times, the last time in 2008, when alexander lukashenko, by his decree, transformed the ministry of statistics and analysis into the national statistical committee, and the department bears this status to this day. the average person most often forms an idea of the work of statisticians from the film "office romance", where the morning of the service is spent on guiding morafet and her employees, the workers choose gifts for jubilees all day, chat with talichenko on work phone and run for a smoke break. in reality, everything is different. the main building of our belstat is located in minsk, on partizansky avenue. in addition. there is a statistical committee department that deals only with the capital, large divisions in each region of the country, they are called the main statistical departments of the regions, then 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 of the provisions of the national statistical committe