Ashmjany 2015 (V/X): buildings around the main square. Ashmjany is fortunate to have retained a good number of late-19th and early 20th-century buildings around the 17th of September main square. The square is named for the date in 1939 on which the Red Army attacked Poland from the east in concert with the September 1… Continue reading Photos of the Day for November 12, 2016
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Photos of the Day for November 11, 2016
Ashmjany 2015 (part IV/X): Soviet-era architecture along Savjetskaja Street. Soviet architecture started out as a project to mirror the Soviet political agenda of destroying the past. However, after an initial spurt of creativity (constructivism, expressionism) in the 1920s, Soviet architecture lost its ability to offer anything of creative merit. For the most part Soviet-era buildings… Continue reading Photos of the Day for November 11, 2016
Photos of the Day for November 10, 2016
Ashmjany 2015 (part III/X): Wooden houses along Savjetskaja Street. Ашмяны 2015 г. (частка III/X): Драўляныя хаты, вул. Савецкая. Pre-war house. Даваенная хата. Rear (formerly the front side?) of what appears to be a pre-war house and shop. Задні (былая пярэдні?) фасад даваеннай хаты-крамы (?). Main facade (former rear entrance with carriage… Continue reading Photos of the Day for November 10, 2016
Photos of the Day for November 9, 2016
Ashmjany 2015 (part II/X): Turn-of-the-20th-century and Pre-World War II architecture along Savjetskaja Street. Ашмяны 2015 г. (частка II/X): Дойлідства канца 19-га/пачатку 20-га стст. і за польскім часам, вул. Савецкая. Former hospital (built at the begnning of the 20th century), now the district court house. Былы шпіталь пачатку 20-га ст., зараз раённы суд. … Continue reading Photos of the Day for November 9, 2016
Photos of the Day for November 8, 2016
Ashmjany 2015 (part I/X). Now a city of about 15,000 inhabitants, the district center Ashmjany lies closer to Lithuania’s capital Vilnius than to any regional center in Belarus. The first known written mention of Ashmjany dates to 1341; burned to the ground four times by Muscovite invaders in the 16th and mid-17th centuries, the city… Continue reading Photos of the Day for November 8, 2016
Photo of the Day for November 7, 2016
Soly to Ashmjany 2015 (IV/IV): Zhuprany. Дарога Солы-Ашмяны 2015 г. (IV/IV): Жупраны. Monument to Belarusian writer-patriot Frantsishak Bahushevich (1840-1900); in the background is the Roman Catholic church of the Apostles Peter and Paul (1854-75). Помнік Францішку Багушэвічу. На фоне касьцёл Сьвятых апосталаў Пятра й Паўла (1854-75 гг.).
Photos of the Day for November 6, 2016
Soly to Ashmjany 2015 (III/IV): Narbuty. Дарога Солы-Ашмяны 2015 г. (III/IV): Нарбуты. Polish-era (pre-World War II) house. Даваенная хата. Old bridge over the River Ashmjanka. Стары мост над р. Ашмянка.
Photo of the Day for November 5, 2016
Soly to Ashmjany 2015 (II/IV): Old Ivashkautsy-Narbuty road. Дарога Солы-Ашмяны 2015 г. (II/IV): старая дарога Івашкаўцы-Нарбуты.
Photos of the Day for November 4, 2016
Soly to Ashmjany 2015 (I/IV): Ivashkautsy. Дарога Солы-Ашмяны 2015 г. (I/IV): Івашкаўцы. Neo-Gothic burial chapel of the Kachanau family (1908). Неагатычная капліца-пахавальня Качанаў (1908 г.). Pre-World War II house. Даваенная хата.
Photos of the Day for November 3, 2016
Feast of Our Lady of the Rosary (October 7), Roman Catholic church of Our Lady of the Rosary, Soly 2015. Урачыстая сьвятая Імша з нагоды Маці Божай Ружанцовай (7 кастрычніка), касьцёл Маці Божай Ружанцовай, Солы 2015 г.