Narochansky National Park in the Minsk region of Belarus is a whole kingdom of lakes. About 40 serene, transparent windows can be seen from a bird's eye view. Lake Naroch, nicknamed the Byelorussian Sea, stands out. This huge natural reservoir is on the short list of popular resorts for Russians.
Researchers suggest that the name Naroch comes from the Lithuanian root nar, which is used in words associated with water and diving.
The dimensions of the pearl of Belarus are truly impressive: 41 km of shores with picturesque landscapes and 80 km of the total area, so it is not always possible to see the opposite shore. Several millennia ago, the giant glacier, retreating, collided with the Sventsyan moraine ridge (a form of relief formed by melt water) and, having melted, remained here forever.
Another origin story Lake Naroch- more romantic, but also tragic at the same time. A long time ago, when there was no trace of Naroch, there was a dense, impenetrable forest on its territory. Only one hut stood on the outskirts. There lived a forester and his daughter Galina, a rare beauty and clever girl. Not a single fellow could pass by her, but she fell in love with Vasilka, a brave man and a jack of all trades. To conquer the heart of his beloved completely, the young man built a mirror from spring grains of sand, peering into the depths of which, one could find out his fate. Once a rich and cruel old gentleman wooed Galina, but she, of course, refused him. Then the old man stole his failed bride. Cornflower sneaked at night to the landowner and killed him, but the rich man's servants rushed in pursuit. Diverting the attention of the pursuers, Vasilek sent the girl home, and he himself led them into the depths of the forest. Riding a horse to her hut, Galina saw the ashes, only a magic mirror sparkled at the site of the burnt house. Looking at him, the beauty saw a grave mound and crows circling above it - this was the last refuge of Vasilko ... The girl screamed wildly and threw the mirror on the ground. Its fragments turned into a huge sad lake, and Galina herself turned into a seagull. Until now, in clear weather, you can see her circling over the Naroch and calling her Vasilko ...
V Lake Naroch a couple of dozen streams and Skema, the shortest river in Belarus, flow into, and only one river originates - the namesake Naroch with abundant springs and steep banks... The waters - both lakes and rivers - are very clean, so there are huge fish stocks. Pike, bream, perch and salmon have more than once saved the inhabitants of nearby provinces from hunger in lean years. Tern birds and mute swans can be found here, and moose, wild boars and roe deer live in the forests.
Of amazing beauty, nature itself ordered Naroch to become a magnificent health resort, healing not only the body, but also the soul. The resort has numerous buildings of sanatoriums, rest homes, camps and tourist centers. Clean, comfortable beaches are overcrowded in warm weather, and there is no end to picnic lovers. Churches, old parks, the only one working water Mill in Belarus, the famous pilgrimage Budslav is located nearby - it is never boring for vacationers.
Kaluga region, Borovsky district, Petrovo village
Located on the territory of the ethnic courtyard "Ukraine and Belarus" in the ethnographic park-museum "ETNOMIR", it recreates the Belarusian folk style, greets guests with the warmth of log walls, an atmosphere of intimacy and reliability. Here everyone will feel at home and at the same time feel the flavor of the original culture of hospitable Belarus.
Chamber, cozy hotel-tower, only five rooms.
Lake Naroch Is not just another large reservoir of Belarus. This is a "visiting card" of the country, the fame of which has long crossed the borders of Belarus. And in last years and at all on the shores of this lake there is a tendency: unequipped beaches "occupy" locals Yes, Belarusian tourists, but the equipped part of the lake is occupied by foreign tourists, mostly, of course, Russians.
Naroch - the most large lake Belarus, its area is 79.6 km2. It belongs to the group of Narochanskiy lakes and is the most popular lake in the Myadel region. The depth of the lake is not very prominent - an average of 8.9 meters, but in the area of the Gatovskiye holes the maximum depth reaches 25 meters.
Lake Naroch occupies one of the first places among the lakes of Belarus in terms of transparency and purity of water... In summer, the transparency of the water allows you to see up to 5-7 meters deep into the water, and in winter - all 10 meters. The water in Naroch is rich in oxygen and saturated with minerals (not less than 200 mg / l). However, the cleanliness of the lake and its transparency (usually transparent lakes have a low feed value) do not interfere with fishing. There are 25 fish species in the waters of the lake. So fishing on the Naroch will also leave a lot of pleasant emotions.
17 streams carry their waters to Lake Naroch, as well as a short channel of the Skema, which connects Naroch with Lake Myastro. The river of the same name flows out of the Naroch. Lake Naroch is divided into two reaches (Small and Big) by the Nanosy Peninsula. Not far from the northeastern part of the coast is an island with an area of 6.2 hectares, declared a natural monument. A fifth of Lake Naroch has been overgrown, about 3% of the area is covered with thickets, but this does not interfere with recreation at all.
On the lake you can find a huge number waterfowl. On the one hand, it is an opportunity for tourists to see rare and endangered birds, and on the other hand, it is an alarm signal for those who like to swim. The fact is that birds infect the waters of the lake with cercariosis. Therefore, you can swim in Naroch only from the pier, but it is strictly forbidden to wet your feet near the shore where birds swim.
Lake Naroch is and historical place. As part of the First World War in 1916, the famous Naroch offensive operation took place on the shores of the lake - the first successful attempt to liberate Belarus from the invaders. And in 1935-1939 Lake Naroch was the subject of a fishing strike against the agrarian and tax policy of the Polish authorities.
As a place to stay in Belarus, Naroch is an excellent point. After all, Naroch - the most popular balneological and climatic resort in Belarus, located within the National Park "Narochansky". On its banks are located both sanatoriums and health resorts (for example, the sanatorium "Naroch", "Priozerny", etc.) and estates ("Guest House and Camping Antonisberg", "Narochansky Kutok", "Narochansky Corner", etc.). Everyone will find a vacation to their liking on the shores of the beautiful Lake Naroch! In the hottest weather, a cool and pleasant breeze from the lake cools the air. The clear water of the lake and the greenery on its shores are pleasing to the eye and evoke the idea that a vacation in Belarus cannot be considered complete if you have not visited Lake Naroch.
Updated date: 16 December 2013Lake Naroch can be called one of the most popular resorts in our country. Probably, there is no Belarusian who does not know about him. Another question is whether everyone was there at least once. Someone rested back in the Soviet years and now recalls this time with nostalgia, someone went on hikes with tents, and for someone even now the Narochansk nature replaces the foreign coast. What can you see on Naroch today, how much does it cost to rest there and why Russians return to Naroch health resorts several times.
Lake Myadel. Photo: Victor Malyshits, TUT.BY
Very often Belarusians have a rest anywhere, but not at home. Meanwhile, in recent years, many worthy tourist sites have appeared in Belarus, more and more people are trying to open up our history to tourists and show the most beautiful corners of the country. We decided to go around the famous Belarusian resorts in a few weeks and see how they can attract tourists today. Today in the project "Home Vacation" - Naroch.
For the first time on the Naroch I was 17 years ago with my parents. Then we lived in a tent at one of the tourist camps and it seemed that there was nothing better than lard fried over a fire, pickled cucumbers and an endless lake with pine trees on the shore. Then we went to Naroch more than once just for the weekend. To be honest, I have been here more than once for work. And now I was looking forward to a business trip.
It is about 140 kilometers from Minsk to the resort village of Naroch. It's about two hours by car. And this is probably the best option to get there: you can even load a bicycle into the car and then ride it around the neighborhood, it is convenient to drive up from one place of rest to another by car.
The resort village stretches a little along the lake. At first glance, even here, in a tourist place, nothing can disturb the measured life of the Belarusian province. It seems that little has changed in recent years. One of the most notable innovations is a large retail chain store right in the city center and a pizzeria.
The rest of the time seems to have stopped: they sell kvass from a barrel, which was brought from neighboring Vileyka, grandfather walks briskly with Scandinavian sticks and in a Soviet-style tracksuit, two elderly women in hats with brim are sitting on a bench. The view is as if from a photograph of 30 years ago. But there is something romantic and kind in this in everything.
Low-rise buildings around. There are several branches of banks, a hotel, a restaurant and a cafe "Belorusskaya khatka". In the cafe, by the way, food is quite good, there are many dishes of national cuisine, and prices are lower compared to Minsk ones. A dinner of cabbage salad, borscht, potato pancakes with sausage in a pot and tea costs 11 rubles with a penny.
There is a stand in the center: handwritten advertisements offer rooms for tourists (each for 25 rubles a day), there is also a house for sale - 80 square meters, 200 meters from the lake for 52 thousand rubles. Another announcement announces the opening of the holiday season on June 1st.
One of the places of attraction is the city beach. Despite the June heat, there are almost no people, no one swims. They say that the water is still cold, the sand is damp. It's really more comfortable on the grass - four people sunbathe here.
All the tourists we approach turn out to be from Russia. Some came from the Moscow region, others from Tula, the third married couple from Murmansk. On the beach, they explain that at the weekend the people will be under the eyeballs, now many are at work.
A family from the Moscow region comes to the Naroch at the Priozerny sanatorium for the second time. They say they like everything here. Moreover, we advised this place to friends and they have already been here too.
- Many people in Moscow ask where you will go, and when they find out that you are in Belarus, they joke: "Have they dug the sea over there?" But you don't have to go to the sea, you can come to other wonderful places, - says Ilya Bely.
- When we first came here five years ago, we were amazed. I look at the lake and ask: “What is this, the sea? Waves - and the edges are not visible! " - his wife recalls Natalia.
Ilya explains that he comes to Naroch for silence, so that he can forget about the hustle and bustle, phone calls and the Internet. And he does it.
Where is the best place to swim?
Lake Naroch is located on the territory of the National Park "Narochansky", it is located in the Belarusian Poozerie, there are 43 lakes on its territory.
Here the hills give way to plains, the views are magnificent - places for selfies at every turn. In the national park, there are at least 25-30 such observation points for photo shoots, and nature lovers will find even more.
Map of the National Park "Narochansky"
Valery Lyushtyk, deputy general director of the Narochansky National Park, says that among the lakes in the Myadel District, Naroch, Beloe, Myastro and Rudakovo are best suited for swimming and recreation.
Valery Lyushtyk, Deputy Director General of the National Park "Narochansky" Rudakovo is a very deep lake, there is practically no shallow water there. The depth of Rudakovo is slightly more than 28 meters, Naroch is about 25 meters. But White pleases the eye with a sandy bottom. The lake is very suitable for families with children: there is shallow water and for hundreds of meters - knee-deep water. In Naroch and Myastro, the water is also clear and smooth entry from the beach.
- Legs on the lake go slower when you look at the beauty of clear water, - says Valery Lyushtyk. - In summer, the transparency at Naroch is seven meters, in winter - up to 11 meters. Hydrobiologists say it's not very good scientifically. About 40-50 years ago, transparency was also in winter - six to eight meters, and this meant that the lake was functioning well. And when the transparency increased to 11 meters, the balance of the lake was disturbed. But for vacationers it is great, the water is super transparent.
It turns out that Lake Naroch became more transparent due to the zebra mussel. She was somehow brought to us, and she began to actively reproduce. As a result, over the past 20 years, there have been a lot of this zebra mussel in Naroch.
“This shell is small, but there are billions of it. She passes water through herself, this is her nutrition, filters it, and the water comes out even cleaner than it entered the shell. The water in the lake became more transparent, the sun's rays began to penetrate much deeper - and this affected the underwater vegetation.
On lakes Beloe and Rudakovo there is no risk of contracting cercariasis, on Naroch and Myastro it is still there. It can appear when the water in the lake warms up to 22-23 degrees. At this time, the larvae from the feces of duck-like birds can migrate to the molluscs, and from the mollusks back to the ducks. True, on the way they can meet a person. There is nothing extremely dangerous in this, but if after bathing you do not wash yourself with water from the shower on the beach and do not dry yourself with a towel, then some people may experience itchy redness on their skin.
Lake White The number of cases of cercariosis has been reduced due to the fact that plastic platforms extend from the beaches to a greater depth of the lake. On them you can go into the water and swim where it is less likely to pick up the larva from the bird's feces. In addition, molluscs are periodically caught in the lakes. The fewer there are, the fewer the larvae.
- If we take medical statistics, when people came to doctors, then in 2006-2007 there were more than 600 cases of allergic dermatitis. Last year - one case. We understand that a certain number of people do not go to the doctor, because they are not very worried about it. Ointments are sold in pharmacies, after two or three days everything goes away. But objectively, there are still much fewer cases.
How much does a vacation in a health resort cost?
Naroch is considered to be an area of concentration of Belarusian health resorts. There are about ten of them, including sanatoriums for children. One of the most modern is considered to be the sanatorium of the President's Administrative Department "Priozerny". At the same time, 460 people can rest here, the average load in the sanatorium during the year is 85%, in summer it is naturally higher, and sometimes even more than 100% if adults come with children.
40% of the guests of the sanatorium are Belarusians, the rest are foreigners, most of them are Russians. Head of the marketing department of the sanatorium Sergey Nekhvyadovich says that recently people have started to come from Latvia and Estonia. Our prices have become lower than in Lithuanian sanatoriums, where residents of these countries used to travel.
- In the sanatoriums Druskininkai in Lithuania is now more expensive than ours. Previously, our prices were about the same, but now they are targeting the reception of Israelis and the prices have been raised. People come from Israel to visit us, but flights to Lithuania are cheaper, so there is more flow there.
Now in the sanatorium high season, this means that prices are higher than in November-March. The most expensive option with treatment and three meals a day on the "buffet" system costs 113 rubles per day per person. This is if a person lives in a two-room suite with a terrace with one of the relatives or in a separate house on the territory of the sanatorium. The cheapest option is 85 rubles per day with the same three meals a day and treatment. It is in a single room for two. If a person wants to live in such a room alone, then a day will cost 99 rubles.
For comparison: in Druskininkai in the Egle sanatorium, the cost of a place in a double room under the treatment program starts in June from 52 euros (about 123 Belarusian rubles).
- Vouchers for the summer have already been redeemed, places appear only if someone refuses. Guests can choose their own treatment package or SPA option. People of active age take the SPA with massages and other relaxing and anti-stress treatments. Some just come for the weekend. As a rule, a full-fledged treatment in a sanatorium lasts 18 days, but most of the vouchers we sell are for 12 days. This is the shortest possible period to get a healing effect, says Sergei Nekhvyadovich.
The spa complex of the sanatorium has a wax room. Its walls are impregnated with beeswax, there is honey in a frame at the entrance. This is a variant of aromatherapy where people sit and inhale the vapor of the wax. Here they are very proud of the room, they say that, according to their data, there is a similar one in one of the sanatoriums of the Crimea and in a private owner in Switzerland.
Sand room
A bed with amber beads for relaxation. 
They also equipped a sandy room here. After swimming in the pool with mineral water, you can lie down on the warm sand, as if on the sea. Additionally, Himalayan salt was applied to one of the walls of the room, which should also have a beneficial effect on the body.
After all these procedures and massages, the vacationer can relax in a special room with dim light in an armchair with amber beads, drink herbal tea. There is a site for natural inhalations near the sanatorium. You sit on a bench and look at a high wall of birch branches, on which flows down mineral water... The vapors go into the air and saturate the lungs.
How tourists are welcomed in an authentic village
When you drive up to the Nanosy-Novoselye agro-tourist complex on the banks of the Naroch, it seems that you find yourself in a village in the middle of the 19th century. An excursion for children from Syria who have come to rest at Zubrenok has just finished here. And the guide, who was their guide through the complex, comes up to us. Victor Moiseyenok works as a head of museums, and he is also a rare specialist in antiques. About seven years ago, he came here from Glubokoye to build a complex, and remained: he bought an apartment in a resort village, moved his wife. In a word, he left for a dream.
Victor Moiseyenok, head of museums, specialist in antiques of the agro-tourist complex "Nanosy-Novoselye" We come to a communal house built in the style of the middle of the 19th century - this is what the dwelling of the peasants of that time looked like. The house has a recreated interior, but adapted for the modern tourist. For accommodation in it for four people with three meals a day and visiting all the excursions of the complex, you need to pay 480 rubles per day. There is a bathhouse with a plunge pool in the house, food is prepared here based on the tourist's preferences: vegans are accepted, and they adapt to Arabic cuisine. Each house is assigned a hostess who cooks and cleans. There is a chicken coop near the house, where in the morning you can collect fresh eggs, from which you can make an omelet.
While resting here, you seem to travel in time: you try on the life of a peasant, you can go to the museum of rural life and see objects of that time, view the world's largest collection of samovars. Here you can organize a horse show and a master class in baking bread. By the way, it is baked from flour, which is ground right on the spot using a water mill. It also had to be built according to the drawings of that time.
The complex has another accommodation option - a bourgeois house. It is almost twice as expensive - 985 rubles per day. But it can accommodate six people and has more exclusive interiors.
- The complex is very popular: on weekends everything is packed, on weekdays it is more free, - says Victor Moiseyenok. - 50% of our tourists are Belarusians, and the remaining 50% are from all over the world. We are known in France, Germany, people from Goa have a rest in the UAE, who are not here.
The complex was built for three years, and it has been in operation for a little more than four. Investor Evgeny Novoseletsky has invested in it. earlier this year.
- How did you come up with the idea of building the complex?- we ask Victor.
- To tell you honestly? Here, in a tent on a spit on the Naroch, Zhenya's mom and dad liked to relax. Therefore, he always had a special attitude to this place. He once bought himself a dacha here, then built a new house, and then on this site, where there used to be a wasteland overgrown with bushes, he came up with the idea to build such a complex. And he built it.
The cheapest accommodation options on Naroch
On Naroch you can find quite budget options for spending the night. In estates, prices start from about 20 rubles per person, if the room does not have a separate shower and toilet, and several people will live in the room, for example, two.
In the village of Gatovichi, which is near Naroch and Lake Bely, there is a manor, which is called “Gatovichi”. The spouse of the owner of the estate Elena Krivenkaya says that they began to receive tourists 12 years ago - they rent out guest houses. 20-24 rubles per day per person, depending on whether the house has a shower and toilet. In general, if there are comfortable living conditions in the estate, then in the Naroch region they take 40-50 rubles per person per day.
- After the events in Crimea, there were a lot of tourists. Then everyone poured in here, and it was profitable for two or three years, but now the income has fallen by half. The ability to pay for Belarusians and Russians has decreased, and there are fewer tourists. If earlier people allowed themselves to rest twice a year, now it is already once.
There are 15 tourist sites in the Narochansky National Park. And according to Valery Lyushtyk, it is precisely the rest in the parking lot that corresponds to the essence of outdoor recreation. When you live not within four walls, but in fact in a forest, you hear birds singing, you breathe fresh air.
At one of these sites, Antonisberg, we met a group of geography students from Gomel. They came here for practice - they study the lakes. They live in tents.
It costs four to six rubles per person to stop at the parking lot in the national park. It couldn't be cheaper.
Parking on Lake Beloye There is another budget place on the shore of the lake - the Naroch camping site with a small hotel in the middle of the forest. A one-room double room with a third extra bed will cost 120 rubles per day. This price includes three breakfasts. True, now the hotel is almost completely booked by the builders of the BelNPP, who came on a business trip from Russia.
The camp has a living module, these are two-, four-bed rooms with washbasins and a shared toilet, a place there costs 17 rubles per day per person. And if you come by camper, then you will have to pay 20 rubles for its parking on the equipped site, and for each person another 2 rubles 55 kopecks per day. Just staying at a campsite with a tent and using firewood and a fireplace costs 9.55 rubles per person per day.
Things to do?
Not far from Lake Beloe there is the only complex in Belarus where medicinal herbs are grown and excursions for tourists are organized. The Aptekarskiy Sad opened five years ago.
- People come here to look at medicinal plants, take a walk, listen to our guides, try some herbs on the spot and look at industrial cultivation, - says Alexander Rogach, the founder of the project and the commercial director of the company "BelAseptika", which grows herbs.
Founder of "Aptekarsky Sad" and commercial director Alexander Rogach The garden has 300 species of plants that have come to us from different parts of the world. In the landscape design of the garden, the principle of gardens in monasteries was used: strictly delineated paths, a reservoir in the center, a green labyrinth of bushes.
- Our labyrinth is a little mystical, because in the center of it there is a sculpture of Baba Yaga, who hid magic jugs in secret corners, - says the guide Anna Kazakevich and offers to find a jug and make a wish. I found him, made a wish, but I could not find my way back in the labyrinth. This means that the probability of a wish being fulfilled is 50%. But I hope Baba Yaga will take pity on me and fulfill my desire - we are in a mystical labyrinth.
During the excursion, they conduct herbal medicine - they rub herbs with their fingers and taste the aromas of different plants. Having smelled several types of mint, I already felt that all the stress of the city had vanished as if by hand. Not only the familiar lavender, sage and sakura grow here, but also the amazing medicinal hyssop and the gingo biloba tree.
Here, if you wish, you can go through one unusual ritual near the driftwood, which concentrates sexual energy.
“Our ancestors endowed everything unusual in nature with an unusual property. When we saw this snag, we realized that it was here for a reason and, for sure, has some purpose. And having seen its form, we realized that it is aimed at the intimate sphere of human life. Everything in the culture of any people is aimed at procreation. This is the most valuable thing a person had. And this driftwood concentrates our sexual energy. It is necessary to carry out a certain ritual: the strength of the driftwood doubles, or even triples, if this ritual is passed by a married couple, when they join hands, closing the circle. The ritual looks like this: you need to take a pine cone, and it was one of the erotic symbols of Belarusians. The cone is placed on the surface of the driftwood and covered with a palm, then you need to think about what you like in the intimate sphere, take the cone with you and carry it until your innermost desire is fulfilled.
Driftwood that concentrates sexual energy At the end of the tour, there is a tasting of herbal teas and local pancakes. They say that some people even come from Minsk for these pancakes.
An adult excursion to the Aptekarskiy Sad costs ten rubles, entrance without a guided tour is five rubles.
There is a dendrological garden nearby. There are more than 400 species and species of trees and shrubs here. As they said at the box office, during the season, the revenue per day reaches 200 rubles, and one ticket for an adult costs four rubles.
The conclusion is banal, but on Naroch everyone, indeed, can find something of their own. Yes, there are drawbacks that may not please the capital's residents. In the same Myadel, which is located on the shores of Lake Myastro, it is very difficult to find coffee in the morning. A bar in a local hotel and a cafe near it open at 12 am. For coffee you will have to go to the nearest gas station. But is this the main thing? Some really cool tourist sites have appeared here. And if you know where to go, then you can relax in a very romantic place.
The beauty and the main national wealth of Belarus are forests and blue eyes of lakes among them. The most valuable diamond among the protected areas of the republic is the Naroch Territory. And we are glad to welcome you, dear guests, on the land of Narochansk, in the Myadel region.
Myadel district is located in the north-west of the Minsk region. It borders on Postavy and Dokshitsky districts Vitebsk region, Ostrovets and Smorgon districts of Grodno region, Vileika district of Minsk region. Founded in 1940, since 1960 it has been part of the Minsk region. The territory of the district covers an area of 196.7 thousand hectares, of which most - 53.8% - belongs to the State Environmental Institution "National Park" Narochansky ". 41.6% of the territory is occupied by forests, 8.4% - by lakes. It is not for nothing that the Myadel region is called the Lake District: 52 the most beautiful lakes are located on the territory of the district. It is they who give our native land a unique feature that invariably attracts travelers.
There are 307 settlements in the Myadel region, among them - the center of the region, the city of Myadel, the urban settlements of Svir and Krivichi, and the resort village of Naroch.
On the territory of the region, such minerals are mined as peat, building sands, clay, sapropels, mineral waters.
The climate of these places is formed under the influence of the air masses of the Atlantic Ocean and has features of the temperate continental. The average annual temperature is +5.1 C, the average in January is -7 °, in July - + 17 °. During the year 660 mm of precipitation falls.
The Molodechno - Polotsk railway line, the Vilnius - Polotsk, Naroch - Minsk highways pass through the district.
The centuries-old history of the Myadel land is rich and varied.
Employees of the scientific department of the National Park "Narochansky" together with active representatives of the local community have created a convenient non-commercial interactive information and reference system - an audio guide "Guide to the resort village of Naroch"
With the help of an audio guide, each owner of a mobile device (smartphone or tablet), having come to us, will be able to orientate himself within the resort village of Naroch without outside help and, along the way, receive cognitive information.
A detailed description of the audio guide and instructions can be found here: http://www.naroch.com/tourism/audiogid/
Myadel, the center of the district, located between lakes Myastro and Batorino. The name Myadel comes from the Lithuanian "medinis" forest, wood. Ancient Myadel appeared on the island of Lake Myadel at the beginning of the 11th century as a border fortification of the Polotsk principality, but in the middle of the 15th century, after several epidemics of plague and cholera, people moved to the northern shore of Lake Myastro, and the name of the settlement remained the same. For the first time, Myadel as a powerful princely castle was mentioned in written sources in 1324 in a message from the Grand Duke of Lithuania Gediminas to the Rizhskaya Rada, which says that “... the crusaders of the Teutonic Order violated the peace ... they would also have captured our castle Myadel if it had not been so good fortified, but they killed many people and took others with them ... "
The inhabitants of the town enjoyed the rights of the bourgeoisie. Since 1736 Myadel is a place where fairs were allowed. On October 6, 1762, Myadel received the Magdeburg Law and permission for 4 fairs a year. Until the twentieth century. the town of Myadel was divided into Old and New Myadel. The difference was that if the first was the property of many large magnates and landowners (In the 18th century, Myadel was owned by the Radziwills, Fronskevichs, Raysky, Grabkovsky, Koshchitsy), then the second was considered a royal possession. After the death in 1542 of the last representative of the powerful family of the Vilna voivode Stanislav Gashtold, New Myadel becomes the property of the King of Poland and the Grand Duke of Lithuania Sigismund 1 the Old, who presented the city to his son Sigismund P August.
So here, in the Myadel region, the property interests of the Radziwills and Sigismund P August were in close contact. Very little time will pass and the sister of Nikolai Radziwill the Red, the widowed Barbara, married Gashtold, will become the wife of Sigismund P August, and therefore become the Queen of Poland and the Grand Duchess of Lithuania, daughter-in-law of Bona Sforza. This marriage will not last long (Bona will poison her daughter-in-law), but it will take the Radziwills to the top of the pyramid of power in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
Since 1590, the Chancellor of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania Lev Sapega was among the Myadel elders. In the Myadel region, he had extensive possessions and a large number of subjects. So, under the tutelage of influential and wise statesmen, Old and New Myadel lived, they lived separately and at the same time together. In 1793, after the second partition of the Commonwealth, both Old and New Myadel were included in Russian Empire and at the beginning of the twentieth century. merged into one city.
In 1843, a two-year public school was opened in the town.
Now it is a modern, comfortable city (city status since 1998) with a developed infrastructure. The population is about 7,500 people. There are two secondary schools and one gymnasium, a Children's Art School, 3 kindergartens, a Children's Art House, several construction organizations, a cooperative industrial complex, a network of state and private stores, a clinic, a hospital, a number of government agencies, a communications center, banks, libraries, a city House of Culture, Museum of National Glory, regional newspaper "Narochanskaya Zarya" is published.
There are a number of attractions in the city.
Mass grave of soldiers and partisans... Here are buried 169 soldiers and partisans who died during the acupation and in 1944 during the liberation of Myadel and the region from the Nazi invaders. The monument was erected in 1966. Sculptor M. Belsky.
Church of the Holy Life-Giving Trinity... built recently. The temple has been operating since January 2005. On August 20, 2006, the church was consecrated by Vladyka Philaret. old Orthodox church was closed and destroyed in the 60s.
The main wealth of the Naroch region are lakes. There are more than 50 of them in the region. All of them are of glacial origin. One of them - Lake Myastro, the second largest after Lake Naroch. Included in the Naroch group of lakes. Its area is 13.1 square kilometers, the maximum depth is 11 meters, the average is 5 meters. The Skema channel flows out of the lake. The following legend is connected with the origin of the name of the lake. Once upon a time there lived a blacksmith, a jack of all trades, on the shore of the lake. One of the travelers carved the word "stirrup" on the board and attached it to the blacksmith's workshop. Once a young and rich girl saw a young blacksmith and fell in love. She invited him to move to her castle. But immediately after her departure, the blacksmith packed his things into a cart and left. The angry rich woman ordered to destroy the forge and the house of the disobedient man, and one of the servants broke the signboard "stirrup" and threw it into the water. Planks from the sign sailed to the shores of the village of Giriny. The villagers put the pieces together, mixing them up. It turned out "Myastre". So they began to call the lake. This is a legend, but in fact many of the names of settlements and lakes in the region have Baltic roots, so it is possible that Myastro is a "myasto" - a settlement, a city.
In the 15th century on the island of Lake Myastro was built lock... It was owned by a queen, around whose name there are many legends and traditions, but they all boil down to one thing - this queen was a sorceress. With the help of a pood golden idol with diamond eyes, she healed people from incurable diseases, raised the dead, and even spoke this area from snakes. The castle consisted of a stone tower and a palace. The dongjon tower, round in plan, had an outer diameter of about 17 m, an inner diameter of 10 m, and the wall thickness reached 3.5 m. The foundation of the tower was built using the technique of striped masonry from rows of boulders and large-sized bricks on lime mortar. It is believed that the height of the tower was up to 30 m. Most likely, there were three such towers. The citadel was fortified with earthen ramparts with bastions and a moat, which was filled with water from the lake.
The castle was destroyed in 1709 during the Great Northern War with the Swedes. The most interesting structure has come down to us, unfortunately, at the archaeological level. Hidden underground, it takes a lot of imagination to reconstruct its appearance. But the past reminds of itself with an impressive architectural monument - the Church of the Mother of God Scapular, built in 1754 in the Baroque style. This is a monastery complex of the Discalced Carmelite Order. The temple is located on top of a steep hill. Mighty trees surround him. The dome of the building "flickers" from various angles through a heavy, dense veil. The church belongs to the temples with a centric volumetric-spatial composition, which is rare for baroque architecture. All facades of the temple (with the exception of the altar one) have the same architectural composition, the central projection is flanked by 2 paired columns of the Corinthian order standing on high bases.
The interior is richly decorated in the Rococo style.
On the central altar there is a 17th century sculptural composition "The Crucifixion"
The church houses the 17th century icon "Mother of God of the Scapular". Plebania and a bell tower are located next to the church. The church was built by the elder Anthony Koshchits, who owned Staryi Myadel in the middle of the 18th century. From Rome, he brought the relics of St. Justinian (later transferred to the Mosar Church) and numerous pilgrims came here. Such a legend is associated with the name of Anthony Koschits. For a long time he did not have an heir in his family. Dreaming of the birth of a son, he prayed to God, went to the Kiev Lavra, traveled to Jerusalem. While in Rome, the tycoon made a vow that if his wife gives birth to an heir, he will build a church in Old Myadel. And then a miracle happened - the long-awaited son was born. Anthony Koshchits kept his word and the temple was built.
The headman was famous for his cruelty. He did not spare either his wife or the servants. Wife Barbara, unable to withstand the bullying, left for Europe, leaving even a nursing son. The child was sickly and weak. Once a nanny, a young peasant woman Bronislava, after one of the sleepless nights, accidentally dropped the child, and he died. By order of Koschits, a 16-year-old girl was immured alive in a large stone pillar, which stood before the First World War in a cemetery near the road to Naroch. Old-timers claim that human remains were indeed found in this pillar. Based on this legend, our compatriot poet Vladimir Dubovka wrote the poem "Bronislava". In 1832 the tsarist authorities liquidated the monastery, in 1866 it was given to the Orthodox. In 1920 it was returned to the Catholics, 25 years later the shrine was closed and only in 1989 the church was given to the believers and raised from the ruins.
In 1821, Old and New Myadel had 170 courtyards, 825 inhabitants, 2 churches, a church, a mosque, and a synagogue functioned. Such a number and variety of religious buildings testifies to the multinationality and talerance of Myadel residents. For centuries, Belarusians, Poles, Jews, Tatars and representatives of other nationalities have peacefully coexisted here.
Naroch Territory during the Great Patriotic War.
The Great Patriotic War left a deep mark in these places.
The Myadel district was akkupipa already in July 1941. Soon he was included in the Vileika Commissariat. From the first months of akkupatsiya began rampant German terror. They caught and destroyed the pre-war state-party activists, prisoners of war died from disease and hunger.
The Jewish population found itself in a terrible situation. All Jews were herded into special ghetto neighborhoods surrounded by barbed wire. Hundreds of inhabitants of towns and cities were brutally killed by the Nazis, among them most were women, old people and children. Monuments on mass graves remind of these atrocities of the fascists in our land.
The occupation power was based on military strength. Fascist garrisons were created throughout the region in large settlements, which consisted of the Nazis and the police.
The local population reacted differently to the acupation regime, the Sabet government in the two incomplete years that have passed after the unification of the western and eastern parts of the republic destroyed the usual way of life of many people.
Part of the district's residents suffered from "dispossession" and collectivization, many simply took a wait-and-see attitude and hoped that the war would not affect their families.
At the beginning of the war, the resistance movement was carried out only at the expense of party activists who remained behind enemy lines and special groups abandoned for sabotage work from behind the front line. The first partisan detachments on the territory of the region began to operate from the beginning of 1942. And gradually, with the growing hostility of the population towards the fascist invaders, the development of the partisan movement began, which by 1943 had become a real front in the Nazi rear.
Here, on the banks of the Naroch, in the forest near the village of Cheremshitsy, from the fall of 1942 until the liberation of the region (summer of 1944), the Voroshilov partisan brigade was based. The commander was a Hero Soviet Union Fedor Markov.
The brigade consisted of 12 partisan detachments, with a total strength of about 2 thousand people. Since the summer of 1943, the brigade has included the Vileika underground regional committees of the CP (b) B and the LKSMB. The first secretary of the regional party committee was Ivan Frolovich Klimov, the regional Komsomol committee - Pyotr Mironovich Masherov. In the Cheremshitsky forest, an underground printing house of the Syalyanskaya Gazeta worked.
Now there is a well-trodden track. And during the German acupation, an inconspicuous path passed through the forest and swamps on the off-road. It was in this forest that the partisan unit was located, which controlled a significant part of the region's territory. All sorts of precautions were taken so that enemy scouts and German pilots did not notice where the partisans were based, how many of them were in the forest thicket, and which weapons they had. Hiding in the thickets, the partisan dazors watched the surroundings and detained every suspicious person who tried to go through the forest.
The choice of the site for the partisan base was not accidental, it was located in the deep Cheremshetsky forest, far from large settlements.
In the spring of 1942, the struggle against the Nazis took on an acute character. A detachment named after Suvorov struck at large garrisons in the Myadel region and in Postavy. By the winter of 1942, the detachment united with the detachment named after Budyonny and the "Fighter", and the Voroshilov brigade was formed.
In January 1943, the fascist aircraft reconnoitered the whereabouts of the partisans and began bombing the forest and neighboring villages. The command decided to go deep into the thicket of the forest. The movement was carried out in secret with the strictest observance of the rules of camouflage.
A small oblong hill among swampy areas was chosen for the new location. Headquarters dugouts are located in the center. At some distance there are dugouts of partisan detachments. In case of a raid by enemy aircraft, groups of dugouts were located one from another at a certain distance. For 150-200 meters from the real camp, models of dugouts were built to deceive German pilots.
The food was cooked in large cauldrons. So that there was no noticeable smoke, only dry wood was used. Residents of the surrounding villages and farmsteads provided all kinds of assistance to the partisans. In the village of Uzla, after the defeat of the enemy garrison, a water mill was taken under country. In the village of Cheremshitsy, bread was baked and every 2-3 days it was transported to the detachments. Under the control of the partisans, a workshop worked on the Izidara farm where tailors sewed clothes and shoes.
A field hospital was set up in the camp. The table, made of planks, stood under a large spreading spruce tree so that it could not be seen from the air. Many soldiers owe their salvation to guerrilla doctors and sisters.
Not far from the camp, an airfield was set up on the site of the burned-down village of Luzhi. Aircraft dropped cargoes from the "mainland" onto the area illuminated by fires. In the depths of the forest, far from the dugouts, partisan craftsmen smelted tar from unexploded shells and aerial bombs, and prepared explosives from it. At the risk of their lives, these dangerous items were collected from bombed villages and brought to the partisan camp.
At the beginning of 1943, the Germans tried three times to get to the headquarters and partisan dugouts. The most difficult battles had to be fought on March 6-10. 4000 German soldiers and officers attacked the location of the brigade. On the 5th day, the punishers approached almost the dugouts themselves, but the people's avengers managed to gather their strength and break through the enemy's Obaron. On March 16, 1943, a report came to the Belarusian headquarters of the partisan movement: “The brigade of comrade. Markova, operating in the Vileika region, fought 14 battles with the German garrisons, was subjected to two bombing from the air, and was temporarily redeployed to the Begoml region. The ammunition is completely used up. The situation of the brigade is very difficult ... ”But Markov's partisans nevertheless survived in these battles.
Having received ammunition in Begoml, Markov came up with a new tactical move. He decided to "sit down" on one fascist garrison and constantly keep it on the "front-line regime". The garrison of the village of Myadel was chosen. He was attacked dozens of times. And from December 1943, the brigade blocked Myadel and did not remove the blockade loop until the Red Army troops approached on July 4, 1944.
On March 27, 1944, on the shores of Lake Naroch near the village of Pasynki, a fierce battle took place between partisans of the Voroshilov brigade and the Nazis, who from the side of the city of Postava broke through to help the surrounded Myadel garrison. A convoy of 16 German vehicles and 2 tanks was moving along the road. The battle lasted several hours. The enemy was defeated, but the partisans suffered heavy losses. In 1952, a monument was erected on the site of the battle and a decision was made to celebrate the Day of the Liberation of Belarus here on the first Sunday of July every year.
In 1968, a new obelisk was erected, its height is 24.5 meters (architect Markov-Pechkin, sculptor Schmid) A staircase of 96 steps leads to the monument. On the right, there are 18 pedestals with the names of partisan brigades and detachments that fought on the territory of the former Vileika region. Every year, on the Day of the Liberation of Belarus from Nazi invaders, the festival "Singing Field" is held here.
The Great Patriotic War left an indelible mark on the history of our region. About 4 thousand inhabitants of the region were destroyed, more than 3 thousand were driven into hard labor in Germany, 68 settlements were destroyed, including 58 villages burned to the ground. The fire killed about 180 people.
World War I in the Myadel region.
Naroch land witnessed events First world war which began in 1914. In the fall of 1915, the war came to the territory of the region. And stayed here for more than two years. The front line between the German and Russian sides stretched from north to south for almost 400 km, through the present Vitebsk, Grodno, Minsk, Brest regions.
During the years of trench warfare, hundreds of kilometers of military fortifications and other structures were built along the front line, many of which have survived to this day. It is safe to say: no war left as much material evidence on the territory of Belarus as the First World War. Most of these objects are not yet included in any lists of historical values. However, in my opinion, in their complex, all these countless concrete pillboxes, kilometers of trenches that have swum from time, dozens of soldiers' cemeteries, ruins of temples destroyed and still not restored in those years, as well as other evidence of that first global catastrophe of the 20th century - are unique historical monument on the territory of Belarus.
The Myadel land is no exception. The front line ran through the entire territory of the region, barbed wire is still found at the bottom of Lake Naroch, and on the road around the village of Naroch, near the village of Zanaroch, Pasynki, and others, there are defensive structures.
World War I 1914-18 was the result of the confrontation between two military blocs: the Triple Alliance (Germany, Austria-Hungary, Italy) and the Entente countries, which were England, France and Russia. On June 15, 1914, the heir to the Austrian throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, was killed by Serbian terrorists in Sarajevo. In the Austro-Serbian conflict, Russia supported Serbia, and Germany supported its ally Austria. On August 1, referring to a general mobilization in Russia, Germany declared war on it. Then France entered the war, England the next day. Total in world war 38 states were involved, and Belarus was among the countries whose lands became the arena of military operations.
Entering 1916, England, France, Russia agreed in advance that in the summer Russia would go on the offensive, and the French would strike at the Germans on the Somme River. However, on February 21, 1916, Germany launched an offensive against Paris. The main blow was struck in the area of the city of Verdun.
Here is how V. Pikul described those events in the novel "Moonzund": “For forty miles around Verdun everything was immediately empty, but France was still alive! The French quickly built the Paris-Verdun highway. Having collected all the taxis, requisitioning all the private cars, Paris put the soldiers in them and immediately threw them into the Verdun meat grinder. Facing each other, the two armies destroyed one another. Verdun ended his feast with a million dead soldiers. "
On March 3, at a critical moment in the battle, France asked Russia to immediately, ahead of schedule, launch a large-scale offensive.
03/16/1916, the troops of the Western Front were given a directive on the offensive. Troops of the 1st, 2nd, 5th and 10th armies were to participate in the operation. The main blow was delivered by the 2nd Army. Russian troops had an advantage over the Germans in manpower by almost five times, and were twice superior in cavalry and heavy artillery. But the material and technical support ... The main thing was missing: shells, cartridges, entrenching tools. So on 17.03, the day before the offensive, of the 7 corps that were part of the 2nd Army, only the 34th Army Corps had a set of rifles. The remaining six, 23,807, were unarmed. There were difficulties with the delivery of ammunition, food, uniforms.
Things were no better in the 10th German army. On the front sector of the 2nd Army, there were cases of voluntary transfer of German soldiers to the side of the Russians, surrender. The food supply for the troops was poor. Famine began in Germany. But! Well thought out and thoroughly prepared, layered defense, electrified reinforced concrete pillboxes with the latest machine guns at the commanding heights made the front line difficult to overcome.
On March 11, the commander of the 2nd Army V. Smirnov fell ill. General Rogozu, who was not familiar with the theater of operations of the 2nd Army, was sent to his place from another front.
At dawn on March 18, 1916, artillery thunder announced the beginning of the battle ... for Paris near Naroch. Russian artillery concentrated the highest density of artillery fire during the First World War in the area of penetrating the enemy's defenses. In the melting snows on the outskirts of the Narochanskie lakes, 20 divisions of the 2nd Army lined up at their starting positions, preparing to inflict a crushing blow on the 10th German Army.
At 12.30 on the many-kilometer line of trenches near Naroch, drowning out the cannonade and the sounds of the orchestra playing "Farewell to the Slav," an unheard-of powerful "ur-ra" sounded, and a dense gray avalanche of Russian soldiers rushed to the barbed wire and trenches of the enemy. Together they went into world history and separately into the darkness of obscurity and human oblivion ...
The first day of the offensive did not bring the expected success in any sector of the front. The losses of the 2nd army are great - 183 officers and 15,139 soldiers only killed. March 19 also did not bring success, it rained at night, during the day it was foggy, which made it impossible to fire artillery to kill. And the Germans struck a massive blow with shells with asphyxiation gas in the sector of the 25th Infantry Division. The losses are enormous! For ten days of hard, stubborn battles in the conditions of a spring thaw, the Southern group recaptured 10 square meters in the area of Lake Naroch. versts The price of each mile is 7800 human lives. More precisely, the 2nd Army lost 1,080 officers and 77,427 soldiers, which amounted to a third of the army's personnel.
The mass graves of Russian soldiers today remind of the tragedy of the gas attacks in 1916. Memorial signs have been erected on mass graves near the villages of Uzla (700 people are buried) and Brusy (600 people), in the Gushar tract (400 people). At the cemetery in the village of Knyagigin, on a mass grave, a monument to 2,500 Russian soldiers who died in a military hospital was erected. March 28, 1916 is considered to be the day of the end of the operation. But the fighting on the front of the Southern Group continued until the end of April. The offensive operation near Naroch forced Germany to transfer significant forces from near Verdun to the Russian front. German troops at Verdun went on the defensive. Russia provided assistance to France, fulfilling the obligations to the allies taken at Chantally.
During the fighting near Naroch, the Russian army lost over one hundred thousand people. This is more than the strength of the entire army of the Republic of Belarus today. More losses of the Russian and French armies combined at Borodino. The Germans lost 30-40 thousand killed and 1200 prisoners. Naroch offensive operation - the largest battle of the 1st World War on the territory of Belarus.
… Time goes by. Callous, relentless. Some common graves were overgrown with thorns and forests, others were wiped off the face of the earth, giving them for plowing, and others ... In Myadel, the local history museum contains a modest exhibit - a tablet from the former brotherly cemetery of soldiers who died during a gas attack near Lake Naroch. There is an inscription on it: "Don't make noise, pines, Russian soldiers sleep here."
Don't make noise, pines ... But they make noise, make noise ... As if the souls of the victims of the bloodiest battle on the Belarusian land of the First World War appeal to our memory.
90 years ago Belarus did not exist as an independent state. However, it would not be an exaggeration to say that in the First World War, our country took the most direct part, at least geographically and with statistics of losses. Hundreds of thousands of soldiers on both sides were killed in only the most famous battles, while the total number of casualties in this vast and important sector of the front has never been counted and announced. One thing is clear: almost all of these victims remained here, in the land of Belarus.
Naroch is a resort of republican significance.
There are a huge number of lakes on our planet. It is impossible to answer the question of how many of them are on earth, since even at the modern level of knowledge they are not counted in some mountainous countries, in the far north and in the tundra. Their approximate number is hundreds of thousands. The largest accumulations of lakes in the north of Europe and America, northeast Asia, huge lakes cross the African continent from north to south. The deepest of the lakes is Baikal and the largest is the Caspian.
There are about 11 thousand lakes in Belarus. There are so many of them in the northwest that this part of the republic is called the Belarusian Poozerie. The lakes differ in their size, depth, shape of the basin: sometimes long like rivers, then rounded like bowls. Wooded slopes, clear water, the smell of algae, the cries of seagulls, an unexpected splash of fish in the reeds - create a unique combination of beauty that attracts tourists, fishermen, and nature lovers to the lake region.
Lakes are the most important and integral part of our republic. In combination with various hilly terrain, surrounded by forests, meadows, plowed fields, they create landscapes of our region unique in beauty.
A special property of the Naroch Territory is the concentration on its territory of large and small aquatic ecosystems, represented by rivers and streams with a total length of about 80 km, 43 different types of lakes, as well as fish ponds.
Narochanskie lakes are the natural core of the National Park and, first of all, this refers to the lake Naroch- the largest and most picturesque reservoir in Belarus. Naroch amazes with its watery expanses. Even in clear weather, the opposite shore is lost in a misty haze. A rounded basin with an area of about 80 km2 is divided by a small spit into two reaches - Small and Bolshoi. On the gray-blue surface of the lake, a single oblong island stands out as a bright green drop. The average depth of the lake is about 9 m, the maximum depth is 24.8 m, the length of the coastline is about 41 km. Naroch is 12.8 km long and 9.8 km wide.
There are many legends about Lake Naroch. One of them tells that a long time ago there were no lakes here, but there was a dense dense forest. In the forest, in a hut, a forester lived with his beautiful daughter. Many came to woo her, but she loved a brave and strong young man, who, moreover, was a jack of all trades. Once the young man gave his beloved a mirror and said: “Take care of it, it is magical and cast from spring grains of sand, in it you will see your destiny.” When the girl looked in the mirror, she saw a lake the color of the sky and a seagull hovering alone above the waves, but she did not understand anything from this vision. Once a rich landowner was hunting in those places, saw the beautiful Galina and ordered his servants to take her to his castle. The beloved hastened to help. After killing the hated master, the young were about to flee, but the guards woke up, and the young man ordered Galina to hide, and took the pursuit away. The girl waited for her fiancé for a long time, but did not wait. Remembering the mirror, she looked into it and saw the young man lying on the ground. In despair, the girl dropped the mirror and where the silver fragments fell, the lakes sparkled: from the largest lake Naroch formed, the girl herself turned into a seagull, which still circles above the water and calls her beloved …
I raptam for months, dze the forest,
Dze srebnya pali askolki, -
All the signs, hell only praise azer
Zazyalі lusterkam-vyaselkay.
Dziachyn, I have a winged seagull for the last time
І ў warm ranks і stsuju
Above the chandeliers azeraў, prastorami waters,
Shukayuchy mіlaga, circle.
I kryk yae vecer nyase ўdalyachyn
Above praises, forўnym zzyannya,
Sparse, byatsts byachmarnaya blue,
Glybokimі, bytsts kakhanna ...
Maxim Tank
Another legend says that a very ugly girl lived in these parts, but her soul was brighter than broad daylight. The girl fell in love with a beautiful guy, a handsome man. Evil people wanted to separate them, insisted that she was not a match for him. The young man made a mirror and presented it to his beloved. Looking at him, the girl became a beauty.
Their happiness was short-lived. The tycoon from the palace learned about this miracle and unlocked the lovers. The girl became a captive of the rich man. Cursing her beauty, the meadow woman wept bitterly and broke the mirror, which spattered with a multitude of splinters. Water covered the tycoon's palace. When the foam streams calmed down, a miracle opened up to the eyes of the people - a huge lake lay in front of them. And Naroch means the boy's betrothed. That's what people say. And if the name of the lake is associated with the Baltic origin, then it translates as "mermaid". Who knows if this is a mermaid's heart, because if you look closely, it resembles a heart in shape.
Lake Naroch amazes with its water expanses. Even in clear weather, the opposite shore is lost in a misty haze. As a reference model reservoir, Lake Naroch is included in the International Program for Research and Environmental Control "Man and the Biosphere" under the auspices of UNESCO.
The most famous fish in our lakes is the eel. It looks like a snake and reaches a length of up to 1.5 meters. The eel is found in many lakes in Europe, but spawns only in the great depths of the Atlantic Ocean (Sargasso Sea). When it is time for spawning, the irresistible force of procreation forces eels to leave lakes and along rivers and streams, even in a low-lying swamp to rush to the vastness of the ocean. After spawning, all adults die. Their larvae again strive through rivers and streams to the lakes of Europe, where eels live to adulthood. Recently, such travels have become difficult, sometimes simply impossible, due to the hydro-construction. Therefore, juvenile eel - a glassy ugorek - is specially brought in and launched into the lakes.
The picturesque banks of the Naroch have long attracted people who prefer a quiet rest in the usual climatic conditions. Even in the days of bourgeois Poland, nobles from Warsaw and Vilnius came here, built mansions, restaurants, yacht clubs. A narrow-gauge railway was specially laid from Lyntup to Naroch, along which trains ran. During the Second World War, all buildings were destroyed. Soon after the liberation of Belarus from the German fascist invaders, the first tent camps began to appear on the shores of the Naroch Lakes. The first survey on the suitability of the region for the construction of a balneological resort was carried out in 1946. At the end of the 1950s, a relatively orderly construction of recreation and treatment facilities began. These were summer cottages for the workers of the publishing house "Zvyazda", dachas for writers, a tourist base in a tent version.
Narochanskie Lakes is the largest Belarusian resort and recreational area on natural reservoirs. Resort Naroch, which area is more than 20 thousand hectares, occupies the coastal area of lakes Naroch, Myastro, Batorino and Lake. Pale. In addition, the resort area also includes lakes Myadel and Shvakshty.
The comfortable period for climatotherapy and rest here lasts 240 days a year. The swimming season at the resort lasts about 100 days. Another therapeutic factor that is widely and effectively used by vacationers is the microclimate of the resort. Light pine forest - a natural laboratory of the cleanest air, sandy shores and shallows, huge mirror water - all this taken together creates life-giving conditions for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases, metabolic disorders, diseases of the nervous system.
In 1964 the rest house "Naroch" opened its doors, in 1969 - the Republican children's health camp "Zubrenok". Then the resort of the Ministry of Internal Affairs "Belaya Rus", the tourist hotel "Naroch", the autoturbaza "Narochanka", the boarding houses "Stroitel", "Sputnik", "Zhuravushka", "Priozerny", "Borovoe" and others began to receive vacationers.
By the end of the 1980s, the only resort zone in the Republic of Belarus with a complex infrastructure was formed on the territory of the Naroch Territory.
In ecologically safe and cozy corners of the nature of the park, tourist parking, walking routes, ecological trails and places of rest. The presence of mineral springs, mud therapy, clean pine healing air contributes to the magnificent rest and recovery. The capacity of health resorts in the winter period reaches up to 4 thousand people, in the summer - about 6 thousand. Annually Narochansky resort receives more than 100 thousand people.
For the purpose of protection the environment, improving the economic and social development of the Naroch region on the basis of the Decree of the President of the Republic of Belarus dated July 28, 1999 No. 447 was created National Park "Narochansky". The total area of the National Park Narochansky is 97.3 thousand hectares. national park a protective zone was created on an area of more than 40 thousand hectares.
The administrative center of the resort is ToUrort settlement Naroch, the former village of Kupa. Population 3358 people. It was formed on October 27, 1964. by decision of the Minsk Oblast Executive Committee. The resort settlement encompassed the villages of Kupa, Urliki, Stepenevo. Drowning in greenery and flowers, it concentrates sanatoriums and hotels. Every year the resort "Naroch" becomes more and more popular and the Belarusian government is taking measures for the comprehensive use and protection of water and land resources the lake basin, in order to protect the unique nature of the Naroch Territory, to improve the recreation area, to improve the architectural and planning solutions of the recreational facilities erected here. Now the state of the lake is monitored by biological and meteorological stations, the Narochanskoe forestry is engaged in the forest-park zone.
Within the territory of resort village The old park, founded in the 19th century, has been partially preserved. on an area of 3 hectares .. Local hydromineral springs of sulfate-chloride-sodium composition, therapeutic mud enhance the therapeutic effect of various diseases of the cardiovascular and nervous systems, gastrointestinal tract, respiratory tract.
Lake Naroch is the largest lake in Belarus; it occupies one of the leading positions among the country's lakes in terms of cleanliness and transparency. It is located in the Myadel district of the Minsk region on the territory of the Narochansky reserve. The deepest part of the lake reaches 25 m, and the length is about 13 km.
There are twenty-two fish species in Naroch. Most popular types- perch and pike.
This is one of the most popular holiday destinations in Belarus, ideal conditions for relaxation and health restoration are created here. Wonderful nature and clean forest air - all this pacifies and calms, evokes only the most positive emotions.
There are hotels, sanatoriums and shops around Lake Naroch, which are among pine forest form a small resort town, the only one in Belarus. On the territory of the reserve there is an equipped path for dosed walking - a health path designed for the rehabilitation of patients with diseases of the circulatory system.
There are 9 sanatoriums on the territory of the Narochansky Reserve.
Economy levelSanatorium "Zhuravushka"The sanatorium is located on the shore of the lake. The health resort has been operating since 1987 and can accommodate up to 250 people at a time. The health-improving complex includes four separate buildings.High levelSanatorium "Sputnik"The sanatorium was founded in 2006. The health resort offers high-quality functional diagnostics, an individual approach and a selection of unique health improvement programs aimed at physical recovery.
Average levelSanatorium "Narochanka"This is the former medical and health complex Naroch, which received the status of a sanatorium in 2016. The room fund consists of two buildings connected by a transitional gallery.
High levelSanatorium "Priozerny"The sanatorium was formed by the merger of two health resorts in 1999 as a complex. The health-improving complex includes residential and medical buildings. The territory has its own source of mineral water.
Economy levelOK "Seagull"The Chaika health complex invites everyone to improve their health and relax on the shores of the largest lake in Belarus - Naroch. The wellness complex received its first holidaymakers in 1982.
Economy levelSanatorium "Narochansky Bereg"To accommodate vacationers, the sanatorium offers 3 dormitory buildings. The room fund of the health resort is represented by single and double rooms, incl. two-room and superior rooms.
High levelSanatorium "Belaya Rus"Health resort high level, founded in 1988. The extensive medical base of the sanatorium includes more than 150 types of medical services. On the shore of the lake there is a private equipped beach with showers.
