Trinity Suburb

There are several hypotheses regarding the origin of the toponym “Trinity Mountain”. According to the most probable, the toponym comes from the name of the oldest Catholic church in Minsk, founded by the Grand Duke of Lithuania and the King of Poland Jagiello ^[6] . According to another version, the toponym arose from the name of the defensive redoubt of the Holy Trinity , which was located near the Borisov outpost ^[7] . There is also an opinion that the name came from the Church of the Holy Trinity ^[8] or Holy Trinity Convent ^[9] .

The left bank of the Svisloch has long been of great commercial importance, roads connected here from Vilna (in the XII-XIII centuries from Zaslavl ), Logoisk and Polotsk , Borisov and Smolensk , Drutsk , Mogilev (in the XII-XIII centuries, possibly from Svisloch - Rogachev ) ^{[10 ]} . Archaeological excavations carried out in 1976 by Georgy Shtykhov and Valentin Sobol confirmed the existence of a cultural layer in this place already at the end of the XII century ^[11] .

The rather widespread use of the concept of “Old Place” in relation to the Trinity Mountain region in written sources at the turn of the 16th – 17th centuries indicates the presence of a city center in the 14th – 15th centuries ^[1] . However, after Minsk received Magdeburg Law in 1499 and the construction of the town hall in the High City, Trinity Suburb gradually lost its status as a center.

In the XVII-XVIII centuries, the area of ​​Trinity Mountain was of peripheral importance in the construction and social structure of the city. The basis of the district’s planned structure was the continuation of the main street on the right bank of the Svisloch - Nemiga (in the 16th century “Nemezskaya”), which began from the river crossing and was called Bolshaya Borisovskaya (along R. Borovoy, Troitskaya or Troitskaya Gora Street ^[12] ) . It arose on the old Borisov tract (section from Svisloch to the 2nd clinical hospital). The continuation of Bolshaya Borisovskaya was Troitskaya Street (in the 19th century it was renamed Alexandrovskaya , now it is Maxim Bogdanovich Street) ^[11] . These streets started at the head of the cape and passed almost along the central axis of a wide hill surrounded on three sides by the bend of Svisloch. Under these conditions, the natural, exclusively spontaneous planning decision was the resettlement of residents both along this road-street, and perpendicular to it, on the southern and northern slopes of the mountain, towards the river bank. So a series of almost parallel streets arose, extending from the main one. There were at least 8–9 such streets on the northern slope of the mountain, and on the southern one, where there was an extensive swampy floodplain between the main street and the river bank — 5. The planning of the southern part of Trinity Mountain was probably influenced by the fact that it was in this area very early a series of monasteries and churches arose, which occupied large tracts of land, which could also prevent the formation of many small streets. Apparently, the easternmost of the eight or nine streets on the northern slope of the mountain was called Vilenskaya , since it was she who served as the beginning of the road to Zatsen-Semkov Gorodok and further to Vilna ^[12] .

Mogilevskaya Street probably corresponded to the modern Kuibyshev Street - its continuation connected the Troitskaya Mountain with Komarovka (the area of ​​the modern Yanka Kupala Street). Komarovka in the first half of the XIX century was a village located outside the city. The Logoisk and Borisov tracts began from it. The Mogilev road of 1557 began, apparently, from the same street directly outside the city, abruptly turning along the banks of the Svisloch in the area of ​​the current Victory Square , then leaving on the outskirts of Dolgy Brody and Slepianka, where the “ Drutskaya road” was separated from this road ^[12] .

Of the other streets on Troitskaya Gora, documents of the 16th – 18th centuries mention: Plebanskaya street and “street to Plebansky mills” (possibly the same street) - in the area of ​​the square near the Opera House; Starostinskaya Sloboda street - the initial stretch of Staroslobodskaya street liquidated in the 1980s. In the same place, between Starostinskaya Sloboda and Zamkovy Bridge, on the northern slope of the Trinity Mountain, along the coast of Svisloch there passed one of the oldest streets of this region - modern Starovilenskaya (in documents of the 17th – 18th centuries it was called “a street by the river to Sloboda” ) ^[12] .

The suburbs were connected with the castle district by a bridge and a dam, from the second half of the XVI century - by two bridges ^[7] . In the 15th – 17th centuries, fortifications with earthen ramparts and ditches were built along the perimeter of Minsk (including in the Trinity Suburb) ^[7] . From the end of the XVI century, the first mention of the Trinity Market - the largest trading platform of the city ^[7] .

The ancient layout of the suburb remained unchanged until the beginning of the 19th century, when during the great fire of 1809, almost the entire building of the Trinity Mountain burned out, especially in its central and northern parts ^[12] . In subsequent years, a plan was developed to restore the development of the Trinity Suburb ^{[13] [14]} . A fundamentally new design solution for planning the entire left-bank part of Minsk dates back to this time, which in general has been preserved to this day. It was based on five long streets, fan-shaped, diverging from the arrow of the cape (that is, from the bridge), and five transverse streets crossing them. This grid of ten streets formed about 20 rectangular and trapezoidal quarters with a large rectangular area in the center. The first and greatest tearing of the cape of the Trinity Mountain is associated with the fire and subsequent urban development work. Until the beginning of the XIX century, the cape itself was much higher, and its slopes facing Svisloch were much steeper than at present ^[12] .

According to the Belarusian traveler and local historian Pavel Shpilevsky in the middle of the 19th century, Minsk dwellers attributed Trinity suburb along with the Low Market, Rakovsky suburb and Pyatnitsky (Tatar) end to Minsk's “Old Place” ^[15] . In the late XIX - early XX centuries, Trinity Mountain was part of the third police unit of the city . The district was distinguished by the variegated estate structure of the population (peasants, workers, traders, lower-ranking officials, small landowners) and a rather contrasting appearance ^[16] .

The main street of the suburb was Aleksandrovskaya (now Maxim Bogdanovich ), named after the Russian emperor Alexander I. At the same time, she walked along the still-preserved Starovilenskaya street . These streets were connected by several lanes. The first of them is Alexandrovskaya Embankment (now Kommunalnaya Embankment Street). Here were the famous Minsk baths, which stood on the very shore of Svisloch. The second is Troitsky -Police Lane (the beginning of the modern Storozhevskaya Street near Trinity Suburb). The third is the First Seminar Lane ( Communal ), and the fourth is the Second Seminar , or Metropolitan , lane that passed behind the male theological seminary (Suvorov School) ^[16] .

Lavskaya embankment stretched from Khlusov (now Bogdanovich ) to the Police Bridge (now Kupala ). Georgievskaya Street (its part was preserved - Chicherin Street ) went from Svisloch through the Trinity Market (now the Paris Commune Square) towards Komarovka. Parallel to Georgievskaya there was Plebanskaya Street or Plebanskaya Mills (now Kuibyshev), whose name comes from the nearby watermills of the Trinity Zlatogorsk Plebaniya. In 1866, it was renamed Broad . Belotserkovnaya street (now does not exist; ran from the Opera and Ballet Theater to Victory Square) coincided with the old roads to Mogilev and Borisov . Its name comes from the “White Church”, as the townspeople called the church near the women's religious school (now the headquarters of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Belarus ) ^[16] .

The 1930–1960s saw the destruction of some objects on the territory of the suburbs. These include: the Catholic cemetery of the 16th – 18th centuries (now the square in front of the opera house); the territory of the Ascension Monastery XIII (?) - XVI centuries ("District Headquarters") and others. Some of the streets that survived after the redevelopment of the beginning of the 19th century on the outskirts of the Trinity Suburb were destroyed already later - in the 1980s. These include, for example, an old street along Svisloch - it started near the modern building of the Suvorov School, and ended near the modern hotel "Belarus" ^[12] . At the same time, the western part of the suburb was restored, which was the first comprehensive restoration of historical buildings in Belarus. However, the restorers did not manage to avoid some negative aspects. For example, part of the 17th century buildings along the Communal Embankment was destroyed ^[17] .

Timeline

• X-XI centuries: on the mountain, in the middle of the forest, the Ascension ^[7] monastery was founded with the wooden Ascension Church ^[9] .
• XII-XIII centuries: on the left bank of the Svisloch a church of saints Boris and Gleb was built and Borisoglebskaya street was laid ^[18] .

• 1390: according to legend, a wooden church of the Holy Trinity (Minsk Headlight) was erected on Trinity Hill ^[6] .
• 1505: the city was burned to the ground by the Crimean Tatars , including the first Minsk Catholic church ^[6] .
• 1508: The Trinity Church was rebuilt from wood. There was a hospital under him, where the brotherhood of the same name with the church looked after the weak ^[6] .
• 1620: on the site of the wooden Church of the Ascension Church, barmister Andrei Maslenko erected a stone ^[7] .
• 1630: Marina Bezhevich founded the Trinity Monastery of Basilians in the suburbs with the wooden church, known since the 15th century ^[19] .

• 1709: at the church of the Holy Trinity, the Bishop of Brzostowski founded the Brotherhood of Happy Death ^[20] .
• 1716 (1720): a new wooden church of the Holy Trinity was erected by the efforts of the Minsk priest Karl Peter Pantserzhansky. The temple stood on a stone foundation ^[21] .

• 1771: near the Trinity Monastery of Basilians, on the initiative and at the expense of Kunegunda Ruschits, a monastery of the Catholic monastic order of mariavitas was founded ("the house of mariavitas") ^[15] . Under him, a school began to work, in which novices were taught languages, housekeeping and arithmetic ^[7] .
• 1799-1800: according to the project of the provincial architect Fedor Kramer, stone buildings of the Trinity Basilian Monastery were erected.
• August 14, 1809: a fire destroyed a significant part of the development of the suburbs, including the wooden Farny Church ^[6] .
• 1811: according to the project of architect Mikhail Chakhovsky, a stone complex of the Mariavitok women's monastery was built, which housed a hospital for orphans, the elderly and the poor. The dominant feature of the architectural ensemble was a huge empire - style church, on the sides of which adjoined the monastery buildings ^[22] .
• 1814: the provincial architect Mikhail Chekhovsky designed a new stone church of the Holy Trinity, oriented along the main facade to Troitskaya Street, but there was not enough money to build the church. It is known that on the corner of Aleksandrovskaya and Troitskaya a one-story stone building of plebania with a large crypt and two small benches, as well as wooden outbuildings were erected ^[21] .
• 1834: according to the project of the provincial architect Kazimir Khrishchanovich, the buildings of the former Trinity Monastery were reconstructed as a hospital of the city hospital ^[19] .
• 1840: the complex of the church and the monastery of the mariavitas ^{[15] was} rebuilt under the Minsk Theological Seminary ^[23] .
• 1850: the Russian authorities suspended the activity of the Mariavitok monastery ^[24] .

• 1858: in the building on Plebanskaya Street, the first photo studio in the city (photographic office), owned by Josephine Adamovich, was opened ^[25] .
• October 1, 1867: a women's religious school was opened, built on the site of the Ascension Monastery. In 1870, the Church of the Ascension was restored from the remains of ancient walls, which the townspeople called the "White Church" ^[26] .
• 1870: the first mailbox in Minsk appeared in the Troitskaya Mountain region ^[27] .
• December 19, 1891: in one of the buildings of the suburbs, the Belarusian poet Maxim Bogdanovich was born.

• 1893: a show was paved along Aleksandrovskaya Street - from Svisloch to the brewery ^[28] .
• 1909: the mayor Stefanovich, despite the protests of the Orthodox clergy, issued an order to remove all the deadbolts on the dam of the Plebansky mills belonging to the Bishop’s house, and thus saved Minsk from flooding. However, Archbishop Michael for the violation of property rights brought the entire city council to justice. Stefanovich lost his post ^[29] .
• 1919: Bolsheviks renamed Trinity Square into the Paris Commune Square .
• 1921: Minsk Infantry Courses are located in the buildings of the former Theological Seminary, which in 1924 transformed into the United Belarusian School - a secondary military educational institution with the Belarusian language of instruction ^[30] .
• 1925: in order to solve the housing problem in the area of ​​Trinity Square, the construction of standard two-, three-, and four-apartment wooden houses began ^[31] .
• 1935: in connection with the construction of the theater, the Minsk authorities closed the Trinity Market.
• 1936: according to the project of architects Denisov and Varaksin, the Third House of Soviets was built in the suburbs ^[32] .
• 1938: The construction of the Opera and Ballet Theater was completed .
• June 24, 1941: during the German bombardment of the city in the III House of Soviets, a fire broke out, which killed more than 100 women and children who took refuge in the building from bombing ^[33] .
• 1946: the building of the Ministry of Defense ^{[34] was} built on the site of the White Church and the women's religious school (according to other sources, the building was erected on the basis of the former theological school ^[35] ).
• 1948-1950: on the corner of Yanka Kupala and Kuibyshev streets, on the site of the buildings destroyed during the war, the Minsk authorities laid down the Pioneer Park ^[25] .
• 1949: The Belarusian Theater and Art Institute was opened in the building of the Opera and Ballet Theater ^[25] .
• 1950: A park was established around the Opera House.
• 1953: Minsk Suvorov Military School was built on the basis of the Theological Seminary building (two floors were added to the old building) ^[34] .
• 1959: in the Pioneer Park at the intersection of Yanka Kupala and Kuibyshev Streets, the monument to partisan Marat Kazei was unveiled (sculptor S. Selikhanov).
• 1964: on the street of Yanka Kupala, near the old Lavsky bridge, they planted the chestnut “Alley of Friendship of Peoples”.
• 1969: in the south-east of the former Trinity Monastery, the building of the Exhibition of Economic Achievements of the BSSR (architect S. Batkovsky) was built, now it is the BelExpo National Exhibition Center.
• 1976: a memorial plaque in honor of the writer was placed on building No. 1 along Aloiza Pashkevich Street ^[36] .
• December 9, 1981: a monument to the classic of Belarusian literature Maxim Bogdanovich (sculptor Sergey Vakar) was unveiled in front of the Opera House.
• 1982-1985: the Minsk authorities restored the western part of the Trinity suburb (architects L. Levin, Yu. Gradov, S. Baglasav).
• November 6, 1987: The State Museum of Belarusian Literature opened.
• 1988: A boulder depicting the icon of the Mother of God was placed on an island in the western part of the suburbs - as the cornerstone of the future Memorial Island of Tears .
• December 8, 1991: the grand opening of the Maxim Bogdanovich literary museum.
• August 6, 1993: a monument to the Belarusian artist Yazep Drozdovich (sculptor I. Golubev) was unveiled in the restored part of the suburb.

• 1993: Национальный банк Белоруссии ввёл в обращение купюру номиналом 5 000 белорусских рублей с изображением Троицкого предместья ( деноминирована в 2001 году до номинала в 5 белорусских рублей, выведена из обращения 1 июля 2005) ^[37] .
• 3 августа 1996: на «Острове слёз» установлен памятник «Сынам Отчизны, погибшим за её пределами» (в оригинале на белорусском языке: «Сынам Айчыны, якія загінулі за яе межамі») (скульптор Ю. Павлов).
• 16 февраля 2001: в предместье открылась галерея «Знаменитые мастера» ( белор. «Славутыя майстры» ).
• 8 мая 2006: в Суворовском военном училище митрополит минский и слуцкий Филарет освятил храм в честь святого апостола и евангелиста Иоанна Богослова ^[38] .
• 11 апреля 2008: с площадки перед оперным театром был демонтирован памятник Максиму Богдановичу. Вместо памятника планировалось установить фонтан . Приблизительно через три месяца, в начале июля 2008 года, памятник был установлен заново на углу улицы Максима Богдановича и площади Парижской коммуны.
• 6 мая 2009: Комиссия по наименованию и переименованию проспектов, улиц и других частей Минска приняла решение по придании безымянному скверу в границах улиц Куйбышева — Пашкевич — Богдановича — Купалы названия «Троицкая гора» ^[39] .

14 июля 2004 года указом президента Республики Беларусь № 330 «О развитии исторического центра г. Минска» были утверждены границы территории исторического центра, а также концепция его реконструкции, развития и функционального использования объектов недвижимого имущества и территории. В охранную зону была включена западная часть Троицкого предместья вместе с территорией 2-й городской больницы ^[40] . Главным элементом охраняемой зоны является квартал прямоугольной формы, расположенный между улицами Максима Богдановича, архитектора Заборского , Старовиленской и Коммунальной набережной. Он был воздвигнут согласно регулярному плану Минска 1817 года. Каждое здание этого квартала имеет собственную историко-архитектурную ценность, а вместе они образуют сплошной комплекс Старого города ^[41] . Отреставрированная западная часть предместья представляет собой своеобразный музей под открытым небом, в котором восстановлены стиль и конкретные образцы городской каменной застройки XIX века. В старых зданиях располагаются музеи, магазины и кафе.

В соответствии с проектом развития исторического центра минского проектного института «Минскпроект», в ближайшем будущем планируется реконструкция комплекса бывшего Троицкого монастыря базилианок под центр деловых контактов и делового туризма. Этот центр будет соединён пешим помостом с отреставрированной в 1982—1985 годах западной частью предместья ^[42] .

В 2010 году примерно в ста метрах от предместья началось строительство 25-этажного жилого комплекса «У Троицкого» ^{[43] [44]} . При строительстве не были учтены положения Закона об охране историко-культурного наследия. ^[45]

Памятники архитектуры

14 мая 2007 года Совет Министров Республики Беларусь принял постановление «О статусе историко-культурных ценностей», согласно которому застройка, планировка, ландшафт и культурный слой исторического центра Минска получили соответствующий охранный статус ^[34] . Отбор тех или иных конкретных объектов производился по решению Белорусского республиканского научно-методического совета по вопросам историко-культурного наследия при Министерстве культуры ^[34] . Весомая часть памятников культуры Минска находится именно на территории Троицкого предместья. Так, охранный статус имеет комплекс из 24 зданий начала XIX—XX веков, расположенный в трапециевидном квартале, образованном улицами Богдановича, Старовиленской, Сторожевской и Коммунальной набережной ^[46] . Некоторые из этих зданий возведены на основе более ранних каменных строений ^[17] . Среди этого комплекса наиболее известны так называемый дом Вигдорчика по Коммунальной набережной 6, в котором в 1890—1891 годах снимал квартиру Доминик Луцевич — отец классика белорусской литературы Янки Купалы ^[47] , дом Пинсуховича по Сторожевской 5 (некогда сдавался под казармы 9-й и 10-й роты Серпуховского полка) ^[47] , построенная в 1874 году «Китаевская» синагога (Богдановича, 9а), в которой ныне располагается «Дом природы». В здании по адресу улица Богдановича, 15 (раннее Александровская, 11) находилась обувная фабрика Цитвера ^[48] . Производство открылось в 1871 году как сапожная мастерская. Известно, что в 1913 году на фабрике было занято 40 рабочих, имелся двигатель. В том же году было произведено обуви на 55 тысяч рублей ^[49] .

На углу Александровской улицы и Александровской набережной располагался дом Ушакова (ныне магазин «Стекло, фарфор» по Богдановича, 1). В 1886 году в этом доме на квартире провизора Павловского было проведено собрание народников , на котором было решено активизировать деятельность и начать издавать журнал «Социалистическое здание» ^{[17] [49]} . По неизвестным причинам в списке историко-культурных ценностей здание отсутствует.

A separate place is occupied by the complex of buildings of the 2nd city clinical hospital (2 Bogdanovich Street), which is an architectural monument of classicism . Four buildings have the status of historical and cultural value: the building of the former Trinity Monastery of Basilianes, built in 1799-1800; a house for the disabled , an almshouse and an outbuilding (all three buildings were erected in 1840-1847). Provincial Zemstvo Hospital was opened in 1799 ^[40] . Until 1903, it was under the authority of the Public Guardianship Order. During the fire of 1809, most of the wooden buildings of the monastery burned out. The surviving buildings after the liquidation of the union in 1839 were transferred to the hospital. The reconstruction of the monastery buildings for the needs of the hospital, which was completed by 1850, was carried out according to the project of the provincial architect Kazimir Khrishchanovich. The building of the Trinity Monastery of Basilianes housed a therapeutic department with a capacity of 70 beds. The psychiatric department occupied a separate two-story building. After the almshouse was transferred to Borisov in 1910, the building was transferred to the psychiatric ward, due to which it was expanded from 40 to 180 places. In the mid-19th century, the inspector of the Minsk Medical Board Daniil Osipovich Spasovich worked as a doctor in the hospital, who, according to Shpilevsky , enjoyed “respect and love from the whole Minsk Region” ^{[50] [40]} , in 1904-1915 the hospital was headed by a famous doctor and philanthropist Ivan Ustinovich Zdanovich .

The list of historical and cultural values ​​also includes several buildings that now belong to the Suvorov Military School (29 Bogdanovich Street). The main building of the school (building 2/3) was built at the expense of the Benefit Society under the project of architect Mikhail Chakhovsky in 1811 as the main part of the complex of the Mariavitok monastery and the hospital ^[30] . The building served as a church until 1854, when the monastery was abolished, and its buildings were transferred to the Orthodox Theological Seminary, founded in 1793 in Slutsk . The building also housed the editorial offices of the diocesan newspaper “Minsk Provincial News” (published from 1869 to 1920) and the journal of the Orthodox Society “Orthodox Brother” (seven issues were published in 1910-1911). After the October Revolution, the seminary was closed. In 1921, Minsk infantry courses were located in its buildings, which in 1924 transformed into the United Belarusian School. Teaching at this secondary school was conducted in Belarusian ^[30] . Before the war , the editors of the Krasnoarmeyskaya Pravda newspaper were also in the building. During the occupation, the Germans established the publication of the newspaper Proryv ^[22] on old equipment. In 1952, under the leadership of architect Georgy Zaborsky, reconstruction of the former monastery complex was begun, in which it was planned to open the Suvorov Military School . During the reconstruction, completed in 1955, two floors were completed to the main building, and two new buildings were also erected ^[30] . Both new buildings - buildings 2/1 and 2/7 (sports hall) - are also architectural monuments and are included in the list of protected objects.

The status of the protected zone has a triangular quarter plan formed by the streets of Bogdanovich, Zaborsky and Storozhevskaya. Among its buildings, Beilin’s house (3 Zaborsky Street) stands out, built in the middle of ^[34] or at the end of the 19th century ^[47] . In 1875-1876, a student of the Petersburg Technological Institute Mikhail Rabinovich, who was actively conducting populist campaigning among the workers, studied crafts at the building owner’s workshop. In the same quarter, at 23 Bogdanovich Street, there is the Third House of Soviets - a monument of constructivism architecture, built in 1936 according to the project of architects L. Denisov and V. Varaksin. In the 1930s, houses of councils were called buildings built specifically for Soviet employees and workers ^[32] . Most of the apartments in the house were 3- and 4-room; most of them lived in a family of officers. The architect Anatoly Voinov criticized the layout of the apartments, meanwhile noting the high architectural and artistic expressiveness of the facade, which was achieved thanks to the successful use of cladding in different colors and textures, as well as a few protruding pilasters ^[32] . On June 24, 1941, during the bombing of the city, people took refuge in a bomb shelter equipped in the basement of the building. However, a bomb exploded nearby caused a fire that killed about a hundred people ^[33] . Nowadays, in the building, among other things, there is a grocery store "Traetskі" ("Troitsky").

The largest object on the territory of the suburbs is the Opera and Ballet Theater , located in the center of the square, which is also the square of the Paris Commune . The theater building was built in 1935-1937 on the site of the ancient Trinity Market. According to the original project of George Lavrov, it was planned to erect a truly huge structure. On July 11, 1933, on the anniversary of the occupation of Minsk by the Red Army in 1920, the building was laid down, but after a while it was decided to abandon this project in favor of a less ambitious, but more feasible project by architect Joseph Langbard . During the Great Patriotic War, the building itself was significantly damaged, rich interiors were taken to Germany . After the liberation of Minsk, the theater building was reconstructed, the first production after the war was carried out in 1947. In 1950, a square was built around the theater according to a sketch of Langbard himself. In the first quarter of 2006, the reconstruction of the Opera and Ballet Theater began, as a result of which the building laid back by its architect was returned to the building. Reconstruction was completed in 2008 ^{[51] [52]} .

The monument of classicism is the administrative building of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Belarus on Kommunisticheskaya Street 1. It was built in 1945-1946 on the site of the White Church and the Women's Theological School as the administrative building of the headquarters of the Belarusian Military District . According to other sources, the building was erected on the basis of the Women's Theological School, built in 1867-1870 ^[35] .

Museums and Exhibitions

There are several museums in the suburbs. The branch of the State Museum of the History of Theater and Musical Culture of Belarus “The Lounge of Vladislav Golubka ” is located at Starovilenskaya 14. The museum’s exposition tells about the life and work of Vladislav Golubka, it presents his personal belongings, photographs, documents, artworks and posters of the Golubka Theater. Due to the fact that after the arrest and execution of Vladislav Iosifovich, the archive of his theater was destroyed, the museum’s exposition, according to employees, was collected in crumbs. For its formation, materials were used from the Belarusian State Archive-Museum of Literature and Art and the State Museum of the History of Belarusian Literature ^{[53] [54]} .

In house number 13 on 13 Bogdanovich Street, the State Museum of the History of Belarusian Literature is located. The museum was founded on November 6, 1987 and is one of the largest literary museums in Belarus. The museum exposition consists of collections of manuscripts, rare books, photographs, works of art, personal items and documents of Belarusian writers. The museum fund has more than 50 thousand storage units ^[55] .

The Maxim Bogdanovich Literary Museum is located not far from the non-preserved house in which the classic of Belarusian literature was born on November 27, 1891 (Bogdanovich Street 7a). The museum was opened in May 1991 to the centenary of the poet's birth. The museum’s exposition housed the “Life and Work of Maxim Bogdanovich” in five rooms, each of which is dedicated to a certain period in the life of Maxim Bogdanovich ^[56] . One of the first exhibits of the museum was a handwritten collection of poems "Green" in Russian ^[57] .

In addition to these museums, various exhibitions are held in other institutions. For example, in the private gallery “Famous Masters” ( Belorussian. Slavutya Maysters ) located at 6 Kommunalnaya Embankment, works of contemporary Belarusian decorative and applied art are presented ^[58] . In the "House of Nature" (9a Bogdanovich Street), various exhibitions are regularly held dedicated to the natural world ^{[59] [60] [61]} . The National Exhibition Center BelExpo (27 Yanki Kupala Street) hosts international and national exhibitions of various subjects ^[62] . In the building of the Troitsky pharmacy (Storozhevskaya street 3) some types of pharmaceutical glassware, old pharmaceutical books are exhibited ^[17] . At Kommunalnaya Embankment 2 is the art gallery "Bomond" ^[63] .

Streets and squares

The table shows information about microtoponyms (names of streets and squares) of the suburbs in their historical dynamics. Main sources: articles “Toponymy of streets and squares of Minsk in the XIX - early XX centuries” by I. Satsukevich ^[16] and “Names of Minsk streets over the last century: trends, puzzles, paradoxes” by V. Bondarenko ^[64] .

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