More than 400 cultural sites were renovated in 2010 in the Vitebsk region

February 21, Vitebsk / Olga Bogacheva - BELTA /. More than 400 cultural sites were repaired in 2010 in the Vitebsk region, the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee's Culture Department informed a BELTA correspondent. After modernization, the park of the regional museum named after Hero of the Soviet Union M.F. Shmyrev was opened with exhibition complexes of partisan life. Significant attention was paid to cultural sites in the rural regions of the oblast. Thus, in preparation for the regional festival-fair "Dazhynki-2010" in Rossony, more than Br4 billion was allocated for the repair of the district House of Culture, the Museum of Combat Brotherhood, and the district school of arts. Funds from the regional budget were used for work at the "Curse of Fascism" Shunevka" Memorial Complex in the Dokshitsy district. Major repairs with modernization of the Disna House of Crafts have begun, and the renovation of district Houses of Culture in Senno, Beshenkovichi, Verkhnedvinsk, Glubokoye, and museums in Liozno, Senno, Verkhnedvinsk has continued. In total, during the implementation of the program for the revival and development of rural areas for 2005-2010, Br65 billion was allocated for the repair of cultural sites in the Vitebsk region. At the same time, insufficient funding did not allow for the full implementation of all planned activities. From 2006 to 2010, 18 unfinished construction sites remained. Work on them will be carried out within the framework of the state program for the development of rural territories for 2011-2015. Currently, restoration work on the frescoes of the Transfiguration Church, included in the UNESCO list of historical and cultural values, is underway in Polotsk. As part of the implementation of the Comprehensive Program for the Development of the City for 2008-2012, the buildings of Peter I's House, the St. Sophia Cathedral, and the former Officers' House are being restored as the Polotsk Museum. In the regional center, the restoration of the Holy Assumption Cathedral is nearing completion, and the "Vitebsk" concert hall is being reconstructed. The buildings of the Lenin Regional Library, the "Lyalka" Theater, the Vitebsk and Novopolotsk Music Colleges, and the Vitebsk College of Culture and Arts are under repair. -0-