Minsk ghetto was one of the largest in Europe. In the occupied territory of the USSR, Minsk had the second highest number of prisoners after Lviv, which estimated in 136,000 people. 39 streets and alleys were covered with barbed wire for those purposes. The Nazis brought there Jews from seven countries in Western, Central and Eastern Europe. Very few survived. In place of mass executions, the so-called "The Pit", there is a monument now.
Near the building of the Institute "Belgosproekt" has survived three-tiered conical machine gun bunker built by Germans on the border of the ghetto. During the construction of the institute the attempt to demolish the bunker was made. Although, the demolition was not done, as there was a chance to blow up the construction of the building. Therefore loophole was walled, whitewashed and left the way it was.

Francisk Skaryna, born in Polotsk, was an educator, a pioneer, a philosopher and a humanist, a translator, a writer, a physician, a social activist. He began to publish books 50 years before Fedorov (another Russian educator). In 1534, Skaryna went to Moscow to show his Bible, which was published in Belarusian language in 1517. But he had got away from the angry priests, scribes, who desired to burn heretics alive. Skaryna's books were lost.

Belarusian traffic policemen in the vast majority do not take bribes. If you caught drunk or had an accident with a pedestrian, you can say goodbye to driver's licence. If your violation was minor, a soul-saving policeman may have a conversation with you to indicate the violations and let you go without penalty after your sincere apology. I would recommend you to do so and admit your fault, get a receipt for a minimum fine, go and pay to the closest bank. The more guilty driver argues the pullover, the more inclined the amount of fine increases. Intimidation of a Belarusian cop will not work.

There's one more great thing about Belarusian traffic police - tow tractors made with Belarusian acumen.
Simple, cheap and effective. Well, maybe. In terms of the usual aesthetics it is somewhat extravagant...

Lee Harvey Oswald lived in Minsk and worked at the Radio Plant named after Lenin, today a television factory "Horizon". Incidentally, Oswald's Russian language teacher was Stanislav Shushkevich, the future President of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Belarus from 1991 to 1994. (December 7-8, 1991 - participant of the meeting in the Bialowieza Forest with Russian President Boris Yeltsin and Leonid Kravchuk of Ukraine, where the decision to liquidate the Soviet Union and the creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States was made. As the head of the Belarusian parliament Shushkevich signed the Belovezhskaya agreements). Such a destiny: someone who slammed a president was taught by someone who slammed the entire country.