2012 – ongoing

Minsk is a 2 million capital of Belarus. The biggest part of it was built after World War II and was quite carefully planned.

We have here only one small river but there was an idea to create a big recreation zone for city inhabitants. The “green diameter” – a system of artificial lakes and parks, had to cross the city from west to east and form a rest zone. There also were some “workers” districts, where people from big factories mainly lived, located on the periphery of Minsk and far from the river. To spread green zone into these districts a channel, an artificial “river” with a system of ponds and waterfalls from concrete, was created in the middle of 70s.

Green diameter had to form a center of communication for people of Minsk. From one hand it is like this at the moment. From another, today these parks being an architectural and natural monument became more a place of solitude and runaway, a palace, where everybody tries to hide, to stay a little bit on alone on the nature.