lived in this city for quite some time wealthy businessman, karl frankel.the second world war, he fought in the wehrmacht troops, was seriously injured on ukrainian lands, was almost captured, but according to one version he was ukrainian, and according to another - polotsk. girl, in gratitude for the rescue, for more than 12 years, for christmas, karl frankel gave two chocolates to each resident of polotsk, and when there was a shortage of sunflower oil in the country, she sent this necessary product, these are not all the gifts, a bell cast in germany for the roman -catholic church of st. andrew baboli, kayaks for athletes, in general, indirectly this bench also reminds us that war is a double-edged knife. the central avenue of polotsk, which logically bears the name of the central figure in belarusian history, francis skarin. and on the square of the same name , a twelve-meter monument, high art, was erected to the great book printer. by the way, many copies were broken in disputes about whether the father of eastern european book printing had a mustache