Photos of the Day for March 16, 2023

Photo survey of the patrimony of Stoubtsy, a district center in western Mjensk Region, 2017. Фотавандроўка па спадчыне г. Стоўбцы 2017 г.     Early 20th-century commercial building, being used in 2017 as a bar, Kapjernika 8. Камерцыйная забудова пачатку 20-га ст., якая выкарыставалася ў 2017 як бар, Каперніка 8.    

Photos of the Day for November 27, 2021

Photo survey of Polesia in western Homjel’ Region 2015: Ljel’chytsy District (Bujnavichy, Buda-Safijeuka), Kalinkavichy District (Juravichy, Hrada), and the city of Mazyr. Фотавандроўка па спадчыне Палесься на заходняй Гомельшчыне 2015 г.: Лельчыцкі раён (Буйнавічы, Буда-Сафіеўка), Калінкавіцкі раён (Юравічы, Града) і Мазыр.     Late 19th/early 20th century urban vernacular architecture along (currently-named) Lenin Street. Местачковыя… Continue reading Photos of the Day for November 27, 2021

Photos of the Day for November 24, 2021

Photo survey of Polesia in western Homjel’ Region 2015: Ljel’chytsy District (Bujnavichy, Buda-Safijeuka), Kalinkavichy District (Juravichy, Hrada), and the city of Mazyr. Фотавандроўка па спадчыне Палесься на заходняй Гомельшчыне 2015 г.: Лельчыцкі раён (Буйнавічы, Буда-Сафіеўка), Калінкавіцкі раён (Юравічы, Града) і Мазыр.   Traditional and arriviste vernacular architecture, Hohal’ (Gogol’) Street. Традыцыйнае народнае й сучаснае моднае… Continue reading Photos of the Day for November 24, 2021

Photos of the Day for November 12, 2016

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

Photos of the Day for October 28, 2016

Mahiljou 2016 (III/IV):  architecture of former Luteranskaja Street, now Mihaja.  The street was named Luteranskaja when Russian empress Catherine II, who controlled the eastern Belarusian lands as a result of the first partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 1772,  granted the local German community permission to build a church there in 1780. Магілёў 2016 г.… Continue reading Photos of the Day for October 28, 2016