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Type: The square and urban development Date of Foundation: 1953 year Status: Republican value Nezavisimosti avenue, 10

Building ofMain Post Office was built in the 1949-1953 years by the architect V. Korolev. Located at Independence Avenue .

Main Post Office - the center postal service of the city, established in 1946 year, organizes the postal service in the city, manages communications centers and post offices. Provides a postal and telegraph services, Internet. Receives and processes the parcels, letters, money transfer.

In May 1962 year, Main Post Office building is decorated with unusual clock. It showed not only the minsk, but also time in fifty cities in the world. The clock was with an hour chime and music. It beat every 15 minutes, and the melody of ”Motherland my dear” performed once per hour. Clock kept silent in the early 1970s years, when the decree was issued to prohibit cities superfluous sounds. By the Summer Olympic Games 1980 year clock updated, replaced the clock dial, made inscriptions of the cities in belarusian languages, and their number decreased to 35. reveal all text

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Address Nezavisimosti avenue, 10 GPS Google: 53.896446′ N, 27.551506′ E