Lukashenko’s recent visit to Loshitsa park in Minsk resulted in wedding boom
During his today’s visit to the Minsk City Technical Creativity Centre for Children and Youth, President of Belarus Aleksandr Lukashenko drew attention to the well-landscaped surrounding area and the beautifying of the capital as a whole, noting that city authorities had done a good job in this regard, BelTA reports
"It's good that you've already learned how to put Minsk in order. When creating something, we made it perfect, but the surrounding territory used not be beautified at all. We will probably put Minsk in order in five years [if continue working in the current manner],” the Head of State said.
The Chairman of the Minsk City Executive Committee, Vladimir Kukharev, reported on the work dealing with the modernisation of the Slepyanka water system, the repair of waterfalls and the restoration of order in the surrounding territories. "It refers to all facilities, and the area is almost completely landscaped. There are playgrounds there," he said, adding that conditions have been created for active recreation as well, including open-air gyms.
"The children who attend [the Technical Creativity Centre] need sport exercises, so let them do it," Aleksandr Lukashenko noted.
The Head of State also asked about the functioning of Minsk’s Loshitsa complex, which he visited on the eve of City Day in September. A hall for marriage registration is located on its territory, and Aleksandr Lukashenko attended the first ceremony and personally congratulated the newlyweds back then. “Great! It has got an incredible advertisement, and there are ten times more applications now,” the officials accompanying the Head of State reported, also noting that there had been a day when not everyone wishing to register their marriage had managed to do that: it was physically impossible to satisfy such a large number of applications. “Well, what about doing that at nighttime?” the President jokingly remarked. “If people want, we should do.”
The President was informed that, in response to the emerged popularity, the wedding complex is indeed offering different locations for off-site registration of marriages. "Among them are manors, for example, and so on. Plenty of people go there, and there are crowds of them on weekends,” Mr. Kukharev noted.
