On July 6, 2023, at 17:00, the Mikhail Savitsky Art Gallery will host the opening of an open-air photo exhibition «Memory of Nemiga»

On July 6, 2023, at 17:00, the Mikhail Savitsky Art Gallery will host the opening of an open-air photo exhibition «Memory of Nemiga». The exhibition has been prepared as part of a joint project of the Belarusian State Archive of Scientific and Technical Documentation with the Museum of the History of the City of Minsk and the Belarusian State Archive of Film and Photo Documents.

The exposition of the exhibition in photographs, projects and documents tells about the history of Nemiga – one of the oldest streets in the city. Visitors to the exhibition will be able to see rare photographs of the 1900s-1970s, which depict Nemiga with its low-rise baroque and classicist buildings, wooden bridges and decking over a dry river that flows through the center of the street. Photographs from the 1950s and 1970s. reflects the last decades of the life of the old street.

The process of transforming the street, the beginning of the construction of modern buildings: the Belpromproekt Institute and a residential building with the Na Nemiga shopping center, are presented in the form of architectural projects and plans by the architect S. S. Musinsky.

The chronicle of the construction of the metro and the Nemiga station is captured in photographs by the famous author P.V. Kostroma. The last transformations of the 2000s, carried out as part of the «Memory of Nemiga» project under the leadership of S. G. Baglasov, completed the construction of the odd side of the street.

Although modern Nemiga has lost its original appearance, it has not lost its attractiveness and is still one of the noisiest and busiest streets where large flows of citizens intersect.

The exhibition will run in the courtyard of the Mikhail Savitsky Art Gallery (15 Svobody Square) until October 1, 2023.

The entrance is free.