The kilometre zero of Belarus is Belarusian roads, the place, which is the heart of the country.

The first sign zero kilometer in Minsk was installed after the Minsk became part of the Russian Empire. The huge Leviathan, which under Catherine the great became the country, good roads were necessary, what prosveshenniya the Empress did not regret neither human nor money. After the roads were put in order, in 1795, near the Central post office of Minsk province was erected a pole with a zero mile away.

In 1998, the global reconstruction of the main square of the capital of Belarus. In those years the state symbols of the young country were particularly important. Therefore it was decided to move the zero kilometer mark of the Belarusian exactly 1 kilometer from the main post office on October square.

Symbolic form of the pyramid of eternity and wisdom. On the other hand, the pyramid is a universal mystic symbol of harmony between heaven and earth. On red granite pyramid fortified bronze jewelry cartouches. One of them says: "Via est vita" is Latin for wisdom translates as: "the Road is life", on the other cartouche depicts a map of Belarus, the third says "Start roads of Belarus", the fourth verse of the national Belarusian poet Yakub Kolas:

Drag, eternal drag!..
Nom kanza you, the hi supino,
You jywy skin caso.

On the granite base of the pyramid is written distances to the major cities of Belarus and to the capitals of neighboring States. The pyramid is oriented to the cardinal, which is confirmed by inscriptions on bronze signs, Okuyama edges of the pyramid.