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Old photos of Baranavichy — year 1989

   Baranovichi ranks the second among the huge cities in the Brest Region.
   Tens of industrial enterprises are located in the city. And among them there are the Lathe Equipment Plant, the Automatic Lines Plant, the Auto-Units Plant.
   Wide-known in the republic and beyond its borders are the Cotton Mills Association fabrics comprising coarse calico, cotton-print, sateen, calico, flannel and some other material brands. A major part of the city's output falls on food industry enterprises.
   Being situated in between Brest and Minsk, Baranovichi is an important railway junction from where trains leave for six directions.
   Forges ahead the public education. The town comprises 5 technical schools, 4 vocational schools and 22 general education schools.
   In World War II time gap the city suffered an almost complete destruction. Numerous monu¬ments and common graves witness the heroism of Soviet people in those grim years.
   The citizens are too much solicitous about old relics and monuments. Thus Intercession cathedral keeps the unique inlaid work compositions made after the graphic drafts by the Russian painters V. Vasnetsov, A. Ryabushkin and others.
   Today the city grows fast and becomes much more beautiful with its streets and squares being equipped with modern amenities and new residential districts mushrooming.


Lenin Street





Baranavichy-Palyeskiya Railway Station





Savyetskaya Street





Heinola Boulevard





Monument to Soldiers-Liberators





Memorial Complex Urochyshcha Haj





Common Grave of the Soviet Soldiers


Svyata-Pakrouski Cathedral





Cinema-hall “Kastrychnik”





Trading centre





Children Castle in the Park





Monument to Soldiers-Drivers, Liberators of the City





Paunochny District. Baradzinski Boulevard





Swiatsilauskaye lake
“Haryzont” Hotel
Entrance to young park
Palace of culture and technics of cotton mills named after Leninist Komsomol of Byelorussia




Author of the Text V. A. Barushka
Photos V. U. Kharchanka
Minsk, Publishing House “Byelarus”, 1989
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