“Competitions and festivals are the basis on which culture rests, ” said Gleb Lapitsky, general director of the Vitebsk Culture Center, chairman of the jury. – Just like in sports, when there is a competitive moment and when it is also emotional, where the participant can express his position, the attitude towards creativity is very important. This festival preserves not only vocal excellence, but also the patriotic spirit. The guys sing not only songs...
The topics of this conference surprised us with their diversity. The topics concerned exclusively the Vitebsk region, research into all spheres of its life, noted the director of the regional library Tatyana Adamyan. The participants showed interest in the history and culture of the Podvina region, ethnography and folklore, library and bibliographic, museum, church local history, excursion business, and touched upon the problems of archival science and archeography, literary...
