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Industrial city (machinery, textiles,
leather; centre of the Soviet computer
industry) and capital of Byelorussia, USSR;
population (1987) 1,543,000. Minsk dates from
the 11th century and has in turn been held by
Lithuania, Poland, Sweden, and Russia. The
city was devastated by Napoleon 1812 and
heavily damaged by Germans forces 1944. Mass
graves from between 1937 and 1941 of more
than 30,000 victims of Joseph Stalin's terror
were discovered in a forest outside Minsk
1989.