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Belarus ( i / b ɛ l ə ˈ r uː s / bel-ə- ROOSS ; Belarusian : Белару́сь , tr. Bielaruś , IPA: [bʲɛlaˈrusʲ] ; Russian : Белоруссия , tr. Byelorussiya ; IPA: [bʲɪloˈrussɪʲɐ] ), officially the Republic of Belarus , is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe bordered by Russia to the northeast, Ukraine to the south, Poland to the west, and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest. Its capital is Minsk ; other major cities include Brest , Hrodna (Grodno) , Homiel (Gomel) , Mahilioŭ (Mogilev) and Vitsebsk (Vitebsk
Until the 20th century, different states at various times controlled the lands of modern-day Belarus: for example: the Principality of Polotsk (11th to 14th centuries), the Grand Duchy of Lithuania , the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth , and the Russian Empire . In the aftermath of the 1917 Russian Revolution , Belarus declared independence as the Belarusian People's Republic , succeeded by the Socialist Soviet Republic of Byelorussia , which became a founding constituent republic of the Soviet Union in 1922