Gate of Minsk


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«Gate of Minsk» is an architectural complex at Pryvakzaĺnaja Square in Minsk.

«Gate of Minsk» consists of two 11-storey building towers at the corners of a 5-storey buildings, arranged symmetrically with respect to the transverse axis of the area (the station building — Kirava Street). At the end of the 1940s the reconstruction of Pryvakzaĺnaja Square (architect Barys Rubanenka) was started, which resulted in the architectural ensemble of the area in the style of Stalin's empire. On one of this buildings there is a clock, the largest one in Belarus, with a diameter of 3,5 m of the dial, on the other tower there is an emblem of the BSSR. Also, the towers are decorated with sculptures of worker, collective farmer, engineer and soldier.

Publication date: 26.06.2017.


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