I sure can (and hope that in return you will answer my questions and share the relevant information you will find while keeping in mind that I don't speak Polish).

It's at 54,998768° N 28,120816° E, near the lake Mezhuzhol (Bel. Межужол) in Dokshitsi district Vitsebsk region. Anyone can view the ...

Thanks, jart, yours is an interesting piece of information. So, do I understand correctly that only young people worked in those "Drużyny Robocze" and that it was NOT a military service?

And of course it's ROBOCZĄ, it's clearly visible ON THE PHOTO, this word is NOT obscured by any indentations. I ...

To be correct (with polish letters) -
"GROBLA WYKONANA PRZEZ OCHOTNICZĄ DRUŻYNĘ ROBOTNICZĄ W 1936 r."
"DIKE MADE BY VOLUNTEER WORK SQUAD IN 1936".

The text on the slab is certainly not "ROBOTNICZĄ", it's even visible on the photo.


It's funny, that neighbors belarussian and polish people use ...

Thanks, so it's not grobowca , but grobla ! And I know what grobla means, because there's a nearly identical word грэбля in Belarusian. It's not dam, it's causeway !

Yes, that would surely make much more sense, because a ) the space between "o" and "a" is hardly big enough to fit "bowc", b ) there ...

Hi, Polish neighbors.

I am Belarusian and live not far from the pre-1939 Polish-Soviet border. In 2012, while cycling along a forest road I saw a strange granite slab with some Polish text inscribed. The slab looked at least several decades old and had indentations, which appeared to be made by ...