Brest welcomed the International Electric Marathon for the Cup of Andrei Nagel on 2 june. The rally started in Monte Carlo, Monaco on 27 May and has already covered 2,400km and eight countries. The next stop is the town Mir. On 3 June the participants of the rally will visit the national range to test electric cars of the United Institute of Mechanical Engineering of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus and get familiar with an exhibition of Belarusian...

Photo courtesy of the Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park An archaeological open-air museum in the Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park will be officially inaugurated on 1 June, BelTA learned from the scientific department of the park. Guests of the launch event will be able to immerse themselves in the Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age. An ancient settlement has been recreated in the flood plain of the Lesnaya Pravaya River near the village of Kamenyuki close to the main entrance...

The 14th Belarusian International Media Forum “Partnership for the Future: Journalism and Social Security” opened in Brest on 23 May. “The Belarusian International Media Forum is a big event in the social and political life of the country. One of its objectives is to develop positive attitudes to Belarus, to highlight the openness and transparency of the country's foreign policy which is based on the principles of good-neighborliness, mutual understanding and peace,” Deputy...

The remains of the Jewish ghetto victims found during construction works in the downtown of Brest were laid to rest in a ceremony in Brest on 22 May. The ceremony was held at the Severnoye cemetery near the memorial sign commemorating 1,549 Jews massacred by the Nazis during the Great Patriotic War and buried at the cemetery. The ceremony bid farewell to 1,214 Jewish ghetto victims that were found and retrieved by members of the 52nd independent search battalion of the Defense...

MINSK, 16 May (BelTA) - The only living defender of the Brest Fortress Piotr Kotelnikov has turned 90. Counselor of the Belarusian Embassy in Russia Vadim Senyuta came to visit the veteran to wish him happy birthday, BelTA learned from the press service of the diplomatic mission. The diplomat wished the veteran long years, strength, good health, happiness and well-being and gave him flowers and gifts. “It is a great honor for me to congratulate you, the defender of the Brest...

The Flame of Peace relay of the 2nd European Games set off on a journey across Belarus from the Brest Hero Fortress Memorial on 12 May. “The 2nd European Games is a festival that emphasizes our country's attention to the support and development of the Olympic movement and a healthy lifestyle. The flame had traveled thousands of kilometers through seven European countries before it reached Belarus. We are welcoming it in Brest, the symbolic gate of our Motherland. A long way to...

In January-April 2019 the number of visa-free tourist arrivals to the tourist and recreation zone “Brest” increased 2.5 times from the same period last year, BelTA learned from head of the tourism sector at the sports and tourism department of the Brest Oblast Executive Committee Denis Nikityuk. About 7,500 travelers from 42 countries visited the region in January-April 2019 using the visa-free travel program. In January-April 2018 Brest and its surroundings were visited by...

BREST, 11 April (BelTA) – Investment agreements to the tune of about Br28 million were signed during the 4th international B2B contact fair Brest 2019 on 11 April. These projects envisage the creation of about 200 jobs, BelTA has learned. Brest Oblast Governor Anatoly Lis The documents were signed by Brest Oblast Vice Governor Andrei Klets and heads of the companies, who are willing to invest in the Brest Oblast economy. In particular, there are plans to spend over Br3...

Aleksandr Rogachuk. An archive photo The status of this year's cultural capital of the Commonwealth of Independent States will help enhance Brest's recognition on the international scale, BelTA learned from Brest Mayor Aleksandr Rogachuk on 5 April. Aleksandr Rogachuk said: “When in 2017 we learned about the status of the CIS cultural capital, we saw it as a gift on the occasion of the 1,000 years since the city was founded. International events logically match city ones. This...

The remains of the Jewish ghetto victims found on a construction site in Brest will be reburied in May, Brest Mayor Alexander Rogachuk said as he visited the mass grave together with Ambassador of Israel to Belarus Alon Shoham. The remains of 1,140 victims of the Jewish ghetto were found on the construction site in Kuibysheva Street. The Defense Ministry search unit is completing its work on the site. The excavation will be completed next week. The surrounding area was throughly examined....