Near the old Jewish cemetery, an underground printing house called "Black Perelay" opened in the spring of 1881 in a small house at the corner of Magazinnaya and Bogadelnaya Streets (now 17, Kirov Street and 38, Komsomolskaya Street). Minsk Jewish revolutionaries under the leadership of G. Plekhanov were instrumental to its creation, and literature and proclamations printed here were distributed throughout Russia.  A bit later, in 1907 the private Jewish school of Haikin was founded there, and by 1913, it taught 310 students. With the advent of Soviet rule, the Jewish boys school was closed, occuring after the dissolution of the Jewish community in 1920. Later the building housed the Minsk Regional Committee of the Communist Party of Belarus, and now hosts the Coordinating Council of the Commonwealth of Independent States.