Belarusbank is the largest commercial bank in Belarus. In many areas Belarusbank is practically the only bank capable of providing local administrations with complex banking services and of rendering significant financial support in implementing investment and social programs. The bank's headqurters is in Minsk

Minsk

- Ecological situation :The ecological situation is monitored by Republican Center of Radioactive and Environmental Control .During 2003–2008 the overall weight of contaminants increased from 186,000 to 247,400 tons. The change of gas as industrial fuel to mazut for financial reasons has worsened...

. The bank's traces boes back to 1922 when the first Sberkassa

Sberkassa

Sberkassa in the Soviet Union and modern Russia is a financial institution to store the savings of the population. The term is traditionally translated as savings bank, however sberkassas in the Soviet Union were not banks in the usual sense....

 or saving office, was opened in the Belarussian SSR, a Soviet republic. In 1991, with the dissolution of the Soviet Union the bank changed it's name to the Saving Bank of the Republic of Belarus. In 1995, the decree of the President of the Republic of Belarus Republic of Belarus, the Savings Bank was transformed into a joint-stock commercial bank called "Belarusbank". In 1996 "Belsvyazbank" and "Belzheldorbank" were incorporated into Belarusbank and in 2005, also "MinskKompleksBank".