chairman of the council of ministers of belarus kirill mazurov put forward his arguments. as a result, the plant received. the republic and not only because its territory met the criteria: proximity to the borders of western europe, where oil products were planned to be exported, a developed railway network, infrastructure, but the arguments of the belarusians turned out to be more convincing in the main thing: the economy of the bssr was developing at a rapid pace, during the years of the first post-war five-year plan, the groundwork for high-tech production was created. and the fact that this was so was confirmed by the decisions taken by the party leadership of the ussr in the early fifties on the construction of a number of large general engineering enterprises in belarus, machine tool building, radio electronics, optics and instrument making. this became a kind of recognition of the great work that was done by the republic to restore the national economy, heroism and... residents who in a short time were able to turn belarus into an industrially developed region with