In the family of the legendary partisan commander D.A. Denisenko, echoes of a long history have been preserved about how Dmitry Anisimovich was nominated for the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, but he never received an award

What stories are silent dilapidated concrete walls of the forts of the Grodno fortress?

State University named after For eight decades of history, Yanki Kupala has gone from a teacher’s institute to a multidisciplinary university, from two departments to 15 faculties, from two specialties to fifty, from the first 100...

This article contains information about the main attractions of Grodno. The author focuses on the architecture of the city. In Russian and English languages.

The church of Boris and Gleb (Kalozha) was built in the 12th century. It is the oldest building on the territory of Belarus. Fate has not regretted her contemporaries the Nizhnya and Prechistenskaya churchs. We have heard only the...

The pearl of the Sovietskaya square is Francis Xavier cathedral (Farny cathedral). This is one of the greatest cathedral in Belarus: it could fit inside the entire population of Grodno, which had in the city during the constructio...

The Veselovskih family founded a monastery in memory of deceased daughter Griselda Sapegovoy. On the territory of Belarus except Grodno like the monastery was only in Brest.

The Pokrovsky Cathedral was built in 1907 in honor of soldiers who died during the Russian-Japanese war.

The monastery was built on the site of the Prechistenskaya church of 12th century. In the days of the union and it’s inhabitants were Vilna bazilianki. After 1839 the monastery became Orthodox.

The stone synagogue was preserved in Grodno since the beginning of the last century. It is the only one of its kind in Belarus. The architecture of the building close to the Art Nouveau style filled with a variety of elements of t...