More than Br120 billion has been allocated for the preparation of Vitebsk for the XX "Slavianski Bazaar" festival.

March 28, Vitebsk / Diana Kurilo - BELTA /. More than Br120 billion has been allocated for the development of infrastructure and improvement of Vitebsk for the jubilee XX International Festival of Arts "Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk," the head of the culture department of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee, Vladimir Terentyev, told a BELTA correspondent. The Vitebsk City Executive Committee has approved a plan of measures to prepare the regional center for Belarus's main cultural event. It is planned that by July 1, cosmetic repairs to the Summer Amphitheater will be completed, and the regional philharmonic society, the Museum of Literature, the Ilya Repin Museum in Zdravnevo, and the Town Hall building, where festival events are held, will be improved. The largest volume of work is planned at the "Vitebsk" concert hall. The main hall will be reconstructed by the beginning of the festival. It will feature new stage lighting, sound amplification systems, video projection, speech translation, and technological television. The airport, railway station, and bus station will greet the numerous festival guests with an updated look. Traditionally, new facilities will be commissioned in the regional center for the international arts forum: the pyramid of the "Marko-City" business center, restaurants, and new piers on the Western Dvina River, from which tourists will embark on a journey across the water surface on a white steamboat. The total cost of improvement works in the festival capital is estimated at over Br370 billion. The XX International Festival of Arts "Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk" will be held from July 8 to 14. -0-