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• Introduction to Links to Other Web sites about Belarus

• Links to Web Search Tools

• Organizations' Web Pages about Belarus

The following sites often have "links" to other sites, so even though this is a short list, there are pointers to many other locations on the WWW that contain information.

• The Virtual Guide to Belarus (English Language Version)     new Web address, early 1998

  The Virtual Guide to Belarus (Belarusian Language Version)

  The best starting point for a general, multimedia overview of Belarus is this site maintained by the four co-editors: Alex Artsyukhovich, Dzmitry Zelenka, Siargej Sonchyk, Aliaksiej Sierka, and Liavon Yurevich. Contributions also come from others and there are also many links. The site was founded in November, 1994, and is the most comprehensive site about Belarus on the Web.

  Especially note the following essay:

  • A summary of Belarusian history by Jauhen Reshatau & Dmitry Zelenko

• Miles Away Belarus Home Page   (a great resource,   maintained by Irena Slage (USA) with some content from Mikhail Doroshevich (Belarus).     link updated, August, 1997

        Especially note the following sections:

  • Belarus Government and Politics Web Page
  • Belarusian Ecological Organizations
  • Education Web Page

• Dmitry Zinoviev's Home Page   (also contains poetry page)
  • A page with examples of Belarus Poetry. This Web page is growing rapidly and Dmitry welcomes contributions.
  • Although not directly about Belarus, Dmitry also maintains The Steam Engine - Joseph Stalin (SEJS) Web page, for railroad buffs

• Grzegorz (Ryhor) Hajduk's Home Page   (also contains Belarusian/English dictionary)
  • A short English/Belarusian and Belarusian/English dictionary

• Aljaksej Sierka's Belarus Home Page   (also contains Belarusan Heritage & History Web Pages)
  • Kurapaty -- Site of Soviet Massacre of 200,000 Belarusians, 1937-1941

  • Belarusan Heritage Web Page

  • Belarusan Heraldry Homepage

  • Belarusan History Web Page (English Language Version)

  • Belarusan History Web Page (Belarusian Language Version)

• Belarusian Linux Project
  Short guide in setting up Belarusian language support in Linux console, X Window System, Web browsers, text editors, etc. Other information about Cyrillic font encoding, etc. In Belarusian and English with a mirror site: Belarusian Linux Project

• Belarus Home Page at UIUC, USA     Last Updated: December 4, 1995
  Many of the files here are "Copyright (c)1994 by Vladimir Novik, Deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Republic of Belarus"   (also contains Mensk State Linguistics University Web Page)
  • Mensk State Linguistics University Web Page   created by   Lyudmila Shymchuk

• HAY ZEN by Jauhen Reshatau     (including Belarus information)

• My Promised Land by Eugen-Jan Dubovik
  A Belarus- related Web site from a Belarusian-American perspective; begun in April, 1996; new URL, May, 1999. Note: Mr. Dubovik died in January, 2000 (he was 55). For further information, see In Memoriam: Eugen-Jan ("Homan") Dubovik

• Online database "In Search of Belarus" (U poszukach Bielarusi) by Uladizmir Katkovski     Site has changed forms several times over the past year or more; content shows the highly energetic, enthusiastic work of its Webmaster

• Belarusian.com by Sergei Polevikov     A new, Belarus-related Web site, 1998. Definitely worth a look.

• Belarus Inside by Eugene Kardash     (A new, Belarus-related Web site, from a Soviet-educated, Belarusian's point of view. In Russian and English.)

• Belarusian Page by Kastus Mardzvincau     Three Belarusian font encodings, Russian, and English versions available
  • KastusXchange System of Banner Rotation by Kastus Mardzvincau     Three Belarusian font encodings, Russian, and English versions available

• Tatiana Usova's Cultural and Educational Profile of Belarus   new, in 1999, I think.

• Mikhail Doroshevich's Belarus Home Page   new, July, 1997, in Mensk, Belarus
  Note: A difficult Web site to contact at the best of times. VERY unreliable connectivity, regrettably.
  • Site index in English, Russian, and Belarusian. Site contains the following (and some music information and samples as well):
    • Belarusian Historical Review

    • Television Broadcasting Network

    • Belarusian Youth Organizations

• Gomel: Then & Now by Alena Rosenberg (Kachuro)     A new Web site; January, 1997. Link updated: June, 1999

• The Mensk Site by Matvey Nemenman   Last Updated: ? ?, 1995
  FYI: Appears to no longer be on the WWW (April, 1999).

• The Mensk List by Alex Petrushko (with some content from Andrei Asinowski and Irina Kosinovsky)
  Also contains the The Mensk Registry, a search engine to help find people from Mensk.   Dec., 1996: The site is currently being moved. Last Updated: September 27,1995

  FYI: Appears to no longer be on the WWW (April, 1999).

• The Mensk Image Gallery by Michael Yamnitsky   Last updated 04/05/96

  Includes maps of Mensk

  FYI: Appears to no longer be on the WWW (April, 1999).

• Slavophilia by Yoo Syeng-Mann (Ohio State University; Columbus, Ohio)
  Slavic and East European Resources Web site. A new Web site in 1999. Although not specifically about Belarus, has Belarus-related links.

• The Baltic States' Expat-Online   in Estonia; by   Ross Mayfield   Last Updated: 4/3/96
  Although not directly about Belarus,   "the site aims to be a resource and forum for expartiates of all nationalities living in the Baltic States."