Tag: Беларусь

Photos of the Day for June 21, 2018

Cycle of the year:  grazing of privately-owned cows.  Кола года:  трыманьне кароў.   St. George’s Day (Jur’je — Юр’е — celebrated on May 6 in the Orthodox Christian calendar, equivalent to April 23 in the old style) was the traditional start date for letting cows out to pasture; see photos of the day for May… Continue reading Photos of the Day for June 21, 2018

Photos of the Day for June 20, 2018

Cycle of the year:  Radaunitsa (commemoration of forebears).  Tsjerablichy 2018. Radaunitsa, which falls on the ninth day after Orthodox Easter, is the main (among many) annual rite of commemoration of forebears in the Belarusian Orthodox liturgical calendar.  After conducting a memorial service in church, the priest, here Father Vital’ of the parish of the Resurrection,… Continue reading Photos of the Day for June 20, 2018

Photos of the Day for June 19, 2018

Cycle of the year:  Radaunitsa (commemoration of forebears).  Azdamichy 2018. Radaunitsa, which falls on the ninth day after Orthodox Easter, is the main (among many) annual rite of commemoration of forebears in the Belarusian Orthodox liturgical calendar.  The priest, here Father Aljaksandr of the parish of the Holy Trinity, thrice reads through parishioners lists of… Continue reading Photos of the Day for June 19, 2018

Photo of the Day for June 18, 2018

Cycle of the year:  carrying a traditional wooden cultivator for spring planting.  Azdamichy 2018. Кола года.  Палеская вясна: традыцыйны маркер.  Аздамічы 2018 г.      

Photos of the Day for June 14, 2018

Cycle of the year:  plowing the potato patch.  Varsyn’ 2018. The potato is central to the Belarusian diet and, with periods of war, deprivation and destruction seared into the nation’s memory, to maintaining village household reserves of food.  Many household plots and plots arbitrarily allocated by the local collective farm are too small to make… Continue reading Photos of the Day for June 14, 2018

Photos of the Day for June 13, 2018

Cycle of the year:  transplanting cucumber seedlings.  Azdamichy 2018. By mid-April the first batch of forced seedlings is ready for transplanting to the main hothouse.  Transplanting requires close coordination among extended-family members, whose seemingly effortless movements belie the back-breaking nature of the work in the breathless air of the hothouse. Кола года: высадка расады агуркоў. … Continue reading Photos of the Day for June 13, 2018

Photos of the Day for June 12, 2018

Cycle of the year:  readying hothouses to grow cucumbers. Eastern Stolin District in central Polesia has become Belarus’ cucumber capital.  Much of the crop is exported to Russia.  The area is covered in hothouses, ranging from agribusiness-size facilities in Al’shany, which has a statue in honor of the cucumber, to small constructions in many village… Continue reading Photos of the Day for June 12, 2018