L/BLiving Belarus Atlas
PUBLIC RESEARCH PILOT · 2026LIVE INDEX

What disappeared from the web — and who is speaking now?

A provenance-first map of endangered Belarusian digital heritage and contemporary Belarusian-language voices: archives, podcasts, video, music commentary, short-form creators, and learning resources.

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Honest pilot

This is a curated seed index and functional search interface — not yet a comprehensive archive or an autonomous AI researcher.

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01BELARUSIAN VOICES DIRECTORY

One door into a scattered cultural web.

Search across formats and topics without erasing the original source. Every result opens the creator, publisher, museum, or directory that made it available.

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Descriptions are concise research annotations. Ownership remains with the linked sources.

Know a Belarusian-language creator or endangered project?

Suggest the original source. Nothing is copied into the index without a visible link, status, and research note.

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02FIRST PRESERVATION DOSSIER

The Interactive Map of Belarusian History deserves to remain findable.

The original MAPA interface is currently unavailable at its former address. Archived captures and the project authors’ own documentation make a careful digital reconstruction technically possible. This public page documents that work without republishing the original site before permission.

Attributed preservation recordPermissions pending
Original
The Interactive Map of Belarusian History · map.letapis.by
Recovered evidence
Belarusian archived interface and embedded timeline data; navigation also documents English, Russian, and Polish editions.
Documented scope
63 historical border states and approximately 170 dated events in the recovered Belarusian build.
Public boundary
No original mirror, interface, illustrations, or dataset is republished here until written permission is received.

Original project credits

Alexey Cherenkevich (Аляксей Чаранкевіч)idea and design

Yauhen Shpileuski (Яўген Шпілеўскі)front-end

Hanna Shyrayeva (Ганна Шыраева)texts and translations

Viktar Yakunin (Віктар Якунін)management

Pavel Kedzich (Павел Кедзіч)advice

03METHOD & PROVENANCE

Preservation is not permission. Discovery is not ownership.

The atlas separates public facts, archived evidence, independent research annotations, and material that requires a creator’s consent. Attribution is mandatory but does not replace permission.

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    Find

    Locate the original source, live page, archive capture, or creator documentation.

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    Verify

    Separate what the source proves from what remains an inference or research lead.

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    Credit

    Name the original creators and link to their surviving pages before adding interpretation.

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    Ask

    Request written permission before mirroring or adapting protected content.

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    Connect

    Turn approved material into searchable context and provenance-aware research records.

Status language used across the atlas

Original workLinked directly to its creator or publisher.

Attributed recordOur annotation about a source; the source is not copied.

Independent reconstructionNew research work based on verifiable facts, clearly separated from the original.

Permissions pendingIdentified for preservation, but protected material is not publicly mirrored.

NEXT RESEARCH PASS

Ask the people who built the culture where the gaps are.

The next review will invite cultural practitioners — including Siarhei Budkin, Volia Broman, and other domain experts who choose to participate — to identify missing archives, creators, genres, regions, and ethical risks. Their participation is not presumed.

Return to the research agenda ↗Explore Unmute Belarus ↗