30 good reasons for which you need to move to work in Minsk

1. Strong IT-sphere

According to the resource statistics dev.byIn Minsk 939 IT-companies and nearly 40,000 IT-specialists. This means that the industry average yield of 10% per year in the IT-sphere there 4000 vacancies, one of which you may qualify. The largest - EPAM and Wargaming, where several thousand employees working. It Minsk team created such masterpieces as World of Tanks, Viber.

Now many Minsk IT-companies have become international, and the sun never sets on their offices.

I work for a company SOOO Game Stream, Minsk Wargaming development center. I will not describe all the advantages as well as the article is not about that, I will say one thing: it megakrutaya team of enthusiasts globally with passion.

Jobs can be viewed online at the above or jobs.tut.by.

2. PVT - concessional taxation

In Minsk, created High-Tech Park (HTP) - zone, allowing IT-companies to do business on favorable terms.

These include reduced income tax (9% instead of 12%) and preferential taxation of companies. For example, a typical company pays 35% tax on employees' salaries and IT-company pays the same amount, but not with full pay and with the minimum of the country, which equals about 1 to 5%.

And if, for example, in Ukraine, you will draw as an individual entrepreneur at the device in IT-companies in Belarus will take you to the state with a full workbook.

3. All speak Russian

Moving Ukrainian or Russian in Minsk will be very simple, because everyone speaks Russian here. Russian par with the Belarusian is the official language. In addition, the Ukrainians will get a nice a benefit in the form of almost one hundred percent clear understanding of the Belarusian language, as the words that are not like the Russian language, 80% are similar to Ukrainian.

4. easy registration

It is very easy to legally stay in the country. It's enough to have two things: the employment contract and the contract of renting an apartment, registered in the VES.

The algorithm looks like this:

1. You get a job offer from the company.
2. Send copies of their documents, the company starts to design an application for authorization of your employment. It is said that 95% of these companies get permission from the first, in other cases - the second. It takes two weeks.
3. You come to Minsk. As a rule, companies provide housing for the first time, so you can easily look for homes for rent. Very much, there is a real estate agency. I was looking through the "Molnar" and "square meter". I looked at the apartment hata.by and realt.by.
4. Find an apartment, sign a master lease agreement, you register it in VES. From this point you can take on the job.
5. At work, you are preparing a package of documents that you carry to the migration service. One or two weeks of waiting, and you get a temporary registration. Surprisingly, there is almost no queues. On my two visits (bring documents and pick up registration) spent on the strength of 60 minutes.
6. Now you can be a year in the country legally. Ukrainians from now do not need to fill in a migration card at customs.

5. Simple design SIM-card, a bank card account in foreign currency

All you need to ordinary man, - SIM-card and bank card. Check out their very easily. SIM-card can be obtained even without registration, it will be called "guest card". In general, it is quite acceptable. I took MTS someone takes Life. Immediately I got full 3G-internet - $ 3 for 1 GB for a month.

Bank card is issued too easily. You only need a passport and a code (it does not matter - TRAVEL or normal). You can immediately open an account in foreign currency and then to the internet banking to transfer part of the salary in dollars.

My bank - "Belinvestbank". State, one of the largest, with a very convenient online banking:

• Easy payment of utilities (you need to enter only the name of the utility company and your account - the system will automatically load the details of your account, and shall set the amount).
• Conveniently order the additional card - directly in internet banking, the bank then only need to pick up (10 minutes).
• The banks themselves electronic queue - easy.
• Pay by card over the Internet is protected by the introduction of additional password (payment on any site you send to the website of your bank to enter the password, and then passes the payment).
• By the way, the interest rate on the balance of the map - 24% per annum (if the remainder of the $ 350). Can be issued deposit card with a rate of over 40% per annum. Everything, of course, in rubles.
• It is easy to transfer money to the card and a dollar back.

6. good medicine

With government agencies have not yet encountered, but the profit clinics there. I have been several times in the "Lode" clinic. Staff friendly, modern classrooms, equipment, too. Doctors usually, however, as in Kiev. In "Medikome", "Boris", "Dobrobut" work coming out of the ordinary physician. I think the same thing here.

By the way, in the range of pharmacies is 2-3 times lower than Ukrainian. This is a plus, as few expensive drugs, the price of which is due to the advertising budget.

Here I met for the first time with the means of the common cold "Snoop". Not advertising - it's really a godsend. One injection, and runny nose all day will not. It costs 3 dollars, enough for a long time (and in Ukraine, I bought doroguschy "Sinupret" tablets, as sprays strongly dried nose and cause irritation).

They say that antibiotics are not available without a prescription. It is not true. I bought on the advice of a doctor "Augmentin" My recipe is not even asked, even though he was with me. Maybe the pharmacist was a telepath. :) Pharmacies here is, as usual, is only open until the evening, and on duty, working around the clock.

Search medication easiest online tabletka.byThere is shown how the presence of drugs in different pharmacies and drug prices.

7. Convenient travel around the city (public transport, taxi)

You can move around the city by public transport or taxi (not yet brought his car).

Public transportation just fine:

• Flat payment card travel on the metro, tram, bus, city bus. Everywhere there are readers, so pay the card easily. But for those who like tickets, there are electronic composters. Travel costs an average of 30 cents.
• All public transport is extremely clean both inside and out.
• Modern trolleys, buses, subway cars, trams.
• On average, a stop extending from three to seven routes. I often see how to stop calls in three consecutive trolley. a small range of motion.

All your routes I planned in the program Wikiroutes. Moreover, it is possible to see where you're going and how long you leave.

Taxi:

• 7788, it is a taxi "Diamond" - cheap and cheerful. A lot of machines running on them, so the order is usually not a problem. What bribe me - you can customize the website through USSD-request to a predetermined address, and then call a taxi by pressing the contact in the address book. Recently we started to put Wi-Fi.
• 135, it is also a taxi "Capital" - the average price segment, the car is better.
• Taxi "Friday" - the premium. The park is only a VW Passat B6 and B7. Their rule: driver in classical trousers and shirt, neatly trimmed, taciturn. There is Wi-Fi and pay through the terminal.

By the way, taksovat without obtaining a special license plates and registration in a taxi is not accepted.

Never take a taxi, which stands at the train station, store, or anywhere else-a-half double rate you provided.

8. Quality products and a large selection of imports

My first acquaintance happened to the shop "Rublevskoye". A lot of them around the city, there is at every home. The range was weak, the store itself - dark and I was a little upset. But then I discovered for myself, "Hippo", "Prostor", "Crown" and I realized that there is a grocery paradise.

What are the advantages of Minsk:

• Very rigid state standards and norms. Bad products are simply not allowed on the shelves.
• You can not follow the terms of the sale of products, here are afraid of inspection bodies and follow it.
• Very tasty and at the same time cheap marshmallow and marmalade.
• A lot of good imports at the right price.
• I have not seen rotten vegetables or fruit. In one store even I saw a large trash can with a lid and the words, "If you do not like fruit - put it here."
• Lots of different sauces. There are authentic carbonara sauce Italian production, which makes the pasta, a dish worthy Michelin restaurant.
• Good selection of imported beers.
• Very tasty and always fresh products "Santa Braemar" (a local company). I bought just for fun even Olivier, but then I was surprised by the freshness and taste of the salad. The quality of crab stick on top! Much better than Vici.
• Good fresh meat and a good stuffing.
• Large selection of imported cheeses at affordable prices.
• There is a local mascarpone and ricotta at ridiculous prices ($ 2 per bank) that the taste is not inferior to imported. Many cheese dzhyugas from neighboring Lithuania - affordable alternative to Parmesan.
• Delicious and affordable dairy products company "Savushkin." I became her fan. I recommend yogurt. Bypass even Ehrmann.

9. The road to Vilnius - 2:30 (Europe, IKEA, restaurants, shopping centers)

A real find for me was a trip to Vilnius. The train goes all 2 hours 30 minutes and is very comfortable, fare costs 15 euros.

Vilnius immediately provides access to the best European buns:

• IKEA store;
• a huge number of restaurants and cafes;
• beautiful center with buildings XVIII-XIX centuries and narrow streets;
• shops with cheap amber;
• shopping center "Akropolis", it is simply huge and has absorbed all the branded stores.

I could write a lot more about Vilnius, but this article is about the city.

10. excellent road

Long time since I've seen the way with 11 lanes (five in one direction and six in the other) - Long live the Guerrilla prospectus.

During the war in> 50% of Minsk was destroyed, so, unlike cities, construction of which took place even when the carts and pedestrians, he immediately built for cars. Therefore, it is very wide road, there is a ring road. To pass from one part to another of Minsk can be as little as 30 minutes. Roads in good condition.

I have not yet met the abandoned areas with holes. Yama met, but small, and fairly quickly patched.

You can not be afraid to buy a Smart or sports cars.

11. The proximity of Vilnius airport with low-cost airlines, railway junction - Warsaw, Prague

Continuing the theme of abroad, I will say that from Vilnius flying different loukostery: Ryanair, Wizz Air and others. Also, from here trains in Prague, Warsaw, Riga.

12. European values

According to their culture and values ​​of the citizens of Minsk are very close to the Europeans. It's hard to describe in words, but can be felt. These values ​​are shown in the observance of purity, to follow the rules and laws in driving style and how you are treated in the restaurants, shops and other establishments.

13. People - good, balanced, hospitable

The greatest value of Minsk - its people. Belarusians themselves speak of themselves "pamyarkoўnyya" - balanced. And it's really true.

This is manifested in the kindness, the absence of radical views (both in politics and in religion or culture). I think the Belarusians simply lacks the gene envy, aggression, conviction. But this does not prevent them from being fairly bright people.

14. Security in the city and on the roads

Vehicle speed limit is 60 + 9 km / h, this is sufficient to safe driving. I have seen very few accidents on the roads. If in Kiev, the norm was to see one accident a day, there is one accident every two weeks.

In the city itself feels too safe: the streets are well lit, there is practically no homeless people, drug addicts, alcoholics, people thuggish appearance.

No loud screams of carousing at night.

15. Purity in

What exactly will never see in Minsk - a garbage dump somewhere in transition, in the snow or snow, or near the broken urn. Here are regularly cleaned. Even at the station, it seems, is in sterile cleanliness. I usually do not like train stations, but here on the station clean and modern compared with the average airport.

I never had to wash the shoes in Minsk. It happens only in Europe. Car wash is also very rare, because the road is not dirt and sand. I was very surprised when after the winter the roads were clear.

16. Predictability and stability

When you live in Minsk, there is some slight sense of stability and predictability. It seems that tomorrow and the day after will not happen any force majeure.

Perhaps something like the woman feels behind a strong man. Whether cleanliness and order in the city create a feeling, whether the absence of a large number of negative news.

17. It is easy to bring your car

Rossiyaninu bring your car as easily as go to another city. The only caveat - green mapWhich is inexpensive. Slightly harder Ukrainian: will need to take out insurance ( "green fodder") and the declaration by the customs.

The machine may not even belong to the driver. While in Belarus there is no such thing as a power of attorney for the car, at the Ukrainian customs it may be asked, therefore, to issue better labeled a "right to export cars abroad".

Ukrainians have the right to travel to Belarus for up to three months and then have to call or go and again, or renew the registration of up to one year at the customs authority in Minsk (on the basis of labor contract).

These terms may not be violated, otherwise the car may be confiscated.

18. excellent restaurants

Lovers is definitely not disappointed. I was in such institutions: Spoon, «Chekhov», Bistro De Luxe, Tapas Bar, «Insomnia", "Gallery ¡The" Country Club Robinson - all excellent European cuisine and delicious wine. In addition, for the sweet lovers there with my favorite Cinnabon cinnamon rolls. Of course, there are McDonalds, which, however, surprised me with a complete lack of Wi-Fi.

19. Modern shopping centers

The first store, which I got, was a gum. He made me a shock and panic. I thought that all this Minsk. Who misses scoop - welcome to the GUM on Independence Avenue. But then I became acquainted with the "Crown", "Castle" and Galileo - excellent shopping center with brand-name shops.

Upset "Arena City": in a nice neighborhood, nice appearance, but absolutely useless in stores.

20. Bicycle paths and parks for jogging

Which is really a lot in Minsk and what he subjectively bypasses even Vilnius - a bike route. They were simply set on the sidewalks. In addition, they are in the parks, there can and run. A park in Minsk very much, and they are all well maintained.

21. Infrastructure for children

Playgrounds, plenty of gardens, European (really) zoo, water park, dolphin, children's play centers in shopping centers - there is everything that your child will need. In addition, there are so many private develops activities in each area.

22. Easy to accumulate money to pay abroad

In order to save a portion of wages, it is absolutely not necessary to go to the bank and open a floppy deposits, which then can not be removed prematurely. Rates on plastic cards is quite acceptable: 24 to 40% per annum for Belarusian rubles and up to 5% per annum on the dollar-denominated cards. In this case, money can be easily removed from an ATM, pay at the terminal.

Cards can also be used abroad with the same ease as in Minsk. In the time of payment at online stores do not have problems, too.

23. You can shoot dollars from an ATM

ATMs often noticed in currency of choice, which you want to remove. Once I tried to withdraw $ 100 - turned out! This is not in Ukraine or Russia. ATMs themselves in the city completely and remove the money is not a problem.

24. no traffic jams

In Minsk categorically no traffic jams. Here you do not need to leave to work for 1-2 hours or hire a driver (as do people in Moscow to work to work in the car on the way). In the morning, in the evening, at dinner - you can always go from one part of town to another in 30 minutes.

As a result - fuel economy, time and nerves.

As an extra pleasant result - there is no such rudeness on the roads, in Kiev or Moscow. Nobody is in a hurry, so there is no need to trim, squeeze at the crossroads, go around on the sidelines, and so on.

25. Huge selection of kindergartens and schools

I recently spent a little experiment: walked around my neighborhood within a radius of 800 meters - counted five schools and five kindergartens. Each school has its own stadium with an excellent finish. In gardens everywhere playgrounds, quite modern. Neat building, pavilions and fences.

26. Do not feel like a foreigner

Here, no one treats you as a foreigner. In the taxi, the shops, at work - wherever you are an ordinary person. I watched the people: even the representatives of the Asian and African peoples Minskers react very calmly.

Here, 80% of the restaurant I hear the English language, and no one turns on them to carefully examine the foreigners.

27. Cheap drugs

Increasingly, I notice requests to bring drugs from Belarus. Compare prices on some of them, and very often medicine Belarus are 1.5-2 times cheaper than in Ukraine. I not studied why, but it's a fact.

28. pure nature

Nature here is simply magic. The first thing that surprised at the entrance to Belarus by car - it is a very neat wood. All the trees are smooth, between them there is no waste. It is obvious that in the forests and plantations are maintained. I was even in Poland is not always seen only in Germany. Well, and now in Minsk.

29. There is no need for air conditioning

When I was looking for an apartment for material removal, he drew attention to the lack of air conditioning in the photo. Then explain to me, here in the summer is not so hot, so air conditioning was needed. From this all the buildings seem to be more accurate.

This summer was hot for 2-3 weeks, but, in comparison with the same Kiev, heat very easily portable.

30. Balm for the soul nostalgic

While Minsk mostly very European, nostalgic for the Soviet Union is still able to find yourself something like:

• Architecture. Here, indeed, beautiful architecture remained since the Soviet Union, mainly in the center of Minsk.
• Guest. All products have different certificates (EAC STB), which do confirm the quality.
• Purity. It seems to me that it is for the purity and accuracy loved USSRSince immediately after the collapse of its streets were unkempt, the road - broken, trash everywhere.
• No fighting with Soviet symbols. Stars, obelisks, memorials, street names - a lot of authentic from the time of the USSR.
• There is still preserved shops and catering establishments, where you can recall the USSR (simple interior, old cabinets and refrigerators, clothes sellers).

To summarize, I would say: Minsk - it's really cool!

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