Not very successful attempts to see some Minsk during one and a half days of cold and windy February weather.
Kamyennaya Horka micro-district had colorful living blocks.
Not very successful attempts to see some Minsk during one and a half days of cold and windy February weather.
Kamyennaya Horka micro-district had colorful living blocks.
Some buildings had their numbers painted in big font sizes. Good for short-sighted people.
It was very cold, and one way of keeping warm was to be more active than usual. Some locals were skating on the main square of Minsk — which was not the best idea because the square was too open for the wind. The more lazy locals were simply wearing more clothes. I was jogging or sliding on the sidewalks, slippery after a snowplow. It was significantly warmer that way.
The central Independence avenue turned out to be a hilly one. It did not affect the pesky wind, which was throwing dry snow powder in my face and reaching poor humans even inside underpasses.
The Svisloch river flows through Minsk and 15-20 drunk people were drowning in it every year, as per some internet sources of that time.
It was noticeably cold with -17°C on thermometers. The river was covered with ice, except this place where a collector carrying the Nyamiha river had its mouth. Mallards were using this ice hole.
I have seen basically nothing during this — my only — visit to Minsk, because most time has been spent inside friends or cafe because of the cold. We were glad to be finally leaving this cold city in favor of a warmer one closer to the south — Kyiv with its -15°C. I noticed that the walls of Minsk metro were less dark than the walls of subway tunnels of Kyiv.
The exchange rate was not a simple one, and I got lost in it, having asked for BYR 30 of rest, which was around UAH 0.02 at that time. Well, I'm sorry for that — please forgive the foreigner.