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Lukashenko, Gref inaugurate unique musical fountain in Minsk

MINSK, 3 July (BelTA) – Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko and President, Chairman of the Executive Board of PAO Sberbank of Russia Herman Gref have opened a musical fountain in Minsk, BelTA has learned.

The unusual fountain is located in Yanka Kupala Park on the Svisloch River. It is a gift Sberbank of Russia has bestowed upon the Belarusian capital on the occasion of Independence Day.

The construction of the fountain began in February 2020. BPS-Sberbank allocated over Br6 million for the project.

The fountain is a multiformat educational platform run by a sophisticated software suite. It is equipped with video projectors and lasers in order to project imagery onto a water screen.

The fountain can operate over 200 jets of water that can go as high as 30 meters. The jets of water can also create various effects and transformations.

The fountain is expected to stage a light and music show every night from 22:00 till 23:00.

Aleksandr Lukashenko and Herman Gref discussed the construction of the fountain in Minsk exactly one year ago. After meeting with the Belarusian head of state back then Herman Gref said: “Sberbank has come up with a new technology to combine light, sound, water, and image with an educational function. We put a lot of efforts into education. And we've come up with an educational fountain with lights and music. Aleksandr Grigoryevich [Lukashenko] learned about it and asked us to create such a fountain in Minsk. He and I agreed today that a presidential decree will be issued and we will go all out to implement this project here in Minsk next year by Belarus' Independence Day.”

The first multimedia fountain created at Sberbank's expense was built in Petergof in 2018. Several fountains of the kind are now used in Russia – in Saratov, Petergof, Yaroslavl, Kaliningrad, Vladimir, Ryazan, and Voronezh.

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