Gate of Minsk

“Minsk Gate” is an architectural complex on the Railway Station Square in Minsk , which consists of two 11-story tower buildings at the corners of 5-story buildings, located symmetrically with respect to the transverse axis of the square (station building - Kirova street ).

“Minsk Gate” on the postage stamp of the Republic of Belarus.

Object of the State list of historical and cultural values ​​of the Republic of Belarus Code: 712G000066

Object of the State list of historical and cultural values ​​of the Republic of Belarus Code: 712G000067

In the late 1940s, work began on the reconstruction of Railway Station Square (architect B. Rubanenko ), as a result of which an architectural ensemble of the square was created in the style of the Stalinist Empire style .

The captured German clock, the largest in Belarus, with a diameter of the dial of 3.5 m, is installed on one building, and the cast coat of arms of the Byelorussian SSR is on the other. The towers are also decorated with sculptures of a partisan, collective farmer, engineer and soldier. In the period 1972-1975, they, along with some other decorative elements, were dismantled due to wear of the material (concrete) and the danger of collapse, but in 2004 they were restored and made of a lighter and more durable material (silumin).

According to the apt remark of the student of the architect Boris Rubanenko - academician of architecture, honored architect of Belarus Yuri Gradov, the “entrance gate” became an invariable symbol of Minsk for the reason that the author of the project was able to feel and emphasize a very important historical parallel: the towers of Railway Station Square took the historical baton from traditional wooden towers of the old Minsk Castle, which were also at the time the entrance gate. And this architectural and historical continuity gave them a special convincing and attractive.