Ministry of Internal Affairs
Identification
Open-source records identify this placemark as the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus at 4 Gorodskoy Val, Minsk 220030. That address appears in a sanctions notice for Interior Minister Ivan Kubrakov/Kubrakow and in a 2024 contact guide that reproduces ministry contact details. ([cima.ky](https://www.cima.ky/upimages/unandeusanction/FinancialSanctionsNotice-09August2021_1628511696.pdf))
Leadership
As of the CIA World Leaders page last updated on July 15, 2025, Belarus’s Minister of Internal Affairs is Ivan KUBRAKOW. A 2025 KAS study based on Belarusian legislation and open sources also lists Kubrakov as minister and assesses that, although the ministry is formally under the Council of Ministers, overall control rests with the president. ([cia.gov](https://www.cia.gov/resources/world-leaders/foreign-governments/belarus))
Mission
As the ministry’s principal Minsk address, this site is the administrative center for Belarus’s internal-affairs system. The KAS study says that system includes police, citizenship and migration units, security, finance and logistics, and the penal-correction/sentence-enforcement apparatus; a UN command-and-control annex also places GUBOPiK, the Internal Troops, Almaz, and the Penal Correction Department within the ministry structure. ([kas.de](https://www.kas.de/documents/d/belarus/_pravoohranitel-nye_organy_i_prokuratura_belarusi_-1))
Co-located functions
At least some central ministry sub-functions operate from the same address. UNHCR identifies the ministry’s Department on Citizenship and Migration—the central state asylum authority—at 4 Gorodskoy Val, entrance 3. INTERPOL confirms that NCB Minsk is part of Belarus’s Criminal Police, and older inter-government participant lists place MIA INTERPOL and anti-trafficking contacts at 4 Gorodskoy Val, suggesting the site has hosted both headquarters and international-policing liaison functions. ([help.unhcr.org](https://help.unhcr.org/belarus/where-to-seek-help/?utm_source=openai))
Security relevance
This is a politically sensitive internal-security headquarters. The UN Human Rights Council’s annex on Belarusian command structures links the ministry to crowd-control and protest-dispersal forces, including the Internal Troops and Almaz, and the EU stated on August 5, 2024 that additional sanctions targeted members of the ministry’s anti-organized-crime/corruption department. In the sources reviewed, I found public confirmation of administrative and departmental functions at 4 Gorodskoy Val, but not public confirmation of barracks-style troop basing or specialized hardened infrastructure at this address. ([documents.un.org](https://documents.un.org/api/symbol/access?l=en&s=a%2Fhrc%2F49%2F71&t=pdf))