Кобрын. Падарожжа ў часе
Альбом
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Serie In search of the lost
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translation: Kobrin. A journey through time - Albom
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Kobrin is located in Western Polesia, fifty kilometers from Brest, on the Mukhavets River. More than 52 thousand people live in the city. In 2017, Kobrin will celebrate its 730th anniversary.
According to legend, it was founded in the 11th and 12th centuries by the descendants of Prince Izyaslav of Kiev on the site of a fishing settlement on an island at the confluence of the river. Kobrynki in Mukhovets. It is mentioned for the first time in the Ipatiev Chronicle in 1287 as the property of Prince Uladzimir Vasilkovich, the grandson of Galician Prince Roman Mstislavich (from the Rurikovich family). Somewhere at the beginning of the 14th century. the Upper and Lower castles were built on the ancient settlement (located on the sand hills of the left bank of the Mukhavets River).
Architectural monuments: the historical buildings of the city, the building of the former Spassky Monastery (XVIII century), St. Alexander Nevsky Cathedral (1868), St. Peter and Paul Church (1913), St. Nicholas Church (1860), St. George Church ( 17th - 18th centuries), the Church of the Repose of the Blessed Virgin Mary (1843), the building of the former synagogue (2nd half of the 19th century), the building of the former postal station (1846), the mansion of A.V. Suvorov (18th century), park of culture and recreation named after A.V. Suvorov (1768).
