Ключевые слова: amusement, beginning, belarus, belarusian, burning, carnival, celebrate, celebration, crowd, culture, custom, doll, effigy, entertainment, ethnic, europe, famous, festival, fire, flame, folk, gomel, heathenism, history, holiday, homel, maslenitsa, national, nobody, outdoor, pagan, paganism, people, performance, popular, religious, russia, russian, scarecrow, shrovetide, slavic, slavs, spring, tourism, tradition, traditional, travel, winter, wooden,