A solemn opening of the second stage of the Mozyr ski compound was held today which featured putting in operation the first in Belarus bobsled attraction. A 450-meter chute can be used all year round. The equipment was bought in Germany. After it had been installed, the chute underwent safety testing. It is noteworthy that this is the first attraction on the territory of the skiing compound which also includes a ski track, elevator, ski rent facilities, ice-hockey rink, tennis courts, etc....

Five districts of Gomel region have fulfilled the state grain purchase order. Rechitsa district was the first one to do that. This week Bragin, Gomel, Petrikov, and Khoiniki districts entered the best performers list. They have excelled their tasks by 10 per cent already, BelTA was told by the agriculture and food committee of Gomel region administration. The fact that Gomel region was the first region to supply 6,000 tonnes of rapeseeds for oil is a positive one. Actually processing...

Gomel oblast is creating a cycle of TV films about remarkable women-teachers of the oblast. The project was initiated by the oblast committee of the trade union of education and science workers. On its order the oblast TV and radio company “Gomel” will make 10 video films, chief of the oblast committee of the branch-wise trade union Vadim Sabko told BelTA. The main characters of the films will be the women who excelled in the profession and realized themselves in private live having...

OAO Gomelsteklo plans to commission a multicolour silk-screen printing machine-tool in December 2006, acting head engineer of the company Sergei Kharitonov told BelTA. The new machine-tool will be able to apply one colour and two-colour designs to glass shelves and showcases. It will be twice as powerful as the equipment the company uses now. The company expects to receive the machine-tool in November and take several weeks to install it. Besides, Gomelsteklo plans to buy a modern furnace...

The republican unitary enterprise Gomselmash supplied 1,325 combine harvesters to Belarusian farms before august 1, 2006 so as all of them were used in the harvesting campaign. Last year it supplied 1,000 by the same date, BelTA was informed in the company’s marketing department. According to the state program for supplies of agricultural hardware over the 7 months of 2006 Gomel-based company produced 300 combine harvesters KZR-10 (Polessye-Rotor), 790 KZS (Polessye-10K) and 180 KZS-7....

Belarusian Metallurgical Plant (BMZ trademark) plans to start selling its make in Central Africa. To make it possible, the company plans to set up a joint venture in the region, company representatives informed BelTA. According to the source, the BMZ sells the make in Southern and Northern Africa, while Central Africa is "a blind spot in the company's export geography and should be taken care of". The source added, the first batch of goods had been recently shipped to Brazil, which market...

National unitary enterprise Rechitsa Hardware Plant will spend EUR5 million on modernising its production facilities, director general of Belarusian Metallurgical Plant (BMZ brand) Nikolai Andrianov told today’s press conference. He said, a loan granted by a Swiss bank against BMZ security is supposed to be spent on the purpose. Now the Rechitsa Hardware Plant director is in Vienna to sign the contract with the bank. Nikolai Andrianov reminded, Rechitsa Hardware Plant has been part of...

Gomel will hold the oblast qualifying for the Eurovision Song Contest tomorrow. Seven vocalists from various regions of Gomel oblast will partake in it. According to the information given to BelTA by deputy director of the Gomel town culture center Liudmila Panina, this year the qualifying of the children’s contest will feature representatives of Rechitsa, Mozyr, Zhlobin, Gomel and other towns. Among them are already famous junior singers Mikhail Lila of Mozyr and Gomel native Dasha...

Delegations of the Gomel oblast’s border regions are taking part in the celebrations of the Ukraine’s Independence Day, BelTA was informed by the Gomel oblast executive committee’s press service. Today representatives of the Narovlya, Khoiniki and Chechersk regions have headed for the Narodichi region of Zhitomir oblast and Kulikovka region of Chernigov oblast of Ukraine. Representatives of the local authorities, folk bands and sports teams are members of the delegations. According...

Today saw the 8000th print run of Oktyabrskiy district newspaper Chyrvony Kastrychnik (red October). The newspaper was founded in 1939 to become the chronicle of the famous Rudobelskaya Republic, which was sung by books by Sergei Grakhovskiy and a film by director Nikolai Kalinin. Between autumn 1941 and January 1944 the town of Oktyabrskiy was the centre of Oktyabrsko-Lyubanskaya guerrilla resistance area. The territory preserved the Soviet government, schools, a power plant, and...