There is a Minsk Metro station "Park Chalyuskintsau" next to the park.

The park is adjacent to the Minsk Botanical Garden.
The park was established during 1928-1932 and got its current name in 1934. It was based on an existing forest known as "Kamaroúski forest" ("Kamaroúski les", and the park was initially known as "Kamaroúski park")

Weather
Minsk has a warm summer humid continental climate (Koppen Dfb), owing to its location between the strong influence of the moist air of the Atlantic Ocean and the dry air of the Eurasian landmass.
Its weather is, however, unstable and tends to change often. The average January temperature is -6.1 Celsius (21 °F), while the average July temperature is 17.8 °C (64 °F).
The lowest temperature was recorded on 17 January, 1940, at -40 °C (-40 °F) and the warmest on 29 July, 1936, at 35 °C (95 °F).

The air is often moist, with humidity levels at 80-90%, especially during the cold season. There are on average 135 humid days a year, compared with only 6 dry days. This results in frequent fogs, common in the autumn and spring. Throughout the year, most winds are westerly and northwesterly, bringing cool and moist air from the Atlantic.

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Recent developments

Island of Tears, with a recently constructed memorial monument
Throughout the 1990s, after the fall of Communism, the city continued to change. As the capital of a newly-independent country, Minsk quickly acquired the attributes of a major city. Embassies were opened, and a number of Soviet administrative buildings became government centers.

During the early and mid-1990s, Minsk was hit by an economic crisis and many development projects were halted, resulting in high unemployment and underemployment. Since the late 1990s, there have been improvements in transport and infrastructure, and a housing boom has been underway since 2002. On the outskirts of Minsk, new mikroraions of residential development have been built.

Metro lines have been extended, and the road system (including the Minsk ring road) has been improved. Owing to the small size of the private sector in Belarus, most development has so far been financed by the government. In January 2008, the city government announced several projects on its official web-site.

Among them are the refurbishment of some streets and main avenues, the constructions of more up-to-date hotels (one near the Palace of the Republic and another on the shore of Lake Komsomolkye), the demolition of the out-of-date Belarus hotel and the erection in the same premises of a complex consisting of sport facilities, swimming pool, 2 hotel towers and one business center building with the help of potential foreign investors.

The construction of a modern aquatic park, in the outskirts of the city. On September 8, 2007, the city of Minsk celebrated 940 years since its founding.

Districts
There are now 9 administrative districts:

1.      Tsentral'ny, or "Central District" (Belarusian: Цэнтральны раён)
2.      Savetski, or "Soviet District (Belarusian: Савецкі раён)
3.      Pershamayski, named after the 1st of May (Belarusian: Першамайскі раён)
4.      Partyzanski, named after Soviet partisans (Belarusian: Партызанскі раён)
5.      Zavodzki, or "Factory district" (Belarusian: Заводскі раён) (initially it included major plants, Minsk Tractor Works (MTZ) and Minsk Automobile Plant (MAZ), later the Partyzanski District with MTZ was split off it)
6.      Leninski, named after Lenin (Belarusian: Ленінскі раён)

 7    Kastrychnitski, named after October Revolution (Belarusian: Кастрычніцкі раён)
8 Maskouski, named after Moscow (Belarusian: Маскоўскі раён)
 9      Frunzenski, named after Mikhail Frunze (Belarusian: Фрунзенскі раён)

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