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Belarus. Slonim
A town in Grodno oblast. Golden Lenin overlooks the golden domes of the Orthodox Transfiguration Cathedral, built in 1994-2010 at the site of the Lateran church demolished in 1964.
Trinity Orthodox Church - a former Bernardine church (1645).
Catholics were left the Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Most Holy Virgin Mary (1670).
And Andrew the Apostle's Church (1775).
The former has a very beautiful interior with altar sculptures, but we did not want to disturb the believers. It was the eve of Easter, and they began to take their seats in a few hours before the mass.
The Jews were all killed by Nazis in WWII, so the synagogue is still abandoned.
Almost the town center.
A bank building, which still houses a bank.
A fire station with a watchtower.
Pointless tourist sign with a giant QR code in which not even an Internet address is encoded, but approximately the same inscription in Russian and English as under it.
Unlike Russia, the main burden for the introduction of covid rules in Belarus fell not on the government, and not even on the regional authorities, but on the district executive committees. Apparently, then it would be easier to write off the local tyranny.
Bicycle navigation, the route follows from Moscow to Galway in Ireland. In Russia, no one has even heard of it.
The Oginsky Channel, which once connected the Dnieper and the Neman, allowed navigation between the Black and Baltic Seas.
The Shchara River flooded the private houses.
Officer barracks built in early XX century for the Russian Imperial army regiment. And a functionalist housing added when the Slonim was a Polish town in 1920-1939.
Slonim cats.
Getting in (as of April 2023): driving from Minsk and Grodno is easy. The entire district is occupied by military training grounds, don't even try to turn from the road into the forests. Using public transit would require an interchange in Baranovichi.
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