Minsk, which recently celebrated its 935th anniversary, today looks like a modern, developed European city. But he did not become so immediately. The Belarusian capital, badly destroyed during the Great Patriotic War, managed to revive from ashes and ruins by 1953. How many difficulties and trials its inhabitants had to overcome on this path! Not stopping there, the city moved on with a confident step... In this book, the author tried on the basis of archival documents and periodicals of the 1940-1950s. trace the chronology of the restoration of Minsk after the war. Unique photographs, most of which have not been published before, will help to revive many pages of the post-war life of their hometown in the memory of the older generation of Minsk residents, and young people and guests of Minsk will better learn its history.