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17 September 2025, 20:00

Autumn equinox in Belarus over the years

22 September 2011. Swans on Lake Naroch
22 September 2011. Swans on Lake Naroch
Did you know that astronomical autumn in the Northern Hemisphere has not yet begun? On the day of the autumn equinox, 22 September, the planet will pass a symbolic threshold, and day and night will briefly become almost equal in length. Another interesting fact is that during the equinox, the sun rises exactly in the east and sets exactly in the west, regardless of latitude. Well, we flipped though BelTA’s archives to see what this day was like In Belarus in various years.

22 September 1950. A group of students from the Minsk Youth Sports School during a training session at the Dinamo stadium

22 September 1974. A poetry festival in the village of Nikolayevshchina (the birthplace of Yakub Kolas). Writer Ivan Shamyakin gives autographs at the poetry festival
22 September 1975. A construction site of the Mikashevichi crushing and sorting plant
22 September 1987. People's Teacher of the USSR N. Anishchenko with her students in Dubrovno
22 September 2005. Oginski Estate
22 September 2007. Dazhynki harvest festival
22 September 2009. Fog
22 September 2010. Traffic police officers in Brest support World Car-Free Day campaign
22 September 2011. Potato harvest time
22 September 2014. Fire show 
22 September 2015. Plein air 
22 September 2017. Car-Free Day
22 September 2019. A rowan tree
22 September 2020. A September butterfly
22 September 2020. Slavic Brotherhood military exercise
22 September 2021. Minsk - Mobile City e-vehicle rally. Miss Belarus 2021, Daria Goncharevich.
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