Minsk is the capital and largest city in Belarus, situated on the Svislach and Niamiha rivers. Minsk is also a headquarters of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). As the national capital, Minsk has a special administrative status in Belarus and is also the administrative centre of Minsk voblast (province) and Minsk raion (district). It has a population of 1,837,000 inhabitants

The beauty of the Belarusian creative edge I thought taking off, you compose your song, My City hero-patriot. Let the distance song mchytstsa over the country dear, you sing, my capital, dear to my town. I park your, i boulevard I love the night sometimes. Everywhere I shepat couples, i laugh over the river. I'm proud of your fame, I am glad I have a sincere heart that this beauty velichavay There i share my work. The Anthem

The national Emblem The emblem of Minsk - Rise of the Virgin represent the Virgin in red-violet clothes on a silver cloud. It is uplifted in the sky by two flying angels, and over them two cherubs. The emblem have been appropriated to a city in According to a legend the icon with the Rise image has arrived to a city upstream Svislochi from Kiev destroyed by Tatars.

The national Flag The flag of a city of Minsk represents a rectangle from a fabric of blue color, with a parity of width and lengths as 110 on 180 see In the middle of face sheet of a panel of a flag the image of a stamp emblem of a city of Minsk settles down.

Minsk is located on the southeastern slope of the Minsk Hills, a region of rolling hills running from the southwest (upper reaches of the river Nioman) to the northeast – that is, to the Lukomskaye lake in northwestern Belarus. The average altitude above sea level is 220 metres (720 ft). The geography of Minsk was formed during the two most recent Ice Ages. The Svislach river, which flows across the city from the northwest to the southeast, is located in the urstrohmtal, an ancient river valley formed by water flowing from melting ice sheets at the end of the last Ice Age. Minsk was initially founded on the hills. However, in the 20th century, it grew to include the relatively flat plains in the southeast. The western parts of the city are the most hilly. Geography and climate

The house where there lived Tsar Peter I - the interesting facts about a city More 300 years ago in the street which was in a wartime Communistic Ancient city of Minsk (area of the present October area), and nowadays Jurevsky, there was one of the most notable houses at that time. It was brick The two-storeyed house surrounded with a garden and involving with the magnificence the local The population. Nearby there was an extension, so-called platform which came to the end Triangular pediment. In the facade center there was a ladder, and from both parties There were living rooms. One more extension has finished a composition in a XIX-th century.