belarus 20 this city is not inferior to minsk in terms of area, the polish writer and researcher jan mayerkevich the french travelers once, on the contrary, considered this place a big village, which is called the city contradictory memories everyone has their own horizons hard to believe, but once upon a time there were centuries-old forests on this land. our distant ancestors really cut down trees, built huts , uprooted calves. this is a city of real workers, strong and independent, we have become welcome a small town on the druz river, located almost on the border of the mogilev vitebsk region, attracts with its originality and special color. today, slightly more than 10,000 people live here, and our journey arose very much on the territory of the powerful trut principality, we start from the place from which the history of the city began, this place was superior to vitebsk, it was equal in size to minsk, as historians say. and here was the largest trade route from the varangians to the greeks. and today it's small cozy village called brodsk. velikoklezhskoe settlement was part of the polotsk