Belarus

The only coverage in Belarus, apart from spills, is a single walking trekker in the historic centre of Minsk.

Instead of learning a lot of country-specific clues, it is more practical to simply memorise what the trekker looks like.

You can recognise trekkers by the fact that the camera feels a bit lower than the usual Google car. In Belarus’ case, the trekker is also mostly on pedestrian-only roads.

You can find information about the border spill coverage in the Spillover Guide.

The Minsk trekker features a historic part of the city, with well-maintained classical European architecture. Many buildings have white or pastel coloured walls. Most of the roads you see are pedestrian-only.

The Holy Spirit Cathedral features prominently in the coverage. Its two towers can often be seen from far away.

The pavement which the trekker walks on in Minsk is mostly grey rectangular tiles. On a small part, there are pink-ish tiles in a specific pattern.

Signs will be in Belarusian or Russian. Both languages use the same Cyrillic alphabet.

The Minsk centre street signs are sea-green, and can be seen almost everywhere.

NOTE: If you are close enough to the sign, you can make out the Cyrillic letters “вул (vul)”, the Belarusian name for “street”.