Host-connection-pool.min-connections property with positive value

Akka Akka HTTP
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Here is the quote from docs of akka-http configurartion:

If the number of connections is falling below the given threshold, new ones are being spawned.

My question is connections with WHO are spawned at the moment of server’s start if I specify host-connection-pool.min-connections setting’s value to 5, for instance?
if at the start server doesn’t know if there will be any hosts establishing connections with it

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It is created on the first request to a given host, immediately creating min-connections connections to it and keeping that many connections alive.