July 30, Vitebsk / Diana Kurilo - BELTA/. The construction of a new zoological park in Vitebsk will cost Br126 billion. This was announced today at a working meeting in the regional executive committee on the development of Vitebsk by the Chairman of the Vitebsk City Executive Committee Viktor Nikolaikin, BELTA correspondent reports.

Long live the parade! For a day, the lake region's baby carriages turned into ships, chariots, trains, pirate schooners, and even dolphins from the deep sea… This spectacle was reminiscent of the magic from the fairy tale "Cinderella," when a carriage grew from a pumpkin. However, here, the miraculous transformations were undergone by the carriage itself.

The exemplary pop song studio "FORUM" of the State Institution "VITEBSK Cultural Center" is one of those groups that do not cease their creative activities for a single day. And what is very important – in the studio's busy schedule, there is always room for trips abroad and participation in international creative festivals and competitions.

The document has been adopted in order to eliminate the existing lag and ensure the unconditional fulfillment of the most important parameters of the forecast for the socio-economic development of Belarus for 2012. Assignments have been set for sectoral ministries and concerns to achieve the planned growth rates of industrial production by the end of January-December 2012 at the level of 107.5%. To this end, in January-September, industry must ensure a growth rate of 106.8% compared to the same period last year, in January-October - 107%, and in January-November - 107.3%.

Open Joint Stock Company "Technolit-Polotsk" increased the share of innovative products in the total volume of shipped goods to almost 49% in January-October. For the same period last year, it was 29.3%, the enterprise director Leonid Petrov told a BELTA correspondent.

More than a hundred calves had to be evacuated due to a fire at a farm in the Gluboksky district, as reported to BelTA by the press secretary of the Vitebsk Regional Emergency Situations Department, Marina Fando.

Its dimensions are 17x25 meters. In the first two months of the new pool's operation, over 3,000 children received health improvement here.

Gallery staff decided to accompany the viewing of the exhibition "Introduction to the Collection. Portraiture in Russia of the 19th - early 20th centuries" from the collection of the Novgorod State Joint Museum-Reserve with a lecture. The exhibition, which opened in Polotsk, consists of 27 works and includes three sections: "Academic Portrait", "Military Portrait", and "Provincial Noble and Merchant Portrait".

Recently, the grand opening of Public Law Enforcement Point No. 4 took place in the Oktyabrsky district of Vitebsk. It is located on Gagarin Street, opposite the administrative building of OJSC "Keramika".