This post is a collaborative post written in group by #TeamBelarus included in the #TeamChallenge proposed by @ermest__. You can find all posts of this series searching for the hashtags #TeamChallenge and #TeamBelarus.
Here the participants of the team, people, without which the Challenge would fail:
@katydarhel - it was thanks to namely her active participation that the idea was not abandoned in difficult times; she is the author of the most carefully prepared our posts.
@AndrewMn is the catalyst that gave us strength__, it’s a pity that he was banned and this reduced his enthusiasm, although he returned to us with his wife @Alena_SnowK.
@tedted knows the easiest way to get from one point of Minsk to another with health benefits best of all. He is ready to help in difficult minute though he is sure that it’s not so.
@mrDenai provided really wonderful photos of Mogilev (for future post);
and I, @OlgaKlimchik , who really want the team to exist.
Here the list of the posts created under the Challenge:
#TeamBelarus, Where to Go in Belarus
#TeamBelarus The 7 wonders of Viciebsk
#TeamBelarus, Niaśviž is the Radziwiłł’s family estate
Village Day Celebration in Belarus #TeamBelarus
#TeamBelarus, Weekend in Minsk
#TeamBelarus A little journey into the 17th century
#TeamBelarus, Belarus in miniature
#TeamBelarus, National Library and surroundings. For lovers and
#TeamBelarus, Minsk Sights with QR-Codes According to The National Library of Belarus
#TeamBelarus, Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War
#TeamBelarus, Children’s Railroad in Minsk, Belarus
#TeamBelarus, Park Museum “Sula”
#TeamBelarus, Belarussian Winter
#TeamBelarus, Plyeshchanitsy Recreation Center Priroda-Lux
#TeamBelarus, Где взять велосипед напрокат в Минске
#TeamBelarus, Giant Belarussian Dumpers, Open Day at the BELAZ
#TeamBelarus, Minsk, Day of the City, 952 Anniversary
#TeamBelarus, Belarusian cuisine
#TeamBelarus, Krasny Bereg, The Memorial Complex “For Children - Victims of the Second World War”
#TeamBelarus, Krasny Bereg, Manor of the Kozel-Poklevsky
#TeamBelarus, Brest Fortress - The Place of the Beginning of Great
#1 Local guides meet up in Minsk, Belarus
#TeamBelarus, «Kuhmistr», Belarussian Cuisine & History
We liked the idea to describe our country, so, let’s continue after challenge:
#TeamBelarus, Buhava village is one remote corner of Belarus
[RECAP] Komarovsky Market Photowalk, Minsk, Belarus
Also feel free to read the posts about Belarus created before the Challenge:
5 authentic churches in Sharkaŭshchyna
Memorial complex “Trascianiec” and other monuments of military
I love To Share On Google Map small sculptures on Minsk
The Landmark or the Person? Brest Lamplighter, Brest, Belarus
Swan Lake Narach (Нарочь) - “Little Wonder of the World” of Belarus
The Beauty of Belarussian Nature
So, what is Belarus?
Reference information:
The Republic of Belarus is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It borders with Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania and Latvia. The population as of January 1, 2019 is 9,475,600 people, the territory is 207,600 km².
Belarus’s two official languages are Russian and Belarussian.
Both Orthodox and Catholic holidays are officially celebrated here.
The monetary unit is the Belarusian ruble.
Belarussian anthem: https://youtu.be/R0qQtDyENNk
The official name of our country is The Republic of Belarus or you can hear the name Byelorussia or Belorussia. But there is another well-known name: White Russia (Belaya Rus).
It’s believed that this name comes from the white color of linen clothes of local residents and the anthropological features of Belarusians - “blondes with blue or light gray eyes”. This name is also associated with the absence of the Mongol and Tatar raids in our lands.
White means bright, pure, honesty. These words really characterize our country and its people.
You don’t find here the bright colors of Mediterranean countries or the striking exoticism of Africa or the subtle craftiness of the East. Belarussian beauty is different, it’s calm and quiet.
On this earth, everything breathes harmony. Medieval castles, small rural churches, cool forests that preserved the beauty of pristine nature, quiet, transparent, like a tear, lakes, in whose honor our country is called sometimes a blue-eyed.
Over its history Belarus has been conquered many times, but it has never been a conqueror itself. Belarusians had to change their faith, adopt a foreign culture and language. But with all this, Belarus has never lost its identity. She bent, like grass, under a hurricane of conquest, in order to straighten and green again afterwards. Only during the Great Patriotic War, every third Belarusian died. Many towns including Minsk, the capital, were ruined completely and restored anew after the war.
Thanks again!