VITEBSK, 16 August (BelTA) – In 2011-2015 Vitebsk Oblast will construct seven ice palaces, Chairman of the Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee Alexander Kosinets told a closing ceremony of the Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee cup ice hockey tournament, BelTA has learnt.
According to the Governor, the region attaches great attention to development of ice hockey. In 2011, an ice palace seating 3,500 people will open in Orsha. In 2011-2015 the ice palaces will open in Lepel, Novolukoml,...
VITEBSK, 12 August (BelTA) – An exhibition of participants of ART-EGO, the first international plein air, opened in Polotsk, Belarus’ cultural capital 2010, BelTA learnt from Larisa Lysenko, chief of the arts gallery of the National Polotsk History and Culture Museum-Reserve.
The exhibition features 60 works. These are paintings, collages, art objects, sculptures that the artists from Belarus, Latvia and Lithuania created during the two-week plein air dedicated to Polotsk as a cultural...
VITEBSK, 12 August (BelTA) – In Vitebsk Oblast composite fire-fighting teams have been put on alert to fight forest and peatland fires, BelTA learned from Marina Fando, press secretary of the Vitebsk Oblast Department of the Emergencies Ministry.
There are composite fire-fighting teams in every district of the oblast. There are over 150 composite fire-fighting teams numbering a total of about 2,500 people. They have over 500 vehicles to deliver water and extinguish fires. The teams are...
