Urban-type settlements in Belarus
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According to a 1998 law of the Republic of Belarus,[1] there ate three categories of urban-type settlements in Belarus:
- Urban settlements (гарадскія пасёлкі): with population over 2,000, industrial enterprises and developed residential infrastructure
- Resort settlements (курортныя пасёлкі, resort towns): with population of at least 2,000, sanatoriums, resorts or other health recuperation establishments, and developed residential infrastructure
- Worker settlements (рабочыя пасёлкі): with population at least 500, servicing industrial enterprises, construction sites, railroad stations, electric stations, or other industrial objects.
The notion of urban-type settlement is inherited from the times of Belarusian SSR within the Soviet Union.
As of August 1, 2008. there were 87 urban settlements, 6 worker settlements and 1 resort settlement (Narach).
Before the Soviet times, many modern urban settlements in Belarus were classified as miastechka/miasteczko ("market town").
