THE DIAMOND-SHAPED LIBRARY

The people are proud of this renowned piece of architecture that can be found throughout Eastern Europe. You'll have to take the subway to go to the National Library, which is also an adventure. You should plan on 6-7 subway stations from downtown Minsk.

The National Library is 75 meters tall and shaped like a diamond. To give you a greater idea of the structure, its twenty-three storeys can accommodate two thousand readers. It is so huge that it has the world's third largest collection of Russian books. This is a rhombicuboctahedron, as far as shape goes.

This is an Archimedean solid with eight triangular and eighteen square faces in geometry. If that's not easy to remember, you may always refer to it as a diamond, like the locals do.This is definitely among the top Things to Know Before Traveling to Belarus.