Participants of the motor rally "Roads of War. Roads of Peace. Roads of Memory" visited 4 cities in the Vitebsk region.
Our compatriots organized an international patriotic motor rally "Roads of War. Roads of Peace. Roads of Memory". As part of the event, they visited over a dozen cities in Belarus and Russia, including Gorodok, Vitebsk, Orsha, and Dubrovno.
In each of the settlements, the participants of the action laid wreaths and flowers at monuments, military memorials, and graves. In district museums, they familiarized themselves with historical materials testifying to the courage of the Red Army soldiers, partisans, underground fighters, and the civilian population.
— The motor rally is being held for the first time, and the number of its participants is growing year by year, — said **Valerian Matskevich, Chairman of the regional organization of the Belarusian Union of War Veterans in Afghanistan**. — A traveling exhibition dedicated to the Great Patriotic War and the feat of Soviet soldiers was displayed along the route of the convoy. Guests from Smolensk also met with veterans and youth, and representatives of the authorities.
Our compatriots first visited Yazerishcha and Gorodok on Belarusian soil. In the urban-type settlement, they stopped at the grave of the commander of the 159th Separate Tank Brigade, Colonel Semyon Khaidukov, and in the district center, at the monument to the 10th Guards Tank Brigade.
The rally was attended by Gennady Egorov, Head of the Main Department of Ideological Work and Youth Affairs of the Regional Executive Committee, and Petr Korobach, Chairman of the District Executive Committee. Sergey Krivko, head of the National-Cultural Autonomy of Belarusians of the Smolensk Region, promised that after the motor rally, they would expand the traveling exhibition and publish a thematic "Atlas of Memory".