The Minsk tram (Belarusian: Мінскі трамвай, romanized: Minski Tramvaj) network is organised into 10 routes, integrated with the city's trolleybus, Metro and bus services.

[1] The focus of the network is two sets of lines crossing through the city centre, with a small ring/loop section in the central district.

There are also three terminus-style turning loops positioned approximately mid-way along a couple of the lines: these serve additional, shorter, routes.

[2] 24 Tatra T6B5 trams were acquired in 1991, followed in 2003, by ten twenty year old GT8M tramcars from the city of Karlsruhe: the Germans handed over the trams for free, stating that this was cheaper than paying to scrap them, while the Belarusians were confident of being able to undertake cost-effectively the principal modification, which involved adapting the axles for the wider Russian gauge.

This came in the wake of massive population growth, from 5,500 in the 1860s to 91,000 by the end of the century,[1] and after several decades during which horse-drawn omnibus services had proliferated across the booming city.

[1] By 1900 a horse-tram line connected two of the principal main-line rail stations, and a slow process now began creating a wider network centred on this.

A major upgrade, which some sources identify as the beginning of the modern tram network in Minsk, started on 20 January 1928 and concluded on 13 October 1929.