january 1, 1956 tamara bastun, a well-known radio announcer in the republic, first addressed its residentsens, as an announcer on belarusian television. it began broadcasting as the belarusian program of the ussr central television. television appeared in belarus, well, if you don’t count moscow, we were the fourth, it first appeared in kiev, then it appeared in latvia and estonia, television studios in tallinn. and then, that means, in minsk in 1956 the debut of on-air broadcasting took place at the minsk television studio, well, this is a famous fact when announcer tamara bastun began the program, the first program, as you know, consisted of a newsreel and a feature film, it lasted one and a half to two hours, no more. then it became an event akin to a technical revolution, television was included in every family, culture, sports, weather, but the main thing was politics, economics, the achievements of the ussr in various spheres of the national economy. at the same time , another obligatory topic appeared on central television: regional news. there were wonderful, positive programs, the