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  "history.meta.title": "History of Minsk, 1067 to today · minsk.ad",
  "history.eyebrow": "History · 1067 to today",
  "history.title": "959 years in one scroll",
  "history.lede": "From a battle on a small river to a city of two million. Twenty moments, told plainly, each with its source. Scroll slowly and watch the map grow.",
  "history.m1.title": "A name in a chronicle",
  "history.map.svislach": "Svislach",
  "history.map.niamiha": "Niamiha",
  "history.map.castle": "Castle",
  "history.map.upperTown": "Upper Town",
  "history.map.trinity": "Trinity Suburb",
  "history.map.railway": "Railway",
  "history.map.avenue": "Independence Avenue",
  "history.map.ring": "Ring road",
  "history.map.library": "Library",
  "history.map.line1": "Line 1",
  "history.map.line3": "Line 3",
  "history.m1.text": "The Primary Chronicle tells of a battle on the Niamiha (Nemiga) river on 3 March 1067, and names the town as Menesk. Minsk counts its age from that year.",
  "place.niamiha": "Niamiha",
  "history.source": "Source",
  "history.m2.title": "A principality of its own",
  "history.m2.text": "From 1101 Minsk was the seat of its own principality, one of the small states that grew out of the Principality of Polotsk. Its wooden castle stood on an island where the Niamiha meets the Svislach.",
  "place.castle": "The castle site",
  "history.m3.title": "Town rights",
  "history.m3.text": "By now part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Minsk received Magdeburg rights in 1499: a charter that let its townspeople govern themselves. Trade gathered at the Lower Market, just outside the castle walls.",
  "history.m4.title": "A new town on the hill",
  "history.m4.text": "After the Union of Lublin in 1569, Minsk was part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, as the centre of its own voivodeship. The Upper Town grew up around a new market square on the high bank, with Trinity Suburb across the river.",
  "place.freedomSquare": "Freedom Square",
  "place.trinity": "Trinity Suburb",
  "history.m5.title": "Stone on the square",
  "history.m5.text": "A town hall rose on the market square in 1600, and from 1633 to 1642 the Bernardine nuns built the twin-towered church that is now the Holy Spirit Cathedral. The town hall you see today is a rebuild from 2002 to 2004.",
  "place.cathedral": "Holy Spirit Cathedral",
  "place.townHall": "Town Hall",
  "history.m6.title": "Part of the Russian Empire",
  "history.m6.text": "After the Second Partition of Poland in 1793, Minsk became part of the Russian Empire. From 1796 it was the centre of the Minsk Governorate.",
  "history.m7.title": "A straight new street",
  "history.m7.text": "The city's first plan was adopted in 1800, and in spring 1801 Zakharyevskaya Street was laid out over the old ramparts south-east of the old town. It is the first stretch of today's Independence Avenue.",
  "place.avenue": "Independence Avenue",
  "history.m8.title": "A railway crossroads",
  "history.m8.text": "The Moscow to Warsaw railway reached Minsk in 1871, and the Libau to Romny line crossed it in 1873. The town grew fast: the 1897 census counted about 91,000 people, up from about 27,000 in 1860.",
  "history.photo.h1900": "The upper market square, today Freedom Square, before 1914.",
  "history.photo.postcard": "Postcard",
  "history.photo.pd": "Public domain, Wikimedia Commons",
  "history.m9.title": "A capital",
  "history.m9.text": "In January 1919 Minsk became the capital of the Byelorussian SSR, which in 1922 was one of the founding republics of the USSR.",
  "history.m10.title": "A university",
  "history.m10.text": "Belarusian State University was founded on 30 October 1921, and Minsk began to fill with students.",
  "place.bsu": "Belarusian State University",
  "history.m11.title": "Occupation",
  "history.m11.text": "German forces occupied Minsk from late June 1941 until 3 July 1944. In the Minsk Ghetto, from July 1941 to October 1943, between 80,000 and 100,000 Jews were imprisoned, and most of them were murdered.",
  "history.photo.h1944": "Zacharaŭskaja Street, today Independence Avenue, in 1941.",
  "history.m12.title": "A city in ruins",
  "history.m12.text": "When the occupation ended on 3 July 1944, about 80% of the city's houses had been reduced to rubble. Only about 50,000 people were still living there.",
  "history.m13.title": "Built again, on a grand scale",
  "history.m13.text": "From 1947 a wide new main avenue was laid out under the architect Mikhail Parusnikov, and in 1953 the twin towers of the Gates of Minsk were finished opposite the railway station. Together they gave the centre the look it still has.",
  "history.photo.h1950s": "The rebuilt centre on the Svislach, 1964.",
  "photo.label": "Photo",
  "place.gates": "Gates of Minsk",
  "history.m14.title": "A city of a million",
  "history.m14.text": "From 1956 to 1963 a ring road about 56 km long was built around the city. In 1972 the population passed one million, and new housing districts kept growing towards the ring.",
  "history.m15.title": "Trinity Suburb restored",
  "history.m15.text": "The western part of Trinity Suburb was restored from 1980 to 1985, the first full restoration of a historic quarter in Belarus. Its 19th-century streets now hold small museums, shops and cafés.",
  "history.m16.title": "The metro opens",
  "history.m16.text": "On 29 June 1984 the first line opened: 7.84 km and eight stations, from Instytut Kultury to Maskoŭskaja. Its first riders said they felt they were in underground palaces.",
  "history.photo.hMetro": "Park Čaliuskincaŭ, one of the eight stations of 1984.",
  "station.caliuskincau.name": "Park Čaliuskincaŭ",
  "history.m17.title": "Capital of independent Belarus",
  "history.m17.text": "Since 1991 Minsk has been the capital of the independent Republic of Belarus.",
  "history.m18.title": "The diamond library",
  "history.m18.text": "On 16 June 2006 the National Library opened in its new home out along the avenue: a 23-storey glass rhombicuboctahedron about 74 m tall. After sunset its facade becomes a screen of 4,646 LED fixtures.",
  "place.library": "National Library of Belarus",
  "history.m19.title": "A third line",
  "history.m19.text": "Line 3 opened on 6 November 2020 with four stations, and three more followed on 30 December 2024. The metro now has 3 lines and 36 stations.",
  "place.jubiliejnaja": "Jubiliejnaja plošča",
  "history.m20.title": "About two million",
  "history.m20.text": "On 1 January 2026, 1,995,091 people lived in Minsk. The town first named beside a small river in 1067 now covers about 410 square kilometres.",
  "history.end.title": "Now come and see it.",
  "history.end.text": "Every source on this page, with the date it was read, is listed on the sources page.",
  "history.end.day": "Plan a perfect day",
  "history.end.sources": "All sources",
  "nav.home": "Home",
  "footer.note": "minsk.ad is an independent, non-commercial invitation to the city. It is not a city, government or tourism-board site, and has no sponsors or ads.",
  "history.meta.description": "959 years of Minsk in one scroll: twenty moments from a battle on the Niamiha in 1067 to a city of two million, each with its source, and a map that grows as you read.",
  "photo.h1900.alt": "Old postcard of a cobbled square with tram tracks, a corner house with shops and the twin towers of the Holy Spirit church behind",
  "photo.h1944.alt": "Three townspeople with baskets walking down a street lined with burnt-out, roofless buildings and heaps of rubble",
  "photo.h1950s.alt": "Colour photo from 1964 of a new granite embankment along the Svislach with rebuilt neoclassical buildings and a colonnaded palace across the water",
  "photo.trinity.alt": "A row of white old houses with dark roofs in Trinity Suburb at dusk, a full moon rising and the scene mirrored in the river",
  "photo.hMetro.alt": "The long white vaulted platform hall of Park Čaliuskincaŭ station, with tiered glass chandeliers down the centre",
  "photo.hLibrary.alt": "The diamond-shaped glass National Library of Belarus in evening sun beyond a lawn and juniper beds",
  "photo.hToday.alt": "A wide view along the Svislach in golden light, green parkland on the left and a row of modern towers reflected in the water",
  "home.meta.title": "Meet Minsk · minsk.ad",
  "hero.eyebrow": "An open invitation",
  "hero.title": "Meet Minsk.",
  "hero.lede": "A river through the middle, avenues built for parades of light, and a library that glows all night. Come and see it.",
  "hero.planDay": "Plan a perfect day",
  "hero.play": "Play Metro Minsk",
  "hero.scroll": "Scroll into the night",
  "journey.title": "A night journey along the river",
  "journey.s1.time": "Blue hour",
  "journey.s1.title": "The Upper Town on its hill",
  "journey.s1.text": "Above the Svislach, the twin towers of the Holy Spirit Cathedral and the slim tower of the Town Hall catch the last light.",
  "journey.s2.time": "Dusk",
  "journey.s2.title": "Trinity Suburb, window by window",
  "journey.s2.text": "Across the river, the steep roofs of Trinity Suburb's restored 19th-century streets light up one window at a time.",
  "journey.s3.time": "Evening",
  "journey.s3.title": "The Gates of Minsk",
  "journey.s3.text": "Facing the railway station, two towers finished in 1953 frame the way into the city. Arrive by train and they are the first thing you see.",
  "journey.s4.time": "Lights on",
  "journey.s4.title": "Lamps along the avenue",
  "journey.s4.text": "Independence Avenue runs about 15 km from the centre to the northeast. Watch the lamps come on, one after another.",
  "journey.s5.time": "Night",
  "journey.s5.title": "A diamond begins to glow",
  "journey.s5.text": "Out along the avenue, the National Library's glass diamond turns into a screen made of light. Keep scrolling: further down, you can play with it.",
  "reasons.eyebrow": "Why come",
  "reasons.title": "Five reasons to come",
  "reasons.r1.title": "Two old towns face each other across the river.",
  "reasons.r1.text": "On the high bank, the Upper Town gathers a 17th-century cathedral, a rebuilt town hall and Freedom Square around its old market place. Across the Svislach, Trinity Suburb's restored 19th-century streets hold small museums, shops and cafés.",
  "reasons.r2.title": "A river you can follow for 25 km.",
  "reasons.r2.text": "A paved path runs along the Svislach right across the city, past Gorky Park, Victory Park and Lošycki Park. Walk a stretch, sit by the water, then walk a little more.",
  "place.gorkyPark": "Gorky Park",
  "place.victoryPark": "Victory Park",
  "place.loshitsa": "Lošycki Park",
  "reasons.r3.title": "A library that glows at night.",
  "reasons.r3.text": "The National Library is a 23-storey glass diamond whose facade of 4,646 LED fixtures turns into a giant screen after sunset. Until late in the evening, a glass lift takes you up to a deck more than 73 metres above the city.",
  "reasons.r4.title": "Draniki, and a market to graze.",
  "reasons.r4.text": "Start with draniki, crisp potato pancakes with sour cream, then try machanka for dipping or kalduny dumplings. Kamarouka, the city's main food market since 1979, and the cafés of Zybitskaya Street keep you fed all day.",
  "place.market": "Kamarouka market",
  "place.zybitskaya": "Zybitskaya Street",
  "reasons.r5.title": "Metro stations like underground palaces.",
  "reasons.r5.text": "When the metro opened in 1984, its first riders said they felt they were in underground palaces, and every station still has a look of its own. Find folk ornament at Plošča Jakuba Kolasa, glass chandeliers at Park Čaliuskincaŭ and a steel sun at Jubiliejnaja plošča.",
  "place.kolasa": "Plošča Jakuba Kolasa",
  "day.eyebrow": "One day, start to finish",
  "day.title": "A perfect day",
  "day.lede": "Old streets in the morning, a market and the river in the afternoon, the library's light at night. Times are only a suggestion: wander.",
  "day.morning.title": "Morning",
  "day.morning.hours": "The Upper Town and the river",
  "day.morning.s1": "Start where the old market place has stood since the 16th century, on the high bank of the Svislach.",
  "day.morning.s2": "Built from 1633 to 1642, its two towers are the Upper Town's best-known silhouette.",
  "day.morning.s3": "Pulled down in 1857 and rebuilt from 2002 to 2004 from old pictures, it stands on the square once more.",
  "day.morning.coffee": "Coffee on Zybitskaya Street",
  "day.morning.s4": "Rebuilt in the 2010s in the old style, it is now the city's café and bar street.",
  "day.morning.s5": "Cross the river to the left bank: 19th-century streets, restored from 1980 to 1985, with small museums, shops and cafés.",
  "day.afternoon.title": "Afternoon",
  "day.afternoon.hours": "A market, a museum, a park",
  "day.afternoon.s1": "The city's main food market since 1979: graze on bread, cheese and smoked fish, and find the bronze horse and sparrow by the fountain.",
  "place.artMuseum": "National Art Museum",
  "day.afternoon.s2": "More than 30,000 works, from medieval Belarusian icons to Repin and Aivazovsky. It is closed on Tuesdays.",
  "day.afternoon.s3": "Laid out in 1805 by the river: old lime trees, a Ferris wheel and a planetarium. Then follow the Svislach on foot.",
  "day.evening.title": "Evening",
  "day.evening.hours": "Along the avenue to the diamond",
  "day.evening.s1": "Stroll the grand 1950s stretch of the city's main street, about 15 km long from end to end.",
  "day.evening.metro": "Line 1 to Uschod",
  "day.evening.s2": "Ride the metro out along the avenue and get off at Uschod, right beside the library.",
  "day.evening.deck": "The library's rooftop deck",
  "day.evening.s3": "A glass lift climbs more than 73 metres to decks with the whole city below. The library lists it as open daily until 23:00: check before you go.",
  "day.evening.afterDark": "After dark",
  "day.evening.show": "The light show",
  "day.evening.s4": "Step back out onto the square and look up as the facade turns into a screen of light.",
  "library.eyebrow": "Play with the light",
  "library.title": "A library that glows all night",
  "library.lede": "Tap the diamond to change the show, drag to turn it, or write a word across its facade.",
  "library.hint": "Tap to switch · drag to turn",
  "library.show.drift": "Colour drift",
  "library.show.waves": "Waves",
  "library.show.rain": "Rain",
  "library.show.heartbeat": "Heartbeat",
  "library.show.word": "Your word",
  "library.wordLabel": "Write on the library",
  "library.wordButton": "Light it",
  "library.fact1": "The real building is a rhombicuboctahedron: 26 faces of glass, 23 storeys and about 74 metres tall, opened in 2006.",
  "library.fact2": "Its facade carries 4,646 colour-changing LED fixtures, so after sunset the whole building becomes a screen.",
  "library.mapsLink": "See it on the map",
  "more.eyebrow": "Stay a while",
  "more.title": "Before the trip, two ways to play",
  "more.play.eyebrow": "Game",
  "more.play.title": "Metro Minsk",
  "more.play.text": "Drive line 1 from Malinaŭka to Uručča. Stop the doors in the green zone and collect a postcard from each of the 15 stations.",
  "more.play.go": "Play",
  "more.history.eyebrow": "History",
  "more.history.title": "959 years in one scroll",
  "more.history.text": "From a battle on the Niamiha in 1067 to a city of two million: watch the map of Minsk grow as you scroll.",
  "more.history.go": "Read the story",
  "before.title": "Before you go",
  "before.text": "Many visitors can enter Belarus without a visa. Rules differ by country and change often: check Belarus's official visa-free page and your own government's travel advice before you book.",
  "before.link": "Belarus's official visa-free page",
  "home.meta.description": "An unofficial, playful invitation to Minsk: a river through the middle, avenues of light, a library that glows all night, a metro game and a thousand years of history.",
  "photo.upperTown.alt": "Pastel yellow and white houses with red tiled roofs in Trinity Suburb, lit by low sun above a grassy bank of the Svislach",
  "photo.svislach.alt": "A calm bend of the Svislach between willows and tall grass, with a footbridge in the distance",
  "photo.library.alt": "Aerial view of the National Library's glass diamond surrounded by snow in soft winter light",
  "photo.food.alt": "A plate of golden potato pancakes with sliced tomato and cucumber on a wooden table",
  "photo.metro.alt": "Warm lantern-like lamps on angular columns under the vaulted ceiling of a Minsk metro station",
  "photo.morning.alt": "A quiet cobbled square in the Upper Town in low sun, with white baroque church towers and a pavilion of bronze figures",
  "photo.afternoon.alt": "The Ferris wheel in Gorky Park, with a red Minsk sign at its hub, against a deep blue sky",
  "photo.evening.alt": "Lit apartment towers along the water at blue hour, their lights reflected in long coloured streaks",
  "library.stageLabel": "The National Library, lit up. Press to switch the light show.",
  "library.showsLabel": "Light shows",
  "library.wordPlaceholder": "Hello",
  "play.meta.title": "Metro Minsk · minsk.ad",
  "play.eyebrow": "A tiny game · line 1",
  "play.title": "Metro Minsk",
  "play.lede": "Drive line 1 from Malinaŭka to Uručča in two minutes. Hold to brake, stop the doors in the green zone, and collect a postcard from each station.",
  "play.hud.score": "Score",
  "play.hud.time": "Time",
  "play.hud.best": "Best",
  "play.hud.next": "Next stop",
  "play.start.kicker": "Line 1 · 15 stations · 2 minutes",
  "play.start.title": "Ready to drive?",
  "play.start.text": "Hold the screen, the brake button or Space to brake. Let go to coast. Stop with the amber door inside the green zone.",
  "play.start.button": "Start the train",
  "play.toast.kicker": "Postcard unlocked",
  "play.brake": "Hold to brake",
  "play.pause": "Pause",
  "play.sound": "Sound",
  "play.how.title": "How to play",
  "play.how.1": "The train comes in at speed. Hold to brake, let go to coast.",
  "play.how.2": "Stop with the amber door inside the green zone. The closer to its centre, the more points.",
  "play.how.3": "Stop short or overshoot and you lose 50 points. Every good stop unlocks that station's postcard.",
  "play.postcards.title": "Your postcards",
  "play.postcards.lede": "One for every station on line 1, each with something true and lovely to find above ground. They stay here, in this browser.",
  "station.malinauka.name": "Malinaŭka",
  "play.locked": "Stop well here to unlock this postcard.",
  "station.malinauka.card": "The western end of line 1 greets you with a pistachio-green hall under a softly glowing blue ceiling.",
  "play.map": "On the map",
  "station.piatrouscyna.name": "Piatroŭščyna",
  "station.piatrouscyna.card": "Look up: the vaulted ceiling is a winter night sky, twinkling with about 400 built-in lights.",
  "station.michalova.name": "Michalova",
  "station.michalova.card": "Named after a village that once stood here, the station is designed around a cool winter sunset in marble and steel.",
  "station.hrusauka.name": "Hrušaŭka",
  "station.hrusauka.card": "Hruša means pear in Belarusian, and the station keeps a playful pear sculpture as a wink at the neighbourhood's name.",
  "station.instytut.name": "Instytut Kultury",
  "station.instytut.card": "Glowing yellow, orange and red glass panels celebrate Belarusian culture, and the exits lead to the suburban trains.",
  "station.lienina.name": "Plošča Lienina",
  "station.lienina.card": "A passage leads straight into Minsk's main railway station, and outside rise the twin towers of the Gates of Minsk.",
  "station.kastrycnickaja.name": "Kastryčnickaja",
  "station.kastrycnickaja.card": "Come up by Alexander Square, laid out in 1872, where the Boy with a Swan fountain has splashed since 1874.",
  "station.pieramohi.name": "Plošča Pieramohi",
  "station.pieramohi.card": "Step out near Gorky Park on the Svislach: old lime trees, a Ferris wheel and a planetarium.",
  "station.kolasa.name": "Plošča Jakuba Kolasa",
  "station.kolasa.card": "A short walk from Kamarouka, the city's main food market since 1979, where a bronze horse and sparrow guard the fountain.",
  "station.navuk.name": "Akademija Navuk",
  "station.navuk.card": "The exits open onto the grand main building of the National Academy of Sciences, with the Oktyabr cinema close by.",
  "station.caliuskincau.card": "Right by Chelyuskinites Park, grown from an old forest, with the Central Botanical Garden, founded in 1932, next door.",
  "station.maskouskaja.name": "Maskoŭskaja",
  "station.maskouskaja.card": "Close to the Children's Railway, a little narrow-gauge line through the park, run with teenagers since 1955.",
  "station.uschod.name": "Uschod",
  "station.uschod.card": "Come up beside the National Library, the glass diamond with a rooftop view and a facade that lights up after dark.",
  "station.barysauski.name": "Barysaŭski Trakt",
  "station.barysauski.card": "Named after the old road east to the town of Barysaŭ, this bright station opened with the line's 2007 extension.",
  "station.urucca.name": "Uručča",
  "station.urucca.card": "While digging this station in 2006, builders found the bones of a prehistoric forest elephant.",
  "play.postcards.reset": "Clear my postcards",
  "play.meta.description": "A tiny metro game: drive line 1 from Malinaŭka to Uručča, stop the doors in the green zone and collect a postcard from every station.",
  "play.gameLabel": "Game",
  "play.hudLabel": "Score board",
  "sources.meta.title": "Sources and credits · minsk.ad",
  "sources.eyebrow": "Sources and credits",
  "sources.title": "Where every fact comes from",
  "sources.lede": "Every fact on minsk.ad was checked against the sources below, each read on 12 October 2026. Where sources disagreed, we used the more careful figure and say so. Spotted something wrong or out of date? Write to contact@minsk.ad.",
  "sources.home.title": "Home",
  "sources.history.title": "History",
  "sources.play.title": "Metro Minsk",
  "sources.photos.title": "Photos",
  "sources.fonts.title": "Fonts",
  "sources.home.f1": "The Upper Town on the high bank of the Svislach, with Freedom Square on the old market place since the 16th century.",
  "sources.read": "Read 12 October 2026",
  "sources.home.f2": "The Holy Spirit Cathedral, built 1633 to 1642, and its twin towers.",
  "sources.home.f3": "The Town Hall: pulled down in 1857, rebuilt from 2002 to 2004 from old pictures.",
  "sources.home.f4": "Trinity Suburb on the left bank: 19th-century streets restored from 1980 to 1985, with small museums, shops and cafés.",
  "sources.home.f5": "The Gates of Minsk: two towers finished in 1953, facing the railway station.",
  "sources.home.f6": "Independence Avenue: about 15 km from the centre to the northeast, with its grand 1950s stretch.",
  "sources.home.f7": "A paved path of about 25 km along the Svislach, past Gorky Park, Victory Park and Lošycki Park.",
  "sources.home.f8": "The National Library: a 23-storey rhombicuboctahedron with 26 faces, about 74 m tall, opened on 16 June 2006.",
  "sources.home.f9": "Its facade carries 4,646 colour-changing LED fixtures and lights up after sunset.",
  "sources.home.f10": "The observation deck: a glass lift to decks more than 73 m up, listed as open daily until 23:00.",
  "sources.home.f11": "Uschod is the metro station beside the library.",
  "sources.home.f12": "Draniki, machanka and kalduny.",
  "sources.home.f13": "Kamarouka, the main food market since 1979, and its bronze horse and sparrow by the fountain.",
  "sources.home.f14": "Zybitskaya Street, rebuilt in the 2010s as the city's café and bar street.",
  "sources.home.f15": "The National Art Museum: more than 30,000 works, closed on Tuesdays.",
  "sources.home.f16": "Gorky Park, laid out in 1805 by the river, with old lime trees, a Ferris wheel and a planetarium.",
  "sources.home.f16note": "(English Wikipedia gives 1800; we use 1805.)",
  "sources.home.f17": "The metro's first riders felt they were in underground palaces; folk ornament at Plošča Jakuba Kolasa, glass chandeliers at Park Čaliuskincaŭ and a steel sun at Jubiliejnaja plošča.",
  "sources.home.f18": "Visa-free entry: the rules are on Belarus's official visa-free page.",
  "sources.history.text": "Where sources disagree, the history page uses the safer wording: 80,000 to 100,000 for the Minsk Ghetto (Wikipedia and USHMM differ), about 91,000 for the 1897 census, and the metro operator's dates for 1984 and 2020.",
  "sources.history.map": "The map: the Svislach flowing north-west to south-east, the castle where the Niamiha joins it, the Upper Town on the right bank and Trinity Suburb on the left. It is a sketch, not to scale.",
  "sources.play.text": "Station names follow Belarus's 2007 standard for writing Belarusian place names in Latin letters. The station drawings in the game are playful sketches, not plans.",
  "sources.play.line": "Line 1: 15 stations and 19.1 km, from Malinaŭka to Uručča.",
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  "sources.photo.upperTown": "Trinity Suburb by the Svislach",
  "sources.photo.svislach": "The Svislach",
  "sources.photo.library": "The National Library in snow",
  "sources.photo.food": "Draniki",
  "sources.photo.metro": "A Minsk metro station",
  "sources.photo.morning": "The Upper Town in the morning",
  "sources.photo.afternoon": "The Ferris wheel in Gorky Park",
  "sources.photo.evening": "Minsk at blue hour",
  "sources.photo.trinity": "Trinity Suburb at dusk",
  "sources.photo.hLibrary": "The National Library in evening sun",
  "sources.photo.hToday": "The Svislach today",
  "sources.photo.unknown": "Unknown author",
  "sources.photo.h1900": "The upper market square, postcard before 1914",
  "sources.photo.pd": "Public domain",
  "sources.photo.h1944": "Zacharaŭskaja Street, 1941",
  "sources.photo.h1950s": "The Svislach embankment, 1964",
  "sources.photo.hMetro": "Park Čaliuskincaŭ station",
  "sources.fonts.text": "Both fonts are stored on this site and used under the SIL Open Font License. Chinese text uses your device's own fonts.",
  "sources.meta.description": "Where every fact on minsk.ad comes from, the date each source was read, and the credits for every photo and font.",
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  "js.play.result.good": "Good stop at {station}. +{points}. Postcard unlocked.",
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  "js.play.result.late": "Too late: you ran past {station}. {points}.",
  "js.play.end.kicker": "Round over",
  "js.play.end.line": "End of the line!",
  "js.play.end.time": "Time's up!",
  "js.play.end.text": "You scored {score} points and stopped well at {good} of 15 stations.",
  "js.play.end.bonus": "Time bonus: +{bonus}.",
  "js.play.end.best": "A new best!",
  "js.play.again": "Play again",
  "js.play.paused.kicker": "Doors closed",
  "js.play.paused.title": "Paused",
  "js.play.paused.text": "The train waits for you. Press Continue, Space or P.",
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  "js.play.speed": "{n} km/h"
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