The best readers of Yanka Kupala's poems will be determined at the poetry festival in the Vitebsk region

June 22, Vitebsk / Diana Kurilo - BELTA /. The best reciters of Yanka Kupala's poems will be determined today at the regional poetry festival "Zvini, spiavaj, Kupalawskaja lira!" in the village of Levki, Orsha district, the Orsha District Executive Committee told a BELTA correspondent. The traditional venue for the regional poetry festival is the favorite dacha of the classic of Belarusian literature Yanka Kupala in the village of Levki. Currently, it houses a branch of the Yanka Kupala Museum. So, in the year of the 130th anniversary of the poet's birth, lovers and connoisseurs of his work, as well as poets, will gather on the banks of the Dnieper. Creative groups from Orsha, Braslav and Dokshytsy districts will perform for the festival guests. Masters of craft houses from Orsha district, Orsha, Tolochin, Gorodok, Lepel districts, the center of folk art and crafts of the village of Kopys, Vitebsk region, and Shklov district, Mogilev region, will take part in the festival. A poetry festival is impossible without books, so a library town with book and creative exhibitions will be open here. The central event of the festival will be the performance of poets and writers of the region. Guests will visit the branch museum-house and lay flowers at the monument to Yanka Kupala. The dacha in Levki was Yanka Kupala's favorite place. He came here every year in early spring and lived in this cozy house on the banks of the Dnieper until late autumn, writing a lot. During the war, the writer's dacha was destroyed. However, in 1945, the country's government decided to restore it and create a branch of the literary museum. The recreated house features a memorial exposition, and the office building of the former Kopys forestry, which has survived to this day and where Yanka Kupala stayed in the 1930s, houses a literary exposition that highlights the poet's life and work in the 1930s. The memorial complex includes outbuildings, the driver's house, and a garage where Kupala's "Chevrolet" car is exhibited. The sculptural composition "Poet's Autumn" by A. Anikeychik is one of the best monuments to the People's Poet and occupies a central place in the "Levki" memorial complex. In 1978, the government of Belarus decided to create the Kupala Memorial Reserve "Levki" with an area of 19 hectares. -0-