Today a regatta started in Gomel. The prizes are provided by the National Olympic Committee. NOC Gomel region department deputy head Igor Ryapolov told BelTA, such sailing match is held in Gomel region only. This year it gathered 40 sportsmen aged 7-65. Within eight days the participants will have to sail 420 km on the route “Gomel-Loyev-Kamarin-Nizhniye Zhary”. The competitions are held for such yacht types as “Micro”, “Finn” and “470”. According to Igor Ryapolov, the race...

The status of first Honorary Citizens of Gomel oblast will be conferred on two eminent veterans. According to the information given to BelTA in the press service of the oblast executive committee, the resolution on the status of Honorary Citizens of Gomel oblast was adopted last August. However, nobody has been bestowed with such an honour yet. Town authorities put forward an offer to grant the status to bearer of the Order of Glory of First, Second and Third Classes Victor Vetoshkin and...

In Gomel region local authorities will level the workload of testing stations, which are supposed to test knowledge of secondary school graduates and thus define their fitness for further education. The decision was taken at a sitting of the Gomel region executive committee. The sitting was dedicated to university entrance campaign issues. Heads of Gomel city and region universities, city and region education authorities as well as the regional testing centre took part in the sitting. Asked...

Gomel frontier guards have detained a group of illegal migrants from Egypt, BelTA was informed in the press service of the Gomel oblast border troops unit. Four Egyptians came from the Russian Federation. Having no necessary documents to legally pass the border the migrants were trying to enter Belarus omitting border checkpoints. According to the preliminary data, first they were going to Ukraine and then to Western Europe. Together with the illegal migrants their guides were detained....

As many as twenty-six summer camps are getting ready to host children in Gomel oblast. According to the information given to BelTA by chief of the republican recuperation center’s oblast department Sergei Bondarenko, this year 20 summer camps and 6 sanatoria will operate in 3 or 4 shifts and host 19,500 children and teenagers. According to Sergei Bondarenko, not long ago the establishments in question have been examined. Special attention was paid to fire safety. According to the...

Around 300 schoolchildren of Gomel region, Bryansk, Chernigov, Kursk and South-Eastern district of Moscow will take part in the 10th international children festival “Druzya, Syabry, Druzi – Razam” (friends in Russian, Belarusian, and Ukrainian) in Gomel region on May 30 – June 1. Head of the pedagogical department of Gomel region education board Lyubov Voinova told BelTA, the number of the participants grows every year. The solemn opening of the international children festival will...

Over 30,000 schoolchildren will be able to go to improve their health in school day-care camps in Gomel region this summer. Head of the pedagogical department of Gomel region administration’s education board Lyubov Voinova told BelTA, all in all there will be 1,300 such camps in the region. The day-care will offer food and entertainment such as interest groups and sport teams, intellectual games as well as excursions over “Gomel Region Golden Ring”. Lyubov Voinova believes, the...

Promotion of the cooperation between the Xinjian Uighur Autonomous Region of China and Belarus is considered to be rather promising, deputy director of the department of foreign trade and economic cooperation of the Xinjian Uighur Autonomous Region of China head of the Chinese delegation Mr. Habai Matai stated today in the course of his talks with the leadership of the Gomel oblast executive committee. “Belarus is a good and reliable partner. That is why we should find possible cooperation...

A monument to legendary clown Karandash (pencil) will be unveiled in Gomel on June 1. The city’s chief architect Sergei Plotko told BelTA, the sculpture group “Clown” will be placed in the square the Gomel State Circus is situated in. According to the source, the monument was inspired by the life of Soviet Union People’s Artist Mikhail Rumyantsev aka clown Karandash. It was no accidental choice. Rumyantsev often visited Gomel while touring and was very much fond of the city upon...

This year Gomel oblast will allocate Br12 billion to repair its educational establishments. The educational establishments of the region have already started preparing for a new school year. As BelTA was informed by deputy head of the oblast educational department Tatyana Atrokhova, in summer more than 1,5 such establishments will be repaired. The oblast budget will allocate funds for the facilities, which need repair most. The matter concerns replacement of roofs, renewal of communications...