Just before the World War II ended, the life in totally destroyed Baranavichy began to restore.
One of the crucial tasks was to create the passenger motor transport system. This began in 1944 practically from zero. August, 21 1944 is considered to be a
birthday of the bus fleet. At that day two captured buses “Bussing” departed to their first trips on the routes “Baranavichy — Navahrudak” and “Baranavichy — Dziatlava”.
Today it’s very hard to define, what bus became the first used on the city routes. But it is known that the first city route (it is also unknown if it had
the numerical designation at that time) already existed in 1949. It was connecting the railway station (Baranavichy-Palyeskiya it seems) and the running shed. In total
according to the state on January, 1 1949 there was 8 buses in the city, 6 of them belonged to the ministry of transport, 1 to the ministry of communication lines, 1 to the
public health ministry.
Due to the development of country's transport system in 1950 — 1952 domestically produced buses PAZ 651 and ZiS 155 began to be received. According to the
state on January, 1 1951 there were 21 buses in the city, 18 of them belonged to the ministry of transport: 14 GAZ 03-30, 1 ZiS 8-16, 1 ZiS 154, 2 were the foreign (this is
about 2 captured “Bussing” buses it seems).
The interesting fact: in 1951 the fare at the only city route from railway station to Tratsiaki was 1 ruble, if someone had to get from the railway station
to the center of the city or from the center to Tratsiaki or vice versa, the fare was already only 50 kopecks. In addition, in the daytime on the first route 4 buses were
running, in the peak hours — 5 buses. The traffic was beginning at 7:30, and stopped at 24:00.
In 1951 7 suburban routes existed.
In 1955 the motor transport administration of BSSR decided to organize the independent services — Baranavichy bus fleet, that was named “Motor Transport
Passenger Bureau”. It was created on the base of small workshops with primitive equipment and low productivity. At that time the fleet consisted of 35 buses with the middle
capacity 24 places, 29 taxi-cabs “Pobyeda” and 9 lorries. The chief of the enterprise was N. I. Krauchanka.
On November, 25 1958 there was the appeal to the director of Baranavichy bus station to open the city route in Lyakhavichy “the center of the city — the
railway station” with two bus stops and the period of operation from 8:30 till 18:00.
In December of 1964 there were 5 routes with the length of 39,1 km with 35 buses running on them in the city. There were 107 bus stops in Baranavichy. In
1966 there were already 7 city routes in the city of total length 48,5 km and 46 buses running on them. The city executive committee obliged the head of the fleet to use only
LAZ and PAZ 652 buses at the city routes.
The functioning of the city transport in the end of the 60th and in the beginning of the 70th was unsatisfactory. During the ispection on June, 13 1968
numerous violations were uncovered. On the route No. 1 instead of ten buses there were running only seven, on the route No. 2 six instead of eight, on the third route there
were only four buses instead of seven. The same violations were noticed also on the routes No. 5 and No. 7. In 1970 there were running only 40—45 buses on the rotes instead of
planned 58. That was concerned with bad material resources and lack of spare parts. At that time on the city routes a new minibus “Latvia” was tested; 10 days it was running on
the one route, lately on the other route.
According to the state on 30.11.1968 the bus fleet served 60 routes daily with 129 buses. The total length of the routes was 5 535 km, more then 75 000
passengers were carried daily. According to the state on January, 1 1969 there were 173 buses in the bus fleet, only 137 of them were in order.
In the beginning of the 70th the idea to make the bus fleet independent appeared and in 1975 on the base of the old one two new enterprises were created —
the taxi company and the automobile enterprise No. 2448. Before this partition the head of the common enterprise was comrade Zahradski.
Before 1975 the main buses of Baranavichy routes were LAZ 695E and LAZ 695M. The last of them were on the routes approximately in 1979. Beginning from the
middle of 70’th the most mass bus in Baranavichy became LiAZ 677.
On April, 1 1975 the city public transport started using the ticket system of fare.
In December of 1975 the bus garage for 200 buses in Telmana street was set in operation. After this the modern Hungarian buses of high capacity Ikarus 255,
Ikarus 256 and Ikarus 260 started to come to the city.
The first three Hungarian buses Ikarus 260 with little narrow vents came to Baranavichy in the end of 1974. Since 1975 till 1984 9—12 new Ikarus 260 buses
came to the city every year, the exception was only 1979, when only one bus came. Firstly those motor vehicles were running on the intercity bus routes, that were spreading for
all the regions of BSSR except Vitebsk region and also the cities of Lithuanian SSR and RSFSR at that time.
The diagnostic line was created in the automobile enterprise, the circulating water supply using the “Kristall” equipment was implemented. The enterprise got
the title “The fleet of guaranteed safety of the road traffic”.
According to the general layout from September, 7 1978 the organization of the trolleybus communication in the city was planned. Firstly it was planned to
build two turning rings for trolleybuses. One of them had to be built on the area of nowadays garages near the hemotransfusion station. The other had to be built beyond the
Brest—Moscow road near the end of the present Savyetski avenue.
The first two buses Ikarus 280 (with the wide vents) appeared in 1982 and started working on the route No. 7, which had the shortest interval: 6—7 minutes in
the peak hours.
Till the end of the 80th only yellow Hungarian buses came to the city, only in 1977 three orange buses came.
From May, 5 1982 the fixed-run taxi started operating again in the city on the route No. 1: “Palyeski railway station — Tratsiaki”, the fair was 20
kopecks. This route was operated by the RAF minibuses, which belonged to the taxi company.
In 1986, exactly in September the construction of the new bus station in Fralyankova street began. The first buses departured from its platforms on February,
19-20 1988, but the old bus station on Prytytskaha street was officially closed only on June, 1 1991.
In 1987 the automobile enterprise No. 2448 was renamed to the Bus Park No. 2.
In 1987 the first group of the Bus Park No. 2, that served the city rotes, was divided into brigades and every of them had the concrete buses and routes; the
interval of the garage numbers was individual for every brigade. This was the quantity and quality state of the brigades in that year (the numeration of brigades is
relative:
- brigade 1 (routes No. 1, 2, 15), buses: 9 Ikarus 260, 20 LiAZ 677;
- brigade 2 (routes No. 3, 6), buses: 25 Ikarus 260, 6 Ikarus 280;
- brigade 3 (routes No. 4, 10), buses: 4 Ikarus 260, 14 LiAZ 677;
- brigade 4 (routes No. 5, 5à, 11), buses: 17 Ikarus 260, 4 LiAZ 677;
- brigade 5 (routes No. 7, 14), buses: 7 Ikarus 260, 1 LiAZ 677, 16 Ikarus 280;
- brigade 6 (routes No. 8, 12), buses: 14 Ikarus 260, 5 LiAZ 677, 9 Ikarus 280;
- brigade 7 (routes No. 9, 13, 16), buses: 2 Ikarus 260, 22 LiAZ 677.
In August in 1989 the director of the Bus Park No. 2 reported: “now the announcement of the bus stops in the buses will be realized by pleasant female voice
written on the tape recorder”.
In the last years before the USSR breakdown several Ikarus 280 buses with two-leaf doors and Ikarus 263 appeared in the city.
In the beginning of December of 1992 two buses Jelcz 120 M appeared in Baranavichy, and on December, 19 after running it in and training the personnel by
the polish specialists they started serving routes No. 6 and No. 8. It was a gift from the city executive committee for the Bus Park No. 2 for its 50-th anniversary. In
that year there were 260 buses in the Bus Park, and the staff consisted of 918 people. The first two LiAZ 5256 appeared in the beginning of April of 1993 and cost 8 000 000
rubles of those days each. It was planned to buy roughly eight by the end of 1993, but the plans didn’t turn into reality. In the end of June or in the beginning of July 1994
two buses LiAZ 5256 appeared in the Bus Park, but assembled by Lida pilot-production plant “Nyeman”. In 1996 one of domestic LiAZ 5256 was given to Baranavichy bus fleet for
good work by the deputy minister of transport.
In 1993 — 1994 in the streets of the city during the days-off were running Ikarus 260 buses with guards, the fare in which was twice more than a fare in the
usual city buses. The routes were forking off the bus stop near the motor unit works in Haharyna (Gagarin) str. (“the Market”) to the biggest microdistricts of the city —
Paunochny (the North), Uskhodni (the East), Tratsiaki. It seems that the attempt was unsuccessful (almost empty passenger compartments of the “expresses” was the evidence of
it), and the experiment ended on it.
From the February, 1 1994 the night bus-taxi started running on the route “Parkavaya str. — Palyeski railway station — Tsentralny (the Central) railway
station”, which spreaded to the main microdistricts of the city, but on February, 13 of the same year it was closed because of the little passenger traffic and
unprofitableness.
The first six Ikarus 280 buses from Germany arrived to the Bus Park No. 2 in the end of June of 1996. In the end of May the vice-chairman of the city
executive committee was in the business trip and negotiated buying used Ikarus buses. Interesting fact: in the “Nash Kray”(eng. “Our Land”) newspaper these buses were called
new... Before October of 1996 1 billion rubles was accumulated for buying in Germany four—five “new” buses more, and in general in 1996 was bought seven city buses Ikarus 280
and three suburban Ikarus 260. According to the state for October, 20 1998 there were 27 buses from Germany, and by the end of the year it was planned to buy 10 more buses. It
was planned at that time, that the busses will operate only 6—7 years, but in practice this time appeared to be longer.
The first low-floor bus MAZ 103 appeared in the city in September of 1997. During the year the city bought only three buses of this type. After that,
beginning from November of 1998, when two first buses MAZ 104 came to Baranavichy transport enterprise, the regular purchase of this model of 12-meter buses started. By 2006 17
of them was bought.
In 2001 — 2002 Baranavichy sad goodbye to epochal bus — LiAZ 677, and exactly — LiAZ 677M. There were many versions of its alias: from lenient “long loaf” to
humiliating “cattle truck”, but for almost three decades it was the most mass bus in the soviet cities, that carried tens of millions of people every day all over the USSR.
The first articulated Belarusian bus MAZ 105 appeared on the routes on April, 8 2002. This bus became the first in Baranavichy to recieve in the beginning of
2004 the autoinformator.
In the difficult years of after-soviet reality the Bus Park No. 2 looked worthy against a background of the other transport enterprises of the country and
generally saved the city and the suburban route net, that existed before the USSR collapse.
The first automatic voice informator appeared in 2004 in the first articulated bus MAZ 105. In the beginning the voice was female, then, when the
installation of autoinformators in all buses began, the voice was changed into male. In March of the same year 2004 the first minibus “Gazelle” appeared in the Bus Park No.
2.
On April, 27 2006 the first single triaxial bus MAZ 107 appeared in our city. In total in 2006 10 city MAZ buses were bought (to compare — in 2002 only 2
city MAZ buses were bought — 1 MAZ 104 and 1 MAZ 105).
During the half-yearly period beginning from the end of 2006 and ending on March of 2007 two polish buses Jelcz 120M disappeared from the city streets
forever. In 2007 the only bus Ikarus 263 was also utilized.
In the end of 2007 two first buses Nyeman 5201 appeared in Baranavichy. In the end of 2007 the city also bought two city buses MAZ 206, and also two
intercity buses MAZ 152 with air-conditioner, microwave oven and mini-bar. The buses were noticed in the beginning of 2008. In total, in the end of 2007 the Bus Park No. 2 had
nearly 220 buses in the fleet; during the year 2007 25 buses were bought.
In the second half of 2008 Bus Park No. 2 besides carriage of passengers began to operate cargo transportation. Two current-technology tractive units DAF
XF105 with semi trailers Koegel for them were bought.
During 2008 three city bus routes were opened: No. 25, 28, 2. Percentage quantity growth of the city routes was 12 % (from 25 to 28), it looks like there was
nothing alike since the very beginning of the public transport in Baranavichy.