By tradition, the celebration began at Independence Square in Minsk. Hundreds of people gathered at the monument to Lenin. Many of his ideas are still forming the state policy of Belarus: accessible education and medicine, social justice, the state care for the elderly. In memory of the events of nearly a hundred years ago they placed flowers at the foot of the monument to the leader of the October Revolution.
Another monument to Lenin appeared in the park near Minsk Tractor Plant.












