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Minsk is the capital of the Republic of Belarus, its largest political, economic, cultural and scientific center. Minsk is located in the middle of Belarus, it is the centre of the region and district bearing the same name. The city lies along the Svisloch River. Minsk covers an area of 307, 9 square kilometers. The population of Minsk is 1829,1 thousand people. Minsk is divided into 9 city districts. The city is granted a special status of the capital, its charter, coat of arms and hymn.
Minsk is a city of quite an ancient history. It was first mentioned in chronicles in 1067. In 1974 Minsk was awarded the title of City-Hero in the commemoration of its citizens` services in their struggle against Nazism during World War II. Minsk is a headquarter of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), the place where the Parliament and the Government of the Republic of Belarus are located.
Situated on the crossing of the strategic routes from West to East and from North to South, from Moscow to Warsaw and from Kiev to Vilnius, Minsk is a large transport hub with several bus terminals, a railway station, two airports (1 international) and a metro network.
Minsk has a highly-developed industrial, scientific, transport, management and finance infrastructure. The industry is represented by machine-building, electronics, textile, construction, food industries, etc. More than 300 enterprises operate in the capital. Minsk's share in the country's total industrial output exceeds 22%.
There are 30 higher educational establishments in Minsk, including Belarusian State University, Belarusian National Technical University and Minsk State Linguistic University. Besides, there are 43 secondary specialized educational establishments, 259 general education schools, more than 420 preschool institutions.
Minsk is the most important centre of science and technology. 202 scientific research centres and institutions are concentrated in Minsk including the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus.
Minsk is also the largest cultural centre of The Republic of Belarus. 17 museums, including the National Arts Museum of the Republic of Belarus, the Museum of History and Culture of Belarus, The Museum of History of Great Patriotic War are located in Minsk. There are also 11 theatres in the city, among the most popular are The National Academic Drama Theatre named after Gorky, Republican Theatre of Belarusian Drama, Belarusian State Music Theatre, The National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre of the Republic of Belarus, etc. Besides that there are 20 cinemas, 110 libraries in Minsk. About 300 magazines and more than 700 newspapers are edited there.
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Directly located in Minsk’s historic and cultural centre, next to Gorky Drama Theatre, this traditional hotel is just 500 m from the Belarusian National Arts Museum and Dynamo Stadium. It offers free Wi-Fi, a gym and 2 restaurants.
Minsk Central Train Station is just a 10-minute walk of the hotel. Minsk National Airport is 42 km away, and transfers can be arranged on request.
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Apartment Exclusive hotel city: Minsk - Country: Belarus
Address: Prospekt Nezavisimosti 37; zip code: 220000
Featuring free Wi-Fi and a fully equipped kitchen, Apartment Exclusive is located in the city centre of Minsk, just a 5-minute walk from Gorky Park. National Opera and Ballet Theatre is a 15-minute walk away.
-- Doté d'une connexion Wi-Fi gratuite et d'une cuisine entièrement équipée, l'Apartment Exclusive se trouve dans le centre-ville de Minsk, à seulement 5 minutes de marche du parc Gorki. L'opéra et théâtre de ballet national est à 15 minutes à pied.
-- El Apartment Exclusive ofrece conexión Wi-Fi gratuita y cocina completamente equipada. Está situado en el centro de la ciudad de Minsk, a solo 5 minutos a pie del parque Gorky y a 15 minutos a pie del teatro nacional de la ópera y de ballet.
-- Das Apartment Exclusive begrüßt Sie in der Innenstadt von Minsk, nur 5 Gehminuten vom Gorki-Park entfernt. Die Unterkunft bietet kostenfreies WLAN und eine komplett ausgestattete Küche.
-- Apartment Exclusive ligt in het centrum van Minsk, op slechts 5 minuten lopen van het park Gorky, en biedt gratis WiFi en een volledig uitgeruste keuken. Het Nationale Theater voor Opera en Ballet ligt op 15 minuten lopen.
-- Situato nel centro della città di Minsk, l'Apartment Exclusive offre la connessione WiFi gratuita e una cucina completamente attrezzata, a soli 5 minuti a piedi da Gorky Park e a 15 minuti dal Teatro Nazionale dell'Opera e del Balletto.
-- Apartment Exclusive酒店位于明斯克（Minsk）市中心，配有免费无线网络连接和设备齐全的厨房，距离高尔基公园（Gorky Park）仅有5分钟的步行路程，距离国家歌剧和芭蕾舞剧院（National Opera and Ballet Theatre）有15分钟的步行路程。 宽敞的公寓设有阳台、平面卫星电视和壁炉。浴室提供吹风机和免费洗浴用品。 酒店距离诸多的咖啡馆和餐馆都只有5分钟的步行路程。 酒店距离明斯克中央火车站（Minsk Central Train...
-- Апартаменты Exclusive находятся в центре Минска, всего в 5 минутах ходьбы от парка Горького. К услугам гостей бесплатный Wi-Fi и полностью оборудованная кухня. До Национального театра оперы и балета - 15 минут ходьбы.
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Film de présentation de la Masterclass 11 monté et réalisé par Alexandre Serret. Filmé par le groupe et avec l'aide de Viktoria Ilnitskaya au Gorki Park, Minsk, Belarus. MAI 2015.
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Russian Folk Dance
Dance of the moon, belarusian folk....
Me and my friends dancing Russian folk.. :D
Минск: 21 января 2014 года / Менск: 21 студзеня 2014 г. / Minsk: January 21, 2014
Национальный академический драматический театр им. М. Горького. В Минске ясно, температура -18 -14 С, давление 742 мм, ветер 4-7 м/с, влажность 93% / Нацыянальны акадэмічны драматычны тэатр ім. М. Горкага. У Менску ясна, тэмпература -18 -14 С, ціск 742 мм, вецер 4-7 м/с, вільготнасць 93% / National Academic Drama Theatre (Maxim Gorky). In Minsk clear temperature -18 -14 C, pressure 742 mm, wind 4-7 m/s, humidity 93%
Junge Künstler aus Belarus - Мiнск - Minsk - Highlights - Oktober 2010 - Live - HD
Ich war mit einer Gruppe von Jugendlichen während der Herbstferien für eine Woche in Belarus, wo wir zahlreiche junge Nachwuchskünstler trafen. Hier seht Ihr ein paar Ausschnitte, überwiegend aus Minsk (Мiнск).
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Minsk (weißrussisch Мiнск) ist die Hauptstadt und gleichzeitig Gebiets- und Kreisstadt, und mit 1,83 Millionen Einwohnern größte Stadt von Weißrussland (Belarus).
Minsk ist das politische, wirtschaftliche und kulturelle Zentrum von Weißrussland mit Hochschulen und Fachschulen sowie zahlreichen Kirchen, Theatern und Museen.
Minsk liegt an der Swislatsch, einem Nebenfluss der Bjaresina.
Die Fläche der Stadt beträgt 255,8 km² und gliedert sich in neun Stadtbezirke.
Dem Stadtrat sind die Dorfsiedlungen und eine städtische Siedlung untergeordnet.
Etymologie des Namens Minsk Mensk, der mittelalterliche Name der Stadt, leitet sich vom ehemaligen Flüsschen Menka (Menja) ab, einem Nebenfluss der Swislatsch. Der Name des Bachs geht aller Wahrscheinlichkeit nach auf die slawische Wurzel men- zurück, was klein bedeutet. Diese indoeuropäische Wurzel ist auch in Wörtern wie mindern oder minimal zu finden.
1991 reichte der Rat der Volksabgeordneten beim Höchsten Rat den Eintrag ein, der Stadt ihren historischen Namen zurückzugeben, der jedoch abgelehnt wurde.
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Allerheiligen-Kathedrale der Russisch-Orthodoxen KircheIn Minsk gibt es 18 Museen: das nationale Kunstmuseum, das weißrussische staatliche Museum für Geschichte des großen Vaterländischen Krieges, das nationale Museum für die Geschichte und Kultur von Weißrussland, das Janka-Kupala-Literatur und Gedenkmuseum, das Maxim-Bahdanowitsch-Literaturmuseum, das Petrus-Brouka-Museum, das Zair-Azhur-Museum, das Museum für Theater und Musikgeschichte, das Museum für weißrussische Literaturgeschichte, das Museum für zeitgenössische bildende Kunst, das Museum für die Geschichte der Nationalen Akademie der Wissenschaft der Republik Belarus, das Museum für Medizingeschichte, das Natur- und Umweltmuseum, das Museum für Kriegsgeschichte, das Wankowitschy-Museum, das Haus zu Ehren der ersten Sozialdemokratische Arbeiterpartei Russlands-Versammlung, der Park der Steine.
Minsk verfügt überdies über 19 Theater wie z.B.: das Janka-Kupala-Theater, das staatliche Musiktheater, das staatliche Puppenthater, das Kleine Theater Minsk, das Neue Schauspielhaus, das Satire- und Humortheater Chrystafor, das Theater für belarussische Dramaturgie, das Theater des Kinoschauspielers, das Jugendkleinskunsttheater, das Weißrussische Poetische Theater für einen Schauspieler Znitsch, das Theater der weißrussischen Armee
Das Nationale Maxim-Gorkij-Theater bietet vor allem ein Repertoire russischsprachiger Theaterstücke an, wobei sich das Janka-Kupala-Theater auf Dramen in weißrussischer Sprache konzentriert, darunter auch Übersetzungen. Das Theater des jungen Zuschauers bietet vor allem Stücke für Kinder und Jugendliche an.
Noch auf die Tradition der Sowjetzeit gehen der weißrussische Staatszirkus zurück, der, in einem festen Zirkusbau untergebracht, das ganze Jahr hindurch Programm hat, sowie das Nationale Operntheater und das Nationale Balletttheater, die beide im gleichen Gebäude angesiedelt und im Volksmund als Opern- und Ballettheater bezeichnet werden.
Außerdem ist in Minsk die Staatliche Philharmonie Minsk beheimatet. Sie steht unter dem Dirigat von Viachaslau Bolitsch.
Das staatliche Kinostudio Belarusfilm in Minsk ist die einzige Filmproduktionsfirma in Weißrussland.
Minsk hat auch einen kleinen Zoo, elf Kulturhäuser, neun Kulturpaläste, darunter den Palast der Republik am Oktoberplatz.
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00:02:00 1 Etymology and historical names
00:02:08 2 History
00:02:17 2.1 Early history
00:04:11 2.2 Late Middle Ages
00:06:42 2.3 Russian rule
00:09:26 2.4 20th century
00:15:51 2.5 Recent developments
00:17:19 3 Geography
00:18:46 3.1 Climate
00:20:31 3.2 Ecological situation
00:21:48 4 Demographics
00:21:57 4.1 Population growth
00:22:09 4.2 Ethnic groups
00:29:35 4.3 Languages
00:31:23 4.4 Religion
00:32:02 4.5 Crime
00:33:42 5 Economy
00:35:30 5.1 Industry
00:39:17 5.2 Unemployment
00:39:58 6 Government and administrative divisions
00:40:24 7 Culture
00:40:52 7.1 Churches
00:42:46 7.2 Cemeteries
00:43:20 7.3 Theatres
00:43:53 7.4 Museums
00:44:34 7.5 Recreation areas
00:44:54 7.6 Cinemas
00:46:16 8 Tourism
00:46:36 9 Sports
00:46:44 9.1 Football
00:47:01 9.2 Ice hockey
00:47:15 9.3 Handball
00:47:26 9.4 Basketball
00:47:37 9.5 International sporting events
00:48:29 10 Transport
00:48:38 10.1 Local transport
00:50:41 10.2 Rapid transit
00:53:38 10.3 Railway and intercity bus
00:55:40 10.4 Airports
00:57:05 11 Education
00:57:30 11.1 Major higher educational institutions
01:02:55 12 Honors
01:03:15 13 Notable residents
01:07:04 14 International relations
01:07:14 14.1 Twin towns and sister cities
01:07:26 15 See also
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Minsk (Belarusian: Мінск, pronounced [mʲinsk]; Russian: Минск) is the capital and largest city of Belarus, situated on the Svislač and the Nyamiha Rivers. As the national capital, Minsk has a special administrative status in Belarus and is the administrative centre of Minsk Region (voblasć) and Minsk District (rajon). The population in January 2018 was 1,982,444, (not including suburbs) making Minsk the 11th most populous city in Europe. Minsk is the administrative capital of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and seat of its Executive Secretary.
The earliest historical references to Minsk date to the 11th century (1067), when it was noted as a provincial city within the Principality of Polotsk. The settlement developed on the rivers. In 1242, Minsk became part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. It received town privileges in 1499.From 1569, it was a capital of the Minsk Voivodeship, in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. It was part of a region annexed by the Russian Empire in 1793, as a consequence of the Second Partition of Poland. From 1919 to 1991, after the Russian Revolution, Minsk was the capital of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, in the Soviet Union. In June 2019, Minsk will host the 2019 European Games. Tourists who have accreditation cards or tickets to sporting events can visit the country rom 10 June till 10 July 2019 without a visa.
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Minsk (Belarusian: Мінск, pronounced [mʲinsk]; Russian: Минск, [mʲinsk]) is the capital and largest city of Belarus, situated on the Svislač and the Nyamiha Rivers. As the national capital, Minsk has a special administrative status in Belarus and is the administrative centre of Minsk Region (voblasć) and Minsk District (rajon). The population in January 2018 was 1,982,444, making Minsk the 11th most populous city in Europe. Minsk is the administrative capital of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and seat of the Executive Secretary.
The earliest historical references to Minsk date to the 11th century (1067), when it was noted as a provincial city within the Principality of Polotsk. The settlement developed on the rivers. In 1242, Minsk became part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. It received town privileges in 1499.
From 1569, it was a capital of the Minsk Voivodeship, in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. It was part of a region annexed by the Russian Empire in 1793, as a consequence of the Second Partition of Poland. From 1919 to 1991, after the Russian Revolution, Minsk was the capital of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, in the Soviet Union. Minsk will host the 2019 European Games.
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Operation Barbarossa (German: Unternehmen Barbarossa) was the code name for the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union, which started on Sunday, 22 June 1941, during World War II. The operation stemmed from Nazi Germany's ideological aims to conquer the western Soviet Union so that it could be repopulated by Germans, to use Slavs, especially Poles, as a slave-labour force for the Axis war effort, and to seize the oil reserves of the Caucasus and the agricultural resources of Soviet territories.In the two years leading up to the invasion, Germany and the Soviet Union signed political and economic pacts for strategic purposes. Nevertheless, the German High Command began planning an invasion of the Soviet Union in July 1940 (under the codename Operation Otto), which Adolf Hitler authorized on 18 December 1940. Over the course of the operation, about four million Axis powers personnel, the largest invasion force in the history of warfare, invaded the western Soviet Union along a 2,900-kilometer (1,800 mi) front. In addition to troops, the Wehrmacht employed some 600,000 motor vehicles, and between 600,000 and 700,000 horses for non-combat operations. The offensive marked an escalation of the war, both geographically and in the formation of the Allied coalition.
Operationally, German forces achieved major victories and occupied some of the most important economic areas of the Soviet Union, mainly in the Ukraine, and inflicted, as well as sustained, heavy casualties. Despite these Axis successes, the German offensive stalled in the Battle of Moscow and the subsequent Soviet winter counteroffensive pushed German troops back. The Red Army absorbed the Wehrmacht's strongest blows and forced the unprepared Germans into a war of attrition. The Wehrmacht never again mounted a simultaneous offensive along the entire Eastern front. The failure of the operation drove Hitler to demand further operations of increasingly limited scope inside the Soviet Union, such as Case Blue in 1942 and Operation Citadel in 1943 – all of which eventually failed.
The failure of Operation Barbarossa proved a turning point in the fortunes of the Third Reich. Most importantly, the operation opened up the Eastern Front, in which more forces were committed than in any other theater of war in world history. The Eastern Front became the site of some of the largest battles, most horrific atrocities, and highest casualties for Soviet and Axis units alike, all of which influenced the course of both World War II and the subsequent history of the 20th century. The German armies captured 5,000,000 Red Army troops, who were denied the protection guaranteed by the Hague Conventions and the 1929 Geneva Convention. A majority of Red Army POWs never returned alive. The Nazis deliberately starved to death, or otherwise killed, 3.3 million prisoners, as well as a huge number of civilians through the Hunger Plan that aimed at largely replacing the Slavic population with German settlers. Einsatzgruppen death squads and gassing operations murdered over a million Soviet Jews as part of the Holocaust.
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Stalinist architecture, mostly known in the former Eastern bloc as Stalinist Empire style (Russian: Сталинский Ампир, translit. Stalinskiy Ampir) or Socialist Classicism, is a term given to architecture of the Soviet Union under the leadership of Joseph Stalin, between 1933, when Boris Iofan's draft for Palace of the Soviets was officially approved, and 1955, when Nikita Khrushchev condemned excesses of the past decades and disbanded the Soviet Academy of Architecture. Stalinist architecture is associated with the socialist realism school of art and architecture.
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Russia (Russian: Росси́я, tr. Rossiya, IPA: [rɐˈsʲijə]), officially the Russian Federation (Russian: Росси́йская Федера́ция, tr. Rossiyskaya Federatsiya, IPA: [rɐˈsʲijskəjə fʲɪdʲɪˈratsɨjə]), is a country in Eurasia. At 17,125,200 square kilometres (6,612,100 sq mi), Russia is the largest country in the world by area, covering more than one-eighth of the Earth's inhabited land area, and the ninth most populous, with about 144.5 million people as of 2018, excluding Crimea. About 77% of the population live in the western, European part of the country. Russia's capital, Moscow, is the largest metropolitan area in Europe proper and one of the largest cities in the world; other major cities include Saint Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg and Nizhny Novgorod. Extending across the entirety of Northern Asia and much of Eastern Europe, Russia spans eleven time zones and incorporates a wide range of environments and landforms. From northwest to southeast, Russia shares land borders with Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland (both with Kaliningrad Oblast), Belarus, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia and North Korea. It shares maritime borders with Japan by the Sea of Okhotsk and the U.S. state of Alaska across the Bering Strait.
The East Slavs emerged as a recognizable group in Europe between the 3rd and 8th centuries AD. Founded and ruled by a Varangian warrior elite and their descendants, the medieval state of Rus arose in the 9th century. In 988 it adopted Orthodox Christianity from the Byzantine Empire, beginning the synthesis of Byzantine and Slavic cultures that defined Russian culture for the next millennium. Rus' ultimately disintegrated into a number of smaller states; most of the Rus' lands were overrun by the Mongol invasion and became tributaries of the nomadic Golden Horde in the 13th century. The Grand Duchy of Moscow gradually reunified the surrounding Russian principalities, achieved independence from the Golden Horde. By the 18th century, the nation had greatly expanded through conquest, annexation, and exploration to become the Russian Empire, which was the third largest empire in history, stretching from Poland on the west to Alaska on the east.Following the Russian Revolution, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic became the largest and leading constituent of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the world's first constitutionally socialist state. The Soviet Union played a decisive role in the Allied victory in World War II, and emerged as a recognized superpower and rival to the United States during the Cold War. The Soviet era saw some of the most significant technological achievements of the 20th century, including the world's first human-made satellite and the launching of the first humans in space. By the end of 1990, the Soviet Union had the world's second largest economy, largest standing military in the world and the largest stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, twelve independent republics emerged from the USSR: Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and the Baltic states regained independence: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania; the Russian SFSR reconstituted itself as the Russian Federation and is recognized as the continuing legal personality and a successor of the Soviet Union. It is governed as a federal semi-presidential republic.
Russia's economy ranks as the twelfth largest by nominal GDP and sixth largest by purchasing power parity in 2015. Russia's extensive mineral and energy resources are the largest such reserves in the world, making it one of the leading producers of oil and natural gas globally. The country is one of the five recognized nuclear weapons states and possesses the largest stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. Russia is a great power as well as a regional power and has b ...
BBC News-Ukraine crisis: Shelling follows Minsk peace summit
Ukraine crisis: Shelling follows Minsk peace summit
New shelling has been reported in the rebel-held east Ukrainian cities of Donetsk and Luhansk, shortly after the peace deal reached in Minsk.
There are no confirmed reports of casualties. Both cities are near the front line where the pro-Russian rebels face government forces.
The ceasefire agreed in the Belarusian capital is to begin in eastern Ukraine at midnight (22:00 GMT) on Saturday.
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