Vitebsk Oblast

Vitebsk oblast is a land of thousand lakes

VITEBSK IS THE CULTURAL CAPITAL OF BELARUS

Administrative center: city of Vitebsk (347,9 thousand people)
Population: 1 230,8 thousand people
Territory: 40 thousand sq.km.
Major cities: Braslav, Verkhnedvinsk, Glubokoye, Gorodok, Miory, Orsha, Polotsk, Postavy, Ushachi

Major Sights
The early 12th-century Annunciation Church in Vitsebsk, the 11th-18th centuries St. Sophia Cathedral and the 12th-18th century Convent of Saint Euphrosyne in Polotsk, the 17th Kuteino Dormition convent in Orsha, the 17th-18th centuries Cathedral of the Birth of Virgin Mary and the Trinity Church in Glubokoye, the 18th century church complex and landscape park in the village of Mosar, Glubokoye district, the 17th century John the Baptist church in Kamai, and the 19th-20th century church of St. Anthony of Padua in Postavy.