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Learning jiu-jitsu in Minsk
Minsk is this guide's first city in Belarus and the fourth in its Russian register after Moscow, Almaty and Tashkent. Two doors print what a visitor needs on their own sites, and the rest of the city is recorded from directories. Combat Corner on Partizansky Avenue, «Первый официальный зал команды BRASA в Беларуси», prints its address, a six-day text grid, the free first class in three languages, «Первое занятие бесплатно!», «Першы занятак бясплатна!», «The first lesson is free!», and the city's only printed drop-in for jiu-jitsu, «Разовое занятие 35 BYN», beside «Без лимитный 160 BYN» for thirty days and «Аренда Gi* 25 BYN». Holy Family Gym on Mikhas Lynkov Street, the Ze Radiola Team room, prints its address with «вход со двора», «Первая тренировка - бесплатно!», and a day-by-day grid with adult BJJ at 7:30, 18:30 and 20:00 and a Saturday «Открытый ковер», but no price. Behind them the directories hold a dozen rooms, most reachable only through Instagram and Telegram, which this research does not read. For someone starting out, the real question is not «which gym is the best» but «which one fits me»; this guide exists to answer that.
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Combat Corner (BRASA Minsk)
Who this academy suits
The Russian-, Belarusian- or English-reading beginner in Minsk: the fullest door in the city — «Минск, Партизанский просп., 147, подъезд 4» on the metro line along Partizansky Avenue, the free first class in three languages («Первое занятие бесплатно!», «Першы занятак бясплатна!», «The first lesson is free!»), a six-day grid with a 7:30 basics class on Tuesday and Thursday, a 9:00 Gi or No-Gi class every weekday, advanced Gi and No-Gi evenings and a Saturday open mat after the 11:00 basics, a two-tab BYN sheet (single class 35, unlimited 160, four classes 100, gi rental 25), and one carded head coach — «Главный тренер», IBJJF European champion 2020 at purple, black belt in BJJ and judo — who is also the registered operator. BRASA's first official room in Belarus, in its own words
Why we say it: combatcornerbjj.by root, /by and /eng read 2026-09-03 (sitemap lastmod 2026-08-31): the hero, the coach card, the contact block and the first-visit clause quoted verbatim; the grid and the price sheet rebuilt by sorting the Tilda zero-block cells on their served data-field-top-value / data-field-left-value coordinates, never from the raw DOM text order, and cross-checked against trener.by's rendered copy of both
The visitor passing through Minsk for a week: this is the one jiu-jitsu door in the city that prints a drop-in — «Разовое занятие 35 BYN» — and a gi to rent («Аренда Gi* 25 BYN»), so a traveller without a kimono can take the 9:00 Gi class on Monday, Wednesday or Friday, or the 9:00 No-Gi on Tuesday or Thursday, for one printed price; the first class is free anyway («Первое занятие бесплатно!»), and the Saturday «Open Mat (спарринги)» at 12:00 follows the 11:00 basics. The sheet is headed «Уточняйте по телефону» — confirm by phone before you go, and note that the four-class pass («4 тренировки 100 BYN — Действует 60 дней») is priced below three drop-ins
Why we say it: combatcornerbjj.by price sheet and grid (coordinate rebuild, 2026-09-03), and the gate-check census of every Minsk door read this pass: Combat Corner is the only jiu-jitsu room whose own channel prints a «Разовое занятие» figure; the other drop-in bytes in the city belong to striking gyms (Gridin «35 р.», Fight House «разовое посещение - 30 рублей»)
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Your first visit
- Free trial
- FREE: «Первое занятие бесплатно!» — the first class is free, printed in Russian, Belarusian («Першы занятак бясплатна!») and English («The first lesson is free!»); book through the «ЗАПИСАТЬСЯ» form (name and phone) or by phone; no conditions printed
- Class schedule
- Adults: Mon 9:00 Gi (all levels), 19:30 Gi (advanced); Tue/Thu 7:30 basics, 9:00 No-Gi (all levels), 20:00 basics; Wed 7:30 yoga, 9:00 Gi (all levels), 19:30 No-Gi (advanced); Fri as Mon; Sat 11:00 basics, 12:00 open mat (sparring); no Sunday. Kids: Mon/Fri 18:30 (5-7), Tue/Thu 18:00 (12+) and 19:00 (8-11), Sat 10:00 (8-12). Grid rebuilt from the page's Tilda coordinates and matched against trener.by's rendering
Classes and cost
- Membership
- Adults: single class «35 BYN» (the first one free) · unlimited «160 BYN» for 30 days · 4 classes «100 BYN» (60 days) · private «80 BYN» (60 min) · mini-group of 4+ «45 BYN*» per person · gi rental «25 BYN»; kids: single 35, 4 classes 100, 8 classes 145, 12 classes 165 BYN; BYN is the Belarusian ruble; «confirm by phone», the sheet says
Location, instructors, contact
- Address
- Partizansky Avenue 147, entrance 4 («подъезд 4»), ground floor, Partizansky district
- Instructors
- Andrey Shcherbatyuk — Head Coach («Главный тренер»), black belt in BJJ and judo, IBJJF European champion 2020 (purple, Master 2), BSUFC diploma; also the registered operator
Phone +375 44 771-50-92 · +375 33 326-35-03 Naver Map Apple Maps
Holy Family Gym
Who this academy suits
The Russian-reading beginner in western Minsk — Frunzensky, out by the ring road: a dedicated fight club since 2010 whose jiu-jitsu prints as a real programme, not a menu line — a 7:30 BJJ class on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, evening BJJ at 18:30 and 20:00 on Tuesday and Thursday, grappling at 20:00 on the other three nights, a Saturday no-gi class at 11:00 with an open mat («Открытый ковер») at 12:00, and two kids' groups by age. The first session is free («Первая тренировка - бесплатно!»), booked through a form that asks which day and which class, and the club lends the gear («Мы выдаем всю необходимую экипировку»). The competition standard is in print: colour belts here are tournament competitors, under Ze Radiola Team. Find the door in the courtyard («вход со двора»)
Why we say it: hfgym.by home, about, /schedule, /trainings/bjj, /trainings/grappling and /contacts read 2026-09-03 (robots.txt 404 — nothing disallowed): the address line, the first-visit clause and its form, the day-by-day grid and the direction pages quoted verbatim; the Ze Radiola / Dragons Den lines from the about page
The visitor passing through for a week, or anyone who wants to know what it costs: the site prints no price at all — no drop-in, no pass, no private rate — on any of its seven pages, and no directory prints one for this room either. The printed way in is the free first session through the form, and after that the number is a phone call («+375(25) 988-31-37»). If you are passing through, book the free class for the day you can make (the form asks for the weekday), take the 7:30 morning class or the 20:00, and ask at the desk what a second visit costs; this guide cannot tell you. The other jiu-jitsu door in the city, Combat Corner, prints its drop-in («35 BYN»); this one prints none
Why we say it: hfgym.by, seven pages read 2026-09-03 — zero money bytes; relax.by's place page for the room prints no price card; the contacts page's phone and the booking form's fields quoted verbatim; the Combat Corner comparison from that door's own sheet
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Your first visit
- Free trial
- FREE: «Первая тренировка - бесплатно!» — the first session is free; book it through the site's form (name, phone, weekday, class); «Мы выдаем всю необходимую экипировку для занятий» — the club lends all the gear you need
- Class schedule
- Mon/Wed/Fri: 7:30 BJJ, 18:30 kids BJJ (4-10), 19:00 kids BJJ (10-14), 20:00 grappling; Tue/Thu: 18:30 BJJ, 20:00 BJJ; Sat: 11:00 BJJ no-gi, 12:00 open mat («Открытый ковер»); no Sunday — the site's own day-by-day text grid, restated on the BJJ and grappling pages
Location, instructors, contact
- Address
- Mikhasya Lynkova Street 19/1, entrance from the courtyard («вход со двора»), Frunzensky district
- Front-desk hours (not class times)
- Daily 07:00–23:00 by the site (relax.by prints «until 22:00»)
Academies being verified
We are re-confirming the essentials: class schedules and trial mechanics. Each academy joins the full guide once its facts meet the bar.
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Academy MMA Club FrunzenskyKalvariyskaya Street 4, 2nd floor (relax.by address; MixFight prints Malinina 35A)Last checked: 2026-09-03
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Akvarium TsentralnyPobediteley Avenue 105, at the BSUPC university of physical culture (directory address)Last checked: 2026-09-03
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Budo Association PervomayskyGamarnika Street 16, building 1, unit 11 (Zelyony Lug), Pervomaysky district — the dojo with the grappling row; the association's contact address is Karbysheva 46/1 · +375 (29) 753-93-22 (association) · grappling group: +375 (29) 708-10-35, +375 (29) 702-75-03 · Grappling is taught by Konstantin Tomashevich — Belarus open champion 2017, open cup champion 2016, by the site; the association's head is Sergey Koblov (7th dan, Motoha Yōshin-ryū)Last checked: 2026-09-03
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Dogfight PervomayskyKalinovskogo Street 111, in the SKA «Trudovye Rezervy» boxing hall (directory address)Last checked: 2026-09-03
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Feniks MoskovskyPravdy Avenue 50, at the RANAK children's centre, Moskovsky district (directory address)Last checked: 2026-09-03
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Fight House FrunzenskyLeshchinskogo Street 8/5, room 305, by Kuntsevshchina metro, Frunzensky district · +375 33 699 03 45 · +375 33 911 11 28Last checked: 2026-09-03
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Gridin Gym PervomayskyLozhinskaya Street 14/1 (the booking form says 14/2), Uruchcha, Pervomaysky district · +375 (44) 7-124-124 · «Пробное занятие … БЕСПЛАТНО!» — a free trial, booking required («только по предварительной записи»); the same pages scope themselves to Muay Thai, kickboxing and boxingLast checked: 2026-09-03
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Olimp TimiryazevaTimiryazeva Street 9 (directory address)Last checked: 2026-09-03
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Rezervatsiya PervomayskyGeroev 120 Divizii Street — no house number printed (directory address)Last checked: 2026-09-03
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Sviryd Team FrunzenskyYakubovskogo Street 52 (directory address; open until 22:00)Last checked: 2026-09-03
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Tor TsentralnayaTsentralnaya Street 25 (directory address)Last checked: 2026-09-03
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Voron LeninskyPartizansky Avenue 2/1 (directory address; open until 22:00)Last checked: 2026-09-03
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Wresling Stail PervomayskyFilimonova Street 55, in the RUOR olympic-reserve college hall (directory address)Last checked: 2026-09-03
Frequently asked questions
Which academies in Minsk offer a free trial?
Combat Corner (BRASA Minsk): FREE: «Первое занятие бесплатно!» — the first class is free, printed in Russian, Belarusian («Першы занятак бясплатна!») and English («The first lesson is free!»); book through the «ЗАПИСАТЬСЯ» form (name and phone) or by phone; no conditions printed; Holy Family Gym: FREE: «Первая тренировка - бесплатно!» — the first session is free; book it through the site's form (name, phone, weekday, class); «Мы выдаем всю необходимую экипировку для занятий» — the club lends all the gear you need
How do I book a trial class?
It differs by academy. Where we could verify the booking method, it is listed under "Your first visit" in that academy's entry; otherwise, asking through the academy's official channel is the most reliable route.
I'm a complete beginner. Can I just show up?
It differs by academy. Entries show where a fundamentals program and first-visit process are verified. For the rest, check with the academy before visiting. For what a first class actually feels like, see the beginner posts on our blog.