The cultural heritage of Belarus includes both material and immaterial assets (valuables), in accordance with the Law on Protection of Historical and Cultural Heritage of the Republic of Belarus (2006).[1]
Material historical and cultural assets, movable and immovable, include (Article 13[1]):
- Documentary monuments;
- Nature reserves;
- Monuments of archaeology;
- Monuments of architecture;
- Monuments of history;
- Monuments of urban design;
- Monuments of arts
These assets are classified as follows (Article 16):[1]
- Category 0, inscribed or proposed for inscription on the World Heritage List;
- Category 1, otherwise of international significance;
- Category 2 of national importance;
- Category 3 of regional importance
Non-material assets, including traditions, rites, folklore, folk arts, and language, are classified as (Articles 14, 16):[1]
- Category A, if fully authentic and invariable;
- Category Б, if recast into a different medium and/or where their documentary value may change over time
The State Register of Historical and Cultural Values of the Republic of Belarus (Belarusian: Дзяржаўны спіс гісторыка-культурных каштоўнасцей Рэспублікі Беларусь) and Databank are maintained (Article 8).[1]
In 2007, a total of 4,811 objects of heritage were listed, of which 4,694 were material, including 1,655 architectural monuments, 1,125 historical monuments, and 57 art monuments.[2]
Current 07-07-2020 objects of heritage list.[3]
Code
editEvery asset has a unique 10-character alphanumeric code of the following template: nnnAnnnnnn
The first character refers to its location
- 1 — Brest Region;
- 2 — Vitebsk Region;
- 3 — Gomel Region;
- 4 — Grodno Region;
- 5 — Mogilev Region;
- 6 — Minck Region;
- 7 — Minsk;
- 8 — abroad
The second character refers to its type
- 1 — tangible immovable assets
- 2 — tangible movable assets
- 3 — intangible assets
The third character refers to its category (0,1,2,3)
The third character refers to its more detailed classification
- А — documents
- Б — nature reserves
- В — archaeological
- Г — architectural monuments
- Д — historical monuments
- Е — urban design
- Ж — arts
- М — collection
- Н — set (камплект)
Six last characters is zero-padded number of the asset in the order of its inclusion into the Register
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b c d e "Law of the Republic of Belarus, January 9 2006, No. 98-Z, on Protection of Historical and Cultural Heritage of the Republic of Belarus" (PDF). UNESCO. Retrieved 7 May 2012.
- ^ "Гісторыка-культурны патэнцыял Беларусі" [Historical and cultural capacity of Belarus] (in Belarusian). Official Internet Portal of the President of the Republic of Belarus. Archived from the original on 2013-02-08. Retrieved 7 May 2012.
- ^ СДзяржаўны спіс гісторыка-культурных каштоўнасцей Рэспублікі Беларусь