{"id":1024461,"date":"2026-06-03T16:34:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T13:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/?p=1024461"},"modified":"2026-06-03T16:34:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T13:34:06","slug":"opening-of-an-exhibition-dedicated-to-the-60th-anniversary-of-the-founding-of-the-belarusian-branch-of-vniite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/news\/1024461","title":{"rendered":"Opening of an exhibition dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Belarusian branch of VNIITE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An exhibition dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the founding of <strong>the Belarusian branch of the All-Union Research Institute of Technical Aesthetics (BF VNIITE)<\/strong> has opened at <strong>the Belarusian State Archive of Scientific and Technical Documentation<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BF VNIITE<\/strong> was established in Minsk by Order No.525 of the State Committee for Science and Technology of the USSR dated May 27, 1966, and Order No.43 of the All-Union Research Institute of Technical Aesthetics dated June 1, 1966.<\/p>\n<p>The institution became the main coordinating and design center for industrial design in the BSSR, playing a key role in improving the aesthetic quality of goods and developing a national school of artistic design.<\/p>\n<p>The main goal of <strong>the VNIITE<\/strong> Branch was to develop methods for the artistic design of mechanical engineering products and consumer goods, as well as to coordinate related research and development work.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1970s and 1980s, <strong>the Belarusian branch<\/strong> flourished, assembling a strong team of professionals. <strong>VNIITE Branch<\/strong> became the leading center for agricultural machinery design in the Soviet Union.<\/p>\n<p>After the collapse of the USSR, the institute began a new chapter in its history. On March 17, 1992, <strong>VNIITE Branch<\/strong> was transformed into <strong>the Belarusian Institute of Design<\/strong>. On October 16, 1995, the institute was reorganized into <strong>the National Design Center State Enterprise<\/strong>, which in June 2000 acquired the status of a Scientific and Production Republican Unitary Enterprise. It ceased operations in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition features prototypes of equipment for social and cultural facilities, as well as consumer goods, mechanical engineering and instrument-making products, medical equipment, vehicles, tractors, and agricultural machinery.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pictured:<\/strong> Exhibition dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Belarusian branch of VNIITE.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\"  width=\"100%\" cellpadding=\"5\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"gen_table\">\n<tr align='center'>\n<td align='center'><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1-14.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" id=\"media-1084438\" class=\"wp-image-1084438 alignnone size-full\" width=\"70%\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align='center'><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An exhibition dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Belarusian branch of the All-Union Research Institute of Technical Aesthetics (BF VNIITE) has opened at the Belarusian State&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1024461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024461"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1024461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024463,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024461\/revisions\/1024463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}