Viskuli

Viskuli (Russian: Вискули́, Belarusian: Віскулі, Polish: Wiskule) is a hunting estate in Białowieża Forest, in Pruzhany District, Brest Region, Belarus, named after the former khutor Viskuli nearby, about 8 km from the Poland-Belarus border, 2 km south of Belarus Route P81.

The residential complex was constructed in the 1950s as a state dacha for officials of the USSR and Byelorussian SSR.

In 1991, Viskuli became known worldwide as the place where the Belavezha Accords were signed by Russian president Boris Yeltsin, Ukrainian president Leonid Kravchuk and Belarusian chairman Stanislav Shushkevich, which declared the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

On September 12, 2008, Viskuli was the place of the meeting of the foreign ministers of Belarus (Sergei Martynov) and Poland (Radosław Sikorski), after several years of cold relations.

Text adapted from “Viskuli” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Viskuli ranks #2,881 of 7,738 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #16 of the 39 mapped in Belarus. Founded c. 1955 — one of 177 atlas entries founded in the 20th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 2,017 times in the last 60 days, more than 67% of the atlas. The nearest day-trip guide is Brest (Belarus), 62 km away. See how Belarus compares in the castle statistics.

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