College girls show the heraldic symbols of Vitebsk Region on evening dresses

Presently 79 official heraldic symbols for administrative and territorial units in Vitebsk Region have been approved by decrees of the President of the Republic of Belarus – 42 coat of arms and 37 flags. Their use in everyday life is expanding with each year. The relevant coat of arms have been installed at the entrance roads to nearly all the districts in Vitebsk Region. The illuminated boards with images of coat of arms for Vitebsk Region and the old town of Vitebsk have been fixed on the high edifices in Vitebsk.

An interesting idea was proposed by the director of the Vitebsk State Vocational School, Irina Kiseleva, to use the coat of arms of Vitebsk towns and districts in their educational process. The college teachers and students have designed, tailored and embroidered a series of evening holiday dresses with the images of coat of arms on them and the names of the relevant district inscribed.

The collection now includes 22 heraldic dresses. The most beautiful of these indeed presents the coat of arms of the Vitebsk Region itself. The college girls have already shown their original collection of heraldic dresses at a number of contests, youth presentations, and such important festivals in Belarus as the 1150 anniversary of the town of Polotsk and the Day of Written Language in Glubokoe.