Attractions and Places To See in Gomel Region - Top 18

Memorial complex "Ola" As a result of the reconstruction of the fraternal burial, the Ola memorial complex was created, which includes three functional zones: an entrance group, a memorial zone (in the territory adjacent to the existing fraternal burial) and a pedestrian route connecting them along a former village street. In the center of the memorial zone there is a symbolic cross and a bell. Nearby there is a belfry in the form of a stylized village barn with the number of bells according to the number of villages whose inhabitants died here. The village of Ola was occupied at the end of July 1941. On the morning of January 14, 1944, a German punitive detachment, together with a military unit, which numbered about 1,000 soldiers, surrounded the village. People were driven into houses which were then set on fire. Those who tried to escape were shot from machine guns and submachine guns, thrown into the fire alive. Thus, 1758 civilians were shot and burned, including 950 children. After the war, the village of Ola was not revived.

The monument is a decommissioned Su-24 military aircraft made of light-colored metal and mounted on a pedestal at an angle of 45 degrees to the ground level, facing the main building of the P.O. Sukhoi Gomel State Technical University. The pedestal consists of 4 stone slabs arranged one above the other, stylized as steps, of a dark color. The alley in front of the pedestal is framed in the form of an airfield runway. https://monument.goub.by/?p=1777

The monument was built in honor of the pioneer hunter and his tame lynx. The monument is the very embodiment of history. According to one of the urban legends, in ancient times, pilgrims sailed along the Sozh River. As they approached the shores of the earth, their boats ran aground. Then people started shouting to each other: "Ho! Stranded!" Since then, it is believed that the city was named that way. Of course, today it is impossible to say for sure that every citizen of Gomel is a descendant of those very boatmen who came from other lands. But a wonderful legend lives in the hearts of residents and therefore the work of Vyacheslav Dolgov is very popular with all residents. This graceful composition of the towering image of a man standing in a boat and floating to the shore above the shore attracts hundreds of tourists a year. Although this sculpture is very popular, it has not deteriorated at all over the years since its construction in Lunacharsky Park. Of all the monuments, this one can be noted, since it is the symbol of the entire city. https://101hotels.com/recreation/belarus/gomel/points/monuments/pamyatnik_lodochnik

On November 26, 2015, the renovated observation tower was opened, which is located in the southern part of the park near the Winter Garden. These two buildings, separated by some distance, are nevertheless linked by a common history that dates back to the middle of the 19th century. Since 1840, the building of the Winter Garden served as one of the ground buildings of the sugar factory of the owner of the Gomel estate Ivan Fedorovich Paskevich. In the underground room of the production building there was a boiler room that supplied steam to the machines. To remove the combustion products and create a draft for the furnace on the high bank of the Sozh River, a high brick exhaust pipe was erected. At the request of the new owner of the Gomel estate, Fyodor Ivanovich Paskevich, the production of the sweet product was transferred to Dobrush. And in the early 1880s, the buildings of the sugar factory were partially re-equipped and adapted for park facilities, which they still are today. The ground production building housed a greenhouse - "Winter Garden"; after reconstruction, the chimney was used as a viewing tower. The observation tower served as a park facility throughout the Soviet period. During the Great Patriotic War, the building was damaged by shelling. Traces of being hit by shrapnel and bullets have survived to this day. In the post-war period, the operation of the structure continued until the early 2000s. Due to the emergency state of the stairs in 2007, the tower was closed for restoration. During the repair work, metal structures were replaced, brickwork elements were strengthened and restored, and electricity was supplied. Together with the observation deck and the spire above it, the height of the structure reaches 40 meters. http://www.palacegomel.by/index.php?do=static&page=tower

An architectural monument of the retrospective Russian style, a vivid example of the interpretation of Moscow church architecture of the 17th century. The chapel-burial vault of the Paskevich princes is a square in plan, tower-type structure, 18 m high, completed with an octagonal tent. The rectangular entrance is decorated with an arched portal with columns-vases, the rest of the edges are cut by small windows with the same plastic casing. The facades are faced with ocher bricks. The tomb is magnificently decorated with ceramic columns of various shapes, kokoshniks, rosettes, decorative belts, and openwork crosses. The interior of the chapel is decorated with multi-colored majolica tiles with floral ornaments and wall paintings, made by a group of local craftsmen under the direction of the artist-decorator S. Sadikov. The altar is made of black marble. The inner basement part of the walls, which were covered with ornamental painting (not preserved), was also faced with labradarite. Next to the chapel there is an entrance superstructure to the crypt - a burial vault, made in the same style as the chapel in a compact rectangular volume, the roof is crowned with a dome, inside there is a staircase to the crypt. The tomb itself in the form of a tunnel (28 m) with a cylindrical vault is placed underground. The front wall is decorated with a mosaic panel made of colored smalt in the form of two angels. Memorial plates with the names of the buried members of the Paskevich family were embedded in the walls. https://monument.goub.by/?p=409

A one-story brick building of a square shape on Irininskaya Street. A small outbuilding adjoins it from the side of the yard. The composition of the main facade facing the red building line of the street is symmetrical. The main entrance is made in the form of a rectangular porch with a figured attic supported by 2 square columns. The planes of the columns are decorated with stucco decoration. Decorative stucco details also trim the piers between 6 high windows, cornice planes. On the attic there is a stucco family monogram of the former owners of the house. Internal layout is corridor. The living quarters, the emergency room, the doctor's office, the procedural room were located in the main space, in the outbuilding - the kitchen and housing for the servants. The architecture of the building showed the features of the Art Nouveau style. Built in 1903 according to the project of Stanislav Shabunevsky as a residential building of the Gomel doctor N.I.Alexandrov. Now the building houses the House of Civil Rituals of the Gomel City Executive Committee. https://monument.goub.by/?p=990

On the northern outskirts of the village of Khalch, on a high hill, there is a former manor house, built at the beginning of the 19th century by Kazimir Khaletsky. From the middle of the same century until the 1917 revolution, the estate was owned by representatives of the Voynich-Senozhetsky family. Fragments of the complex have survived: a two-storey manor palace, a manager's house, an orchard, parkland stretching for 2 km along the river. https://planetabelarus.by/sights/usadebnyy-kompleks-v-khalche/ http://www.palacegomel.by/index.php?do=static&page=halch https://gomel.today/2018/06/22/204556.html

Timofey Groshikov, a merchant and ship owner, in 1897 built himself in the very center of Vetka, on Red Square, a two-story mansion, corresponding to the importance of his person and the nobility of the family. At the end of the 19th century, the brothers Timofey, Cyprian, Ivan and Danila Groshikovs were respected merchants and shipowners. They built their ships not only in Gomel and Vetka, but also abroad, in particular, in East Prussia. The Groshikovs owned several vessels: the Delovoy tug, the Invincible, Liver, and Resolute cargo and passenger steamers, and their Progress passenger steamer sailed between Vetka and Gomel. The eldest of the brothers, Timofey Groshikov, lived in Vetka in his two-story brick mansion. The building was erected on a high plinth, in the spirit of historicism with motives of the Gothic style. The main design elements of its facade are lancet windows. The internal space of the house is small, it consists of four rooms, united by one hallway. The largest hall - the living room (24 sq. M) - has five windows. Nowadays, the house of the merchant-Old Believer Groshikov houses the state cultural institution “Vetka Museum of Old Believers and Belarusian Traditions. F.G. Shklyarov ". https://planetabelarus.by/sights/dom-kuptsa-groshikova-v-vetke/