Ivanovo (the historical name of Yanovo) owes its appearance to the Lutsk bishops, who not only owned it, but also did everything for its successful development. Nowadays it is a small, quiet and neat city, in which they respect the historical and cultural heritage with reverence.
Ivanovo is a regional center of the Brest region, located on the Samaravka River, 132 km from Brest. Yanov-Polessky railway station on the Brest-Pinsk line.
Historical overview:
Ivanovo has been known since the XIV century as the village of Porkhovo. In 1423 she was presented to the Lutsk Cathedral Church. In the XV century receives the status of a small town. In 1465 Lutsk Bishop Jan Lasovich transformed the village of Porkhovo into a town, giving him his name. Since then, Yanovo has become the second residence of Lutsk bishops, many of whom are buried here. Until the end of the XVIII century it is part of the Commonwealth.
In the XIX century, Yanovo refers to the Kobrin Povet. In 1921-1939 the town, like other settlements of Western Belarus, is part of Poland. In 1939, Yanovo was incorporated into the BSSR. In 1940 it became the center of the district.
From June 1941 to June 1944, the place was under the German-fascist occupation, during which 8,800 people died in the area. Since March 1971, Ivanovo has received the status of a city.
Napoleon Orda (1807-1883) - the famous Belarusian and Polish artist and composer, who embodied in his drawings many architectural monuments of Belarus. Thanks to him, we now have the opportunity to see what castles, palaces and manors looked like that did not survive to our days or suffered greatly from wars and times. He was born in the village of Vorotsevichi, Ivanovo district.
Chaim Weizmann (1874-1952) is an active propagandist of the creation of a separate Jewish state, the first president of Israel. He was born in the village of Motol, Ivanovo region.
Andrei Babol (1591-1657) is one of the most revered saints by the Belarusian Catholics, an active propagandist of the Catholic faith. Tragically died at the hands of the Cossacks in Yanovo (Ivanovo).
Sights:
Attracts the attention of tourists Ivanovo Church of the Intercession, built in 1901 from a brick in the central square of the city. The church is an architectural monument of a retrospective-Russian style. The interior of the church is decorated with icons of the XVII-XIX centuries.
In the city there is also a Catholic church - this is an interesting architecture. The Holy Cross Church, built in 1848.
The Ivanovo land is the birthplace of one of the most talented sons of Belarus - the artist and composer Napoleon Orda. In his honor in Ivanovo there is a monument.
In the Ivanovo region, in the year of the bicentenary of the birth of Napoleon Orda, a new tradition is emerging - the music festival "The Campaign of the Napoleon of the Horde", which takes place in the homeland of the famous Belarusian and Polish composer and artist in late October.
Around Ivanova there are a lot of places, a visit which will be interesting for people of all ages. Among them: Museum of Traditional Medicine in the village of Strelno; Center of folk art and an art gallery in the village of Vorotsevichi - in the homeland of Napoleon Orda; Museum of Folk Art in the village of Motol, with an extensive collection of more than 27,000 exhibits; Literary and Local History Museum in the village of Dostoevo.
Three stelae are installed in the Ivanovo region on the points of the Struve Arc (the Russian-Scandinavian arc), the largest degree measurement of the meridian arc in the World, made by the Russian geodesist Vasily Struve in 1830. The Struve Arc is inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. The stelae are in Chekutsk, Lyaskovichi, Osovnitsy.
Legends and Traditions:
For several centuries before the October Revolution, almost all the male population of the city of Ivanovo was engaged in an unusual craft - collection of donations to the Orthodox Church or to a Catholic church. They were called labors (from Latin labor - work). This fishery was so firmly associated with the Ivanovites that the word "labor" was practically synonymous with the inhabitant of the town. They talked to Labor on a special slang, which consisted of the words of a variety of languages. It was necessary so that outsiders could not make out what the Labory talk was about. For example, the city in Loborski was called "shusto", the "cat", the barber - "orbut", the water - "delka", the food - "triplets".
Lobareys could be found in almost all cities and towns of the Commonwealth, and later the Russian Empire. They were in Petersburg and Moscow. As donations laby did not only take money, but also any goods that could later be sold: bread, bacon, wool, linen, canvas, hemp. Some of them managed to get rich in this fishery. Then they built large houses in their homeland, they acquired a vast economy.