Architectural patrimony of Shchuchyn and Harodnja Districts 2016 (III/V): photo expedition with Anton Astapovich, chairman of the Belarusian Association for the Conservation of Historical and Cultural Monuments (ГА БДТАПГК). Спадчына Шчучынскага й Гарадзенскага раёнаў 2016 г. (III/V): фотаэкспедыцыя з Антонам Астаповічам, старшынёй Беларускага дабраахвотнага таварыства аховы помнікаў гісторыі й культуры (ГА БДТАПГК). Churches of… Continue reading Photos of the Day for December 13, 2016
Tag: Pozostałości Polski na Białorusi
Photos of the Day for December 11, 2016
Architectural patrimony of Shchuchyn and Harodnja Districts 2016 (I/V): Polish-era primary school (szkoła powszechna), Mitsary. Photo expedition with Anton Astapovich, chairman of the Belarusian Association for the Conservation of Historical and Cultural Monuments (ГА БДТАПГК). This wooden school house was built during the interwar period when the western Belarusian lands were incorporated into the Second… Continue reading Photos of the Day for December 11, 2016
Photos of the Day for October 7, 2016
Polesian roads: from the Sporava Marsh Preserve to Pinsk 2016, part V/V. Палескія дарогі: са Спораўскага заказніку ў Пінск 2016 г., частка V/V. Ahova, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) west of Pinsk, is renowned for its craftsmanship in painted wooden chests. The building shown here — either a former school, other official building, or… Continue reading Photos of the Day for October 7, 2016
Photos of the Day for September 19, 2016
Functionalism and the Zakopane style in Hlybokaje: civil-servants’ housing quarter by Juliusz Klos and other houses. After surveying some of the Zakopane-style buildings on the outskirts of Hlybokae (photos of the day for September 18), there was not enough time for more than a drive-by tour of the better-known Polish-era six-building housing quarter for civil… Continue reading Photos of the Day for September 19, 2016
Photos of the Day for September 18, 2016
Zakopane (functionalist) style, Hlybokaje 2016. On the road from Braslau to Mjensk, and inspired by the visit to the civil-servant residential quarter in Braslau, we stopped in Bjerazvjechcha on the outskirts of Hlybokaje, as well as in Hlybokaje, to survey some of the Zakopane-style buildings there. Функцыяналізм (закапанскі стыль), Беразвечча й Глыбокае 2016 г. Па… Continue reading Photos of the Day for September 18, 2016
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
Photos of the Day for September 16, 2016
Architectural patrimony of Braslau 2016 (IV/V): Zakopane-style houses, Sadovaja Street. Архітэктурная спадчына Браслава 2016 г. (IV/V): Дамы ў закапанскім стылю, вул. Садовая.
Photos of the Day for September 15, 2016
Braslau architectural patrimony 2016 (III/V): Braslau cemetery. Unfortunately the countrywide mania for cutting down cemetery trees reached Braslau several years ago, and the resulting lack of shade has — predictably — led to the rapid and choking growth of weeds, grasses and bushes. Архітэктурная спадчына Браслава 2016 (III/V): браслаўскія могілкі. Шкада, што таксама браслаўскія могілкі… Continue reading Photos of the Day for September 15, 2016
Photos of the Day for September 13, 2016
Braslau architectural patrimony 2016 (I/V). Braslau should be proud of its neglected but nevertheless outstanding example of a Polish-era “civil-servants’ quarter” (in Belarusian: калонія ўраднікаў; in Polish: kolonia urzędników), designed in the mid-1920s in the emerging functionalist style by renowned Polish architect Juliusz Kłos. The photos of the day for September 29, 2015 surveyed this… Continue reading Photos of the Day for September 13, 2016
Photos of the Day for September 29, 2015
Architectural patrimony of Belarus: expedition to the northern districts of Mjory and Braslau led by Anton Astapovich, chairman of the Belarusian Association for the Preservation of Historical and Cultural Monuments. Спадчына Беларусі: вандроўка па Мёрскім і Браслаўскім раёнах з Антонам Астаповічам, старшыням Беларускага дабраахвотнага таварыства аховы помнікаў гісторыі й культуры. Part VIII/VIII: inter-war Polish functionalism,… Continue reading Photos of the Day for September 29, 2015