Myadzyel is a city in Belarus, a regional center in the Minsk region. Located between lakes Myastro and Batorino. 143 km from Minsk, 31 km from Knyaginin station on the Molodechno - Polotsk line, on the Minsk - Naroch highway.
Settlement (XX—XVII centuries)
Church of the Mother of God
Church of the Holy Life-Giving Trinity (2006)
Distance sign to the
city of Minsk
Monument on the mass grave of 168 soldiers and
partisans of the Great Patriotic War
Monument to
soldiers-internationalists (2013)
BMD-1 installed next to the
monument to soldiers-internationalists on the Day of Remembrance of
soldiers-internationalists in 2014
Gallery of wooden sculptures on
children's and Naroch themes, installed in 2013. The sculptures were
made by students of the Sculpture Department of the Belarusian State
Academy of Arts, who participated in the wood carving plein air held in
Myadel.
Monument to Maxim Tank (2014)
Holy Trinity Church
Myadel Calvary
Myadel Carmelite Monastery (XVIII century)
Tombstone Chapel of Bykhovtsy (1820)
Manor Kozel-Poklevsky (XVIII-XIX
centuries)
Fragments of chapels
State Cultural Institution "Myadel Regional Center of Culture"
State Institution of Additional Education "Tourism Center of the Myadel
District"
State Institution "Myadel Museum of Folk Glory"
Museum
of Domestic Computing Technology State Educational Institution
"Gymnasium-Boarding School of Myadel"
In 2005 and 2008 Myadel was the venue for the Adna Land festival
In 2018, the regional festival "Dazhynki" was held in Myadel
The
name of the town of Myadel comes from the eponymous lake Myadzyel.
The version of the Baltic origin of the toponym goes back to the
Russian scientist A.A. medis "tree". Later this version was
supported by V.N. Toporov and O.N. Trubachev and, already in
relation to the Belarusian city, V.A.Zhuchkevich.
According
to L. Bednarchuk, the toponym Myadzyel through the intermediate
Baltic form * Mendelas goes back to the Finno-Ugric Mendes, which he
compares with the Estonian mänd "pine". This is confirmed by the
second name of Lake Myadel - Sosnovoye.
IM Prokopovich
believes that the name Myadzyel comes from the Finno-Ugric mets -
"forest" and spruce - "forest stream, river", that is, "forest
river".
According to another version, the toponym Myadzyel is
explained from the Finno-Ugric modzol “spruce forest with mossy
soil”.
The coat of arms was approved by the decision of the Myadel District
Executive Committee dated April 12, 2001 No. 145. Registered in the
Stamp Matrikul of the Republic of Belarus on April 12, 2001 No. 60.
The flag was established by Decree of the President of the Republic
of Belarus dated July 21, 2008 No. 398 and registered in the State
Heraldic Register of the Republic of Belarus on July 23, 2008 B-131.
Approved by the decision of the Myadel District Council of Deputies on
January 31, 2008 No. 49.
On January 16, 2014, by decision of a
special commission, the work “Our Land of Narachanskі” was chosen as the
anthem of the district to the words of the national poet Maxim Tank and
the music of Yuri Talesnik.
According to legend, city once stood on the shore of
Lake Myadel and after the plague was transferred to the shore of
Lake Myastro. On one of the islands of Lake Myadzyel, the remains of
the city fortifications of the 11th century remain. - border
fortress of the Polotsk principality.
Since about the 16th
century, it has been the center of the Myadel Elder of the Oshmyany
District of the Vilna Voivodeship. In Myadzyel, Zemsky and Grodsky
courts were also held on a par with the center of the powiat.
Until the XX century. was divided into Old and New Myadzyel. Old Myadzyel
has been known since 1454 as part of the Vilnius Voivodeship.
Belonged to the Radziwills, Frantskevichs, Raisky, Grabkovsky. In
1667, there were 36 smokes in Stary Myadel. In 1687, Old Myadzyel
with the land was acquired by the clerk of the Vilnius Zemsky
Mikhail Koschits for 95 thousand zlotys from Jan Bonaventura, the
hunter of Ruzhansky. Since 1736 the town, in 1762 received the
Magdeburg Law.
New Myadzyel has been known since 1463. It was
surrounded by a rampart, the remains of which were destroyed. During
the war with the Russian state it was destroyed (1519). On the
peninsula of Lake Myastro, there was a Myadel royal stone castle
(ruins remained), surrounded by earthen fortifications of the
bastion system and moats with water. During archaeological
excavations, painted tiles, weapons, and household items were found.
Since 1793, Old and New Myadel, part of the Russian Empire, were
part of the Vileika district. At the end of the XIX century. in
Staryi Myadzyel 312 inhabitants, 46 courtyards, an Orthodox church,
a Jewish prayer house, a brewery. At the end of the XIX century. New Myadzyel
town, 783 inhabitants, 99 courtyards, an Orthodox church, a church,
a synagogue, three shops.
In November 1917, Soviet power was
established, and in 1918 the Volost Revolutionary Committee and the
Soviet of Soldiers 'and Agricultural Laborers' Deputies were
created.
In 1921-1938 as part of Poland in
Vileika powiat.
Since 1939 as part of the BSSR, since January
15, 1940, the center of the region.
Myadel was occupied by
German troops for 3 years - from July 2, 1941 to July 4, 1944. The
Jews of Myadzyel were driven into the ghetto by the Nazis and almost
all were killed.
On November 17, 1959, the village of Myadzyel
was transformed into an urban settlement.
State Educational Institution "Myadel Secondary School No. 1 named
after Vladimir Dubovka"
State Educational Institution "Myadel
Educational and Pedagogical Complex Nursery-Kindergarten - Secondary
School"
State Educational Institution "Gymnasium-Boarding School of
Myadel"
State educational institution "Nursery-garden No. 3 of
Myadel"
State educational institution "Nursery-garden No. 4 of
Myadel"
State Educational Institution "Center for Correctional and
Developmental Education and Rehabilitation of the Myadel District"
State Institution "Myadel Central Regional Library named after Maxim
Tank"
ME "Myadel Central District Hospital"