Culture

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Background

Architecture, Art, Literature, Museums, Music, Painting, Planetariums, etc.

• UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Belarus   (2002: Current total sites worldwide, 730)
• Mir Castle Complex (year added: 2000)
• Beloveshskaya Pushcha/Bialowieza Forest (joint Belarus/Polish site -- year added: 1992)
• See also Links to Commercial Sources for Books, CD-ROMs, etc.

• The best resource on the Internet for downloadable and Web-based Belarusian-language books and other documents: Belaruskaya Palichka

• For Dramatic Theater, see section Theater Arts

• For Film (Movie) Information, see section Movies (Film)

• Also see section Books in English about Belarus or by Belarusians

• Also see section Music of Belarus   (traditional, religious, rock 'n roll, spoken word, (narodni) kazki, etc.)
  • Go to Downloadable (Belarusian) Music on the Internet

• Also see section Belarusian Film (Movies)   (Not much information here, as yet.)

• See also section Personal Web Pages   of Belarusians; some pages have cultural information and/or links to it.

• See also The Virtual Guide to Belarus   Web Site, which includes online music, as well as pictures of buildings, traditional clothing, links to city guides, etc.

• See the general information at the www.belarus.net   Web site within Belarus

• See also Belarus Emigre Literature   Downloadable copies of novels in Belarusian (Word for Windows format, including fonts)   by Liavon Yurevich
  Note: If you go to the link, above, use your Web browser's "back" to return to this page.

  
  

• See also The New Town Project   (Mostly in Russian, though there is some English and probably Belarusian on some of the pages.)
  A very interesting collection of cultural and artistic Web pages, hosted at Network Systems in Mensk, Belarus.

• See also Some examples of Belarusian Poetry Online   both in Belarusian and English     at a site in the USA

• See also Aljaksej Sierka's Belarusan Heritage Web Page   Entries include information about Historical Places and People   Note: Mr. Sierka is one of the co-authors of the The Virtual Guide to Belarus Web site, and all of his work is available from there as well.

• See also Aljaksej Sierka's Belarusan Heraldry Homepage   Information about the coats of arms of Belarusan cities and houses. A more detailed article about the Belarusan State Symbol "Pahonia" will be coming later.

• Mensk Planetarium
  Seats 150

  Centralnyj Detskij park im. Gor'kogo
  Miensk 220088

  TEL: 17-2-36-2425

  Contact: L. A. Dumachyova

  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.

• See also Vladimir Solodkov,   Belarusian artist and examples of his work, on the Catalyst Silicon Solutions (CSS) server in Belarus.
  "Contemporary Belarusian artist specialized in paintings, lives in Mensk. Pictures belong to private collections in the USA, Germany, Russia, and Belarus."
  Vladimir Solodkov
  Tsniankaya, 5 - 122
  220100, Mensk, Belarus

  Phone: 375-(172)-325-866

  E-Mail: solodkov@css.minsk.by

• See also Anna Balash,   Belarusian stylist, graduated from Art Academy in Mensk (1987) with specialization of "designer." She practices as a stylist and as a costume designer for cinema and theatre. Information on the Catalyst Silicon Solutions (CSS) server in Belarus.

  Anna Balash seeks amateurs and collectors of decoration dolls, as well all others who are interested in such art and wants to contact for creative cooperation, for exhibitions organization and joining a professional association or union.

  Address: Belarus, Mensk   tel: (375 172) 33-57-49