and our train was irkutsk-minsk, that is, we ended up in minsk, there was a long stop for many hours,et by my older cousin, and we immediately sent her. walking around the center of minsk , it was a sunny june day, a noisy metropolis, a big city, very beautiful, everything was unusual, well, for me it was like some kind of adventure, a new country, new impressions. i knew practically nothing about belarus before coming here , only some small stories about my relatives , so my main acquaintance with this country happened, of course, when i was studying: at school, at university, getting to know the language, culture , literature, that's all it was much later, gradually. moving to another country is a very radical, very responsible step that entails very big changes in everyone’s life. for us, of course, the key role was played by the advice of our relatives , well, in general, some general information about the country, its location, its culture, which is close, in a sense, to ours, of course, we have different cultures, but a lot... in common , adaptation is probably easier than in so