Рубрика: Regional news

  Berestovichanka is a right tributary of the Svisloch River. Its length is 16 kilometers. This small river takes its origin on the southeastern outskirts of the village of Berestovichany, which is located very close to the district center. Bolshaya Berestovitsa is the largest settlement located on this river. In 2006, it celebrated the 500th […]

Nadezhda Storazhava was born in 1942 in the village of Kaniuchi. After graduating from the school she studied at the Pedagogical institute in Grodno. At first she worked as a teacher in Grodno region, and then got married and moved to Minsk. Here she worked as a teacher of primary school in a variety of […]

“Someone is hiding, the other one is finding” . This is the title of the exhibition of treasures of Belarus, which was opened on June 30 in the Grodno State Historical and Archaeological Museum. About 30 treasures are exhibited in the spacious hall of the New Castle in Grodno. Among them is the treasure found […]

Only in the Berestovitsky district, only these days of August you will see 3D helicopters, paragliders, a radio-controlled balloon. Songs under the guitar, spending the night in tents, songs by the fire, film screenings in the open air for adults and children are not the whole list of entertainment for the holiday. In the program […]

Last week on the day of fire service in Berestovitsa in center for creativity of children and youth was opened the museum room of the fire service. In the ceremony took part official people of the district and the employees of district department of emergency situations, veterans. Next to the museum room is located a […]

The holiday began with a beautiful action entitled «Berast and Tavitsa or the history of one love story» on the banks of the picturesque lake. The local legend says about the romantic love story of a guy and a girl Berast and Tavitsa, whose names were used as the basis for the name of the […]

For the seventh time in the village of Bolshyje Eismonty in Berestovitsa region took place recently the festival of polish culture and life named “Eismontovskiy fest”.The idea of festival belongs to the local authorities and to the local department of the Union of Poles in  Belarus. So in the year 2011 the first festival started […]

 In 1754 King Augustus III gave Berestovitsa Magdeburg law. This privilege was given at the request of the owner of the town Jerzy August Mnishak. According to the new rules, the people of Great Berestovitsa had to use its own coat of arms and seal. In those days the local authorities edited and issued a […]

  The children recreation camp “Berestovitskij” is situated about one kilometer away from Bolshaya Berestovitsa, a small town in Grodno region, which is located 15 km away from the border crossing point to   Poland. Last Sunday more than one hundred children from Berestovitsa and some neighbor districts came here to start the summer rest. During […]

Two weeks ago in Bolshaya Berestovitsa was opened a training and playing room for security entitled “Visiting the magic book”. In the ceremony took part official people of the district and children who visit kindergarten in Bolshaya Berestovitsa. The little participants of the ceremony demonstrated what they know about fire safety rules. Finally the little […]

  The Squirrel Museum in Bolshaya Berestovitsa is one of the 34 unusual museums in Belarus. You can find information about it in the book “The most unusual museums of Belarus” that was published last year in Minsk in the publishing house “Belaruskaya Encyklopedia imya Petrusya Brouki”. The Squirrel Museum was opened about four years […]