For the older generation, the Day of the October Revolution remains one of the most important holidays. Memory carefully preserves the time of demonstrations and reports on the early fulfillment of five-year plans. Today, one can have different attitudes towards the grand celebrations, but personally, I recall them with nostalgia.

Shops selling souvenirs made by people with disabilities will be opened at territorial centers for social services of the population in the Vitebsk region in 2015. This was announced by Vera Astapenko, head of the department for social support of the population and stationary institutions of the Committee for Labor, Employment and Social Protection of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee.

Starting Monday, the police will intensify efforts to identify individuals possessing ammunition and weapons without proper authorization.

The famous play by Federico García Lorca was staged in Vitebsk by Bulgarian directors Yordan Slaveykov and Dimitar Dimitrov from the Sfumato Theatre Laboratory (Sofia).

We invite guests and residents of the city of Vitebsk on March 2, 2014, from 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM to the Soviet Army Park for the festive theatrical celebration "Maslenitsa".

An open-air vernissage has started in festival Vitebsk, the Vitebsk Center for Contemporary Art informed a BELTA correspondent.

In the agro-town of Kamen, representatives of the Urs Herzog and Rolf Metzger Foundation from the city of Basel were welcomed with bread and salt and songs performed by the ensemble of the Society of Disabled People "Myatlitsa".

September 24, Vitebsk / Diana Kurilo - BELTA/. Over 50,000 believers, according to preliminary information, will take part in events with the participation of His Holiness Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill in Vitebsk, the secretary of the Vitebsk diocese, Father Vladimir (Rezanovich), told a BELTA correspondent. It is expected that these will be not only residents of the Vitebsk region, but also Orthodox Christians from the Minsk, Grodno, and Brest regions.