since we have entered the territory of the local history museum, it is worth saying a few words about it. a little more and he will become history. it is a little, no less, more than half a century old, or to be more precise, 66. this is what the river castle looked like, which stood on the site of an ancient settlement. the exact date of its construction is unknown, but it is clear that it stood for approximately two centuries until it was built in 1654. burned by the kazhak troops of ivan zolatarenko. the wooden castle, surrounded by a fortress wall with five towers, was surrounded by a deep robe filled with water from the dnieper river. around him residents began to settle, and this is how the castle was formed. in the middle of the 16th century, the castle still remained the original core of the town. by this time it had five polygonal towers and was connected to the city by two drawbridges. the pasat

surrounded the old fortress in a semicircle, with a trading area, temples and residential buildings. the hallmark of the rechetsky district and the special pride of historians are the exhibits of melograd culture. at one time , the most significant archaeological monuments were found near the villages of goroshkov and milograd. by the way, some scientists still they consider this culture as pro- slavic. in the same room is a byzantine coin of the emperor. john tzimiskes, discovered in 1909 on the banks of the dnieper river. the find indicates that the city already existed in the 20th century. nearby is a coin treasure that a city resident noticed while working in her garden. 2500 round coins, half pennies, pennies and a half pennies. we go up to the second floor in the ethnography department, we see objects that eloquently tell about the people.

the exhibition in the next room is dedicated to the soviet period and modern times , the sixties of the 20th century became significant for the history of rechitsa, as a result of many years of searching not far from... an oil field was discovered, this news spread overnight to soviet and world news agencies, and a different life began for the regional center of the gomel region, rechitsa began to be called nothing less than the capital of belarusian oil. a little information: in 1998, the belarusian association produced the one hundred millionth ton of oil, and in 2015, the 130th millionth ton of oil. every year they receive more than. except

black gold, without any doubt, this city is famous for its people, there are so many of them here, talented in various fields of activity, that many things are initially, to our great sincere regret , doomed to remain behind the scenes, i hope i will have time to tell you about at least some. let's start with a personality who was not entirely understood by his contemporaries during his lifetime, but was still recognized. isochev is a multifaceted person. the world-famous artist became a sensation in the world of fine art in belarus at the end of the 1980s. from the age of 3 he lived here in rechitsa, and therefore it is rightfully considered one of its own. since we are talking about artists, this is a reason to get an order of magnitude closer to contemporary belarusian art and look into the local art gallery. it was opened in a renovated building. architectural monuments of the late 19th century.

so, in the entire post-soviet space , this museum is the only government institution that houses the original masterpieces of alexander isachev. the artist worked using the technique of fox writing. transparent layers of paint overlap each other or onto the already prepared base color. alexander isachev painted paintings based on biblical, historical and mythological subjects. frequent themes of his canvases are old and new testament motifs. one of the central images in the work is jesus christ. the master of the brush tirelessly searched for the answer to the eternal mysteries of existence. who knows, maybe that’s why fate has measured out the artist’s age at almost 20 years. bulgakov's hoax is true. after his death , his family remained in his hometown, unfinished works in the workshop, about 20 icons made by the artist for holy transfiguration church. and materials

stored in the museum. in such a short life, 32 years, the master made a name for himself, creating almost 500 paintings and hundreds of sheets of graphics. sorry, follow up. their exact number is not possible today. the artist’s works are kept in private collections in western europe, the usa and the middle east, and are worth fabulous amounts of money. and a 10-minute walk from the art gallery on sovetskaya street there is a monument to another native of these lands: mitrofan dovnar zapolsky, belarusian historian, ethnographer. folklorist, one of the founders of belarusian national historiography. the achievements and discoveries of dovner zapolsky have not lost their relevance today, although his activities were at one time subject to repression in a veiled form, his works were condemned as

ideologically harmful. and the harm was as follows. dovnar zapolsky collected and published folklore materials, studied and described family life and wedding rituals. russov advocated the development of native culture, science and literature. as a result, he published more than 200 scientific papers, but dramatic circumstances of his personal life, persecution and lack of demand within the soviet system, of course, significantly hampered his activities. despite this, mitrofan dovnar zapolsky was able to discern the main thing and distinguish gold from other metals similar to arum. now the international scientific conference dovna is being held in the ethnographer’s hometown. the permanent plan of the city was first approved only in 1800, then the central building of rechitsa became

proboynaya street, called soviet street, by the way, it remains central today. it's two stories high. perfectly illustrates the era of the last century , built around 1903, and perhaps in 1909, a private house, the city government rented from august kröger, according to information that has reached us, for some time it housed a postal and telegraph office, a little later to an extension was made to the house, where already in 1912 the first vrechitsa modern electric theater was opened. later they said a definite no to art. placed the river revolutionary committee here, of course, the authorities did not stand on ceremony and did not recognize the rights to private property, the building was simply taken away in favor of the state, but the party structures did not stay here for long. soon the building

began to teach high art to children. a music school was opened in kreger's former home. these walls are still empty today. in them , the regional department of ideological work of culture for youth affairs and, by the way, the main attractions of the city are compactly located right here, in the center. in the most prominent place is one of the oldest city buildings of religious architecture, the svyatousmensky cathedral, 19th century. object initially curious, it began in 1842, its construction was completed only 30 years later, which the locals actually stopped believing in, and therefore the temple is behind the scenes. call it a church that does not want to be built. and the reasons for the long-term construction are downright mystical. first , the bell tower at the temple unexpectedly collapsed, bad rumors immediately spread around the city, saying it was a bad omen, and therefore for the next 20 years no one dared

to take up the work, only in 1864 construction resumed, thanks to the money of a minsk merchant and the city mayor part-time speaker svechnikov. and despite all the efforts, attempt number two was also unsuccessful: the official went bankrupt and work was suspended. this time they turned to minsk governor tokarev for help, and he allocated a considerable amount for the temple. thus, only on the third attempt did it happen. the church was consecrated in honor of the dormition of the blessed virgin mary. less than 100 years have passed since the soviets took power. this meant only one thing: all efforts were in vain. in 1934 the cathedral. closed, later rebuilt into a house socialist culture, only in the nineties the building was handed over to the city orthodox parish, which took on the task of transforming it. when they handed it over to us, birch trees and trees grew on the walls of this temple, and you know,

it would probably have been much simpler and cheaper to build a new temple, because... .. everything needed to be healed , these old wounds, we destroyed those branch masonry and destroyed the old hay branches little by little, little by little. they were restoring it, and in 2003 we already had our first paskha service in this church. today the temple is rightfully is proud of its iconostasis, five-tiered with 24 icons. in 2011, two kyotos appeared here in honor of st. nicholas and the kazan mother of god. among the unique shrines are icons with the relics of st. euphrasine of polotsk and john of carmian. a church shop and chapels for lighting the water appeared here. nowadays

, the temple is a decoration of the city, which was recently given the proud status of historical and cultural value of belarus. in the same list, i’m not afraid of this word, is one of the fionites on the city map, the church of the holy trinity, gothic made of red brick, whatever it was turned into at different times. first, the church was converted into a warehouse, then the authorities distinguished themselves by placing a power plant here, and later retrained the building into a beer hall, and then into a vitamin bar. the time for mockery of faith has passed; this year the church will turn 116 years old. we know exactly how to start the morning right. my secret. wake up with a smile, then the day will go positively. olga, what are we

going to cook today? today we will prepare rice pancakes with tender vegetable stuffing. i can't wait to start cooking. we will prepare a delicious breakfast with you. let's cook the breakfast of champions today? let's try. i want to surprise you today. we usually eat cheesecakes, but i’ll make buckwheat pancakes. oh, is there a place in your life for hobbies? masha? i have long learned to relax at work, work on vacation and get the boost of necessary energy, put nut and vegetable pate on the pancakes, roll them into a tube, serve with yogurt sauce, your home champions will appreciate this breakfast. watch the breakfast of the champion on the belarus 24 tv channel. here. there is no moral right to live only for ourselves, we must look beyond the horizon, we

do not and will not have another home, african countries, as well as the arab world, latin america and asia, why are they ready and willing to work with belarus? because the leaders of these countries have deep respect not only for belarus as a country, but also personal respect for alexander lukashenko. belarus forced nato to hear itself as an instrument that is very clear to this. reproaches about placement in our country of russian tactical nuclear weapons are absurd, we are simply learning diplomatic, so-called etiquette from those who made the language of force a global trend, we have a new political line for the first campaign, only supporters of the state line should get into parliament, only those for whom the words belarus, unity, sovereignty, family and peace... are of decisive importance, step aside and do not interfere, no one

is forcing anyone to do anything, for one simple reason, we are already the absolute majority. project propaganda, watch on the belarus 24 tv channel . and now the landing of our film crew is landing on naumova street, and by the way, nothing surprising will happen if we meet guys in blue berets here. those whose life positions sound like no one else but us, and my first shot is on target, are frequent guests here, not because military units, a destination, a museum of the history of airborne troops and units are spoken and deployed.

the soldiers call this man batya among themselves, all the paratroopers are named after him was formed by uncle vasya's troops. the largest exhibit on the street, bmd1, a landing vehicle under the leadership of that same bati, at one time with the crew inside , the sides of the plane landed, the muni understands, fortunately, the flight was successful. appeared in the building of the local gymnasium in 2013 as part of the celebration of the anniversary of the speech to preserve the history of the blue burettes, special services and intelligence officers of the ussr, and later of all the cis. exhibits of the first museum of paratroopers in belarus, there are more than one and a half thousand of them - real ones, i mean combat ones, non-sham, not written off due to length of service.

so, who do we see at the entrance? i believe the reconnaissance parachutist is a special purpose paratrooper. only about 200 officers in russia have undergone such training, these guys can perform parachute landings from altitudes from 100 to 10,000 m, imagine, if you flew to turkey, to egypt, then at such an altitude there is a boarding, after 4500 you can no longer breathe , so he is equipped with a special system, you see, a special mask, there is a cylinder with a special mixture, and that allows him not to hang himself, to perform such jumping. the most complicated, plus he is equipped with special thermal underwear, all special protective equipment, navigators, night vision device, active headphones, ballistic helmet, glasses, weapons, combat kit, medicine, etc., etc., etc. until recently, all the exhibits served their homeland, and if not for a fatal accident, they would have continued to carry out their proud mission. the museum was visited by

vladimir chizhik, the only belarusian in history to be awarded the prestigious title. native of rechitsa. there are needle cartridges, hats, all kinds of stripes and badges with pennants, uniforms, flasks and parachutes, of different units, eras and countries. cosmonauts are the same intelligence officers we once had. there was the legendary mir orbital station, which has now been sunk in the ocean, and the scouts also receive various books, cds, music and so on for leisure, one of the books was there, they read it, since the crew is still international, it is in two languages, they put stamps on the mir station, it was right there, and this, but can i touch it, at least it flew in

space, then its cargo progress, here you see exactly the stamps of the mir station, here is information about the military. technology, about the latest developments, the astronauts flew, read, between us, among these exhibits there are some that can’t be found anywhere, it’s easier to buy a machine gun than to buy something similar, they say here, well, perhaps i’ll take advantage of my official position and try it on combat ammunition, when there is still such an opportunity, we just stretch out our hands, oops, oh, mommies, okay, mommies, mommy has nothing to do with it, do they dress themselves or? well, of course, more than once flew in, and i’ll tell you that by the way , he’s not one of the lungs, how much longer is he, yes, this one is not one of the lungs, this one will be about 8 kg, in my opinion , even if it’s probably more, so, glory

to the airborne forces, guys, the airborne forces museum. an important factor in the education of youth. vladimir gobrov and his comrades are training future special forces soldiers. the list of disciplines includes hand-to-hand combat, assault mountaineering, parachute jumping; this certainly won’t be taught anywhere else. and they have been doing this for about 20 years. and it’s time for us, the final point of the route is victory park. let us once again make sure that vrečice remembers its heroes. we are on the alley of liberators, where the memory of fifteen heroes of the soviet union is immortalized. in the city victory park, it was laid back in 1973. probably few people know, but fanny kaplan is the same one who attempted the life of the leader of the world proletariat, originally from rechitsa. so, in any

case, one of the versions of its origin sounds like it. here are the belarusians, the ones... and here are some more facts: the war had just set foot on belarusian soil, and a local defense detachment had already been organized in rechitsa. the destroyer battalion began to operate. a little it took more than a week to organize a partisan detachment of 42 people. there were also underground groups; the belief that sooner or later victory would be on their side helped them fight and live, because the people here were rebellious. the glaciers have not forgotten this; they sacredly preserve the memory of the liberators. the t-34 combat vehicle was installed in honor of the first guards tank. complex on the grave of fallen tank crews, this happened on november 19, 1943, according to old residents of this city, the tank is not

fake, it’s a real combat tank, they say that in one of the battles this tank damaged a skating rink, which was immediately replaced with a similar one from another damaged vehicle, so he managed to continue the battle and, moreover, reach the present day intact. if you noticed, in many historical collisions, a proud motto can be traced here , no one but us, although we are not always talking about military operations, then life has taught local residents not just to go with the flow, but to act, and if they swim, then only in the right direction. i hope that you too will choose the right route and soon end up here in...

the belarusian winter, all its little things, all the details, some are so beautiful that they take your breath away, some are awkward, but together they are one whole. together they are harmony, looking at them you feel aesthetic pleasure,

you feel that belarus is closer, the priesthood is a way of life. a clergyman is one who looks at every person who comes to him as a child of god, as an image and likeness of god and treats him, first of all, with respect, shows him his attention, love and care. at the minsk theological seminary we try to ensure that every student absorbs the sperk. course, this is the good example that he sees on the pages of the bible, which he sees in the works of the holy fathers, for example, communication with this or that shepherd of the church

of christ. i am priest artemy kirko, head of the correspondence education department of the minsk theological seminary. this place is an almamator for those who have decided to devote their lives to serving god and people. the minsk theological seminary dates back to the end of the 18th century, since 1785 it has experienced various stages of its history; it was born from one city to another, closed, experienced its first revival after the great patriotic war. two-year theological courses were opened in žurovice.

then these two-year courses grew into a seminary, and the seminary operated until 1963 . it was revived again in 1989. the first patriarchal exarch of all belarus , metropolitan philoret. in 1996 , the minsk theological academy and... the regen branch were opened, where not only boys, but also girls studied. the academy existed until 2015 and then was transferred to minsk, and 2 years ago she returned here again to zhirovich, no longer just the regen department, but the department of church arts, which includes the reikin department and the icon painting department. this is a spiritual educational institution where, in addition to teaching, students study. prayer, liturgical life, in addition to studying, they learn to work , perform certain obediences, all this together, combining... this place is very important

not only for the church, but also for the state, because the students are graduates of our theological school, they and citizens of our country, and then, how they will be raised here, it will be important what fruit they can then bear, both for society and for the church, therefore the state is providing assistance to our theological school. comprehensive. our students have the opportunity to study at a theological school for free and have free accommodation and food. also, our students receive a scholarship and teachers, a salary that the state allocates to us. and life, not just existence, but the life of our theological school, thanks to such close cooperation, collaboration between church and state, brings

big. fruits for our society, in order to enter our theological seminary, each person must work for at least a year in his parish, at his place of residence, visit the temple, help at divine services, help the clergy, that is, gain the minimum experience that he will be useful during training, all applicants pass an internal exam on the biblical history of the old and new testaments, on liturgical studies,

the minsk theological seminary is located in the grodno region in the slonyamsky district in the agricultural town of zhiroviche and what is very important and valuable. the fact that it is located next to and together with the holy dormition zherovishche monastery, which houses one of the great shrines of the belarusian people and the whole world in general, the zhirovichsky icon of the mother of god. minsk theological seminary sets itself the goal of educating those people who are looking for the kingdom of heaven, they are looking for the kingdom of heaven within themselves, they are looking for god in this world. after

graduating from the minsk seminary, they retained this connection with the heavenly church, a connection with that that we call grace, it means the goal of our theological school has been fulfilled. seminary students participate in liturgical life, help during services in the monastery at various obediences, and the monastery, in turn, helps the seminary, also in whatever way it can, and thus... thus, such joint cooperation and coexistence helps the harmonious spiritual development of both the monastery and the seminary. minsk theological seminary is called a closed educational institution. this does not mean that it is completely closed from the outside world. special daily routine, special charter at 8 a.m., each student comes to morning prayers, which are performed in our trinity seminary church. morning.

the prayers last 15 minutes, when each of the students takes turns reading the morning prayers, then the clergyman reads the gospel, the word of god, and then all the students go down to the refectory for breakfast. it’s interesting that our students and teachers have meals together, we eat everything together, and during meals, it’s a little bit like this...