Minsk is the capital and
largest city of Belarus, situated on the Svislach and the Nyamiha Rivers. As
the national capital, Minsk has a special administrative status in Belarus and
is the administrative center of Minsk Region (voblast) and Minsk raion
(district). In 2013, it had a population of 2,002,600. Minsk is the
administrative capital of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and seat
of the Executive Secretary. The earliest historical references to Minsk date to
the 11th century (1067), when it was noted as a provincial city within the
Principality of Polotsk. It was part of a region annexed by the Russian Empire
in 1793, as a consequence of the Second Partition of Poland. From 1919 to 1991,
after the Russian Revolution, Minsk was the capital of the Byelorussian Soviet
Socialist Republic, in the Soviet Union.
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