Mogilev City Day Festival

Mogilev's City Day ties to June 28, the date the city was liberated from Nazi occupation in 1944, giving it a more recent historical anchor than the medieval chronicle references that define several neighboring Belarusian capitals' celebrations. Concerts, exhibitions and evening fireworks fill the historic Dnieper riverside core, built on the bluff where the city's medieval castle once stood, first documented in a 1267 chronicle mention.

Mogilev's documented history begins with a chronicle reference from 1267, though archaeological work at the Zmeyevka and Mogila settlement sites nearby suggests people were living in the area as early as the 5th century, well before the city itself took shape on a bluff above a bend in the Dnieper River where the Dubrovka stream joins it.