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Minsk: Moscow Central
built 646 days ago
Minsk-1 opened in 1933 a few kilometres to the south of the historical centre. In 1955 it became an international airport and by 1970 served over 1 million passengers a year. From 1982 it mainly served domestic routes in Belarus and short-haul routes to Moscow, Kiev and Kaliningrad. Minsk-1 is expected to be closed in 2008 because of the noise pollution in the surrounding residential areas. The land of the airport will be re-developed for residential and commercial real estate, currently branded as Minsk-City.
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The new Central Rail Terminal in Minsk offers all the services a traveler needs, most of them are available 24/7. Restaurants, bars, a game zone, a waiting room, a locker room, shops, a pharmacy are to name a few. Everything is signposted with easily recognizable pictograms.
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Minsk-23 became a basis for systems of automated control at the Novocherkassk electrolocomotive works, at the Moscow association Mosmoloko and in the Aeroflot air ticket sale and booking system. But unfortunately, the computer had not met with the expected commercial success. Only 28 computers were manufactured, which was inconsistent with the capacities of the Ordzhonikidze plant. This failure, probably, derived from the fact that the underlying ideas of the computer were not transparent to users, there was no compatibility with the previous model, its performance was insufficient for scientific and engineering tasks, and the demand for business data processing was not developed at the enterprises and organizations.
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Airways extended from Minsk to all continents during this period. Today the company offers its clients regular scheduled flights to 24 airports, including Berlin, Moscow, Vienna, Warsaw, Frankfurt, London, Shannon, Rome, Larnaca, Prague, Stockholm, in over 20 countries.
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