Stories
IT professionals from Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Germany, India, USA, Mexico - about their relocation to Minsk.
“If I, a child of the cold war era, had been told that I’d live in Minsk...”
Thaine Lyman, General Manager
Wargaming / Гейм Стрим
“Accepting the offer and relocation were about two months apart”
Denis Abramov, Firmware Engineer
SK hynix memory solutions Eastern Europe
“Doing my thing and staying focused”
Alexander Pravitel, software engineer
SK hynix memory solutions Eastern Europe
IT companies help with relocation. They cover the moving expenses, grant a temporary apartment, help with bureaucratic procedures, pay a relocation bonus, bring experts to Minsk for city tours—to check it out.
“Some of the available upsides can only be dreamed of in Moscow”
Tamara Orlova, Chief Financial Officer
Flo Health
“Belarusians are great friends”
Mahesh Nakka, Software Engineer
EPAM
You can get a job, move to Minsk, get all the paperwork done and rent a place in 2–3 weeks.
“Whether you’ll like it or not, depends on your lifestyle”
Andrey Mikhailyuk, Product Director
Flo Health
“It is very convenient here for young parents”
Oleg Maurchenko, Senior Frontend Engineer
ObjectStyle
“Moving is stressful yet interesting”
Alexander Prokopchuk, Tech Artist
Vizor Games
“There’s more freedom here”
Ilya Roslyakov, Platform Engineering Manager
Wargaming / Гейм Стрим
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In Minsk
1000+ vacancies are constantly open in Minsk for middle, senior level specialists. We need cool developers, project and product managers, marketers.
“Minsk is fit for normal living”
Victor Stepanov, Production Team Lead
Flo Health
“It’s unclear why many find the decision to relocate so difficult”
Nick Pletnev, DevOps
Itransition
Moving to Minsk with your family, sending children to kindergartens and schools is easy.
“Go to Minsk if you feel like working on foreign projects”
Dima, Senior Software Engineer
iTechArt Group
“Belarusians are more self-ironic”
Dmitry Kozlov, Lead Programmer
Vizor Games
“I was interested in working—the city came as a bonus”
Elena Bondareva, Backend Engineer
ObjectStyle
"The inner circle took it skeptically"
Ruslan Kozlov, software engineer
SK hynix memory solutions Eastern Europe
1,000+ vacancies for middle and senior experts are always offered in Minsk. Great developers, project and product managers, marketers are wanted.
“My son will feel more comfortable here compared to Moscow”
Marina Detinko, Marketing Director
Itransition
“We’ve managed to fly somewhere five or six times in a little over a year”
Maryam Kopanova and Ilya Karasin, Analyst / DB Developer
EPAM
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in IT companies
In Minsk
1000+ vacancies are constantly open in Minsk for middle, senior level specialists. We need cool developers, project and product managers, marketers.
“Russia on the right, Europe on the left. And everything is a stone’s throw away”
Alexey Glushkov, Backend developer
iTechArt Group
"Registration in the country: all done in three hours"
Dastan Jumabayev, Lead Software Engineer
SK hynix memory solutions Eastern Europe
“Minsk is changing for the better”
Nikita Timofeev, Team Lead
ObjectStyle
“Minsk lives a modern life”
Alexander Chuev, Senior Frontend Developer
Itransition
20–30% of staff members are women. The company established a scientific laboratory at the largest Belarusian tech university, BSUIR.
Over the first half-year of 2019, 500+ people moved to Minsk to work here. These are professionals from Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Germany, the USA.
“My friends and colleagues speak English—and so do my customers”
Rogelio Monroy, software engineer
Itransition
“15 minutes of thinking—and one month on I’m already in Minsk”
Ahmed Gaibov, DevOps Engineer
ISsoft
“If there are vacancies, something’s gotta be going on”
Sergey Efremov, Software Engineer
Flo Health
“Work-life balance in Belarus is better than in the countries I’ve worked in before”
Dmitry Karpov, WOT Server Developer
Wargaming / Гейм Стрим
“Minsk is continuously improving”
Peter Rutsch, Senior Director, Pre-Sales Solutions Consulting
EPAM
“The guys really are changing the city”
Gleb Khalevin, Quality Manager
EPAM
“Work’s good, entertainment — not really”
Alexey Grigoriev, Team Lead
ObjectStyle
“Wherever you’re moving on to, relocation means uncertainty”
Gleb Chudinov, .NET Developer
ISsoft
“Minsk has turned out to be a humble, friendly guy”
Anton Pankov, World of Tanks Product Director
Wargaming / Гейм Стрим
“Russian IT specialists relocate to work in Belarus”
Alexey Tuzhikov, Lead Engineer
SK hynix memory solutions Eastern Europe
“My daughter went to school, learns Belarusian, likes everything”
Anton, Group Manager
iTechArt Group
“Minsk has been tempting from day one”
Valentin Kirillov, Tech Artist
Vizor Games
The lack of chitchat about where to move “caught my ear”
Maxim Spektorenko, Business Intelligence
ISsoft
“They do everything to retain staff”
Ivan, Software Engineer
iTechArt Group
