Around the Square is the Central House of Officers, the residence of the President of Belarus, and the Janka Kupała National Academic Theater.

On 3 November 1961, Stalin's monument was demolished, and in 1966 the area was replaced by the opening of a museum built in honor of the Great Patriotic War.

[2] In March 2017, the centennial of the Belarusian Militsiya was celebrated with a parade of the personnel of the country's Ministry of Internal Affairs on October Square.

[5] On Freedom Day in 2006, the AMAP stormed an opposition tent at October Square without provocation, violently ending the peaceful Jeans Revolution against President Alexander Lukashenko.

Hundreds of thousands of people were beaten and detained on the square, including opposition presidential candidate Alaksandr Kazulin.