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My Day Off

I’m a first-year student of electronic (mechanical) department at Belarusian National Technical University. I study six days a week and don’t have much free time on week-days. So I look forward to the weekend when I can relax and have a rest. Usually I spend my day off with the people who are very close to me and whose company I always enjoy. These are my friends and relatives. Sometimes when I’m tired and don’t want to talk to anybody I spend my day off alone, reading a book or listening to music. But in general I’m for active rest.

There are many places you can go to like cinemas, theatres, museums, cafes, parties. You can also go out of town and enjoy fresh air and a change of scenery. A lot of men like to go fishing for a weekend. If the weather is cold or wet there are plenty of things to do indoors. You can read books, listen to music, watch TV, use the Internet, play computer games and so on. A day off for me is a nice possibility to escape from daily University routine. When a weekend comes I try very hard to have good time.

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MINSK.

HISTORY

Minsk is one of the oldest Belarusian cities. The first mentioning of it is found in The Chroni­cles (1067). The first settlement from which Minsk originated was founded at the confluence of the Nemiga and Svisloch near the portages that connected the basins of the Black and Baltic Seas, forming the connection of routes from the North to the South and from the West to the East from West Euro­pean capitals to Moscow.

The first printing house was opened in the city in 1596. in the early 20th century 12 private printing houses were functioning and 4 newspapers and 9 trade magazines were published. In the cen­ter of the city there was the well-known hotel Europe with 130 rooms and a lift (1908). Minsk was a city of many religions. It had 90 Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant churches, synagogues, mosques and prayer houses.

In the 19th – early 20th century Minsk was the European-like principal city of a province with booming business, trade and industries. Its population was 98,000 people (according to the 1898 cen­sus). The total area covered by the city equaled 18 sq. km at the time (219.4 sq. km in 1995).

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Belarusian National Technical University

Belarusian National Technical University is one of the oldest and biggest educational institutions in our republic. It was founded in 1920. It’s famous for its high quality academic programs and a stimulating learning environment.

BNTU includes 15 departments and trains specialists for different fields of science and technology. Many young people from our country and abroad enter BNTU to become mechanical engineers, architects, programmers, economists, building engineers, electrical engineers and etc. There are around 21 000 students who make a mix of undergraduate and postgraduate students studying mainly full – time. Many of them are also professionals who attend courses in the evening after work.

There are full – time, part – time and correspondence departments at the university. Full –time course lasts five years as a rule. Part – time and correspondence courses are longer. The curricula however do not differ greatly in the subject taught. The difference is in the system in which the studies are organized.

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About Belarus

The Republic of Belarus is a new independent state that has been formed as a result of the dissolution of the USSR. There are a few variants of the origin of the name "Belarus". Here are two of them: Firstly, the white flax clothes of the ancient villagers, their fair hair and the whiteness of their skin. Secondly, when our ancient Slav lands were invaded by Tatars and Mongols, that part of Russia was clear of the invasion and remained "white".

Belarus occupies 207.600 square km. It stretches for 560 km from north to south and 650 km from east to west. It borders on the Ukraine, Russia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland. So, it’s advantageously situated at the crossroads from Western Europe to the East. Such favour­able situation has always attracted the enemy. There was not a single war in Eastern Europe that has missed Belarus.

The population of Belarus constitutes about 10 million people. Representatives of more than 160 nationalities live here. Significant numbers of Russians, Poles and Ukrainians live in the Republic along with Belarusians. Читать полностью »