{"id":574537,"date":"2026-09-08T11:26:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T08:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=574537"},"modified":"2026-09-08T11:52:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T08:52:49","slug":"minsk-to-celebrate-city-day-on-september-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/minsk-to-celebrate-city-day-on-september-12","title":{"rendered":"Minsk To Celebrate City Day On September 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The main events marking City Day will take place in Minsk on September 12.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Minsk City Executive Committee&#8217;s Department of Culture, the celebrations will begin with a wreath-laying ceremony at the Minsk \u2014 Hero City obelisk at 10 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>An international rescue workers&#8217; competition will be held in Victory Park, with more than 100 athletes taking part.<\/p>\n<p>Minsk will also host the Minsk-Starazhyl historical reenactment festival, which will bring together around 500 reenactors from Belarus, Russia and China.<\/p>\n<p>At 11:30 a.m., a cultural and entertainment program titled &#8220;Minsk, My Soul&#8221; will begin near the Palace of Sports. Russian performer Akmal will headline the event. A festive fair will also be held there.<\/p>\n<p>At 5 p.m., a ceremony to present the &#8220;Minsk Citizen of the Year&#8221; awards will begin at Freedom Square. It will be accompanied by a concert.<\/p>\n<p>A professions festival will be held in Gorky Park.<\/p>\n<p>A fireworks display is scheduled for 11 p.m. at Starastsinskaya Slabada Park.<\/p>\n<p>District venues will also operate across the city.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic in the city center will be restricted. From 6 p.m., traffic will be completely closed on Pobediteley Avenue from Internatsionalnaya Street to Melnikaite Street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The main events marking City Day will take place in Minsk on September 12. According to the Minsk City Executive Committee&#8217;s Department of Culture, the celebrations will begin with a wreath-laying ceremony at the Minsk \u2014 Hero City obelisk at 10 a.m. An international rescue workers&#8217; competition will be held in Victory Park, with more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":528743,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6a9fcce995698.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Minsk To Celebrate City Day On September 12"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143127],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-574537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-society"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}