Gathering the group
Minsk
Residential development of the Minsk Tractor Works district
Streets of the Tractor Factory District — a tour of hidden courtyards is a walk through a neighbourhood that was designed not merely as a place to live, but as a model post-war city of dreams. In the late 1940s, a special settlement for workers began to take shape near the Minsk Tractor Works: with warm homes, shops, a school, a kindergarten, a bathhouse, a Palace of Culture and green courtyards. After the years of devastation and temporary housing, such an environment seemed like a true symbol of a new life >>
Minsk Tractor Plant (visual inspection)
The Minsk tractor plant – a leader of mechanical engineering of Republic of Belarus. MTZ keeps the chronicle since 1946 – it is eventful stories of creation, development and formation of the plant. And now the enterprise is ready to lower a curtain and to show "behind the scenes". You will pass on enterprise streets where there are stops, sidewalks and infrastructure. You will enter shops where do details with an accuracy of micron. Directly before you, on conveyors tractors with the world name "BELARUS" will come to life. And you will see the models which earlier descended from them on the exhibition platform where it is possible to make impressive photos in a cabin of "Belarusian", and in the square of the 70 anniversary of MTZ – very unusual photo exhibit and "firstborn" of the Minsk tractor plant is presented there.
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The end of the tour