Kupalle celebrate on June 21. It is a traditional and the most loved holiday in Belarus.
Kupalle is a pagan summer celebration of fertility in the name of a female God - Kupala. Lately it was renamed into a Christian celebration of male saint-Ivan Kupala.
Kupalle usually involves youth going into a forests and the meadows, wearing flowers and grass garlands, dancing in karagods (circles around fires), jumping through fires.
A popular kind of Kupalle was fortune-telling – putting wreaths on water. People believed that on Kupalle night the fern has a very special flower-"paparats-kvetka"- glowing in the dark. If you find the flower, you'll be happy. But no one has
My favourite sportsman is Zbigniew Bartman, the famous volleyball player, a member of the Polish national volleyball team. He was in the main staff of the team when they won the men's European championship on volleyball in two thousand and nine. He was also a member of the Polish team that won the gold medals in 2012, and Bartman received the award as the best striker of the championship. He played for the Polish club Asseco Resovia, which won the Polish championship in season two thousand and twelve and two thousand and thirteen year. After the season ended, Bartman had left the club and joined the Italian club Casa Modena.
