the peat institute, which was created in our country in 1932, carried out this work in sufficient detailssess raw material reserves in general use peat the institute of geological sciences, which was also one of the first to be created, has fewer than 13 people on staff, but everything is subordinated to the continuation of pre-war research on the peculiarities of the tectonic structures of belarus. with negligible efforts, scientists began to practically confirm their hypotheses and implement already established research. only during the years of the first post-war five-year plan were deposits of coli and rock salts discovered, first petrikovskoye, then starobinskaya, located within the soligorsk, lyubinsk and slutsk districts minsk region. in the forties , the first ingot of belarusian rut salts was raised from a depth of about 350 m, but this was really for the national economy. the first developed mine, the first batch of salt obtained during the first drilling, and this was also heroism, dedication of people of science. their conviction that the republic possesses unique natural res