What gifts to bring from Belarus to friends-Americans

Travelers often bring gifts from friends and relatives from other countries. You always want to bring something unusual or traditional from the country. Portal Kyky I collected a list of gifts that can be brought from Belarus to American friends without feeling shame and presented to a person of any nationality or position.

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1. Map of Belarus or Minsk

You can bring a beautiful stylized card. If you want to show exactly Minsk - drive coloring card authorship Mitya Pislyaka. The main architectural heritage, parks favorite by Minsk dwellers are traced in the contours, many local cultural codes are sewn in here, and a dinosaur sits on the central fountain.

Well, if you want to approach the gift more globally, take it with you to foreign friends poster map of the history of Belarus. This is also a huge beautiful canvas, comes complete with a tube in which the card can even be handed over to the airliner. In fact, this is one big infographic about what happened on the territory of Belarus throughout its history.

2. Cranberry in sugar

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Cranberries in sugar are like a balalaika in Russia, like a Guinness in Ireland or as female berets in France. The lack (and at the same time the dignity) of cranberries is that very few people know about it yet. On the one hand, all foreigners are perplexed - for them this is really a new product. On the other hand, they will accurately remember such a gift, photograph it on the social network and tell all your neighbors about your ingenuity. Just do not take those packages in which cranberries with cocoa or cinnamon - only in powder.

3. Patriotic Sweatshirts

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The fact that in Belarus there is a company that produces fashionable and high-quality street clothes, Minsk residents have long known. If you have not yet looked closely at LSTR, it is never too late - especially, the guys are not too lazy to roll out new items every couple of months. Their sweatshirts “Do not hide the keen eyes of the sky” have already become unkillable classics, but now T-shirts and bikes with the theme of the BNR century are in the juice. The most beautiful thing is that a sweatshirt is a gift that you can carry alone, and the whole family will wear it one by one - the fashion for oversight forgives everything. In addition, you will place expats with such a gift in a pleasant nostalgia for their homeland.

4. Birch juice

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Belarusians take it abroad, give it to friends and even business partners, and they very nicely crumple because they do not know how to explain to friends and border guards what kind of transparent liquid it is. Just imagine the face of customs officer Jack of Kentucky, who is trying to understand how you squeezed the sap from the tree. But believe me, this drink is promoting Belarus at about the same level as Diego Maradona - after signing a contract with the Brest football club.

5. Flax variations

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To carry flax is no longer very inventive, and even if a person who needs to choose a gift does not know how to sew, it would be strange to give five meters of fabric. But Belarusian Lyon is appreciated even by Spaniards, therefore it is necessary to use this national brand.

6. Black bread

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If you ever went to your relatives in the Kaliningrad-Adler reserved seat, then you saw that people are not saying a word “Baltic” or “Narochansky” bread as a gift. If you have ever asked a person who occasionally flies to California on business trips that he carries the local Belarusian diaspora, this is all the same black bread. It is only the last couple of years that Minsk seized ciabatta from various hypermarkets - before that, they all ate delicious black bread in winter and summer and hated a disgusting loaf. Times have changed, now we have a decent pastry, but we still carry our friends “Narochanskiy” or “Baltiyskiy” - well, it’s with seeds.

7. Hair balsams

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The main thing to remember is that you need to take exactly the masks and hair balms of Belarusian brands Belita or Revivor - in no case shampoos. Their charm is that, because of the truly MAZ packages, you can make this gift an annual ritual: even if your addressee lives in Australia and you can fly there only once a year in August, do not worry: the facility will not end in that time . The only problem is that with the volume of these cans you will not be allowed into any carry-on luggage. We'll have to put these life-giving cans in the baggage - otherwise nothing.

8. Books Svetlana Aleksievich

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Since Belarus had a Nobel Prize winner, it has become easier to choose books “for export”: now the whole world is interested in reading Svetlana Alexievich. It will take another couple of years, and you will charge all your friends with its complex, but absolutely modern and, as they say, must read books. And the most valuable gift will come out if you ordered the Belarusian-language version of books on crowdfunding - translated by literary masters. But the original, Russian-language books are a great gift for a person who needs to understand your past, explain the present and assume the future.

9. Bobruisk marshmallow

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As any marshmallow seller from Bobruisk would say, you alone will not eat marshmallow. The Bobruichans say that their marshmallow used to be tastier, but this is not certain. They are simply too critical and jealous of their own product. In the case of marshmallows from Bobruisk, it is not terrible to try and buy new tastes: at least vanilla, even cream brulee, at least in chocolate, a foreigner will be satisfied, he does not have such a product (unless, of course, someone has beaten you).

10. Gentry soap

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We do not offer you to take any soap from the hypermarket, but we recommend “gentlemen’s men” from Belarus. The point is that he has absolutely Belarusian-language packaging, and different types are called directly by lines from the poems of Bogdanovich and any other native Belarusian associations. If you want - here is “Panna Niasvizha” with shea butter and avocado oil or “Zorka Venus” with mango butter. Of course, all this is natural and generally handmade. Soap and porcelain Karali came up with a married couple who had lived in Poland and the United States for several years, and then returned to their homeland to make a cool product in their own country. Well, you want a little "Vilenskaga Barok"?

11. Mishka Ivana Aiplatova

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This bear was invented in 2009 year and in a couple of years managed to become iconic - it seems that all mods who try to follow local trends have it. Besides the fact that the bear is objectively stylish, it is also universally practical: it is used as a bag, toys for a child with a stable psyche and a boxing glove - in extreme cases. Alas, the bear will soon cease to be considered an original Belarusian masterpiece: its creator, designer Ivan Aiplatov, sold all rights to it to a large British company. Very soon the BDSM bear will change its name to Lancy kimmy and will cost much more.

12. Condoms indigo

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In Belarus, there is sex. And judging by the range of types of condoms, it is very diverse. We recommend to take this gift, of course, not to business partners, but to people with whom you have a close enough relationship. The product has a very civilized packaging - and it was completely invented and implemented in Minsk. By the way, there are options and compact - for five pieces, and quite a wholesale for themselves - on 30.

13. Rogachev condensed milk

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Condensed milk - children's love, condensed milk from Rogachev - a brand and a symbol of time, if you want. The most interesting thing is that the product has not deteriorated over the years of its existence: Rogachev produces the same sweetness as under Brezhnev - nothing new in its composition has appeared or disappeared. It is worth driving it to foreigners, if only because they have never had such a “nougat” at all, condensed milk is an almost exotic for an average European or American. To please a foreign friend even more, advise him to add condensed milk to coffee, he should appreciate. And then show the photo of the monument, which is installed this blue tin in Rogachev. This is just a local tower of Pisa.

14. Watch "Ray"

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Few people know that this already epochal brand appeared because the minds of the USSR decided: in a socialist republic, no one produces watches for women, but they are needed. Yes, initially the product "Ray" was calculated exclusively for girls and, despite the iron curtain, was valued even in distant foreign countries - for example, in Canada. In 90, this brand experienced the best of times, and then the clock ceased to be a vital accessory - they were replaced by phones, fitness bracelets and other trend features. Nevertheless, the plant has not died out: the company has received "young and hot" employees who are right now developing the strategy of "Ray" for the future and making stylish minimalist watches. And although the production of "Luch", about as a dinner for two in a European restaurant, looks on their hands, they are very worthy.

15. Vinyl record "Songs"

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If it seems to you that “Pesnyary” is the last century, you are totally mistaken. Here, for example, the musician of "LSP" Peter Klyuev told us that when Western musicians ask him to include something special made in Belarus, he puts "Pesnyarov." Why? Because for them in this music with the elegant voice of Mulyavin there is both jazz, and folk, and Belarusian authentic. They had never heard anything like it before.

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