Young Gomel sportsmen will take part in the international football festival which will be held in Aberdeen (Scotland) on July 15-24. As BelTA learnt from head of the culture, sports and tourism department of the Gomel City Council Igor Poluyan, Scottish Aberdeen is a twin city of Gomel. Sportsmen of more than 20 countries traditionally take part in the football festival. During the tournament, Gomel will represent the best teams of the town. During the festival, the young sportsmen will...

The grain harvesting campaign has started in the Gomel oblast. Yesterday agricultural cooperative Sudkovo of the Khoiniki region thrashed 42 tonnes of winter barley. Chairman of the Khoiniki region executive committee Alexander Bichan told BelTA, today another five agricultural companies of the region started harvesting. The early start of the harvesting campaign is attributed to the extraordinarily hot weather witnessed in May-June. The hot weather accelerated the maturation of crops, but...

Gomel State Medical University will start to train pediatrists by 2008. The university has been granted the right to set up a pediatric department, BelTA learnt from rector of the university Anatoly Lyzikov. According to him, there is a shortage of pediatrists in the Gomel oblast. Today, the Gomel oblast is in need of 200 professionals. Anatoly Lyzikov noted that the Gomel university has been permitted to open the pediatric department designed for 30 students. According to the rector, it...

Drought-stricken agricultural companies of the Gomel oblast need state support, Gomel oblast governor Alexander Yakobson told BelTA. Today agricultural company Uritskoye hosted an out session of the Gomel oblast executive committee. The session tabled the readiness of the oblast agriculture for the harvesting campaign. According to the latest data, drought has killed crops on 23,500 hectares in the Gomel oblast and damaged crops on 84,300 hectares. The dead crops constitute a small share of...

On June 28, the memorial devoted to the children – victims of the war and the Chernobyl accident will be unveiled in the village of Krasnyi Bereg of the Zhlobin region, BelTA learnt from deputy head of the culture department of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee Olga Antonenko. The monument was inspired by actual events during the Great Patriotic War. During the war, in the village of Krasnyi Bereg, the German troops set up an assembly place for the children aged between 8-14 from the...

For the first time Belarusian racing cyclist Konstantin Sivtsov will compete in Tour de France, one of the world’s most prestigious cycle races, BelTA was told by senior coach of the cycle racing team of Gomel oblast Leonid Liubeznikov. According to him, this year the organizers of the sports competition, which will start from London in early July, allowed the South African cycle racing team Barloworld to compete in the race. Konstantin Sivtsov is one of its members. According to Leonid...

The international tent camp Krynichka will gather about 300 children from Belarus, Russia and Ukraine, BelTA has been told by deputy director of the Rogachev regional center of out-of-school activities Vera Naumova. The meeting will be held on June 26 - July 6 on the bank of Lake Dobroye near of the village of Khodosovichi in the Rogachev region and will be dedicated to the friendship between the Slavonic nations. According to the source, for the first time the camp was broke on the...

The 2nd open international youth festival of young people and students “Student’s Heat 2007” will be held in the Gomel region on July 10-12, BelTA has been told in the town committee of the Belarusian Republican Youth Union. According to specialists, attending the festival will be the teams of universities of the Gomel oblast and also Ukraine and Russia. The program of the festival includes the 9th open intellectual games tournament and also sports competitions. The festival aims to...

The international youth camp Friendship 2007 was officially opened on June 21 by the Monument of Friendship on the border of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. Over 1,000 youngsters take part in the camp. Today Day of Belarus is being marked there. In the morning instructors of one of Belarusian fitness centers conducted morning exercises, senior specialist of the department for youth affairs Oksana Zadorozhnaya told BelTA. The programme of the Day also includes What? Where? When? quiz with...

On June 21, a regular session of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee considered and approved the Program of Health Protection for 2007-2010. In line with the program, the region intends to settle the problem of shortage of medical personnel by 2010 completely. Commenting upon the document, head of the Health Department of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee Nikolai Vasilkov noted that the main aim of the program is to improve the health state of the population, to improve the quality of...