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• Notes:

  • The information on this page becomes out-of-date more quickly than any other section of the A Belarus Miscellany Web site. Once you locate a Web site in Belarus, go to its "links" section for information about other Belarus Web sites. (Of course, many of them are not kept up to date.)

  • Almost all Internet connectivity in Belarus is under Belarusian government control. Almost everyone connects through BelPak, the Internet service of BelTelecom, the Belarusian government controlled telephone company, or through ISPs--that connect through BelPak.

  • It is often very difficult to get replies to queries from organizations, including Internet providers, in Belarus. You increase the likelihood of a response if your message is in Russian or Belarusian (and if you also have an e-mail address located within Belarus).

  • There appears to be some instability (minimally, for business reasons) and possibly growth regarding Internet access in Belarus. Please contact me if you have updates or corrections for the following.

• See also (Computer) Networking Information for Belarus (at Friends & Partners web site)

• See also The Duchovnost Center   Gomel, Belarus
  The Duchovnost Center has been working on development of the Internet in Belarus since May, 1995

• Electronic Mail
  29 - 12, Komsomolskaya Str. Mensk Belarus

  Services : Dialup UUCP, Internet mail/Usenet news via UUCP
          IP via leased lines soon
  Contact : Alexey Demianenko

  Phone/Fax : +7 (0172) 272127
  E-Mail: admin@brc.minsk.by

  Information at: http://www.best.be/InfoDesk/iap/Providers/Belarus.html "Best.be" Belgium; file date: 1996/01/15   as of May 5, 1996 -- no update info for Belarus providers

• ESATT Information about Networks in Belarus: Infrastructure, User Groups, and Information Providers from Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

  ESATT (European Science And Technology Transfer Network)
  INDIS (INformation DISsemination in European RTD)
  These projects are related to RTD (Research and Technological Development) information exchange and technology transfer between the EU and Central and Eastern Europe by using telecommunication networks and information services.

• Firma "EKSPO"
  210001 g.Viciebsk, ul. Kosmonavtov 4

  Leonov Aleksandr Vladimirovich
  Phone : +7 0212 370898
  E-Mail : lav@ekspo.vitebsk.by

  Information at: http://www.best.be/InfoDesk/iap/Providers/Belarus.html "Best.be" Belgium; file date: 1996/01/15

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• GlasNet -- Russia, Commonwealth of Independent States

  No direct presence in Belarus, though dial-ups (X.25) available from a limited number of Belarusian cities. Current List of GlasNet dial-ups in Belarus   in Russian (codepage 1251; Windows font).

  • GlasNet - Internet Host
    9 Gazetny Per. Str. 2, 3d Floor, Room 36
    103009 Moscow, Russia

    Tel: +7 (095) 291-4343

    Fax: +7 (095) 229-0043

    E-mail: support@glas.apc.org

    WWW: http://www.glas.apc.org

    Gopher: gopher://glas.apc.org

• Network Systems
  They have matured over the past few years, including providing the only Internet Cafe in Belarus (that I know of). Information is often not updated about Belarus, so check to ensure the Internet Cafe still exists.
  • Network Systems Internet Cafe   (In addition to Internet use fees, the price of coffee and cigarettes, see how much ketchup costs in Mensk!)

• NSRC in Belarus (info about)
  The Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC).     The web server is supported and maintained by the Network Startup Resource Center and PSGnet with partial funding from the National Science Foundation (NSFNET grant NCR-9216064).    
  info for Belarus File last updated: 1996/01/11

• NPVMP "Informatika"
  246028 g.Gomel, ul. Pesina, 78
  Teplyakov Leonid Gerardovich

  Phone: +7 0232 570351
  E-Mail: leo@infrm.gomel.by

  Information at: http://www.best.be/InfoDesk/iap/Providers/Belarus.html "Best.be" Belgium; file date: 1996/01/15

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• Open Contact Ltd.

  One of the largest--if not the largest--independent, commercial Internet providers in Belarus (based in Mensk).

  P.O. Box 286 / 220004 Mensk-4 Belarus (BY)

  Phone/Fax: +375 (17) 21-101-21; +375 (17) 22-364-90

  E-mail: admin@open.by

  Web Page: www.open.by   Most information is in Russian, including business information and related databases

  Note: Open Contact, Ltd. helped develop UNIBEL - the network for science and education in Belarus, but is no longer involved with it.

• Open Contact, Ltd.   Info from source "B"
  Address Line 1 -->: 213-16 Korolia Str.
  City ------------>: Miensk
  Country --------->: Belarus
  Voice Phone ----->: 017 220 6134
  Fax Number ------>: 017 220 6134
  Modem Number(s) ->: 017 220 6633
  Shell Access ---->: none
  SLIP Access ----->: yes, depends of speed and traffic
  PPP Access ------>: yes, depends of speed and traffic
  UUCP Access ----->: yes, $10/month + traffic
  ISDN Access ----->: none
  56kb Access ----->: none
  T1 Access ------->: none
  Free Trial ------>: yes, email for details: admin@brc.minsk.by
  Credit Cards ---->: none

  Email Address --->: admin@brc.minsk.by

  Note: I revised the following web site info; not from source below:
  Web Site -------->: http://brc.minsk.by/

  File Updated: 13 March 1995

  Information at: http://www.celestin.com/pocia/foreign/isps/b/brc.minsk.by.html

• UNIBEL

  UNIBEL is an internationally funded program established to develop and provide free Internet access to educational and non-profit organizations within Belarus.

  Most information on the CAC/UNIBEL Web site is in Russian. The site appears to have changed its focus from "UNIBEL", to the "Computer and Analytical Center of the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus" some time in 1997.

  As has been true throughout its history (since 1995 ?), it still appears to be a very unreliable site in terms of accessibility on the Web and its bandwidth.

  Note: Some time in 1997 (?), UNIBEL appears to have changed its Web address, without the courtesy (common sense?) to have any forwarding in place at its old Web address.

  Although there was information about its educational programs on the UNIBEL Web site prior to 1997, no such information seems available in 1997. (Though I have not completely explored the Web site. It may only be on one of the Russian pages. The pages in English have been greatly reduced.)

  CAC/UNIBEL Web site: http://cacedu.unibel.by/

  220004 Miensk, BELARUS
  Korolya Str 16, 213

  TEL:/FAX: 375 172 20 61 34

  Contact:
  Dr. Nikolai Listopad, Director, Computer Analytical Center, Ministry of Education and Science   Listopad@nil.minedu.minsk.by

  Sergei Kritsky kritsky@ok.minsk.by

  post@unibel.by

  • UNIBEL used to provide a list of e-mail postmasters at various Belarus institutions, especially educational ones, for which UNIBEL provided connectivity at the earlier version of UNIBEL's Web site (through 1996). I cannot find such information, thus far, at the current CAC/UNIBEL Web site (August, 1997).

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