Across the street from Oktyabrskaya pl is Tsentralny Skver (Central Sq), a small park on the site of a 19th-century marketplace. The dark-grey building is Dom Ofitserov (Officer's Building), which has a tank memorial at the front, devoted to the soldiers who freed Minsk from the Nazis. Beyond this is the seemingly lifeless, seriously guarded Presidential Administrative Building , from where Alexander Lukashenko rules.
