A black-and-white past and a colorful present. Young professionals from the Minsk region visited the BELTA exhibition "Belarus. Takeoff."

News Topics October 15, Zaslavl. On October 15, the Belarusian Telegraph Agency's exhibition "Belarus. Takeoff" was presented in Zaslavl to young professionals who came from across the Minsk Region, BELTA reports.

The BELTA exhibition "Belarus. Takeoff" features 40 unique posters with photographs spanning the 30 years of independent Belarus. They were taken in the early 1990s by the news agency's photographers, Arkady Nikolayev, Vladimir Shuba, and Alexander Didevich. Unique images from the Belarusian State Archive of Film, Photo, and Sound Documents in Dzerzhinsk were also used in the preparation of the exhibition. Each poster featuresQR codes can be scanned to obtain even more information.
For young people just beginning their careers in modern manufacturing environments and comfortable social facilities, meeting unique talent is an emotional journey into the recent past, one that their parents and grandparents still remember.
Daniil Burakovsky has already appreciated the capabilities of one of the central region's leading processing plants, the Slutsk Cheese Factory, where he works as an automation engineer. "The conditions are wonderful; the plant is a flagship, and I couldn't even imagine its scale. I understand that it wasn't always like this. A lot of work and money has been invested in its development. And the abundance of goods the factory produces is clearly visible on store shelves. Thirty years ago, cheese and milk might not be available at all. I've heard this from my parents more than once," Daniil said.
Maria Tomashevskaya represents the Lyuban District. She works in education: she is a teacher-psychologist at the city gymnasium. "The conditions are wonderful, because I've arrived to work where I most wanted to – in my hometown. Looking at it and knowing about Lyuban's prospects, I'm very happy. After all, with the construction of the mining and processing plant, everything is changing before our eyes. Housing is being built, infrastructure is being improved, and landscaping is underway. This means Lyuban has a future," Maria noted.

She also shared that their family archive contains photographs of the district center from the 1990s. "The difference is colossal, as we can see in the BELTA exhibition footage. It's gratifying that stores have appeared and new parks have been created on formerly dull vacant lots," she added.
Karina Selchonok works in the forestry department of the Berezinsky District. "I love our Belarusian nature very much, and forestry workers see beauty every day that is unattainable for those in other fields. I'm even more happy to have been assigned to the Minsk region. It's a central region, dynamically moving forward. And all those grim images we see on posters are a thing of the distant past. Young people can confidently make plans for the future in our country," Karina emphasized.
Photo by Andrey Sinyavsky