A new series of lectures and TV programs on the history of Vitebsk is launching
The first public lecture of the third season, "Temples of Old Vitebsk: In Search of the Lost," will be held on September 27 at 6:00 PM in the conference hall of the V. Lenin Vitebsk Regional Library. It will be delivered by Viktor Borisenkov, a well-known Vitebsk local historian and author of numerous photo projects on the city's history. Lectures will be held at the library every second and fourth Thursday of the month. Video versions of the previous 30 excursions into the past of the city on the Daugava River by experts are available on the regional library's website, as well as in the course group on the social network. In addition, viewers of the "Vitebsk" TV channel will be able to watch the first television episode on the topic "Pre-Christian Vitebsk" on September 20 at 7:00 PM.
"In the future, we plan to broadcast every first and third Thursday of the month," the organizers added.
The lecture series "Vitebsk: Real and Popular History of the Native City" was launched in September 2016 to become an alternative platform to Internet resources that disseminate pseudo-historical facts, theories, and free interpretations of the history of Vitebsk and Belarus. Since February 2018, the courses in the format of a TV program have been broadcast on the regional TV channel. Experts who were guests of the program "Evening Vitebsk" talked about curious facts and little-known pages of the life of the city and its residents. The organizers abandoned the chronological presentation of material in favor of thematic episodes. Many topics have been discussed on air, including "Baltic Vitebsk," "On the Founding of Vitebsk by Olga," "Vitebsk Chronicle," "Principality of Polotsk in the 11th Century," "The City on the Route 'From the Varangians to the Greeks'," "Wartime Vitebsk in Photographs."
The organizers of the courses are the Department of History of Belarus of Vitebsk State University named after P. Masherov, the V. Lenin Regional Library, the Regional Museum of Local Lore, the State Archive of Vitebsk Region, and the folk club of historical reconstruction Vargentorn.
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