live and work in gomel, each heroine has her own, inimitable story and her own view of belarus olesya shurpach and yevgenia nikonova received higher education in belarus and were able to realize their dreams. today. they work together in the second clinical hospital in the city of gomel, help treat and take care of belarusians. i came to belarus in 2003 with my family from the city of irkutsk. irkutsk is a large regional center of the russian federation, the city is located 70 kilometers from the most famous and deepest lake. baikal we arrived here in 2003. that is, living here for more than 18 years, and it should be noted that since then i have never been to my homeland . and so the circumstances of our family developed at the time that our choice fell on this country. our relatives lived here. we considered different options, visited different cities and we liked it very much, gomel and my mother's sister lives here with her family and in fact . they recommended us here . we traveled to belarus by train for almost 5 days through all of russia and our train was irkutsk-minsk, that is, we end