Belarus began using its own country code +375 in 1995, replacing the +7 international country code inherited from the Soviet Union.[1] The local numbering plan was inherited from the Soviet Union and remains with few changes.
Geographic area codes were designed based on previous 3-digit USSR area codes by removing the lead 0. Calling across areas still requires dialing trunk prefix 8 and waiting for dialtone after that. This pause was initially required by the analog trunk switches to identify the caller from PSTN for billing purposes.
When calling within Belarus, the trunk prefix must be followed by 0. In 2003, the abbreviated dialling within a single area code was replaced with a full 9-digit number + 2-digit trunk prefix. Previously it was possible to dial 82RRnn-nnn to reach a number in the same area. Now it is required to dial 80~AARRnn-nnn where AA is the area code, RR is the region code and nn-nnn is the local number.
International calling remains unchanged: 8~10-xxx...xxxx where 8 is a trunk prefix, 10 is the international access code, xxx...xxxx are the digits of the destination country, areas and local number.
New numbering plan
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Beltelecom began transition to the international numbering standard similar to the one adapted in many European countries in 2007. March 31, 2007 all short numbers were changed from 2 or 3 digits to 3 digits starting with 1.
Beltelecom plans to change trunk prefix to 0 from current 8~0 and international prefix to 00 from current 8~10.
The top 4 numbers are available across areas. Following numbers may be valid for Minsk only and may not exist or have a different short number in other areas.
Some of these numbers were formed by changing from old 2-digit codes to 3 by adding leading 1 or by replacing 0 with 1 in the old 3-digit code.
101 and 112 – Fire brigade
102 – Police
103 – Ambulance
104 – Gas leaks
105, 151, 155 – Railroad station
106 – National airport Minsk-2
107, 116 – Towing services
109 – Local toll directory assistance. Full number for dialling outside the local area it is 99-009-11 in the area centres (cities). Regional directory assistance numbers follow patterns RR-22-222 or RR-21-222 or RR-55-222 where RR is the region code within the area.
