The dance ensemble "Yegoza" was founded in September 1997 at the Vitebsk Culture Center. The ensemble includes over one hundred children aged 5 to 18 years.

The first rental houses will be built in Vitebsk in 2013. This was announced today to journalists by the Chairman of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee, Alexander Kosinets, after a direct telephone line with the region's residents.

As part of the implementation of a new passenger transportation format, new trains will be launched on low-traffic sections with a low passenger flow. In terms of comfort and technical equipment, these regional line diesel trains significantly surpass the currently operating ones. Furthermore, they are economical in operation: fuel consumption per passenger per kilometer is three times lower. The train itself moves quietly, without vibration. The operational speed is 120 km/h.

The city youth project "May Shmyrev's Garden Bloom" is being implemented in Vitebsk for the 70th anniversary of Victory. This was reported to a BELTA correspondent by Yulia Ivanova, acting chairperson of the Vitebsk regional council of the public association "Belarusian Republican Pioneer Organization" (BRPO).

August 7, Vitebsk /Diana Kurilo - BELTA/. The Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee has additionally allocated Br273 million for the purchase of socially significant publications and their transfer to public libraries in the region. Thus, the regional executive committee has joined the "Gift a Book to the Library" campaign, which is taking place in the region during the Year of Books. This was reported to a BELTA correspondent by the Department of Culture of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee.

Belarusian goods are in demand in Kazakhstan, and local trading enterprises are interested in direct supplies of finished products from the Vitebsk region to the territory of the Customs Union member state. These are the brief results of a recent visit by a regional delegation to Karaganda, organized by the Vitebsk branch of the Belarusian Chamber of Commerce and Industry together with similar structures of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the city of Karaganda.

Every fourth criminal case transferred to the prosecutor's office by investigators in the Vitebsk region was investigated under accelerated proceedings in 2012, Vladimir Shalukhin, head of the Investigative Committee of the Republic of Belarus for the Vitebsk region, told a BELTA correspondent.

Developers are also working on creating a special smartphone application, which will allow users to buy or book a ticket for a performance using a mobile phone or tablet.

On the eve of the 1039th anniversary of Vitebsk's birthday, Assumption and Castle squares appeared in the regional center. It is under these names that the new elements of the street and road network of the regional center, located in the historical part of the city, will be entered into the address registry of the Republic of Belarus.

On October 28, the opening of the Spartakiad on football of the Republic of Belarus among Children and Youth Sports Schools, Olympic Reserve Sports Schools, among boys born in 1999, took place at the FC "Vitebsk" stadium (artificial turf field), located at Vitebsk, Lyudnikova Ave., 12.

The new canning workshop for baby food at the Orsha Meat Processing Plant intends to produce the first 800 tubes of glass jars under the trademark "BАBY HIT" in the coming days.

The traditional art of painted carpets of the Vitebsk Lake District has been included in the list of historical and cultural values of our country, which was created with the financial and consultative support of UNESCO. Malyavanki, as explained to "Vitebskiye Vesti" by Irina Shatilo, the leading specialist of the regional methodological center for folk art, is a type of folk art, whose originator is considered to be Yuzef Drozdovich.

The only reindeer in our region has recently settled at the Equestrian Center in the Vitebsk settlement of Tulovo