Headquarters of NOC Belarus. Video

Today sport is an important public phenomenon, a part of a state policy in any state of the world. The NOC Belarus is located in one of the most beautiful and hi-tech buildings of the Belarusian capital.

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In the Republic of Belarus sport has a number of socially important missions. It is the base of the nation health, the school of courage and solidarity, an indispensable media for maintenance of high moral standards in society, as well as in team and in family. Sport is a breeding ground of the best human qualities, one of the most important forms of education of young generation and a way to the choice of the right reference points in life. 

For years of independent development of the state, the Belarusian sport has fixed among the leaders of the international Olympic Movement strongly. The heroes of the Games, Olympic champions and medalists of the competitions, are our national heritage. Each Olympic medal carries joy of millions of fans for their compatriot. The necessary conditions for training of high-class athletes are created in the country; a number of large sporting venues has been constructed and reconstructed.

The National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Belarus is instrumental in this process.

Headquarters of NOC Belarus

The construction of the headquarters of the National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Belarus finished in November 2013.

The total area of the building is 10 179,1 sq. km. There are five floors in the headquarters.

On the first floor, there are all the necessary things for reception of visitors and delegations: big hall, wardrobe, cafe.

On the second floor, there are staff rooms and also public receptions of the NOC Vice-Presidents and of the Minister of Sport and Tourism of the Republic of Belarus.

On the third floor, the rooms of the media center are located. The conference room with 212 seats is used for carrying out various meetings. Two places for wheelchair users are also provided. The hall is completed with the modern equipment: there is a video wall of high resolution, three video cameras, television station, four cabins for simultaneous interpreters, voting system. Press conferences, reporting and election conferences of sports federations, unions and associations, as well as forums and meetings with athletes and trainers are held there.

In addition, the conference hall of Executive Committee with 30 seats, completed with all the necessary office equipment is placed on the third floor. There is also a hall for carrying out videoconferences with the organizing committees of the Olympic Games and of the international sports organizations.

On the fourth floor, the museum exposition “History of development of the Olympic Movement in the Republic of Belarus” is located. Unique sports awards, pictures, and text information are presented there. A great number of exhibits are handed by champions and medalists of the Olympic Games personally.

A big conference hall which is named the Hall of Olympic Fame is located on the fifth floor, in dome space. There a portrait gallery of 79 Olympic champions who have won gold medals at the Games during the period from 1952 to 2014 is presented. 75 athletes competed for Belarusian team. The other four champions, who are the citizens of the Republic of Belarus today and now are working for the benefit of domestic sport as a part of our national teams, played for RSFSR and USSR that time. Photos of the Belarusian Olympic medalists are placed at stationary prismatron stands. The total number of medals is 222; 84 of them are gold medals. Belarus has 91 medals as a sovereign team; 18 of them are gold ones. The Hall of Olympic Fame is completed with modern equipment: there is a video wall of high resolution, seven video cameras, television station, three cabins for simultaneous interpreters, voting system and a network of wireless microphones in it. There is also a possibility of installation of a top table with 14 seats with connection of 7 monitors and 14 microphones. The capacity of the Hall of Olympic Fame makes up about 300 people today. All constructions and furniture are prefabricated.

More than 60 events took place in 2014 in the Hall of Olympic Fame, among them are the Annual Congress of the International Ice Hockey Federation, the International Media Forum, the International Research-to-Practice Conference "Prevention of doping and the fight against it". More than 50 events took place there in 2015, among which the Congress of AIPS Europe and Seminar for the European media, the draw of the Rhythmic Gymnastics European Championship. The traditional New Year's holiday "Olympic Fir-tree" for children and grandsons of champions, medalists of the Games, trainers, veterans of sport, as well as of famous journalists is organized there annually in December.

Besides sporting events, some big patriotic forums were organized together with the Ministry of Education, with Federation of Trade Unions and with the Belarusian Republican Youth Union in the Hall of Olympic Fame in 2015.

In September 2015 the European Seminar and the Congress of Sports Press was held there; in October the meetings of the International Electrotechnical Commission and the International Conference of the Ministry of Health “Health-2020” took place there.

In April 2016 the Conference of the European Athletics was held there. Besides, the Congress of the European Sailing Association will be held in the Hall of Olympic Fame in April.

More than 300 big events have been held at the headquarters of the NOC for 2,5 years. Among such events are congresses, forums, press conferences, reporting and election conferences, seminars, visits of foreign delegations, Olympic lessons, excursions.

History:
The National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Belarus was established on March 22, 1991. On March, 9 1992 the NOC Belarus was recognized by the International Olympic Committee as a temporary member.

At the 101st International Olympic Committee Session held in Monaco on 21-24 September 1993, the NOC Belarus became a full member of the International Olympic Family. Since then the Republic of Belarus has obtained the right to send its national team to the Olympic Games.

Since May, 1997 the National Olympic Committee is headed by the President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko. The head of the state attended three Olympic Games: the Winter Games in Nagano (1998), the Summer Olympic Games in Beijing (2008), the Winter Games in Sochi (2014). In 2015 the President visited the first European Olympic Games in Baku. Participation of the President of NOC in these main sports forums of the planet gave essential moral support to the team. In the Japanese Nagano our athletes won medals in freestyle and biathlon, and the national hockey team made its debut at the Olympics, having taken the 5th place. And the performance of Belarusian athletes in Beijing became the best one in the summer history of the Belarusian sport, so the team took the honorable 16th place among 205 member countries. At the Games in Sochi our national team set up a record by having won 5 gold medals, and ranked 8th in the medal standings.

The Belarusian athletes participated in eleven Olympic Games, six Winter Games and five Summer Games, after the NOC creation.

79 Belarusian athletes became champions and medalists of the Games. They won 91 Olympic medals: 18 gold, 28 silver and 45 bronze.

The best results at the Games in the sovereign history of the country were shown by Darya Domracheva (biathlon; three gold and one bronze medals), Ekaterina Carsten (rowing) and Vitaly Shcherbo (artistic gymnastics), who won 4 Olympic awards. Igor Basinsky (bullet firing), Vadim Makhnev and Roman Petrushenko (both are canoe racing) have 3 medals.

Our athletes have won 222 medals, 84 of which are gold, since 1952, when Belarusians have taken part at the Games for the first time as a part of USSR national team. 195 athletes became champions and medalists of the Games.

Translated by Ekaterina Karelina, four-year student of FIC, MSLU