The students of the preparatory section attended a tour of Minsk, during which they got acquainted with the modern appearance of the city, its history and architecture.
The first to greet the audience was Freedom Square — historical center of Minsk: the building of the town hall, built in the early seventeenth century (before the nineteenth century it housed a court and archives, stored reference units of volume and weight), a bronze statue of Voita with the key to the city and the royal charter — a symbol of obtaining the Minsk Magdeburg law in 1499; a monument to the creators of the Belarusian national classical opera Vinzentu Dunina-Marcinkevich and Stanisław Monyushko, sculptural compositions «Parade Carriage» and «Crew», installed on the square in honor of the first Minsk governor Zakaria Korneeva.
The audience also had a unique opportunity to see the restored design plan of the 16th century city.
In the Alexandrovsky square, the audience saw the oldest fountain of Minsk from 1874, and in the park named after Yanka Kupala a monument to the Belarusian writer, poet, dramatist, whose name he bears, and sculptural compositions «Bread», «Frantsysk Skaryna» and others. On the October Square, the children welcomed the Palace of the Republic and a commemorative stone symbolizing the beginning of the roads of Belarus, on which it is possible to read the distance to all regional and district centers of Belarus, as well as capitals of neighboring states. The tour ended with a visit to the Minsk Planetarium, which this year turned 60 years old, a view of the spherical science-popular film «In the depths of the universe» and an excursion through the starry sky.