Einstein’s assistant Jakov Grommer was born in Belarus and invited the great scientist to work in Minsk.
In December 1931, Einstein wrote in his diary that he decided to leave Berlin. The reasons were clear...
It is difficult to find any secrets that the famous Brest Fortress can have except the history of the Second World War. But interesting events took place there even much earlier.
In addition to traditional expeditional finding in the form of songs and stories Gomel public organization "Talaka" found in the last expedition to Brahin (Gomel area) a unique photo.
It depicts a young inhabitant of Palesse (palyashuk) who harnessed to a wagon with the wood with a bison.
People of the village Sosny celebrated pagan holiday Rusalie. According to popular belief, during the summer bloom mermaid go out of the water, walk around the neighborhood and go to the village.
The 50th anniversary of one of the most important events in recent U.S. history will take place in autumn 2013. On November 22, 1963 at 12:30 PM in Dallas, Texas, people heard three shots, two of which stopped the life of President John F. Kennedy. According to the official version, the murder was committed by 24-year-old Lee Harvey Oswald. In June 1962, Oswald returned from the Soviet Union, where he had lived two and a half years in Minsk. He married and his first child was born in the capital of the Belarusian SSR.
Approximately 32,5 thousand of former Nazi concentration camps prisoners, ghettos and other places of detention live in Belarus.
In 1161 Belarusian saint Euphrasinia, mother superior of Polack Convent, ordered to a famous Polack master Lazar Bohsa (Bohsa is probably his second name, a short form of Bohuslau), a cross for the holy relics which were sent to her from Jerusalem and Constantinople. Such an important task was carried out under a close personal supervision of Euphrasinia, who is even considered to be the author of a draft for the cross. 
