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GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF MINSK REGION
Minsk Region - the central region of the Republic of Belarus - was formed on January 15, 1938. At present it is one of the regions of Belarus with the most developed economy. Extremely beneficial geographical location, natural resources potential are the decisive factors for social and economic development of the region.
 
GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION
The region is located in the central part of the territory of the Republic of Belarus. It lies 315 km from north to south and 240 km from east to west.

_{Distance between Minsk (the administrative center}

_{of the region) and large European cities (km)}

Amsterdam	1867	Vilnius	185	Riga	476
Berlin	1105	Hamburg	1398	Rome	2324
Berne	2264	Kiev	559	St.Petersburg	901
Brussels	2060	Moscow	690	Stockholm	867
Warsaw	542	Paris	2310	Tallin	784
Vienna	1271	Prague	1161	Helsinki	1328

TERRITORY
Territory of the region, Minsk including, equals to 40.8 thousand square kilometers (about 20 % of the territory of Belarus). There are many rivers and lakes. Beresina, Neman, Vilia are the largest rivers. The largest and deepest lake is Naroch, its area is 80 square kilometers, maximal depth equals to 24.8 meters. Vileika-Minsk water-supply system supplies industrial enterprises and public services with water.
 
KLIMATE
Temperate-continental Average temperatures: January - 6.8 oC July - 17.5 oC  

MINERAL RESOURCES
Potassium- and rock-salt, peat, iron ore, oil shales, clay, sapropel, mineral water, gravel, building sand.
 
ADMINISTRATIVE- AND TERRITORIAL DIVISION
Minsk region includes 22 districts, 19 cities and towns (8 of them are region-subordinated), 23 urban type settlements.

List of districts of Minsk Region

 

1. Beresino district	9. Logoisk district	17. Smolevichi district
2. Borissov district	10. Luban district	18. Ssoligorsk district
3. Vileyka district	11. Minsk district	19. Starye Dorogi district
4. Volozhyn district	12. Molodechno district	20. Stolbtsy district
5. Dzerzhinsk district	13. Miadel district	21. Uzda district
6. Kletsk district	14. Nesvizh district	22. Cherven district
7. Kopyl district	15. Puchovichi district	.
8. Kroupki district	16. Slutsk district	.

POPULATION
At January 1, 1997 population of Minsk region amounted to 1589.2 thousand people, including:
- rural population 777.9
- urban population 811.3 
Average number of employment amounted to 562.00 thousand people, including:
- in agriculture 165.4
- in industrial enterprises 143.0
- in education 54.3
- in health protection, sports and social service 42.8
  
ECONOMY
By the end of 1997 the contribution of the region into economic potential of the Republic is characterized by the following target figures:

.	Estimated sum Ratio in the total mlrd.rbl.	amount in the Republic (in %)
1. Industrial output in actual prices	45778,0	11,7
(consumer goods including)	19818,7	12,8
2. Value of agricultural production    in actual prices	9695,3	23,6
3. Investments volume by all patterns    of property and sources of financing    in actual prices	12343,0	19,8
4. Volume of paid services to the    population in actual prices	3277,0	14,0

  
INDUSTRY
Industry of the region has a multibranch character and is based mostly on usage of local natural resources and raw materials. At 01.01.98 the number of industrial enterprises in the region amoumted to 358. 50 of them are the largest, with not less than 400 people hired. A number of shops and branches of Minsk enterprises are located within the region. A significant ratio of regional industry is concentrated in cities and towns: Ssoligorsk - 25.5 %, Borissov - 19.8 %, Zhodino - 13.95 %, Slutsk - 7.2 %, Molodechno - 6.0 %. More than 126 thousand of production personnel are imployed in 358 industrial enterprises. Manufactured industrial products amounted in 1997 to 45.8 bln.roubles, including state-owned enterprises - 28 bln.rbl (61.1 %), and private-owned enterprises - 17.8 bln.rbl (38.9 %). Average daily production in actual prices amounted to 154.3 mlrd.roubles. Chemical industry (Ssoligorsk), machine-building and metal working (Zhodino, Borissov), light and food industry (Slutsk, Molodechno) are developed in the region.
  
AGRICULTURE
The region in specialized in dairy- and beef cattle production, grain production, potato and sugar-beet growing.
Total sown area (all types of farms), thous. hectares 1326.5
Gross output in agriculture in 1997, in collective-,
state farms (in comparable prices of 1995, in mlrd.rbl) 5765.4
Number of collective- and state farms 522
Number of private farms 552
Number of agricultural lands 36
Number of arable lands 38
 
FORESTRY
36 % of the area is covered with forests. 55 % of them are pine forests, 15 % - fir-forests, 17 % - birch-woods. In Borissov, Beresino, Starye Dorogi, Logoisk and Stolbtsy regions the lands are the most wooded (45-50 %).
 
TRANSPORT
Minsk region has a highly developed transport infrastructure. For example, the length of general-purpose automobile roads equals to 13.7 thousand kilometers. 8.4 mln tonns of cargo was transported in 1997. In the same period 117.2 mln people availed themselves of public transport. Number of private-owned cars - 142919 Number of cars per 100 families - 25.8
 
CAPITAL CONSTRUCTION
At January 1, 1998, 258 civil engineering and erection, and repair organizations of every pattern of ownership were functioning in Minsk region (small non-public excluding), the volume of contract work amounts to 5513 mlrd.roubles (45 % of total investments volume). Average number of people employed in civil engineering and erection, and repair works equals to 35.3 thousand. More than 2.6 bln.roubles are invested in housing construction. It enabled the possibility to build more than 7000 apartments.
 
COMMUNICATIONS
Number of telecommunication agencies (at the end of 1997) 687 rural districts including 599
Number of telephone devices of Communication Ministry, thous. 312.3 including:
urban telephone network 202.3
rural telephone network 109.9
 
TRADE
Total nimber of Retail trade establishments (at the end of 1997) 5291 shops including 4525 their floorspace (thous. m2) 415
Public catering establishments 1338 number of seats (thous) 96
Number of employed in retail trade and public catering 32.5 establishments (thous.people)
Retail turnover of public- and cooperative trade, 14954.3 including turnover of public catering establishments (mlrd.roubles)
 
CONSUMER SERVICE
Number of consumer service establishments (at the end of 1997) 1343 including:
urban 609 rural 734
Types of personal services 960
Sales volume of paid services (mlrd.rbl) 3277
Paid services rended per capita (thous.rbl) 1823.3 including:
sales volume of personal services (mlrd.rbl) 387.7
personal services rendered per one inhabitant (thous.rbl) 215.7
Number of employed in consumer service establishments 9.0 (thous.people)
 
HEALTH PROTECTION
Number of hospitals (at 01.01.98) 146 with the number of beds (thous.) 16.7
Out-patient clinics (number) 129
Doctors of all specialities (people) 4873
Junior medical personnel (people) 15413
Number of doctors (of all specialities) per 10000 persons 30.9
Number of junior medical personnel per 10000 persons 97.9
Number of hospital beds per 10000 persons 105.7
 
EDUCATION
Specialized secondary-education institutions 18 (At the beginning of 1997-1998 educational year) number of students there (thous.people) 14.7
Vocational schools 33 (At the beginning of 1997-1998 educational year) number of students there (thous.people) 18.3
Comprehensive schools 912 (At the beginning of 1997-1998 educational year) number of pupils there (thous.people) 247.9
Gymnasias - 15; number of pupils there (thous.people) 12.6
Lyceums - 2; number of pupils there (thous.people) 1.4
Pre-school establishments 772 number of children there (thous.people) 62.7
 
SOCIAL SECURITY
At 01.01.98 in Minsk there were: Total number of retired persons (thous.people) 436.5 including: old-age pensions 338.9 disability pensions 63.2
Old people's homes 14 number of people there 3264
Nimber of holiday hotels 1 Number of beds there 200
 
PHYSICAL TRAINING AND SPORTS
In Minsk region there are: Stadiums 68 Swimming-pools 33 Gymnasiums 777
Mini-swimming-pools in kindergartens 97 Sports clubs 274 Sports schools for children and youth 63 Olimpic reserve schools 2 Sports mastery school 1
 
CULTURAL ESTABLISHMENTS
At the end of 1997 in Minsk there were: Theatres 2 Museums 17 Palaces of culture and clubs 887 Film projectors 684 Parks for Culture and Rest 5 Public libraries 1004 books and magazines (thous.copies) 11203
 
THE MOST IMPORTANT HISTORICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL RELICS OF THE PAST
Borissov: Cathedral, Polish Roman-Catholic church (XVIII c.)
Logoisk: Site of ancient settlement, park, wooden church (XIX c.)
Zaslavl: ancient castle (XVI-XVII c.)
Vileika: church (end of XIX c.), Polish Roman-Catholic church (beginning of XV c.) Miadel district, village
Budslav: Bernardinnes' Abbey (1783) Miadel district, urban type settlement
Svir: St. Nicholas Polish Roman-Catholish church (1909), wooden church (XIX c.)
Volozhyn: Palace ensemble (XIX), Polish Roman-Catholic church with the arch (XVIII c.)
Ivenets: Polish Roman-Catholic church (XVIII), Franciscannes' Abbey (1606)
Stolbtsy: St. Anna Church (XIX c.)
New Sverzhen: Assumption church, Petropavlovsk Roman-Catholic church (XV c.)
Nesvizh: the Palace-and-Castle Ensemble (XVI c.)
Kletsk district, village Krasnaya Zvezda: Radzivill-Les-Monts - former summer residence of the Radzivills (XVIII c.)
Slutsk: St. Michael church (XVIII c.)

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