Viskuli is hunting estate in Belavezhskaya Pushcha forest, in Pruzhany Raion

Pruzhany Raion

Pruzhany Raion is an administrative subdivision, a raion of Brest Voblast, in Belarus....

, Brest Voblast

Brest Voblast

Brest Voblast or Brest Oblast is a province of Belarus with its administrative center being Brest.Important cities within the voblast' include: Baranovichi, Brest, and Pinsk.-Geography:...

, 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 ,...

, named after the former khutor

Khutor

Khutor or khutir is usually taken to refer to a single-homestead rural settlement of Eastern Europe.In Cossack-settled lands that encompassed today's Ukraine, Kuban, and the lower Don river basin the word khutor was used to describe new settlements which had detached themselves from stanitsas...

Viskuli nearby, about 8km from the Poland-Belarus border, 2km south of Belarus Route P81.

In 1950s a residential complex was constructed for the state officials of the USSR and Byelorussian SSR

Byelorussian SSR

The Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic was one of fifteen constituent republics of the Soviet Union. It was one of the four original founding members of the Soviet Union in 1922, together with the Ukrainian SSR, the Transcaucasian SFSR and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic...

 ("state dacha

Dacha

Dacha is a Russian word for seasonal or year-round second homes often located in the exurbs of Soviet and post-Soviet cities. Cottages or shacks serving as family's main or only home are not considered dachas, although many purpose-built dachas are recently being converted for year-round residence...

").

In 1991 Viskuli has become known worldwide as the place where the Belavezha Accords

Belavezha Accords

The Belavezha Accords is the agreement which declared the Soviet Union effectively dissolved and established the Commonwealth of Independent States in its place...

 were signed, which declared the dissolution of the Soviet Union

Dissolution of the Soviet Union

The dissolution of the Soviet Union was the disintegration of the federal political structures and central government of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , resulting in the independence of all fifteen republics of the Soviet Union between March 11, 1990 and December 25, 1991...

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On September 12, 2008 Viskuli was the place of meeting of the Foreign Ministers of Belarus (Sergei Martynov

Sergei Martynov (politician)

Sergei Nikolaevich Martynov is the current Minister for Foreign Affairs of Belarus appointed in March 2003. He was born on February 22, 1953 in Gyumri, Armenian SSR....

) and Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 (Radosław Sikorski), after several years of cold relations..