The Government House in Minsk is the building of Government of the Republic of Belarus in Minsk.

It was erected in 1930–1934 under the project of Iosif Lanhbard. It is the largest public building of the interwar period, one of the best monuments of constructivism. A legislative body of the lower house of Parliament — the House of Representatives, central executive body — the Council of Ministers, the Presidential Library of the Republic of Belarus and other state institutions are located there. During the German occupation of 1941–1944 it was an accomodation of the SS headquarters, the Luftwaffe and food warehouses. Despite its large size, tons of cold gray stone plaster and a fragmentation of volumes, the building does not seem cumbersome and unwieldy. The structure of the Government House was based on symmetrical increasing of volumes and heights from the periphery of the main facade towards the center.

Publication date: 19.07.2017.

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