5 Cool and Unusual Things to Do in Minsk - Atlas Obscura

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National Library of Belarus

Glowing orb in Minsk houses 8,600,000 items.

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Cat Museum

This Minsk museum has cat coffee, cat chess, cat art, and even a cat "staff," which visitors are free to take home.

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Lee Harvey Oswald's Apartment in Minsk

The apartment building where JFK's assassin lived after defecting to the Soviet Union.

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Museum of Stones

A unique park tells the geological history of Belarus in a national “map” of thousands of boulders and blue spruce.

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Isle of Tears

A beautiful and moving memorial set on a little island in the middle of the river in Minsk.

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Minski rajon, Belarus

The Stalin Line

Remains of the old fortification along the Western border of the USSR, now an elaborate defense museum.

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15 miles from Minsk

Smaliavicki rajon, Belarus

Mound of Glory

A striking Soviet memorial commemorates the liberation of Belarus from the Nazis.

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15 miles from Minsk

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