Kilometer Zero Belarus - Belarusian beginning of all roads, the place is the heart of the country.

The first sign zero kilometer in Minsk was established after Minsk became part of the Russian Empire. Huge leviathan that when Catherine the Great became the country were needed good roads, to which the Empress presvyaschennaya not regret any human or cash. Once the roads were put in order, in 1795 near the central post office of Minsk province was set to post zero miles.

In 1998 it was held the global reconstruction of the main square of the capital of Belarus. In those years, the state symbols of the country's young have been particularly important. Therefore, it was decided to move the zero kilometer mark roads Belarus exactly 1 kilometer from the main post office on October Square.

Symbolic pyramid shape - eternity and wisdom. On the other side of the pyramid - the universal sign of the mystical harmony of heaven and earth. On the red granite pyramid fortified bronze ornaments, cartouches. One of them says: «Via est vita» - Latin wisdom is translated as: "The road - this is the life" on the other cartouche a map of Belarus, the third says "Home of roads Belarus", the fourth - the verses of the national Belarusian poet Yakub Kolas:

Darogі, vechnyya darogі! ..
Nyama Kanz you ni supynu,
You zhyvy chasіnu skin.

On the basis of a granite pyramid painted distances to major cities of Belarus and the capitals of neighboring states. Pyramid is oriented to the cardinal points that confirm the inscriptions on bronze signs, okovyvayuschih edges of the pyramid.