Photos and descriptions of the best attractions of Gomel

Gomel is a magnificent old Belarusian city, the second most populous in the country: more than 500,000 people live here. The first mention of it was recorded by historians in the 12th century. The city has a very rich history.

Currently, Gomel is rapidly developing, incl. in the tourism sector. It can delight tourists with many historical and cultural monuments and attractions on its map, both in the city center and on its outskirts.

Today, various entertainment complexes and centers are being built here, beautiful parks and gardens are being laid out, world-class hotels are being built, so you can have a great time relaxing and having fun. Despite the fact that local prices cannot be compared with European ones.

Architecture

Palace of the Rumyantsevs and Paskevichs , located on pl. Lenina, 4, is one of the symbols of the city. Built in 1794 by the architect I. Starov in the style of early classicism, it still amazes with its beauty and majesty.

Where to go at night

For tourists who prefer active types of recreation, Gomel has many nightclubs and discos, where you can dance, listen to loud music, take part in show programs, and have fun at night.

The following establishments are popular:

KRC Europe – is one of the largest entertainment centers in Europe and the main gambling and entertainment venue in Gomel. There is a park nearby. The complex has 2 restaurants, a club, a billiard room, and a casino.
Hollywood Club - has a pleasant themed interior with excellent acoustics and delicious European cuisine. At the discretion of face control, visitors may be allowed to enter the establishment with discounts or without payment.
Avenue Cafe-Bar is a relatively new establishment, preferred by people with good taste in music and food. The hall hosts parties, corporate events, family holiday events, buffets, and presentations.
Nemo Club - located on the embankment, incendiary discos, parties, and show programs are held on the territory.
Karaoke restaurant Petroff - thanks to its unusual style, visitors are transported to the past, experience the best events of the past, music infuses human consciousness.
The Rocket club entertainment complex is a well-equipped karaoke restaurant and a summer cafe with music.
Club Zlondon is relatively young and progressive. Invited guests, artists, and DJs constantly participate in show programs.
Robinson Club – on the territory there is a Spa salon, massage room, bathhouse, summer terrace, aqua zone, restaurant with delicious food.
Cafe-club Web includes a banquet hall and a dance floor. Serves you European cuisine. An excellent solution for loud celebrations and memorable corporate events.

Monuments and fountains

The most famous fountain in the city is located near the Circus building . It operates from May to September, every evening delighting visitors with an amazing show: colorful figures, illuminated by dynamic lighting, performed by jets of water.

The fountain is built in the shape of a granite square measuring 20 by 20 meters. And the water rises up in jets from 12 round tori. In the center of the fountain there are 3 stars that rotate in a horizontal plane. The fountain is also equipped with 330 lanterns of different colors.

You can see this grandiose spectacle along Sovetskaya Street, 27.

Where can a tourist go:

Clown Pencil (27 Sovetskaya St.).

Baumansky Bridge (Bauman St.).

Sculpture Suitcase Mood (Privokzalnaya Square, 3).

Zero kilometer (Lenin Square).

Monument to I. Paskevich (Irininskaya St.).

Sculpture of the Janitor (Lenin Ave., 31).

Monument to Gulliver (Sosnovaya St.).

Monument to B. Khmelnitsky (B. Khmelnitsky St.).

Where to stay overnight

Gomel has many attractions. You can first familiarize yourself with them using the photo and description.

Tourists are offered many options for hotels of different levels in all points of the city:

Hotel Paradise. A beauty salon and hairdresser are located on site. The room has satellite TV and a bathroom with shower. Free internet access throughout the territory is guaranteed. Breakfast is served near the hotel in the Budzma tavern. The complex has a cafe and a pastry shop. Located at a distance of 100 m from the city's train stations, from the airport it takes 15-20 minutes to get to the hotel.
Geo Hostel in Melel offers tourists a garden, a shared lounge, and rooms with a kitchen. There is access to free internet. In the morning, guests can enjoy a continental breakfast. The room has a table, microwave oven, air conditioning, kettle, hairdryer.
Hotel Gomel is located in the very heart of the city. 24-hour reception. To get to the beach, a tourist needs to spend 10 minutes. The room has a simple style and includes a table and chair and a bathroom. The central market is located nearby. Private parking services are available.
Hotel Amaks Visit is located 5 min. walking distance from the train station. This room has carpeted floors and a bathroom with shower. The style is classic. The reception desk is open continuously. Free internet access guaranteed.
Hvalan Apartments are located near the beach in the city. This room comes with a shower and free toiletries. Guests can use TV, free internet, and a kitchen. There is a playground for children.

Museums

Museum of the History of the City of Gomel , located in the “Hunting Lodge” at st. Pushkina, 32, is one of the important landmarks of the city.

The museum contains interesting exhibits telling about the Gomel region of different times. There are both permanent exhibitions and thematic exhibitions of local artists, sculptors and craftsmen. Meetings with writers, holidays and various master classes are also held here.

We also recommend visiting:

Art gallery of G. Kh. Vashchenko (Karpovich St., 4 and Lenin Ave., 43).

Museum of Forensic Science (Pushkin St., 1).

Museum of Theater Puppets (Pushkina St., 14).

Jurovichi

site of primitive people
in Belarus , which is about 25 thousand years old , is preserved in the village of Yurovichi . Back in 1929, Belarusian archaeologists discovered a settlement, and thanks to subsequent expeditions, the remains of 20 mammoths, a primitive bull, and a wild horse were found. Near an ancient round-shaped dwelling, built of bones, skins and impressive stones at the base, plate knives, scrapers, and a flint dagger were found. In the 1970s, archaeologists discovered 5 more settlements in Yurovichi, including three Neolithic ones, a settlement of the Bantser culture and, most importantly, the remains of a large medieval city of the 9th-10th centuries. It was not inferior in size to Polotsk , but for unknown reasons it disappeared and is not mentioned in the chronicles.

Kalinkovichi district, Yurovichi village

Natural attractions

City Park named after. Lunacharsky is considered the pearl of the city . In the center of it there is the already well-known Rumyantsev-Paskevich Palace and the famous Peter and Paul Cathedral. But don’t forget that this is a very beautiful and cozy park.

This is where the picturesque Swan Lake pond is located. If you don’t know where to go in Gomel with a girl, our advice is to go to the Swan Pond. This is a very beautiful and romantic place.

In addition to the beauty of the lake, you will be delighted by 4 floating fountains and a beautiful water cascade. And what girl can resist sophisticated, loyal swans?

Another great place for a walk can be the River Embankment. Sozh.

Turov

Ancient Turov , the largest religious and spiritual center of Belarus along with Polotsk , has been mentioned in chronicles since 980. It was here that the second largest temple after Polotsk Sofia (unfortunately, it did not survive due to marshy soils), and in 1056-1057 one of the first monuments of East Slavic writing was created - the Turov Gospel . The famous “Belarusian Chrysostom”, preacher and theologian Kirill Turovsky, . A fortified settlement from the 10th-13th centuries with fragments of a temple and residential buildings, as well as an outstanding monument of wooden architecture, the Church of All Saints , cult stone crosses have been preserved to this day in Turov .

According to legend, stone crosses sailed - against the current - along the Dnieper and Pripyat from Kiev, where Prince Vladimir baptized Russia. Two of them (“father” and “mother”) are kept in the Church of All Saints , and the third is inside the monument to Cyril of Turov on Castle Hill.

Zhitkovichi district

What to see in Gomel in one day?

For those who find themselves in Gomel, we have collected the main attractions of the city and its surroundings into a small route guide.

We walk around the park named after. Lunacharsky.
We visit the Peter and Paul Church and examine the Paskevich Chapel-Tomb Vault.
We visit the famous Rumyantsev-Paskevich Palace and get acquainted with the Gomel Art and History Museum located in it.
Then you can take a walk around the city, we also recommend visiting the St. Nicholas Monastery.
We also suggest moving to Vetka, located near Gomel, and visiting the famous museum of folk art.
If you decide to stay in Gomel for the evening, you can take a boat ride along the river. Sozh and be sure to watch the performance of the city Fountain, located near the circus building.

We hope that now you have no doubt that there is something to see in Gomel even in 1 day.

Pripyatsky National Park

A unique natural reserve in the area between the Pripyat, Stviga and Ubort rivers is the only place in the world where centuries-old floodplain oak forests and the largest array of transitional and raised bogs . In addition, the Pripyatsky National Park has the status of a key ornithological area. Not only do thousands of migratory birds stop here, but also over 250 species of birds (79% of the avifauna of the entire country) permanently live here, including the rare gray crane, black stork , short-eared owl, white-tailed eagle... Excursions along eco-routes and walks are organized for tourists in the park on ships and boats, photo safaris, hunting and fishing.

In the picturesque places of Pripyatsky, “Call of Polesie” is held every two years .

Petrikovsky district, Lyaskovichi agro-town, distance from Minsk - 260 km, from Gomel - 270 km.

Dobrush

In the Middle Ages Dobrush was a major craft center where ship ropes and sails were produced, so its unusual coat of arms is decorated with three coils of rope on a green shield. In 1774, Catherine II gave the Dobrush lands to the hero of the Balkan War, Pyotr Rumyantsev . In 1870, a descendant of the new owners, Prince Fyodor Paskevich, founded one of the largest paper mills in Europe here. Throughout history, she received the highest awards at industrial exhibitions in Moscow (1882) and Nizhny Novgorod (1892), and in 1922 she received the honorary title “Hero of Labor” . the old bridge , which is called the “humpback”, have survived to this day

From Gomel – 25 km, from Minsk – 339 km

Dobrush paper mill: Dobrush, Lunacharsky Ave., 7

Old Believers Center – Vetka

It is believed that the city of Vetka was founded in the 17th century by Old Believers seeking refuge from the Moscow authorities. According to legend, they launched an icon along the river and decided to stay where it landed. The icon got caught on a branch in the place of the modern city. The main principles of the Old Believers were work and education. This made the city prosperous. In addition, in Vetka there was the only church in the entire Russian Empire where Old Believers could pray. That is why the flow of people into the city did not stop.

Today Vetka looks like any other city in Belarus. But there are still descendants of the Old Believers there. One of them founded a museum in the city with an interesting collection that tells how the Old Believers lived in this region. There are collected books with commentaries of the kings, ancient icons, ritual clothing, handbrake handles, and samovars. Vetka also has an Old Believer church, one of the few in Belarus, and an old cemetery of Old Believers.

Loev

Since ancient times Loev , located on the Dnieper, was part of the famous route “from the Varangians to the Greeks” connecting Scandinavia and Byzantium. In the 14th–18th centuries, there was a castle , which now adorns the city’s coat of arms . The Loevsky region went down in history as a “bone of discord” between the Moscow state and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania , the city was destroyed more than once by the Crimean Tatars... Nowadays, you can see a perfectly preserved architectural monument of the second half of the 19th century - the house of the merchant Naum Dolgin , where, after restoration, the library is located.

From Gomel – 89 km, from Minsk – 337 km

During the Great Patriotic War, Loev was liberated twice: in November 1942 by partisans, and in October 1943 by Soviet troops who crossed the Dnieper. In memory of these events, the Museum of the Battle of the Dnieper , where about 3 thousand exhibits .

Loev, st. Sovetskaya, 9

From 8.30 to 18.00 (Tuesday - Friday), from 10.00 to 18.00 (Saturday, Sunday). Closed on Monday.

St. John's Kormyansky Monastery

The monastery houses the relics of the heavenly patron of the Belarusian land, Saint Righteous John of Kormyansk , after whom the Orthodox monastery is named. It was founded in 2000, but the history began centuries ago. In 1760, the Holy Intercession Church , an architectural monument of the pseudo-Russian style, and in 1869, a wooden bell tower completed the temple ensemble. Among the shrines of the Holy Intercession Church are particles of the Tree of the Cross and the Holy Sepulcher, the miraculous icons of the Mother of God of Vladimir and the Quick to Hear , painted in 1901 on Holy Mount Athos.

Archpriest John , canonized, came from the Goshkevich family , whose representative was also the outstanding diplomat, orientalist scholar and traveler Joseph Goshkevich .

Dobrush district, Korma village

Memorial in the village of Krasny Bereg

The only memorial in the world dedicated to child victims of the Great Patriotic War is located in the village of Krasny Bereg. In 1943, the Nazis created a camp here, where in the most cruel, inhumane ways, blood was pumped out of children for the hospitals of Hitler’s army. In the 21st century, a memorial appeared of 1990 people Khatyn complex, Leonid Levin . At the entrance, visitors are greeted by a bronze figurine of a girl with crossed arms. Ray-alleys diverge from the Square of the Sun “Ray of Memory” – crosses an empty classroom, where there are only 21 white desks and a black board with a letter from prisoner Katya Susanina to her father. Against the background of stained glass windows with touching drawings, there is a symbol of unfulfilled childhood hopes - “Paper Boat”... The memorial in Krasny Bereg is surrounded by an ancient apple orchard , which involuntarily became another symbol of the bloody tragedy of the village. According to legend, the local botanist Nezvedsky planted Chinese apple trees here, which in the spring were covered with scarlet foam of flowers, and in the fall - with “droplets” of bright red apples.

Zhlobin district, Krasny Bereg village

Gatovsky's estate in the village of Krasny Bereg

The estate in the village of Krasny Bereg, reminiscent of a fairy-tale house, was erected in the second half of the 19th century for Lieutenant General Mikhail Gatovsky . The architecture organically combined elements of Gothic, Renaissance, Empire and Art Nouveau : hipped towers, bay windows, mansard roofs, dormers, enfilade arrangement of rooms. At the same time, the interiors of the chambers corresponded to a certain style - Romanesque, Arabic, Renaissance, French... The palace was famous for its rich collection of paintings, among which were originals by Ivan Aivazovsky, Gabriel Kondratenko, Henryk Semiradsky . The residence was surrounded by an English park and a garden with exotic plants .

Zhlobin district, Krasny Bereg village, st. Isaeva, 16