The army youth of Belarus and Russia will meet at a friendship festival in the Vitebsk region

October 19, Vitebsk / Olga Bogacheva - BELTA /. The IX Festival of Friendship of the airborne troops youth of Belarus and Russia will be held on October 22-24 in the Vitebsk region, the head of the youth affairs department of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee, Valery Kunashko, told a BELTA correspondent. More than a hundred young paratroopers from the 103rd Guards Separate Mobile Brigade of the Armed Forces of Belarus (Vitebsk) and the 76th Guards Chernihiv Airborne Assault Division of the Armed Forces of Russia (Pskov region) will take part in the three-day event. Moreover, each day will bring them new impressions from meetings with different cities of the Vitebsk region: Polotsk, Lepel, Beshenkovichi, and Vitebsk await the army youth. The program includes familiarization with museums, memorable places, and attractions of the cities, meetings with students of military-patriotic classes and veterans, lessons of courage, rallies at places of military glory and monuments to those who died during the Great Patriotic War. In Lepel and Beshenkovichi, paratroopers will demonstrate their skills in demonstration performances and take part in competitions with local pre-conscription youth, and in the evenings, they will hold amateur army concerts. The festival is held for the purposes of military-patriotic and spiritual-moral education of the younger generation, perpetuating the memory of soldiers who died in the defense of the Fatherland, strengthening friendship between the youth of Belarus and Russia, as well as increasing the prestige of military service. The festival is organized by the youth affairs department of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee, the State Committee of the Pskov Region for Youth Policy and Sports, the 103rd Guards Separate Mobile Brigade of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Belarus (Vitebsk), the 76th Guards Chernihiv Airborne Assault Division of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the Lepel and Beshenkovichi District Executive Committees. -0-