Tour Soviet Minsk

The city gates - a complex of quarters located in front of the station building. It is perceived as the main entrance to the city from the railway and bus stations and also it is a symbol of the capital, it's business card, decorating more than one hundred postcards and magnets.
The solemnity of perception is reinforced by two eleven-story "twin towers" symmetrically placed in the corners of five-storey apartment houses. On the upper levels there are sculptures of peasants, workers, and Red Army soldiers. On one of the towers are the biggest watches in Belarus (diameter more than 3.5 m) created more than a hundred years ago in Gemany, which were brought to Belarus as a trophy of the Great Patriotic War.

The Government House is a monument of architecture of constructivism, built in 1934, is the largest building in the Belarusian architecture in the interwar period. Its volume is 240 thousand cubic meters. Despite the fact that its large size, the cold gray tones of the stone plaster and some crushing of the volumes, the building does not seem bulky and heavy.
Currently, the legislative body of state power operates here - the Parliament, the central executive body - the Council of Ministers, other state institutions.

Main Post Office is the central post office, which performs an important function - it organizes postal communication in the territory of the city of Minsk. Its building, which preserved all the features of the legendary Stalin's Empire with columns and stucco decor, is often called the capital letter of Independence Avenue. It was built shortly after the Great Patriotic War in 1949-1953.
To date, not only the building of the post office itself, with all its severity and even some slight gloominess, deserves attention, but also unusual watches fixed on the facade that show not only Minsk, but also time in 35 cities of the world.

The eponymous handout originates from Independence Square though earlier it changed the name 14 times. It is the central and largest highway of Minsk, the large-scale work of art and the keeper of memory. He remembers a great number of politicians, writers, artists… Nezavisimosti Avenue — the only example of so long site of urban development where it was succeeded to keep unity of a form and style fully. The avenue applied for entering into the List of the World heritage of UNESCO.

More half a century the National academic Bolshoi Theatre of the opera and ballet welcomes guests. During the excursion you learn history of the only opera theater of Belarus. You will be acquainted with unique opportunities of a scene and subtleties of scenery. About laborious work of production of scenery and the fascinating atmosphere you will be told in a theatrical workshop. Actors of theater are known as in Belarus and is far behind her side-altars — you will be able to meet them in rehearsal halls.

Osmolovka is a historic residential neighborhood in central Minsk, bounded by Maksim Bogdanovich, Kiseleva, Kommunisticheskaya, and Kuibysheva Streets. It is the first integrated residential complex built from scratch in the city in the postwar years (1945–1949). It is designated a historical and cultural landmark and is a unique example of postwar Stalinist development with a high degree of preservation of its original environment.

The House-Museum of the First Congress of the RSDLP is one of the oldest museums in Minsk. It opened in 1923 in the building where the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party, the predecessor of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, was founded in 1898.

Victory Square welcomes with solemn greatness inhabitants and guests of the Belarusian capital. In the center her 38-meter obelisk and an eternal flame. Here each 15 minutes the guard of honor is replaced - the Minsk school students in any weather pay a tribute to the memory of heroes. Exactly here veterans, Minskers, guests of the capital come from year to year to honor memory of millions of dead during the Great Patriotic War. And underground, where the underground passage is located, the ring gallery and the memorial hall with an eternal flame of memory is built. You learn about what tells symbolics of an obelisk and the area from the guide.