Belarusian Technological Institute
Motto	The university that works for you
Established	1930
Location	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... , Belarus Belarus Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...
Students	800 total
Homepage	http://www.bstu.unibel.by/

Belarusian State Technological University is a University

University

A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university is an organisation that provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education...

 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...

, Belarus

Belarus

Belarus , officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, bordered clockwise by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk; other major cities include Brest, Grodno , Gomel ,...

 specialized in engineering

Engineering

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 and technology

Technology

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. It was established in Gomel in 1930 as the Forestry Institute. In 1941 it was evacuated to Sverdlovsk, now Yekaterinburg

Yekaterinburg

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. Returned to Gomel in 1944, but in 1946 relocated to 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...

 as the Belarusian Institute of Technology. Upgraded to university level in 1993. Currently has 9 departments.

Structure

• 47 departments
• 9 faculties
• Dean's office for foreign students
• Pre-University courses
• Negoreloe forestry experimental station
• Botanical garden
• Meteorological station
• Educational-production forest-processing complex
• Borisov educational-scientific experimental station
• Technological gymnasium

Prominent alumni

• Yuri Puntus
  Yuri Puntus
  Yuri Puntus is a Belarusian football player and football manager. He quit playing football in 1987 because of an injury. Graduated from two universities: Belarusian Technological Institute in 1983 and Belarusian State University of Physical Culture in 1996...
  
   - U-21 Belarus
  Belarus national football team
  The Belarus national football team represents Belarus in association football and is controlled by the Football Federation of Belarus, the governing body for football in Belarus. Belarus' home ground is Dinamo Stadium in Minsk...
  
   and FC MTZ-RIPO
  FC MTZ-RIPO
  FC Partizan Minsk is a Belarusian Premier League football team, part of Russian-Lithuanian businessman Vladimir Romanov's soccer holding which also includes Scottish Premier League club Hearts and Lithuanian A Lyga champion FBK Kaunas...
  
  teams chief coach