The book continues the series "Peoples and Cultures" (Russian. M.: Nauka, 1997) and is dedicated to one of the East Slavic peoples - Belarusians. It contains information about ethnodemographic processes in Belarus, the resettlement and number of Belarusians in the countries of the world, considers the problems of the emergence and evolution of Belarusians, traditional forms of material and spiritual culture of this people, their existence in modern life. For specialists in the field of ethnology and other humanities, as well as for the general reader interested in the history and culture of Belarusians.