Photo survey of the district center of Chervjen’ (Ihumjen) in eastern Mjensk Region 2015. The city’s historic name was Ihumjen (Ігумен) until renamed in shopworn Bolshevik fashion by the occupying Soviet regime in 1923: Chervjen’ in Belarusian means June, not “redness” as the Soviets assumed from the etymological link between Chervjen’ and chyrvonny (red). Chervjen’… Continue reading Photo of the Day for January 30, 2023
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Photos of the Day for March 5, 2018
Memorial to political prisoners of the Soviet regime whom NKVD agents had force-marched from Mjensk and then murdered while the agents were fleeing from the invading Germans in late June 1941. Ihumjen (Chervjen’) 2015. Ігуменскі шлях: помнік палітычным зьняволеным савецкага рэжыму, расстрэляным уцякаючымі ад немцаў нкусаўцамі ў чэрвені 1941 г. Ігумен (Чэрвень) 2015 г. … Continue reading Photos of the Day for March 5, 2018