Approximately 2,000 surgeries, 5,000-7,000 consultations, and about 200 emergency trips to districts through the emergency medicine center – this is the demanding schedule of the Vitebsk Regional Clinical Hospital's sole neurosurgical department in the region, headed for the past seven years by Yevgeny Semenov, a neurosurgeon renowned both domestically and internationally.

Lightning strikes were the cause of four out of five fires that occurred on July 20 in the Vitebsk region, the regional Emergency Situations Ministry department informed a correspondent.

The Republican Federation of Martial Arts "Aikibudo" has put forward an initiative to create an Eastern Culture Center in Vitebsk on the basis of the local martial arts school. According to the chairman of the federation, Gennady Frolov, he has already secured the support of Sviatoslav Gaevsky, the head of the Minsk public association of Eastern culture and traditions "Hagakure".

A report of a fire in a dormitory on Lazo Street, owned by OJSC "Vizas", was received by the Ministry of Emergency Situations service from the watchman yesterday at 23:00.</P>

"Direct telephone lines" will be held on March 28, 2015 by the Chairman of the Vitebsk Regional Council of Deputies Atyasov Alexander Egorovich (call tel. (8-0212) 20 42 60 from 9.00 to 12.00), and the leadership of the city and district executive committees of the region and administrations of the districts of Vitebsk city.

Student detachments of the Vitebsk region are involved in the All-Belarusian Youth Construction Project – the Belarusian NPP. For those who are concerned that students have been entrusted with such an important facility, we will say immediately: firstly, the guys are mainly performing auxiliary work on the construction of administrative buildings and related structures, and secondly, all of them have undergone training and have 2nd-3rd category qualifications in construction specialties.

The Vitebsk City Department of the Investigative Committee of the Republic of Belarus has completed the investigation of a criminal case initiated against a 21-year-old Vitebsk student accused of murdering his roommate in a dormitory.

September 29, Vitebsk /Sergey Kochetov - BELTA/. Farms in the Vitebsk region have sown about 183 thousand hectares with winter grain crops, which is 95% of the planned area, the Agriculture and Food Committee of the Regional Executive Committee informed a BELTA correspondent. The prevailing rainy weather has affected the sowing pace, but most farms intend to complete the main work by October 1. This will allow them to fully switch to plowing the fallow land for next year's harvest and harvesting corn for feed. More than 350 thousand hectares of fallow land need to be plowed in the region.