The new issue of the magazine «Arche» (№ 3 for 2014 ) is entirely devoted to Vitebsk and its thousand-year history. As written in the preface of his compilers, "Vitebsk has historically boundary status. During ancient history only two centuries ran beside him not bound. Vitbichi rest of the time - on frantsiry that brought upon the city from disaster invasion and occupation. Subject destruction, repair, restoration desolation and locks constantly rising residents of Vitebsk in its medieval and early modern history."

Vitebsk room «Arche» tells about:
- Relations between Vitebsk and Riga in XIV-XVII centuries, As well as on how to Riga enjoyed culinary tastes Vitebsk residents;
- Dresses Vitebsk nobleman end of XVI - first half of XVII century;
- Gentry regional councils in Vitebsk early XVII century;
- The decline of the Jewish minority in Vitebsk in the first half of XX century;
- Long excavation of the Upper Castle in Vitebsk ended archaeological disaster;
- Deevropeizatsii urban landscape of the city during the past centuries;
- Belarusian "nationalists" Janka Gavris of Vitebsk the Suprematist Kasimir Malevich circle;
- Vitebsk school engravers 1920s;
- The first years of the Belarusian State Theatre in Vitebsk;
- Sovietization of Vitebsk region in the 1920s;
- Soviet avant-garde architecture in Vitebsk;
- Celebration of the millennium of Vitebsk;
- The activities and work of Ales Pushkin in Vitebsk.
Finally, four articles devoted to Vitebsk museums.

The issue is richly illustrated: it contains hundreds of illustrations, including color. The publication can be ordered by sending an email to dastauka@arche.by. Price (including shipping) is 69 thousand rubles. Ordering the publication, "Subject" field you need to specify "Vitebsk stories", and in a letter to give their exact coordinates : postal address, zip code, name and initials, phone for communication. Offer valid only on the territory of the Republic of Belarus.

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