Mir
Mir was a space station operated in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001, first by the Soviet Union and later by the Russian Federation.
Mir was a space station operated in low Earth orbit from 1986 to 2001, first by the Soviet Union and later by the Russian Federation. Mir was the first modular space station and was assembled in orbit from 1986 to 1996. At the time it was the largest artificial satellite in orbit, only being succeeded by the International Space Station (ISS) after Mir's deorbiting in 2001. The station served as a microgravity research laboratory in which crews conducted experiments in biology, human biology, physics, astronomy, meteorology, and spacecraft systems with a goal of developing technologies required for permanent occupation of space.
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Worth seeing in and around Mir
3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Mir Castle Complex
The Mir Castle Complex is a historic fortified castle and a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Belarus. It is located in the town of Mir, in Karelichy District of Grodno Oblast, 29 kilometres north-west of another World Heritage site, Nesvizh Castle.
500 m · castle in Mir, Belarus · Wikipedia - 02Chapel-burial-vault of Svyatopolk-Mirsky family
Chapel-burial vault of Svyatopolk-Mirsky family, also known as Spasskaya Chapel, is an architectural monument located in the urban settlement of Mir, Karelichy District, Grodno Region, Belarus, and situated near the Mir Castle within the English-style park, established at the end of the 19th to the beginning of the 20th century. The chapel-tomb was constructed between 1904 and 1910 based on a design by architect Robert Marfeld, funded by Cleopatra Svyatopolk-Mirskaya.
600 m · church building in Mir, Belarus · Wikipedia - 03Saint Nicolas' Church in Mir
Saint Nicolas' Roman Catholic Church in Mir, Belarus, is a Renaissance church commissioned by Mikołaj Krzysztof "the Orphan" Radziwiłł. It was probably designed by Giovanni Maria Bernardoni and erected without his personal participation in 1599–1605.
200 m · church in Mir, Belarus · Wikipedia
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Where to eat
Within a walking distance from the castle there is a Mirum Cafe with good cuisine and modern design. Beside the red St. Nicolas Church there is another restaurant, but the interior is rather shabby. Inside Mir Castle on the ground floor, there is a cafe called Mir Castle that serves national cuisine.
From Wikivoyage: Mir, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Mir
- Airports
- Minsk National (MSQ), 114 km · Vilnius (VNO), 152 km · Kaunas (KUN), 228 km
- Minsk → Mir88 km · quickest by road, 1h 46m · $8–11
- Brest → Mir238 km · quickest by road, 3h 51m · $21–29
- Vilnius → Mir158 km · quickest by road, 4h 8m · €20–29
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Mir
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Mir. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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