Cycling "Minsk.Best" tour

Itinerary
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Stop At: Vierchni horad, Cyril and Methodius St 3, Minsk, Belarus

- old town of Miensk city built in XVII-XVIII cent. with City Hall
- churches & monasteries of the period including Orthodox and Roman Catholic cathedrals
- political center of the beginning of XX cent.
- old market place
- some monuments & urban sculptures


Duration: 20 minutes

Pass By: GUM, Prospekt Nezavisimosti, 21, Minsk Belarus

Soviet shopping mall of 1950-s

Pass By: State Security Committee of the Republic of Belarus, praspiekt Niezaliežnasci 17, Minsk, Belarus

actual KGB bureau

Pass By: Central Post Office, praspiekt Niezaliežnasci 10, Minsk, Belarus

a bright Soviet building of 1950s

Stop At: Plošča Niezaliežnasci, praspiekt Niezaliežnasci, Minsk, Belarus

the biggest square of Minsk and Belarus built during XX-XXI cent.
- Gouverment house
- Lenin statue
- Red Church
- universities
- Kitchen factory (1930)
- the "Youth" fountain

etc.

Duration: 20 minutes

Stop At: Michajlaŭski Garden Square, Vulitsa Svyardlova, Minsk, Belarus

- urban sculptures of the artist Uladzimir Zbanau
- panoramic view of Minsk City Gates (1950s) and Railways Station (2000s)


Duration: 15 minutes

Stop At: Oktyabrskaya Square, Minsk Belarus

- panoramic view of the central square of Soviet Minsk with Palace of the Republic, Palace of culture of Syndicates, tribunes for communist leaders etc.

Duration: 10 minutes

Stop At: Aliaksandraŭski Garden Square, Minsk, Belarus

old garden with the building of the oldest Minsk theater, the oldest fountain if Minsk (1874), memorial tank of 1944 Red army liberation campaign, Red army officers house, rests of Orthodox Bishop's residence

Duration: 15 minutes

Pass By: Yanka Kupala National Academic Theatre, Enhel'sa 7, Minsk 220030 Belarus

- the oldest theater of Minsk, XIX cent.

Stop At: Помнік Янку Купалу, Minsk, Belarus

the monument and the park of the great Belarusian poet of XX cent.

Duration: 5 minutes

Stop At: Victory Square, Minsk Belarus

- the main Soviet memorial of Minsk dedicated to the Great patriotic war
- the architectural ensemble of the square
- Memorial house of the 1st meeting of Russian Socialist Labor Party (XIX cent)


Duration: 15 minutes

Pass By: Former Residence of Lee Harvey Oswald, Kamunistycnaja St. 4 Top floor, facing river, between the large pillars, Minsk 223050 Belarus

place of his appartments

Pass By: Ministry of Defense, vulica Kamunistyčnaja 1, Minsk, Belarus

Post war military construction

Stop At: National Opera and Ballet Theatre of Belarus, Parizhskoy Komunny 1, Minsk 220029 Belarus

the biggest theater of Belarus on old Trajeckaja hara (Trinity hill) built in 1930-s in Soviet constructionism style

Duration: 10 minutes

Stop At: Trinity Suburb, Ulitsa Starovilenskaya 10а, Minsk, Belarus

old suburb of Minsk (found in XII cent, built in XIX cent, renovated in 1980-s)

Duration: 10 minutes

Stop At: Island of Tears, Minsk 223050 Belarus

Memorial complex devoted to Afghanistan war of 1979-1989: decorated chapel, Crying angel statue, memorial table

Duration: 10 minutes