Belarus, authoritatively the Republic of Belarus, some time ago known by its Russian name Byelorussia or Belorussia, is a landlocked nation in Eastern Europe circumscribed by Russia toward the upper east, Ukraine toward the south, Poland toward the west, and Lithuania and Latvia toward the northwest. Its capital and most crowded city is Minsk. Over 40% of its 207,600 square kilometers (80,200 sq mi) is forested. Its major financial segments are administration enterprises and assembling. Until the twentieth century, various states at different occasions controlled the terrains of cutting edge Belarus, including the Principality of Polotsk (eleventh to fourteenth hundreds of years), the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the Polish– Lithuanian Commonwealth, and the Russian Empire. The parliament of the republic announced the sway of Belarus on 27 July 1990, and amid the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Belarus pronounced autonomy on 25 August 1991.

Minsk is the capital and biggest city of Belarus, arranged on the Svislac and the Nyamiha Rivers. As the national capital, Minsk has an exceptional regulatory status in Belarus and is the managerial focal point of Minsk Region (voblasc) and Minsk District (rajon). The most punctual verifiable references to Minsk date to the eleventh century (1067), when it was noted as a commonplace city inside the Principality of Polotsk. The settlement created on the waterways. In 1242, Minsk turned out to be a piece of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. It got town benefits in 1499. From 1569, it was a capital of the Minsk Voivodeship, in the Polish– Lithuanian Commonwealth. It was a piece of a locale added by the Russian Empire in 1793, as an outcome of the Second Partition of Poland. From 1919 to 1991, after the Russian Revolution, Minsk was the capital of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, in the Soviet Union.

Flax (Linum usitatissimum), otherwise called basic flax or linseed, is an individual from the sort Linum in the family Linaceae. It is a nourishment and fiber crop developed in cooler locales of the world. The materials produced using flax are referred to in the Western nations as cloth, and customarily utilized for bed sheets, underclothes, and table material. The oil is known as linseed oil. Notwithstanding alluding to the plant itself, "flax" may allude to the unspun strands of the flax plant. A few different animal groups in the family Linum are comparative in appearance to L. usitatissimum, developed flax, including some that have comparable blue blooms, and others with white, yellow, or red flowers. Some of these are lasting plants, in contrast to L. usitatissimum, which is a yearly plant. Developed flax plants develop to 1.2 m (3 ft 11 in) tall, with slim stems. The leaves are glaucous green, thin lanceolate, 20– 40 mm long, and 3 mm expansive. The blooms are unadulterated light blue, 15– 25 mm in measurement, with five petals. The natural product is a round, dry case 5– 9 mm in measurement, containing a few gleaming dark colored seeds formed like an apple pip, 4– 7 mm long.

The white stork (Ciconia ciconia) is a substantial flying creature in the stork family Ciconiidae. Its plumage is primarily white, with dark on its wings. Grown-ups have since quite a while ago red legs and since a long time ago pointed red bills, and measure by and large 100– 115 cm (39– 45 in) from snout tip to finish of tail, with a 155– 215 cm (61– 85 in) wingspan. The two subspecies, which vary marginally in size, breed in Europe (north to Finland), northwestern Africa, southwestern Asia (east to southern Kazakhstan) and southern Africa. The white stork is a long-remove vagrant, wintering in Africa from tropical Sub-Saharan Africa to as far south as South Africa, or on the Indian subcontinent. While relocating among Europe and Africa, it abstains from intersection the Mediterranean Sea and makeshift routes by means of the Levant in the east or the Strait of Gibraltar in the west, on the grounds that the air thermals on which it depends for taking off don't shape over water. A flesh eater, the white stork eats a wide scope of creature prey, including creepy crawlies, fish, creatures of land and water, reptiles, little warm blooded creatures and little winged animals. It takes the vast majority of its nourishment starting from the earliest stage, low vegetation, and from shallow water. The white stork is a huge fledgling. It has a length of 100– 115 cm (39– 45 in), and a standing tallness of 100– 125 cm (39– 49 in). The wingspan is 155– 215 cm (61– 85 in) and its weight is 2.3– 4.5 kg (5.1– 9.9 lb). Like all storks, it has long legs, a long neck and a long straight pointed mouth. The genders are indistinguishable in appearance, then again, actually guys are bigger than females all things considered. The plumage is essentially white with dark flight quills and wing coverts; the dark is brought about by the color melanin. The bosom quills are long and shaggy shaping a ruff which is utilized in some romance showcases. The irises are dull dark colored or dim, and the peri-orbital skin is dark. The grown-up has a splendid red snout and red legs, the colouration of which is gotten from carotenoids in the eating regimen.

The European bison (Bison bonasus), otherwise called wisent or the European wood buffalo, is an Eurasian types of buffalo. It is one of two surviving types of buffalo, close by the American buffalo. The European buffalo is the heaviest enduring wild land creature in Europe; a regular European buffalo is about 2.1 to 3.5 m (6.9 to 11.5 ft) long, not including a tail of 30 to 80 cm (12 to 31 in), and 1.6 to 2.1 m (5.2 to 6.9 ft) tall. During childbirth, calves are very little, weighing somewhere in the range of 15 and 35 kg (33 and 77 lb). In the free-running populace of the Bialowieza Forest of Belarus and Poland, weights among grown-ups (matured 6 and over) are 634 kg (1,398 lb) all things considered in the instances of guys, with a scope of 400 to 920 kg (880 to 2,030 lb), and of 424 kg (935 lb) among females, with a scope of 300 to 540 kg (660 to 1,190 lb). An incidental huge bull European buffalo can weigh up to 1,000 kg (2,200 lb) or more with a record of 1,900 kg (4,200 lb).