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Minsk (Belarusian: Мінск; Russian: Минск) is the capital and largest city of Belarus, located on the Svislach and the now subterranean Niamiha rivers. As the capital, Minsk has a special administrative status in Belarus and is the administrative centre of Minsk Region and Minsk District .
This division was inherited by the contemporary Republic of Belarus from the Byelorussian SSR and introduced in 1938. [2] As of 2020, 115 settlements had the status of a city/town. Among them: [3] 10 cities of regional subordinance; 104 towns of district subordinance; Minsk — the capital of the country.
By 1860 Minsk was an important trading city with population of 27,000. There was a construction boom which led to building 2- and 3-storey brick and stone houses in Upper Town. Minsk was one of the Belarusian cities, which supported the January Uprising in Poland, Lithuania and in Belarus in 1863–64. It was under Russian martial law from 1863 ...
Minsk region, also known as Minsk oblast [a] or Minsk voblasts, [b] is one of the six regions of Belarus. Its administrative center is Minsk, although it is a separate administrative territorial entity of Belarus. The region's population was recorded at 1,411,500 in 2011. [3]
Map of Belarus This is a list of municipalities in Belarus which have standing links to local communities in other countries known as " town twinning " (usually in Europe) or "sister cities" (usually in the rest of the world).
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The head of the Belarusian security service said on Thursday it had thwarted an attack on the capital Minsk by drones launched from Lithuania, Russian state news agencies said.
1990 - Public Library of the City of Minsk established. [12] 1991 April: Labor strike. [2] City becomes capital of Republic of Belarus. [3] City "becomes the headquarters of the successor to the Soviet Union, the Commonwealth of Independent States." [25] [35] State Security Committee of the Republic of Belarus (KGB HQ) formed.
The six regions are oblasts (also known as voblastsi), while the city of Minsk has a special status as the capital of Belarus. [1] Minsk also serves as the administrative center of Minsk Region. [2] At the second level, the regions are divided into districts . The layout and extent of the regions were set in 1960 when Belarus (then the ...