News Blog - Apartment in Minsk!

Among foreigners, who come to Belarus, there exists a myth that traveling by train is slow, expensive and, moreover, inconvenient. That is why most visitors rent a car to drive to this or that town. As it turns out, traveling by train is more convenient and much cheaper. The railway system in Belarus is highly developed: you can go by train to every city in every region, no matter how small it is. So, it is barely a problem to travel to any city, even if it is situated on the opposite side of the country. The timetable of the railway stations is pretty convenient: morning, day and night trains are available for people.

Today it is impossible to imagine a modern life in the city without the service of taxi. This topic is particularly important for foreigners, who don’t know the city well and have to use taxis rather often. Unfortunately, in Minsk, as well as in other big cities in the world, the drivers, providing the service for foreigners, can sometimes cheat and take much more money than needed.  But, surely, not only tourists suffer from insincere drivers.

Taxis standing near the near night clubs, popular bars and restaurants as a rule, will cost you more than it should be. The drivers of these cars are waiting for people who are lazy to call a taxi themselves.

Two students from Belarus (Artem Stavenko, who is studying at a London college and an Oxford student Cyril Chikeyuk) took part in a famous TV-show on BBC and interested the jury with their invention. This TV-show called "Dragon’s Den" is famous throughout the world. It gives a great opportunity for business amateurs, who don’t have enough money, to develop their own business ideas. The participants present their know-how to the jury, which includes major financiers. If these financiers approve of the invention, they provide the participant with the needed amount of money.

The problem of buying an apartment is really complicated for young people. The newlyweds, young people striving for independence want to have their own property and not to live with their family. Unfortunately, in most cases they cannot afford any realty, because the prices are really high. Today Belarusian architectures suggest a solution of the problem.

Minsk is undoubtedly a big city with pretty variable means of public transportation. Every day nearly 3 million people use public transport to get to this or that place. Public transport in Minsk is cheap, safe, reliable and more or less comfortable. The most popular means are metro, bus, trolleybus and tram.

Visiting any city for the first time would definitely bring new emotions. Some tourists shared their first impressions about Minsk with us. In fact they are absolutely different people, who are occupied in various and not similar spheres of life. We got the tourists’ opinions about the most beautiful places of our capital and received some suggestions how to make it look better.

One of the tourists says that his most favorite places in Minsk are those where the remains of the old city can be observed. For example, Nemiga str, Lenina str or Nezavisimosti avenue, which are situated not far from the contemporary city center. He points out that the high-tech buildings in Minsk, the number of which is getting bigger year by year, can greatly damage the image of the city. Like it happened to Moscow.

The problem to rent a good flat for a long term at reasonable prices in Minsk is really hot-burning nowadays. Especially for ordinary Belorussians, whose average salary is nearly 500 USD a month (according to the statistics).

Some people claim that it is not a problem to rent a good flat in Minsk for 200 USD a month. The real estate specialists have calculated that the cost of rent should not be more than 20% of the monthly income of the person. In Minsk this sum is something like $100. But what do we have in reality?