There also was a refrigerator brand "Minsk", those fridges were well-known all over the former USSR and Eastern-bloc countries.
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In 1986, a section of Belarus was affected by the fallout from the Chernobyl power plant accident in neighboring Ukraine.
Belarus is a republic, governed by a President and a bicameral parliament—the National Assembly—comprising a lower house, the 110 member House of Representatives, and an upper house, the 64 member Council of the Republic.
Of the urban population, 24% live in Minsk, the national capital and largest city.
In his book Russia's War, British historian Richard Overy describes how the Nazis sought more efficient ways to kill people.
In 1941, after occupying Belarus, they used mental patients from Minsk asylums as guinea pigs.
Initially, they tried shooting them by having them stand one behind the other, so that several people could be killed with one bullet, but it was too slow.
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