Location: The Museum is located on the bank of the river Western Dzvina at Nizhne-Pakrouskaya Str. 22, near the Epiphany Cathedral. The Museum of the Belarusian Book-Printing was opened in 1990, on the oldest street of Polatsk (according to written sources), where Francysk Skaryna himself used to walk. The emergence of the museum took a…
Location: The Cathedral building stands on the high bank at the junction of the rivers: the Western Dvina and the Palata, on Zamkavaya Str. 1. For many centuries, the Cathedral of Holy Wisdom was a symbol of independence, greatness, the political, economic and cultural significance of Polatsk among “cities equal to it.” Although many wars,…
Location: The church is located on the territory of the Spaso-Euphrasyne monastery on Ewfrasіnnіa Polackaya str. 89. The Transfiguration Church of the Spasa-Euphrasyne monastery in Polatsk is one of the earliest preserved churches in Eastern Europe. Its architecture, formed in the process of creative rework of Byzantine traditions, was an example of a fundamentally new…
Location: The Jesuit College is located in the western part of the historic city center, Straletskaya str. 4, near the Upper Castle and Ivan the Terrible’s Rampart. In 1580, Stefan Batory invited the Catholic Jesuit Order to settle down in the city and endowed them with lands and property. In 1581, the Jesuits opened a…
Location: The monument is erected in the southern part of the square bearing the same name, formed by the intersection of Francysk Skarynа Avenue and Gogol Street. The idea of erecting a monument to Francysk Skaryna in the homeland of the printing pioneer emerged in the 1920s in the wake of the rise of the…