Contemporary culture is oriented toward the past rather than the future. Time is accelerated and draws its vitality from the past, a giant archive, which breaks into fragments, embedded in the form of myths and nostalgia. Nowadays Belarusian culture is imbued with a collective sense of a missing future, which leads to an orientation towards the past. There is a demand for a conceptualization of what Belarusian cultural codes are and how they can be preserved and developed. One of the ways is turning to Belarusian traditional culture, which reflects ideas of Belarusian ethnophilosophy, has uniqueness and distinguishes Belarusians from other ethnicities. Due to Soviet influence and urbanisation, elements of traditional culture are mostly spread in rural areas, where they are gradually disappearing. But there is a stable movement in today's Belarus, which participants reproduce traditional practices in urban conditions, almost underground. The aim of the study is to understand how traditional culture unites Belarusian citizens and what they look for in its practices. Global issue relevant for anthropology is to show how elements of traditional culture can be integrated into modern urban everyday life. Series of in-depth interviews, methods of participant observation and autoethnography were used. During collective actions, performative acts, members of the folklore movement feel their unity with the past, where they can escape from the reality. Moreover, they search for belonging, and traditional practices, that have been common in the past, help them build a community. Although their practices are not exact reconstruction, they have value and meaning for the community and ensure the existence of Belarusian culture in the future.
