The regional television and radio company "Vitebsk", together with the organizers of the project "Vitebsk: Real and Popular History", will launch a series of special programs in February, BelTA reports.
The regional television and radio company "Vitebsk", together with the organizers of the project "Vitebsk: Real and Popular History", will launch a series of special programs in February, BelTA reports.
The television version of the project, popular with the citizens, will be broadcast on the first and third Thursday of each month. Historians and local lore experts, who will be guests of the program "Vecherniy Vitebsk" (Vitebsk Evening), will talk about curious facts and little-known aspects of the life of the city and its inhabitants.
The organizers intend to abandon the chronological presentation of material in favor of thematic releases. For example, "Vitebsk Before the City Status", "On the Question of the Founding of Vitebsk by Olga", "Vitebsk Castles", "Vitebsk Churches of the 19th Century", "The City on the Route 'From the Varangians to the Greeks'", "The Defence of Vitebsk in 1941", "Treasures of the Vitebsk Land", etc.
The first broadcast will take place today at 19:00. The topic of the episode is "Vitebsk as an Administrative Centre".
The project "Vitebsk: Real and Popular History" has been implemented since September 2016. 23 public lectures have been delivered. Employees of VSU named after M. Masherov, scientists from the Institute of History of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, museum workers, local lore enthusiasts, and reenactors have spoken about the city's history competently and accessibly. Public lectures attracted from several dozen to several hundred people.