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Rossony Belarus. Rossony is the northernmost regional center of Belarus

Rossony is an urban village, the administrative center of the district of the same name in the Vitebsk region, located on the shore of Lake Rossony. Rossony is located 54 km from Polotsk, 151 km from Vitebsk and 10 km from the border with the Russian Federation. Roads of republican significance P24 (Polotsk - Rossony) and P132 (Russian border - Rossony - Kokhanovichi) pass through the urban village.

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History of development - Rossony

The Rossons were first mentioned in written sources in 1552 in the document “Polotsk Revision”. However, data from archaeological excavations carried out in these places indicate that people lived on the site of the future village back in the 10th-12th centuries. In the 16th century Rossony was part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. As a result of the First Partition of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the village became part of the Russian Empire.

From 1919 to 1924 The Rossons were part of the RSFSR, and then - part of the BSSR. Also, since 1924, the village has been a regional center. During the Great Patriotic War, Rossony was occupied by the Nazi invaders from July 15, 1941 to July 12, 1944. From summer to January 1942, a Jewish ghetto was organized in the village, in which about 500 people were killed by the Nazis in six months .

In the post-war period, Rossony for some time (from 1962 to 1965) was part of the Polotsk region, after which the village again became a regional center.

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Tourist potential - Rossony

Rossony is the northernmost regional center of Belarus. In the urban village of interest is the early twentieth century, built of brick. The whimsical façade of the house is decorated with stepped panels, archbelt belts, and window openings with platbands.

During the Great Patriotic War, large partisan detachments operated in the Rossony region, offering fierce resistance to the enemy. As a result of the unification of detachments of Belarusians, Russians, Latvians and Lithuanians, the Bratsk Partisan Region was created, to which it is dedicated. The museum is a center for military-patriotic and international education of youth. The staff of the institution conducts excursions both in the museum itself and in the places of battles of Soviet soldiers and partisans. A separate hall of the museum is dedicated to the prominent party and government figure, Hero of the Soviet Union, Hero of Socialist Labor P.M. Masherov, a native of these places.

Today Rossony is a small but interesting urban village in the very north of Belarus, which can be visited on the way to Vitebsk or Polotsk.

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History of development - Rossony

In the post-war period, Rossony for some time (from 1962 to 1965) was part of the Polotsk region, after which the village again became a regional center.

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Tourist potential - Rossony

Today Rossony is a small but interesting urban village in the very north of Belarus, which can be visited on the way to Vitebsk or Polotsk.

In June we went to Belarus to relax at a recreation center on the lake. But it’s boring to sit on the lake and you want some kind of movement. The closest city (or rather urban village) turned out to be Rossony. A small town with a population of less than 5 thousand people. Moreover, literally 10 years ago, the number was more, the city is simply dying out and this is noticeable in it.

1. The first stop was near the local bank. I really wanted to cash out from my card, but the bank was closed on weekdays and during business hours. A local resident told us that there are “two ATMs” in the city and gave directions. We laughed at what he said and then moved on. The bank had this pond.

2. And even here there is a love tree with locks that are hung at weddings. There are still few castles, and the population here is small. They will hang it up for a long time.

3. I think this can be attributed to the very center of the city, and even in such a tiny city, relatively abandoned, it has its own fountain. By the way, the city is located on the highway from Polotsk and you can drive here from Russia and to Russia, but the road is so bad that I won’t recommend it.

4. Everything around is clean, there are lawns, there are no unnecessary trees blocking the views. There are benches and even Wi-Fi, which is unclear how it even works.

5. Very similar to a classical school. I don’t see any signs and I don’t remember from memory, but I think this is so

6. Local RCC. The area itself is very interesting in terms of lakes and tourist routes, but the settlement itself doesn’t really have anything, but there is a hotel :)

7. Internet zone, but it’s paid... Surprising and what’s the point?

8. I love Belarus and other posters

9. Everything is basically the same as ours. Only a different flag is developing.

10. You pay a lot of attention to the fact that there are few cars driving, and even the police and traffic police were seen

11. I also took a photo of my Daria with the name of the city and the local scene. She looks so happy here :)

12. The city itself is boring and I don’t know what to do here for a long time. It lasted us a maximum of an hour, and then we spent about 20 minutes looking for shops to buy cigarettes and beer.

13. ZIS-2 57 mm gun. Monument to Soldiers-Liberators.

14. Right next to residential buildings

15. Chapel, gazebo and doctor with a whale

16. Frog pond, there were so many loud croaks here, I’ve never seen anything like this, how do the locals live here?

17. In another part of the pond there is a beautiful Rossony estate, behind which there is Rossony Lake, beautiful and quite large.

18. A residential building that listens to all the frogs.

19. Children's corner :)

20. View of the estate from the back side. The condition itself seems average. How it is currently used is not very clear. There seemed to be some kind of sign about art there, but everything looked completely closed.

21. I didn’t take a photo of the lake itself, but there is one with my Dasha, where you can walk a little forward on the rotten boards. But I think there are more interesting approaches to the lake from other sides. We just didn't even look

22. It was a surprise to meet such a church or church. The condition is very good

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24. Regular private sector in the city

25. Photo from the car

26. And already at the very exit from the city I took photographs of the Orthodox Church of the Ascension. I also thought the architecture was a little unusual, but beautiful

This is how I saw a small town in Belarus. How do you like him?

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For the first time in Rossonakh I visited back in 2011, when we were getting to the starting point of rafting on the Sebezh Lakes. And then, on a cloudy November morning, it seemed to me that this little town was such an ass. But, naturally, I was very biased and biased, because in the spring weather, when everything is blooming and smelling and the month of putting things in order has already come to an end, the impressions of any of our places remain very positive))
In general, the Rossons - quite nice and cozy g.p. with a population of five thousand souls, located on the shore of the lake of the same name, 40 kilometers north of Polotsk and 7 kilometers from the border with Russia. Among the local places of worship, it is worth noting the Glazko manor house and the Church of the Ascension. But the interesting things don’t end there.

Let's see below the cut how the northernmost regional center of Belarus lives and looks like today.

In the north, they practice installing billboards at the entrances to regional centers with photographs of nominees or winners of the “Vitebsk Region Person of the Year” competition. Over the course of a couple of days, we came across quite a few such billboards.

Sovetskaya Street is the central street in Rossony.

Raiposhny shopping center

Shop "Builder"

Household products

Small architectural forms))

District House of Crafts. In Rossony you can see quite a few similar houses

Children's world "Globe"

Central Square

Memorial to those killed in the Second World War

Memory of the 109 burned villages of the Rossony region

Sovetskaya in the area of the central square

The beautiful wooden art school building was covered with siding, but the carved windows were left intact for now.

In front of the school there are two busts - Marx and Lenin

By the way, this is the only Ilyich in Rossony. UPD: The comments suggest that another bust is located near the district hospital

Hotel "Rossony" with a sign stylized as the Slavic Bazaar logo

Fountain

There is a board of honor nearby

If there is a board of honor, it means that the main house will be somewhere nearby. But here he is - on the contrary!

For some reason, there is a blue tank near the district executive committee.

Small building of the House of Culture

Next to the cultural center there is a small square and an open stage

New building and some kind of memorial in front of it

A multifunctional center that today houses: a post office, a Beltelecom communications center, a district court and a enforcement department

Wi-Fi shop

We return back to the central square. The front door of the five-story building on Sovetskaya

Stalls

Pompous Museum of the Military Commonwealth Belarusian, Russian, l Itovian and Latvian partisans. The local registry office is also located here.

During the war in Rossony, a local teacher, a certain Pyotr Mironovich Masherov, organized and led the Komsomol youth underground movement. Under the nickname Dubnyak Masherov and his forest brothers did a lot of interesting things in the area. And if you believe the inscription on the memorial stone near the museum, then already in September 1942, the partisans liberated the town from the invaders. What happened next is somehow not written down. but the official date of Rosson's liberation is considered to be July 12, 1944.

Monument to Internationalist Soldiers

Katyusha. Real, not fake))

PM-38 mortar, 120 mm caliber

Out of the blue - a memorial plaque Vice Admiral Illarion Povalishin, who lived in the 18th century. The inscription on the sign reads "To the great naval hero of our fatherland from grateful descendants - Russians and Belarusians" And "The maritime brotherhood is indestructible! Ryazan - Kronstadt - Rossony". The last one is very satisfying))