The city of Grodno - 1128

Grodno is the oldest and modern Belarusian city industrial and cultural center of Belarus. His story goes with gray hair antiquity, and the first mention in a written source refers to until 1128. The name of the city, which arose from a small fortress on the territory settlement of the Slavic tribe of the Drigavichis, started from words "fence", "fence". Not by chance in the ancient chronicles it is often mentioned as Horodna or Horadzen. The city was founded at the confluence of the Neman and Horadnichanka rivers, in the center the crossing of the most important trade and military routes, which in many ways defined his forest. The city and its history... It is in the people's memory, in the names of the streets and squares, monuments and obelisks, works of art and art literature. As you know, Grodno region has long been rich in poetic words, poets were born here thickly and were not bred even in the most difficult times periods of our history. Grodno residents love their city, are proud of it. Laureate The poetess D. Bichel-Zagnetova dedicated the State Prize of the BSSR to him sincere lines: My city is my insomnia How not to sing to you, tell me You shine like a beacon to the country On its western border.