По улицам города Гомеля, Беларусь. июнь 2024

Exploring the Best of Gomel: A Comprehensive Guide

Gomel is a city in southeastern Belarus, located on the banks of the Sozh River. 

It is the administrative center of the Gomel Region and the second-largest city in Belarus with a population of over 500,000 people1. The city has a rich history, having been founded at the end of the 1st millennium AD on the lands of the Eastern Slavic tribal union of Radimichs.

Rechitsa: Exploring Belarusian Industrial Heritage and Culture

Rechitsa is a city in the Gomel region of the Republic of Belarus. The city has a rich history and cultural heritage that attract tourists from all over the world.

The first mention of Rechitsa dates back to the 12th century when it was a small settlement on the banks of the Dnieper River. It grew over time and became an important trading center due to its location on the river. The city was destroyed and rebuilt several times throughout its history due to wars and natural disasters.

The city of Turov is located in the Zhitkovichi district of the Gomel region of Belarus.

This is one of the most ancient and iconic cities of Belarus and the capital of the former Principality of Turov in the 10th-13th centuries.

The city of Turov is the political, economic and cultural center of the Dregovichi, the City of Turov was first mentioned in 980 in the Tale of Bygone Years: “This Rogvolod crossed over the sea and held his power in Polotsk. And Tur held power in Turov, and the Turov people were nicknamed from him.

The city was founded at the confluence of the Yazda and Strumen rivers, tributaries of the Pripyat, which, in turn, flows into the Dnieper, leading to the Black Sea.

In the 11th century the city became one of the centers of Christianity. At the same time, the so-called Turov Gospel was created here - the oldest book created on the territory of modern Belarus.

The Holy Nativity of the Mother of God Yurovichi Monastery is a monastery of the Turov diocese of the Belarusian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate, Belarusian Exarchate), in the village of Yurovichi (Kalinkovichi district, Gomel region).

The Holy Nativity of the
Mother of God Yurovichi Monastery

In the second half of the 17th century, representatives of the Catholic order of the Jesuits settled here, whose activities are associated with the appearance in Yurovichi of the miraculous icon of the Mother of God and the construction of a temple complex here. 

This icon, executed in the ecclesiastical style of the Hodegetria Mother of God, according to the conclusion of an expert commission of art historians, was probably painted at the beginning of the 17th century on the territory of the Commonwealth, in its

From Rechitsa to Mozyr and back to Rechitsa city.

    By car from Rechitsa to Mozyr and back to Rechitsa, through the town of Khoiniki, Yurovichi. Viewing local attractions.

The city of Gomel is the administrative center of the Gomel region, the second most populated city in the country.

Coat of arms of the city of Gomel

The city of Gomel is the administrative center of the Gomel region, the second most populated city in the country as of January 1, 2017, 535,229 people. 

It is located in the south-east of the republic on the Sozh River, 302 km south-east of Minsk, 534 km east of Brest, 171 km south of Mogilev, 237 km west of Bryansk, 111 km north of Chernigov , 567 km southwest of Moscow.

The assumption of the origin of the name of the city is Swan Pond (a modern view of the Gomeyuk stream).

The city of Rechitsa is not only one of the oldest and industrial cities in the Republic of Belarus, but it also left its mark on world history, thanks to John Smith.

photo of the embankment of the town of Rechitsa.

One of the oldest cities in the Republic of Belarus was founded in 1213.

There was a castle in this city, but now only the ramparts have remained from it, on the banks of the Dnieper River.

This city was once a part of different states, but now it is a part of the Republic of Belarus, the Gomel region. 

Memorial WWII "Operation Bagration" in Belarus.

7-meter monument by sculptor
 Valery Kondratenko.
Four figures are placed in the center of the high relief
- Zhukov, Rokossovsky, Batov and Panov 

On June 21, 2014, on the 71st kilometer of the R-31 highway (Bobruisk-Mozyr-Novaya Rudnya) in the vicinity of the villages of Rakovichi and Mikhailovka, Svetlogorsk district, the “Bagration” memorial was opened on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the territory from Nazi invaders It was from these places that the famous military operation began.

In 1944, a swampy swamp was located at this place, which was deliberately chosen by the