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Beauty and purity are also a state of mind, the ability to see more and further, further here comes in the meaning of the future, in general, happiness is the ability to see beauty, and if it is not there, then try to create it where it is not visible, not visible yet, now, but you see it, since your gaze and focus are aimed not at something but at time, not at now but at the future, a beautiful, pure, beautiful future 0 reply
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Natural and mineral resources
There are eight main watercourses within the city limits: the Svisloch River, the city's main waterway, the rivers Tsna, Loshitsa, Myshka, Trostyanka, Kachinka, and Senitsa, and the Slepyanskaya water system.
There are ten main water reservoirs within the city's borders: Komsomolskoye Lake, Chizhovskoye reservoir (CHP-3 pond), Tsnyanskoye reservoir, Drozdy water reserve, Lebyazhy pond, CHP-2 pond, Kurasovshchina reservoir, pond in the lower reaches of the Loshitsa River, the pond of Semashko-Karolinskaya street area and the pond in Goretsky street area. 0 reply
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Economy
Minsk is a major industrial center. The city contributes more than a quarter to the national GDP. Minsk’s industrial sector features companies and enterprises producing machinery and equipment, food beverages and tobacco products, electrical equipment, vehicles, construction materials, and pharmaceuticals.
There are 3,155 industrial companies in Minsk. The city is home to the most well-known Belarusian brands: Minsk Tractor Works (MTZ), Minsk Automobile Plant (MAZ), Minsk Wheel Tractor Plant (MZKT), Minsk Motor Plant (MMZ), three machine tool plants, Amkodor, Management Company of the Belkommunmash Holding Company, Minsk Refrigerator Plant, Integral Plant and many others.
Minsk companies maintain foreign trade relations with 212 countries.
Minsk accounts for about 35% of Belarus’ foreign trade. Minsk has received investment from 80 countries.
The free economic zone Minsk plays a significant role. Some of its facilities are located in Minsk Oblast. 0 reply
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First mentioned in 1067, Minsk became the capital of the Principality of Minsk, an appanage of the Principality of Polotsk, before being annexed by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in 1242. It received town privileges in 1499. From 1569, it was the capital of Minsk Voivodeship, an administrative division of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. It was part of the territories annexed by the Russian Empire in 1793, as a consequence of the Second Partition of Poland. From 1919 to 1991, after the Russian Revolution, Minsk was the capital of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, which became a republic of the Soviet Union in 1922. Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Minsk became the capital of the newly independent Republic of Belarus. 0 reply
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Minsk is the largest economic centre of Belarus. The total volume of tax revenues is about half of the total volume in the country. The largest taxpayers of the city in the first quarter of 2011 were Beltransgaz OJSC, Lukoil-Belorussiya IP, Minsk Kristall RUP (producer of alcoholic beverages), Velcom IP, Mingaz UP, Minskenergo RUP, Beltelecom RUP, Tabak-Invest LLC, Unis Oil LLC and Priorbank OJSC. Together, they provided 40% of revenues. In the first quarter of 2011, 54% of revenues to the consolidated budget of the city came from non-state enterprises, while in 2010 they accounted for 46.6% of revenues. In 2010, small businesses provided about 25% of tax revenues. The gross regional product of Minsk is 26.4% formed by the manufacturing industry, 19.9% by wholesale trade 12.3% by transport and communications 8.6% by retail trade, and 5.8% by construction. The share of the city's gross regional product (GRP) in the republican gross domestic product (GDP) is 23.7%, or 120 trillion ₽ about 12.8 billion $ 0 reply
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