341 views
Instagram: / vitaliy_tol. . VKontakte: https://vk.com/id33529340 Telegram: @VitaliyTolyarenok Telegram channel: https://t.me/nemechtayaputeshestvuy TikTok: / vitaliytourist Minsk (Bel. Мінск) is the capital and largest city of Belarus, the administrative center of Minsk Region and Minsk District, which it is not a part of, since it is an independent administrative-territorial unit with a special (capital) status. The largest transport hub, political, economic, cultural and scientific center of the country. It is the core of the Minsk agglomeration. The tenth most populous city (excluding suburbs) in Europe, the seventh after Moscow, St. Petersburg, Tashkent, Kyiv, Almaty and Baku in the territory of the former USSR. The city is located near the geographic center of the country and stands on the Svisloch River. The area is 348.84 km², the population is 1,992,862[4] people (excluding suburbs). Hero City (1974). The city was first mentioned in the Tale of Bygone Years during the Battle on the Nemiga River in 1067. Later, the city became part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Russian Empire, where it became a provincial capital. In the USSR, it was the capital of the Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic, and since 1991, the capital of independent Belarus.