A competition for young guides to the places of partisan glory has been announced in the Vitebsk region

March 29, Vitebsk / Diana Kurilo - BELTA /. A contest of young guides to the places of partisan glory has been announced among high school students of the Vitebsk region. The founders of the contest, timed to the 65th anniversary of the Great Victory, are the education department of the regional executive committee, the culture department of the regional executive committee, and the Vitebsk branch of the Belarusian Peace Fund, Zoya Krot, chairman of the regional fund, told a BELTA correspondent. The main goal of this unusual contest is to promote establishing contacts between schoolchildren interested in the history of the Great Patriotic War and to support school historical and local lore and memorial museums. The contest will be held in two stages. At the first, заочный (correspondence) stage, the participants will present overview and thematic excursions around their museums. The winners of this stage will become participants of the second, очный (in-person) round, which the organizers called "Excursion Marathon." It will be held in Vitebsk on May 11-12. Contestants will have two hours to come up with and develop an excursion route to places associated with the history of the partisan movement in the Vitebsk region and Hero of the Soviet Union Minay Shmyrev. The third round of the in-person stage, a quiz, is designed to demonstrate the young guides' ability to use terminology. The incentive for all participants of the final stage of the contest and their organizing teachers will be a tourist trip along the route "Vitebsk - Historical and Cultural Complex 'Stalin Line'," organized by the Vitebsk branch of the Belarusian Peace Fund. -0-