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Holy Trinity Church is the temple of the Belarusian Exarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church. Located in the village of Bolshaya Svorotva, Baranovichi District, Brest Region, Belarus.

Holy Trinity Church, Bolshaya Svorotva.
From the history of the Holy Trinity Church

From the descriptions of churches and parishes of the Minsk diocese in 1879, the stone Trinity Church is mentioned. The temple was built in the shape of a regular triangle with one blind dome. In addition to the iconostasis, the temple had four artistic paintings of the icon of the Holy Evangelists. Holy Trinity Church is the temple of the Belarusian Exarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church.

From Minsk to Pinsk in 40 minutes and back to Minsk.


    Through the village of Grushevka, the Reitanov estate, Lyakhovichi, Bolshaya Svorota, Lake Svityaz, Karelichi, Mir, Mir Castle.



 

The city of Brest is the administrative center of the Brest region and the Brest region in the south-west of Belarus.

Coat of arms of the city of Brest

The city of Brest is the administrative center of the Brest region in the south-west of Belarus.

As of January 1, 2019, the population of the city amounted to 350,616 people. The territory of the city is equivalent - 146.12 km².

The city is located in the southwestern part of the region, at the confluence of the Mukhavets River in the Western Bug, near the state border with Poland.

Brest is a large railway junction, a river port on Mukhavets, an important road junction.

Мuseum-estate of the national hero of Belarus, Poland, and the United States, Tadeusz Kosciuszko.

Museum-estate of the Tadeusz Kosciuszko

Near the agro-town Kossovo in the Merechevshchyna tract, there is a small homeland and a museum-estate of the national hero of Belarus, Poland, and the United States, an honorary citizen of France Tadeusz Kosciuszko.


Аrchaeological museum "Berestye" in Brest city.

Аrchaeological museum "Berestye" 2020

Brest city, one of the oldest cities in the Republic of Belarus. 

Although the city of Brest is not the largest in Belarus, there are a lot of interesting places in it. And one of them is the Berestye Museum

This archaeological museum "Berestye" was opened on March 2, 1982 on the site of excavations that have been carried out since 1968, and is the only museum in Europe of a medieval East Slavic city. 

Puslowski Palace in Kossovo - Republic of Belarus.

Puslowski Palace in Kossovo

A unique monument of neo-Gothic architecture of the 19th century is located in the Belarusian town of Kossovo.

For its fabulous image and luxury, the palace of the Counts of Puslowski (Kossovsky Castle) was called a "knightly dream."

The Puslowski Palace in the 19th century The place of Kossovo (today Ivatsevichi district,

Sapieha Palace in Ružany.

The palace complex in Ruzhany 2015

The palace complex in Ruzhany is one of the unique corners of Belarus. 

For centuries, the most beautiful architectural ensemble, which is called the Belarusian Versailles, belonged to the powerful Sapieha dynasty.

The place of Ruzhany (today Pruzhany district, Brest region) was first mentioned in written

The memorial complex "Brest Fortress Hero".

The memorial complex "Brest Fortress Hero"
The Brest Fortress is one of the iconic places of Belarus, a symbol of Soviet resistance during World War II.

The Brest Fortress at the beginning of the XIX century The Brest Fortress was built in the 30s - early 40s of the XIX century at the intersection of the Western Bug and Mukhavets rivers on the site of old Brest.

The Kamenetsk tower - is a unique monument of the 13th century.

The Kamenetsk tower in Belarus 2019

In the city of Kamenets of the Brest region, there is a unique monument of architecture and defensive architecture of the second half of the 13th century - the Kamenetsk tower (Kamenets pillar, Kamenetsk tower).

On a hill near the once-full-flowing Forest River, a magnificent structure rises like a huge chess rook.

Belovezhskaya Pushcha - UNESCO


Belovezhskaya Pushcha UNESCO

The legendary Belovezhskaya Pushcha is one of the oldest reserves in the world, the largest of the remaining parts of the huge relict forest of Europe, which many centuries ago extended from the Baltic Sea to the Bug and from the Oder to the Dnieper.


The unique natural area that unites Belarus and Poland is included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. In addition, Belovezhskaya Pushcha is the largest of the four national parks in Belarus (the area is almost 153 thousand hectares).

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