Faculty of History

For the first time, the International thematic discussion “Culture is the fifth skill" by Barry Tomalin on the topic of intercultural communication and cultural characteristics of countries and peoples of the world took place at the Francisk Skorina Gomel State University. 11 teams of language specialties of Belarusian and Russian universities took part in the event in the format of a videoconference. The organizer and inspirer of the discussion was the Department of Intercultural…

On December 9, the International Day of Languages was held, which has been celebrated by the Russian International Academy of Tourism together with partner universities for more than 20 years. The International Day of Languages is a celebration of creativity in foreign languages, an exciting journey through countries and continents! Students of the Academy, as well as schoolchildren and students of invited universities, demonstrated their talents using foreign languages and knowledge about…

November 24, by the Department of the History of Belarus of the Faculty of History and Intercultural Communications of the F.Skorina Gomel State University the International History Olympiad "World Wars in the History of Mankind" was held in on the eleventh time. 110 participants from 15 higher educational institutions of Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia took part in it. Students and citizens of Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan competed in the Olympiad. The event was held…

More than thirty authoritative researchers from Belarus, Poland and Russia are taking part in this conference, which was organized by the Faculty of History of the F. Skorina State University. Among the researchers there are 12 doctors and 16 candidates of historical sciences. Large scientific centers of the three states are represented, that are actively studying international relations of the interwar period. These are the universities of Moscow, Warsaw, Minsk, St. Petersburg, Torun, Smolensk…

On an expanded scale at Fransick Skorina Gomel State University together with the state institution "National Agency for Tourism" an online seminar "The role of a guide in the development of tourism in the Republic of Belarus" was held. The event was organized under the support of specialized government bodies - the Sports and Tourism Department of the Gomel Regional Executive Committee and the Sports and Tourism Department of the Gomel City Executive Committee with the participation of…

On February 1st, in order to improve the level of training of specialists in intercultural communications, interpreters-referents at the Faculty of History of the University, a new department of Intercultural communications and International tourism began to work. To develop a new direction of activity, the teachers of the department - the Head of the Department Tatyana Viktorovna Pochinok, a senior teacher Viktoria Yuryevna Sobolevich and a teacher Tatyana Ivanovna Ostapenko, underwent online…

International Scientific Conference “The Patriotic War of 1812. Sources. Monuments. Problems ” takes place on the basis of the Borodinskoye Pole Museum-Reserve (Russian Federation) on 7 - 9 September. The event is timed to the 208th anniversary of the Battle of Borodino. During the live broadcast, the director of the museum-reserve Igor Korneev presented a brief historical excursion about the battle of Borodino and the role of Belarusians in its outcome, acquainted the audience with the…

A new video from the series " History in Faces " has been released on the YouTube channel of F. Skorina Gomel State University. In the year of the 90th anniversary of the University, we continue to talk about the life and professional path of the first directors of the Gomel Pedagogical Institute. The heroes of the next issue are Ivan Emelyanovich Lakin and Ivan Andreevich Alisievich.

X International Conference of Colloquia Russica “Diplomatic activity of medieval Rus (X – XVI cc)” was held at the Collegium Maius, the oldest building of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow (Poland) from October 9 to 11, 2019. The scientific event was organized by the Institute of history of the Jagiellonian University, Museum of the Jagiellonian University and the scientific society of historians – students of the Jagiellonian University. Scholars from Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia,…