baranovichi, vul. Pershukevicha, 40-1

      Tel: 375 (0162) 54931

      Chairperson (1998): Ales' Bokach

      
      

    • Belarusian Scout Association, Buiki Detachment, "Zelenaya Dubrava"

      Belarus 222389, vobl. Menskaya, Myadel'skii r-n., d. Buiki, vul. Molodezhnaya, 16

      Tel: 375 (01797) 52838       (01797) 52805

      Chairperson (1998): Bernard Pakulnitsky

      
      

    • Belarusian Scout Association, Homel Detachment

      Belarus 246000, g. Homel', vul. Uritzkoho, 140-A

      Tel: 375 (0232) 33969

      Chairperson (1998): Vladimir Konovalov

      
      

    • Belarusian Scout Association, Hrodna Detachment

      Belarus 230000, g. Hrodna, b-r. Leninskoho Komsomolo, 4-60

      Tel: 375 (0152) 332884

      Chairperson (1998): Igor Lapekha

      
      

    • Belarusian Scout Association, Rogachev Detachment

      Belarus 247250, Homel'skaya vobl., g. Rogachev, vul. Lenina, 50

      Tel: 375 (02339) 21971

      Chairperson (1998): Valery Lyubogoshchev

      
      

    • Belarusian Scout Association, Ruba Detachment

      Belarus, Vitebskaya vobl., g. p. Ruba, vul. Tzentralnaya

      Tel: 375 (0212) 12525

      Chairperson (1998): Vyacheslav Belous

      
      

    • Belarusian Scout Association, Vileika Detachment

      Belarus 222410, Menskaya vobl., g. Vileika, vul. Volop'yanaho, 76-17

      Tel: 375 (01771) 54630

      Chairperson (1998): Vitaly Pavlovksy

"As of December, 1994 there were approximately 4,100 Scouts. The Scouts de France are working with Scouting in Belarus. The Scouting Federation of Belgium has provided support in the region of the city of Gomel. As reported in Scouting Magazine, January-February, 1995."

• Astronomical Club Helios
  23 members

  Advanced Training Institute for Teachers
  Frunze Prospekt, 21
  Viciebsk 210602

  TEL: 212-362-715   FAX: 212-363-460

  Contact: V. A. Golubev

  The preceding information is from and is used by permission of Sky and Telescope; The Essential Magazine of Astronomy   May, 1996. Refer to this site for the most recent information

• Belarus Society of Amateur Astronomers
  50 members

  Moskovski pr. 11/5-27
  Viciebsk 210015

  TEL: 2122-151-26

  Contact: V. S. Nevski

  The preceding information is from and is used by permission of Sky and Telescope; The Essential Magazine of Astronomy   May, 1996. Refer to this site for the most recent information

• Belarusan Student Association (BSA)
  The BSA is an independent NGO of Belarusan students. Web site is in English and (Cyrillic) Belarusian (Windows 1251 encoding).

  The main objectives of the BSA are:

  • to promote and strengthen the sovereignty of Belarus;
  • to develop the national science, education and culture;
  • to form a new generation of Belarusan intellectuals;

  
  

  Contact Information:

  WWW: http://bsa.org.by/

  E-Mail: bsa@bsa.org.by

  Tel./Fax: (+375 17) 232-27-43

  Office address:

  vul. Darasevica, 4-2
  220013 Miensk Belarus

  
  

  Mailing address:

  Belarusan Student Association
  a/c 493
  220050 Miensk Belarus

• Belarusian National Youth Council (BNYC)
  An organization that represents dozens of youth and children's organizations.

• Belarusian Patriotic Youth Union (BPYU)
  A national youth organization formed in 1997 on the initiative of President Aleksandr Lukashenko.

  (Note: Their policies and actions are identical to the of the Belarusian regime, which it apparently is subservient to.)

  Leader: Vsevolod Yanchevsky

• Belarusian Republican Pioneer Organization
  Belarus has a 133,000-strong pioneer organization supported by the government, and is considering consolidating (being restored) with other similar organizations in the CIS. According to Ms. Yezhova, the present-day pioneer organizations have nothing to do with politics.  Is this the same organization as the BPUY, noted in the previous entry?

  CIS countries' Young Pioneer organizations second rally to be held in Mensk in August, 1998.   Source: BelaPAN, No. 90; Wednesday, March 25, 1998; 7:20 p.m.

  Chairperson of the Central Council: Marina Yezhova

• Belarusian Youth Union (BYU)

  The Belarusian Youth Union (BYU) continues claiming to own a building in downtown Minsk, which it says it inherited from the Soviet-era Leninist Young Communist League (Komsomol). Since September, 1999, the Lukashenka administration is attempting to take over the building, as it has done with much of the property in Mensk. So far, the courts have upheld the BYU's position, and in March, 2000, the courts ordered the BPYU to pay back rent (which it had refused to pay). The BPYU is a Lukashenka-created organization and is one of the BYU's tenants.

  In November, 1999, an Internet center was opened in Mensk within the framework of a joint program of the BYU and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). The center will offer young people training in operating computers and free of charge access to the Internet, a worldwide computer network. An Internet club and an Internet cafe are to be set up at the center in the future. The program is aimed at establishing a coordinating and information center for youth, where young people would be able to find information on the protection of the rights of the child and youths, and the activities of youth organizations. The center will assist young people in carrying out their own projects.

  In early April, 2000, the BYU prepared to merge with the Russian Youth Union. The BYU views the merger as a logical and natural step and expects it to strengthen the longstanding friendship and cooperation between organized youths in Belarus and Russia. According to the BYU, the two unions will form a confederacy, whose top goal will be to promote Belarusian-Russian unification. The founding conference for the new organization is expected to take place in Moscow in late May.

  First Secretary of the BYU Central Committee: Vladimir Voitenkov

  Secretary of the BYU Central Committee: Alla Danilova

  Address: 40 Karl Marx Street

• Leninist Young Communist League of Belarus (LYCLB)
  About 25 LYCLB town and district organizations totalling approximately 1,000 members (March, 1998). They also publish the newspaper Tovarishch (Comrade).
  First Secretary of the Central Committee: Yury Voskresensky

• Malady Front (MF)

  WWW (in Belarusian (Win1251): http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/1436/

  WWW (in English): http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/1436/en/index.html

  (Updated Web address, October, 1999)

  Currently, Malady Front (MF) is the youth branch of the Belarusian Popular Front (BPF) Adradzhenne led by Vintsuk Vyachorka. During their July 1, 2000 convention, the MF adapted a program indicating that they plan to become an independent national youth movement based on the national idea, democratic, and Christian values.

  Chairperson   Pavel Severinets   (re-elected, July 1, 2000)

  Deputy Chairpersons  (as of July 1, 2000):

  • Sergei Bakhun -- MF Activities in Brest
  • Aleksei Chernyayev -- Relations with Parties and Non-Governmental Organizations
  • Andrei Kovalyov -- MF Activities in Mahilau (Mogilyov)
  • Natalya Makovik -- Foreign Relations
  • Andrei Meleshko -- MF Activities in Hrodna (Grodno)
  • Aleksei Shein -- Information
  • Yevgeny Skochko -- MF Activities in the Sphere of Sports

  Contact Information:

  E-Mail: mfront@visit.to

  Malady Front
  vul. Varvašeni, 8
  Miensk 220005 Belarus

  Tel./Fax: +375-17-2845012 (GMT+2)

  In Great Britain: Mikola Pachkajeu     E-Mail: np214@hermes.com.ac.uk

  In Poland:

  Warsaw (Warszawa): Jan Churylovich (tel. 41-32-35)
  Bialystok (Bielastok): Jas Abadouski (tel./fax 742-17-59)

  In Finland: Alina Bielskaja     E-Mail: Alina.Belskaja@usa.net

• Belarusian Social Democratic Youth Maladaya Hramada
  "Maladaya Hramada -- an independent republican youth organization joining young people adherent to social-democratic principles."

  "Maladaya Hramada is registered by the Ministry of Justice of Belarus on 14 of June, 1996, & had passed one-ahead registration as a Maladaya Hramada Social Organization on 24 of September, 1999."

  "The organization, the headquarters of which is located in Mensk, has regional affiliates in more than 10 cities of Belarus. Consolidating more than 1000 young people, it has constant & active members. Each regional organization enjoys certain self-sufficiency & determines activity priorities itself in international contacts, too."

  Chairman of the Presidium: Pavel Znavets

  Belarus, 220002 Minsk-2
  po/box 203

  tel. 375 (17) 261 81 48   tel./fax 375 (17) 210 15 00

  E-mail:   (see list on their current Web site)

  Current WWW (year 2000): http://mh.vr9.com/

  Former WWW (up to 1997): http://www.belarus.net/mal_hramada/

  • Also see information about The Belarusian Social Democratic Hramada (BSDG).

• Stamp Collecting (Philately)

  Although I do not have information about any clubs or other organizations, several Web sites do have information about Philately, including, the Belarusian Postal Service, Bel-Poshta.

  • Bel-Poshta   information and links on this Web site. Links to reproductions of Belarusian postage stamps are also included.

• Sailing Union of the Republic of Belarus
  President Valery Palazov
  Secretary General Vladimir Slezov
  Sailing Union of the Republic of Belarus
  220600 Miensk
  49 F. Scornia Ave.
  Republic of Belarus
  TEL: +7 0172 333029 FAX: +7 0172 316328
  Internet Resources: Email: ? Web Site: ?
  Info at URL: International Yacht Racing Union

• Vitebsk Youth Group, Veras

  Founded in 1999, the Vitebsk Youth Group, Veras, "is mostly spread in Vitebsk, Belarus, where it attracts nationally-conscious youth, propagandizes Belarusian culture, and promotes the development of the democratic society by active work in several directions."

  Contact (Executive Director): Yaraslau Mantsevich
  210032 Vitebsk, BELARUS
  P. O. Box 29-A

  Internet Resources:

  E-mail: veras@vitebsk.org
  WWW: http://veras.vitebsk.org     (In Belarusian and English)

  
  

  (Information from the CCSI announcement list: http://www.friends-partners.org/ccsi/)

• Young Astronomers Club of Belarus
  600 members

  Republican Unior Technicians Station
  ul. Makayonka, 12
  Miensk 220023

  TEL: 172-64-52-69   FAX: 172-64-62-72

  Contact: Konstantin Tsyrkoun

  The preceding information is from and is used by permission of Sky and Telescope; The Essential Magazine of Astronomy   May, 1996. Refer to this site for the most recent information.

• Youth Democratic Initiative (YDI)
  "The YDI applied to the Ministry of Justice for registration on October 6, 1999. The new association was founded in Minsk in late September by 69 delegates from throughout Belarus, stated Yury Voskresensky, the leader of the Leninist Young Communist League of Belarus (Komsomol). The founders also include Sergei Martselev, the leader of Maladaya Gramada (youth branch of the Belarusian Social Democratic Party); and Nikolai Luksha, an ex-head of the International Cooperation Center of the Belarusian Youth Union; as well as representatives of Grazhdansky Forum (youth branch of the United Civic Party) and some other youth organizations."

  "The association plans to concentrate its effort on protecting the socio-economic rights of youths and creating conditions for turning Belarus into a democratic law-ruled state. The founders hope that the YDI will bring together the elite of the country's youth activists. According to Mr. Voskresensky, he, as well as Mr. Martselev, will drop their membership in their organizations to work for the YDI."

  Source: BelaPAN, No. 26; Wednesday, October 6, 1999; 7:40 p.m.

• YMCA Belarus

  Contact: Alexander Artuschenko
  Ul. Zarechnaya 1, apt. 25
  Hrodna (Grodno) Region, BY-231300 Lida, Belarus

  TEL: +375-1561-57 842   FAX: +375-1561-57 842

  E-Mail: ymca_bel@yahoo.com

  Information at YMCA-Europe Web site: www.eay.org/Address/NM/belarus.htm

• See also Youth Information Centre (YIC)
  "YIC is a non-profit, non-governmental organization whose aim is to contribute to the development of national science, culture, and education through aiding young people in gaining experience and knowledge necessary for participation in non-governmental organizations. . . . Included in their many efforts is support and training in independent youth publishing."