watch on the belarus 24 tv channel here in the city of craftsmen, the name of the woodworker shavrov is known to everyone who is at least a little interested. the museum of wooden sculpture

of river shavrov has been welcoming visitors since 1992 . its discovery took place during the master’s lifetime, and in the very house where he lived and worked and where his students received knowledge. the orshava nugget was born on august 15, 1916 in the city of orsha. i became interested in redfish at the age of 14 while studying at a rural school in the tolochin region for a lesson. under with an interesting name that anyone wants, he carved small figures of rural workers, and so he liked to embody his thoughts in wood, which determined the future direction of life, over the years of his life semyon stepanovich would carve over 900 sculptural works, wow, 900, over 900, simply amazing creative energy and productive. but in general, what is characteristic of his

work? semyon shavrov always said, i want people to look at my work and forget all the troubles, just as i forget, that’s why his works are imbued with humor, they are all dynamic, meeting, dancing, singing. a sense of humor and love for life, all this runs like a red thread in shavrov’s work. gave not only small figures, dear friends, look, there are sculptures almost as tall as me. the master's early works were made using root plastics; later he began to use different parts of the wood species. masha, please tell me, maybe you can guess who is depicted? so, well, given the fact that there are horns here, this is a devil, and this is the correct answer. the plots of myths inspired the master to create the triptych lucifer. the work consists of

please note that each character has his own appearance, that is, we see that lucifer is surprised, he is cunning, charming, and knows the desires of people. the aggressive character is mephistopheles. masha, pay attention to how the masterful shavrov shows this through gestures: one hand is raised up, the other is lowered down, legs are spread wide apart. yes, the author is always attentive to details that reveal the portrait of the inner world of his hero. i would like to draw your attention to the sculpture golobok, military themed, but made with humor. the legend is like this. that the german stole

chickens from the woman, we see in her belt, the woman was not afraid, got on her horse, caught up with the german, walked away from him properly and returned her poultry. belarusian women are like that, this sculpture has been through more than one exhibition, has earned high praise from experts and the smiles of spectators, and in the house of the reshchik shavrov museum you can take a master class and... even make yourself a wooden souvenir, shall we try? nikolay, i really want to help you, but looking at your work, i understand that my maximum limit is a spoon, please, take it in your hand, just like that, but you had someone who cut off their fingers, why are you laughing or something, of course, yes, i’m not much of an apprentice, we’ll trust you. for

the master, how long have you been interested in wood ribbo, nikolai? from childhood, which wood is best to work with, linden, linden, linden, the lightest material. the master knows what he’s talking about: he devoted more than 40 years to his craft, and draws inspiration from belarusian songs and literature. and you nikolai, you immediately see when you look at a piece of log that it will be there, oh my god good luck, or will it be there yogi? before i start working, i just draw it until the image is formed, i don’t start, as... formed, i went to do it, everything works out, and you make some sketches before that, just watch on a piece of log exactly until the moment when your image is completely formed, yes, because it turns out so many times in experience,

no matter how you draw, no matter how you sketch, but the tree is in its own way, but from an experienced master we manage to come to an agreement with the tree, in the end we we see all this beauty. oh how beautiful, thank you very much, this is a baby stork, this is a stork , how beautiful it is, a souvenir, and while i was admiring, nikolai almost finished my spoon, what a beauty, thank you very much, nikolay, thank you very much for the master class, i’m sorry i couldn’t help you much, but as a viewer i coped with my task.

the military history museum named after hero of the soviet union konstantin zaslonov is perhaps the youngest in orsha; it opened its doors to visitors in 2022, and its exhibition covers the entire period at once the great patriotic war in the arshan region. the memorial museum of the legendary kambrig zaslonov was opened in orsha back in 1948. but time passed, the exhibition grew and the registration changed more than once, and finally, in 2022, a new chapter began in the life of the museum. the museum has four exhibition halls: the first hall - the beginning of the war, the establishment of the occupation period,

the arshan ghetto, the execution of the arshan underground fighters as evidence of the genocide of the civilian population of belarus. the second hall is, of course, dedicated to the life and work of the legendary kambrig konstantin zaslon. we among ourselves call the third hall the museum staff the victory hall, it is completely different, it is different, it is bright, it is spacious, and since the museum is military history, the theme is revealed not only of the great patriotic war, but also of another terrible tragedy - the war in afghanistan and the fourth hall is dedicated to the memory of internationalist soldiers. the ideological embodiment of the museum's exposition allows us to imagine the full power of patriotism and the desire of the soviet people to win. here the drama of war is intertwined with every human fate and life. orsha entered the history of weapons of the second world war, of course, thanks to the first salvo of the bm-13 rszzo, but everyone is closer and familiar with it under another affectionate name, of course, the legendary katyusha. and

the first hall was given from the village of pishchalovo, several kilometers from the city. at that time , katyusha was an experimental weapon. and , unfortunately, the course of history for our city can no longer be changed... just as it could not. on july 16 , 1941, korsha was completely captured by the invaders. and from that very day it began the most terrible time in the history of the arshan region. we are in the creepiest part of our exhibition. this is a hall that is dedicated to the genocide of civilians. the hall has no windows, no doors, a high entrance, it symbolizes the observation tower of the concentration camp. and presented in this hall. photographs, almost all of them were taken on the territory of our city, with the exception of a few, and as you have already noticed, there are empty photographs, white frames are white traces of memory, this suggests that colossal work is still underway in 2021 year, a criminal case was opened on the facts of the genocide of the belarusian people, in 2022

the law on the genocide of the belarusian people has already been signed, and visitors, walking around this hall, they walk around such a semicircle in one of the windows they can see: pieces of telephone wire. this terrible discovery was discovered after the war during the construction of a flax mill. an investigation is carried out and it turns out that there is a burial site on the territory of the factory. the museum displays about five thousand exhibits, of course we

are proud of each item, but i want to tell you about mine the favorite item in our museum, it would seem, are ordinary notebooks, but these are the diaries of the glatkov family, the young couple got married on the eve of the war, and so it happened, they had to separate, maria worked as a nurse in the goretsky region, and vitaly, as it turns out later, is in the brigade konstantin sergeevich zaslonov. the spouses could not exchange letters and, not knowing anything about each other’s fate, without saying a word, they began to keep diaries, describing every day of their lives. maria wrote six diaries, vitaly eight. after 2 years they met by chance, exchanged diaries, and later their daughter, in 2014, donated all the diaries to our museum complex. did they reunite after the war? they were reunited, one of the few families that made it through the whole thing. the war and survived the war together, here it is, a true story of real people that touches the soul so much,

and orsha is also rich in talent, there is one amazing team here, which turns 38 years old this year, their creativity is full. love for our native land, our team has existed since 1986, it numbered about 50 people, at that time there were only war veterans, but unfortunately, today the choir is represented here by people who were children during the great patriotic war. what repertoire do you perform and where do you perform? our repertoire, of course, is patriotic, wartime songs , songs.

we go on excursions somewhere in the summer in 2018, it was just the year of the motherland, we went to the homeland of our president of the republic of belarus in alexandria, and there the accordion began to sing, everything was very loud, the voice of our choir flowed on the banks of the dnieper, the president came to us to sing our songs, and we were invited to the festival in alexandria, personally. was his invitation, we took part in a big concert at the level of world stars,

i would like to say so, they certainly say that in good company time flies unnoticed, but now is just the time for a beautiful and soulful song. white family! my charming belarusian land, your father's light, may, your father's light, may!

our trip to orsha turned out to be so interesting, eventful, and most importantly, useful . you fall in love every time, as if all over again. and masha bogatyr was with you, and see you on new routes of native belarus. bye bye!

this belarusian strawberry is known among the elements of the intangible cultural decline of belarus. everything that you want to know is the right meaning of the holy rat, these signs are so simple and extraordinary for the skin vernik, they have great deep meaning. in reality, this is the shortest recognition of our faith. i believe in god aitz, who

so loved the light that i gave him the son of his adzinarodnag. and the importance of religious holiday. we celebrate the victory of life over death, the victory of righteousness, purity, light over evil, about the need for spiritual upbringing and education, they come to classes with joy, our classes are held right here in the church, i thought it was right, necessary, because children should breathe at least the church air. o come to the divine liturgy, when they receive communion there, they are, in a sense, in the sacraments of the orthodox church, when people , in a sense, perform a certain sacrament of our unity with each other from the living, from the deceased, we will tell and show them in spiritual and educational projects on the tv channel belarus 24, i egi. history,

nature, culture, faith, people, scholasticity, adzin once you want and don’t get any more, here everything is right for us. my employment contract says i am a jeweler. one of my

friend's friends asked me to help him, he showed me a sledgehammer, showed me a piece of cupronickel sheet and showed a stamp, a press, a hand press, well, there is a matrix, a stamp, so with the help of a sledgehammer and a hand press, well, these are the ones i stamped there somewhere ...three more, probably in a week, he told me, that’s enough, i don’t need any more, let me show you something else that you need help with, well, he already showed me how to do it, make it, showed me a piece of jewelry, there was some kind of filigree brooch , as he told me how to do it, maybe

you can help me there, if you’re interested, well , i tried it, i became interested, and we’ve been doing it like this since... about a year in the nineties, and then i was already 30 years old, so here we go, more to come, then it became interesting, i’ve already started to improve, to see what kind of hole products exist, how it is done, and so i studied on my own, there was no information on where to master the profession of a jeweler, then there was no thought of even becoming a jeweler, well, it was just interesting to learn how to make it. this, this, this, this, this, what is a jeweler? first of all, i had a jeweler - this is... a technician who works with something small, and i was interested in these small forms, to achieve the required necessary

result, i saw a picture, or they told me what it should be or showed me some kind of example, to do this in order to implement a technical project, let’s say , first of all, you need perseverance, you need diverse thinking. don’t focus on one point, a diverse technical solution, one didn’t work out, another turned out, another didn’t work out, a third will work out, but it’s better, of course, to think about everything in advance, i didn’t start with precious metal, so there was no particular need to think about it in advance, then... when i switched to precious metals, i already realized that yes, i worked with silver first. it could have been neglected somewhere because of the low cost, something didn’t work out,

i remade it, now when it’s gold, you already need to think first, then do it, measure seven times, cut once, something like this, although there were cases , that with a hammer the product is all over again, tsius, of course, first a technical jeweler, then an artist, perseverance, but somewhere an artist, yes, an artist must be present, otherwise you must like it, like the end result, you must like to achieve it result, if you start with the simplest, are there the usual ones that everyone is used to, everyone understands, wedding rings, smooth? some standard profiles, now different profiles are in fashion, when i started the profile there was one, the hemisphere differed only in width,

weight, width, thickness, respectively weight earlier back in those days, which, let’s say, we’ll start there somewhere earlier, when i started, filigree products were in fashion, these are also traditionally handmade. things when a decoration is made from thin wire, assembled from this wire component elements, some kind of scania, gladia, smooth surface is a rolled round wire rolled into a rod, filigree is a thin wire rolled into a pigtail, it can be rolled, or not rolled, small things are made from these elements... mentics , then they are assembled, soldered together, they can be assembled in pictures, that is, here you need to be able to draw something about them somewhere, be able to draw, well now not

yes, now right now you need to be able to draw a jeweler, 3d printing, drawing 3d printer, a picture is created on a computer, a program with using a printer, he makes a model, a prima model, the first model in some material, some material is usually wax, well, not wax in the literal sense, but a polymer, which was then created from this polymer, the printer printed, say, a ring, it is then theorized, molded, molded with molding mixture, burned out, then poured into metal, poured into this burnt mixture, it turns out burnt out for now, metal is poured into it. the product turns out to be in some kind of metal, silver, as a rule, then this model is finished, it is still primamodel, it is brought to an ideal

state in rubber, vulcanized, a rubber mold is created, this rubber mold can later be poured, wax models are made, there, using an injector , molten wax is poured into the rubber mold . let's say, 100 models are assembled in a so-called herringbone pattern, well, it turns out, for example, there is a kilogram of rings for one casting, well, of course, there is special equipment for this, modern technologies and the hands of a master, yes, modern technologies help make complex some thing, for example, a bunch of grapes and a voluminous, say, skull, by hand in metal. and you can make it in wax by hand, cut it out of wax, but not everyone can do this, a sculptor must have the skills, and if a jeweler doesn’t have such skills, then what about 3d

printing? casting, that is, some elements can be made using 3d printing, you see, but to combine them only then, of course , you need hands, experience and a vision of the final result, the hand of a master, yes, you can see, you can see the hand of a master, you can, you can distinguish, that is there you can immediately see where some elements are made by hand, some elements were not made by hand, this is how the stones are fixed, say. how the metal is cut, that it is done by hand, done with pins, not with modern installations, master engravers, traditional engraving tools that need to be sharpened by hand every day and before the operation, before work, among old masters, and there are many acquaintances among jewelers, you can immediately find out,

probably, this is the case. everything, in jewelry art, in addition to feligrane, making chains, a technical direction, from pouring metal to making wire, to making elements, chains, because there are different chains, and different weaves, and it’s not so easy... to make it, somewhere you have to guess how it’s made, where - you need something, you can come up with something new, at one time, for example, i became interested in how shepard weaving is made from round rings, wedding rings one after another, only small, small, small, here’s how to do it manually, it is clear that there are machines where everything is thought out there and they print these... a chain,

to do it manually, well, yes, i did it, now there is a technology that works in this direction, manual production of the chopard brand, manual production using stamps, a metal stamp, a press, under with a press, say, rolled gold or silver or any other metal is pressed out under the press. there are images of something there, right down to the development of the product, then it is then manually cut out with a jigsaw, assembled, completely manual production, when according to a drawing or photograph or sample first, a rolled piece, a plate, is made , both the development and the elements of the products are drawn on it, then everything is assembled manually, mounted, by the way, by an assembler, a jeweler-mounter, as

a separate profession, who... assembles something, solders individual elements, solders, assembles it into the final form, flesh down to the size of the products, there is such a direction, then he transfers his work to, say, a setter, if there are inserts, if there are no inserts, then he does it completely to the end or gives it to the posers, if there is such a division of jewelry work , well when all. you do, then everything, everything from start to finish, from pouring the metal, yes, even in workshops where there is centralized melting, you still have to pour the metal yourself, and from start to finish, poured, rolled, plate, painted, or i drew it on paper or a photograph, glued it to metal, sawed it out, bent it, assembled it, trimmed it,

if there were inserts, then... secured it, the most expensive thing and the one that i probably won’t forget, i never forget, it was a ring with diamond, almost 8 mm in diameter, classic standard shape, custom frame for the caste stone it is called, made of white gold, paladi it, everything, of course, by hand, at the final stage at the stage of setting the stone, there the ring had to be secured somehow. to place the stone, because the castic was so airy, these prongs that the stone holds are very thin, and it was necessary to secure them somehow so that they would not bend to do this, i couldn’t think of anything else how to put a whale on the paste, this like something like sealing wax, sealing wax, well, a special paste for setting a mount, so i’m fixing the stone, i hear a crackling sound, a characteristic crunch, that’s it. i

i stopped for about 15 minutes, comprehended what had happened, thought that i had broken it, the stone was so characteristic. inclusion defects inside, well, that’s it, i walked around for a long time, worried, then to my friend, the workbench in front of my workbench, i said, sasha, i think i broke the stone, he started to worry, but then i calmed down a little, decided to take a look, took it off paste, removed the stone, looked, everything is fine, everything is fine, the disease is passing. after a couple of weeks of working with, say, gold, you are no longer afraid, it becomes just a building material with which you you work, everything else, then everything turns out, the pinnacle of mastery, you look at

the products and don’t understand how it could be done, and how much work had to be put in, how much skill, experience, intuition, so that this could be done do. jewelry art originated, well, in ancient times, even the same excavations, that’s how many facts there are from excavations. the same scythian graves are excavating products of such a nature that now you won’t think a thousand times how this can be done under the same conditions and in our

time done just like it was then done what a jeweler needs to work is a workbench, the workbench is of a certain shape. this is a table with a cutout, what is the cutout for, the cutout, the cutout so that it is convenient to collect everything that spills, everything that falls in the workplace, finags or a goat leg, once in my childhood i once heard a jeweler, goat leg, i thought what a goat's leg was, but this is a piece of wood in this shape, similar to a goat's leg.

apparatus, say, a burner, all sorts of devices for manual production, such as a cube called anka, semi-sperks,

balls, with the help of this it is made, a rolling machine, a microscope for setting, pins, metal cutters for setting stones, used for engraving, a lot of tools, even an anvil. for example, one of the main tools, the so-called rollers, a rolling machine where rolled products are made, square profiles.