... Home > Open Conference Systems . ... History of the ICONO series goes back to 1965 and the LAT series of the conferences started in 2002. ICONO/LAT 2016 will be held in Minsk, the capital and largest city in Belarus, The oldest mentions of Minsk date back to 1067. In 1242 Minsk became a part of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and received its town privileges in 1499. ... During 1919-1991 Minsk was the capital of the Soviet Belarus, which became in 1991 an independentб  state. ...