Slutsk
Belarus · Europe
About Slutsk
Slutsk (also Sluck) is a city in Minsk Oblast, Belarus. Ornamental silk sashes woven in Slutsk were once famous throughout the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and today the town has a museum dedicated to them.
Slutsk travel guide
Getting there
Slutsk has a 1 railway station, but a bus or a car will get you there faster. Trains from Mogilev and Salihorsk stop at Slutsk.
See
1 Museum of Slutsk Sashes. A museum dedicated to silk sashes once produced in Slutsk. 2 Slutsk Homeland Museum (Слуцкі краязнаўчы музэй), Ulitsa Lenina 171, ☏ +375 1795 63 845. Tu-Su 09:00-18:00. Art and culture museum. (updated Nov 2021)
Do
Football: the town team SFC Slutsk play soccer in the Premier League, the top tier in Belarus; the playing season is April-Nov. Their City Stadium (capacity 1900) is southwest of the centre. FC Shakhtyor Soligorsk also play in the Premier League. Their home ground Stroitel Stadium (capacity 4200) is in the city of Soligorsk (or Salihorsk, Салігорск) 20 km south of Slutsk.
Buy
1 Mayak (Маяк), улица Парижской Коммуны, 2-1, вуліца Парыжскай Камуны, ☏ +375 1795 68 297. 10:00-20:00. Shopping mall. (updated Nov 2021)
Overview adapted from Wikipedia, travel guide fromWikivoyage (CC BY-SA)。Photography via Wikimedia Commons.