Photo survey of the patrimony of Stoubtsy, a district center in western Mjensk Region, 2017. Фотавандроўка па спадчыне г. Стоўбцы 2017 г. The Treaty of Riga in 1921 left the central and eastern Belarusian and Ukrainian lands under Bolshevik-Soviet occupation and the western Belarusian and Ukrainian lands, known to the Poles as the Eastern… Continue reading Photo of the Day for March 19, 2023
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Photo of the Day for March 10, 2023
Photo survey of the patrimony of Stoubtsy, a district center in western Mjensk Region, 2017. Stoubtsy is another of many smaller Belarusian cities whose fine architectural patrimony suffered under the policy of destruction, degradation or deliberate neglect by the occupying Soviet regime from 1944-1991 and has continued to suffer under the occupying neo-Soviet regime since… Continue reading Photo of the Day for March 10, 2023
Photo of the Day for March 9, 2023
Photo survey of the patrimony of Stoubtsy, a district center in western Mjensk Region, 2017. Stoubtsy is another of many smaller Belarusian cities whose fine architectural patrimony suffered under the policy of destruction, degradation or deliberate neglect by the occupying Soviet regime from 1944-1991 and has continued to suffer under the occupying neo-Soviet regime since… Continue reading Photo of the Day for March 9, 2023
Photos of the Day for September 8, 2020
Photo expedition in Voranava District 2012: Zhyrmuny, Bjenjakoni, Hajtsjunishki, Kanvjelishki, Bol’tsinki, Hjermanishki, Asava, Paharodna, Nacha, Radun’, Pjeljasa, Zabalats’ Фотавандроўка па Воранаўскім раёне 2012 г.: Жырмуны, Беняконі, Гайцюнішкі, Канвелішкі, Больцінкі, Германішкі, Асава, Пагародна, Нача, Радунь, Пеляса, Забалаць Churches of Belarus (part CCCLXXXIX): Roman Catholic church of Our Lady of the Rosary (1929-33). This… Continue reading Photos of the Day for September 8, 2020
Photos of the Day for September 17, 2016
Architectural patrimony of Braslau 2016 (V/V): Polish functionalism: civil-servant quarter designed by Juliusz Klos. On September 17, 1939, Stalin’s Soviet Union, following its ally Nazi Germany’s September 1 invasion of Poland, invaded Poland from the east and occupied and annexed Belarusian (and Ukrainian) lands which had been incorporated into the interwar Polish Republic. Heavy Soviet… Continue reading Photos of the Day for September 17, 2016