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| Country | Belarus |
| Region | Vitebsk region |
| Surface | 96 km² |
| Population | 351 800 |
| Area code | ( 375) 212 |
| Postal Code | 210000–210999 |
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Vitebsk - a city located in the north-eastern part Belarus, on the river Daugava.
Characteristic
Drive
By plane
There is an airport here.
By train
There is a train station here. It has rail connections with: St. Petersburg, Kiev, Chisinau, Smolensk, Mariupol, Gomel, Dnipropetrovsk, Kaliningrad, Minsk, Połock, Grodno, Orsha, Odessa, Murmansk, Brest, Simferopol, Moscow, Lviv, Baranavichy.
By car
Vitebsk is an important road junction.
By bus
Communication
Worth seeing
- Marc Chagall Museum and Art Center.
- Marc Chagall's house built by the painter's father at the end of the 19th century, there is a monument to the painter around the corner of the house.
- The Art Museum, where the works of artists from Vitebsk are exhibited.
- Alexander Nevsky Orthodox Church.
- Orthodox Church of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
- Cathedral of Our Lady of Kazan.
- St. Barbara (Roman Catholic).
- Town Hall.
- Regional Museum.
- Palace of the Russian governor from the 18th century
- Train station. Renovated in the 1990s.
In the main hall of the waiting room, on the first floor, there are stained glass windows with the coats of arms of Belarusian regions, and on the central one is the historical coat of arms of the country "Pogoń", which was a symbol forbidden by the government of Lukashenka for a long time, and only in 2014, by the Order No. 1863 was declared a historical symbol. Despite the ban on this symbol for almost 15 years, the stained glass window in Vitebsk was not dismantled.
- Concert shell, on the stage of which the annual festival "Slawiański Bazar" takes place
- Monument to the heroes of the Second World War
Nearest neighborhood
Połock, a big city and one of the prettiest in Belarus. In Polotsk it is worth visiting:
- St. Sophia,
- Museum of Regional History and Culture,
- Library and Museum of Szymon Połocki (the only museum in Belarus devoted exclusively to printing),
- St. Euphrosyne and a whole complex of interesting buildings and holy places of the Orthodox Church,
- Interesting monuments and historic wells with the inscription Połock (Cyrillic, of course).
work
Science
Shopping
There is a large and well-stocked bookstore in Vitebsk. In 3 shops you can buy local folk products made of straw or wood. Wooden products are not a Belarusian specialty. You can also buy clay animals that are both whistles and make, for example, the sound of an owl. serok - a small piece of white cheese covered with chocolate. In the streets of larger cities, you can also buy kvass straight from the barrel.
Gastronomy
Parties
The most famous event in Vitebsk is the Slavic Bazaar. There are many stalls with local products, handicrafts, there are Orthodox Church stands and many other things. There are concerts and other performances of folk groups every evening, as well as the Days of Vitebsk.