Minsk, Belarus

Next come a few cards from Minsk, Belarus's capital

I received this one recently as a swap with Marina - looking at the card gives me the impression of a city with very clean air (unlike here). And they do seem to have a lot of green areas all over too (again, unlike here).

Well, I've written about Minsk before, so won't get much into details this time...just that after this swap  I realized I had acquired a number of Minsk cards showing the city and the Svislach river, so I thought I'd show them altogether...

the stamp is part of a mini-sheet with 4 stamps issued in 2015, showing paintings of artists of the Paris School from Belarus. On this stamp you can see a painting from 1925 called "The Lake" by Ossip Zadkine.

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well the rest of the cards here are all official ones...Belarus has really climbed up the ladder in terms of Postcrossing sent cards and at the time of speaking holds the 6th place....quite surprising I must admit...
The card here shows the embankment of the Svislach river..it is 327 km long and has derived its name from the root -visl- 'flowing,' of Indo-European origin

here I decided to show the whole back of the card cos of the cute stickers...that duck one is especially adorable :)
as for the stamps, we two from the set of 12 Architectural Monuments issued in 2012 - the left one shows a church in Polatsk, while the right one, shows the Mirski castle.

Thanks to Yanina for this card

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Here we have a multiveiw card with the Svislach river in each of the pictures.

First we have a view of the Upper Town. Then below it, we can see some sport competitions.

In the middle you can see the Trinity Suburb, while on the right side, first you can again see the Svisloch embankment, while the bottom picture shows a man fishing in the centre of the city. 

The stamp is from a set of two Christmas stamps issued in 2012.
Thanks to Marianne for this card.

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Can you notice the drawings, or whatever they may be, on the two tall buildings? they look interesting.

Here in particular you can see the Housing of the Uskhod micro-district.

the stamp is from a set of 2 issued in 2012, showing Belorussian ornament.
Thanks to Dzimitry for this one.

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And one more Minsk card, showing a really beautiful aerial view of the city, in particular, the Trinity Suburb and the Svislach river embankment.

Again we have the two architectural stamps as above from 2012, showing the church in Polatsk and the Mirski castle.
Thanks to Victoria for this card.

Minsk, Belarus

My last card for today is a great official one coming from Belarus.

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Now, you may ask, whats so special about this card? It is just another fancy building....yeah....it is...but do you know that this is actually the main building of the railway station in Minsk??! Oh yeah :)
I had no idea about it until I actually read the explanation on the back...to me it was like some shopping mall but I was highly mislead :)
It was built in 2000, so it is quite a new and modern one. I wish that our government actually decided to renovate our main train station, coz it looks awful and miserable, just as our trains. I dont say it has to look like the station above, but it should at least be decent and maybe have elevators instead people having to pull their heavy suitcases along the stairs, and the waiting rooms could be cleaner and nicer...but maybe, in some distant futue....

I think that the first three stamps are quite familiar to you....one is from the 8 garden flowers' stamps issued in 2008 (here you have the Petunia) and the other stamp was also issued in 2008 in a set of 5 wild animals' stamps and here you see the European Mink. The third stamp is the interesting one coz at least it is not one you see often on the Belarus cards. It was issued in 2005 in a set of two stamps representing Belarussian national clothes, and this stamp portrays the Mosty region.

Thank you for following and hope you have a great week ahead...and of course, I hope to see you soon :)

Minsk, Belarus

A very nice official card showing a cemetery in Minsk

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Well, problem is im not 100% sure, but the English transcription to this should be something like Kalvariskya..or Kalvaryja as i have found it on google....but i cant guarantee we are talking about the same cemetery here...and google cant brag to be full on information on this one, or it might be me who is overlooking things.
The entire back of the card has a text in Belorussian regarding this cemetery...which i could have understood it...well if someone is willing to translate it for me, id be glad to scan the back of the card...even though some bits of the text are covered by stamps....the majority is still readable

both stamps are from 2008....the flower one is from a set of 8 stamps called Garden Flowers, this one showing a Tulip....while the other one is a Christmas stamp

Minsk, Belarus

As for my last card today, ill take you to Minsk, in Belarus....

This is called the St.Triniry Suburb.
It is considered as a famous site in Minsk, settled down on the right coast of the river Svisloch.Walking down the small paved streets you can feel yourself in ancient times, enjoying multi-coloured houses and tiny shops and caves.
Well, not much info i could find upon this one...and whenever google showed me a site about it, turned out that the site is either non-existent or just contained NO info about it. Thats my luck, i guess...
Well im wishing you a nice day, and ill hopefully see you soon! And wish me luck that *I* get through MY day :P

Minsk, Belarus

The last card for today represents Belarus.
Well, i think that its maybe good that right now i dont have postcards from more former USSR countries and that 6 is more than enough for one update...

This card shows a Belarusbank building at the Dzerzhinskogo Avenue in Minsk...hehe, Minsk...remember my previous (well, and only one) Minsk postcard? That Minsk relation always makes me laugh :)

Anyway, i was wondering, did you notice the moon on the postcard? It feels so surreal somehow, but so beautiful! As if it's just come out from the sky....awkward but interesting.

before i close this, ill share a silly fact with you...back in time, when the Soviet Union fell apart, i thought that Russia was the whole Soviet Union and that eventually, it fell apart into pieces and to each piece of land they had to give a new name, so thats how all these new countries were born...well, dont take it for granted, i was like 11 or 12 back then ;-)

Well, thats all for today...hope you liked the cards...and hope you have a nice week ahead...and hope to see you soon... i have a number of things to do and backlogs to finish, but ill try not to make such big gaps in-between posts

'till next time...

Minsk, Belarus

Here comes my first card from Belarus....I wonder if i should be thankful to the USSR for going apart and give me much more states to have to collect than just one...

This comes from the capital, Minsk.....Minsk, I like it....I like the way it sounds, somewhat cool....reminds me of one of the episode of "Friends" when Phoebe fell for this scientist guy, it was David I think...who had to go to Minsk coz he and his friend got a grant for some kind of a research there....and how they had to leave for Minsk, January 1st....the departure was the sad part, but I always laughed at Phoebe's reaction to Minsk, and it made me laugh how they were so excited for going to Minsk...which im sure, especially back then, many people have never heard of it before (Phoebe definitely hadnt :))
now, im not sure when this episode of Friends was shot, since they say there that Minsk is in Russia...but as far as I know, Belarus got independence in 1990/91....the first season of Friends (this episode is from the first season) was shot at 1993....so we have a weird gap here....purpose or pure ignorance...I dont know....but in one of the later episodes, when David comes back from Minsk, they still refer to it as in Russia...this actually reminds me i should put some "Friends" on and have a laugh :)

Regarding the card, I like it a lot....coz of the fountains...I love fountains....the ones you can see here are along Lenin Street, where the buldings are around 100 years old...

Minsk...I definitely like the name....along with another capital from the former USSR countries....well, im not telling, you'll have to wait till I get a card from there...which so far, isnt in sight....