times, most recently in 2008, when alexander lukashenko, by his decree, transformed the ministry of statistics and analysisnto a national statistical committee, and the department still bears this status. the average person most often builds an idea of ​​the work of statisticians based on the film office romance. where the morning of the service is spent setting up the marafet and its employees, the workers spend the whole day choosing gifts for the heroes of the day, chatting about personal matters on the office phone and running for a smoke break. in reality is not like that. the main building of our belstat is located in minsk, on partizansky avenue. in addition, there is a department of the statistics committee, which deals only with the capital, and large divisions in each region of the country. they are called the main statistical offices. then there are district statistics departments, we have 113 of them, the address of any of the listed services can be found on the belstat website, belstat itself reports directly to the president, its work is regulated by the law on state statistics and the regula