The international youth camp "Be-La-Rus" starts today on the border of Belarus, Latvia and Russia

The participants of the camp, which will run until July 30, will be about 600 people - activists of youth organizations of the participating countries, veterans of the youth movement and honored guests. Belarus will be represented by a delegation of 250 BRSM activists from all regions of the country. An educational program, competitions and intellectual games are planned. Participants of the camp will demonstrate their creative abilities and artistry in the competitions "Be-La-Russian Dawns", "Friendship Without Borders", bivouacs "Together We Meet the XIX World Festival of Youth and Students".

"In October, the Belarusian youth delegation plans to take part in this large-scale international youth forum, so the bivouac competition - a theatrical meeting of guests and jury, an excursion and presentation - will be a kind of creative warm-up before the upcoming festival," the press service explained.

In addition, a large-scale photo exhibition dedicated to its 25-year history will be unveiled at the camp. "Over a quarter of a century, the camp has developed many traditions. An important place is given to patriotic events: a rally in memory of the heroes of the Great Patriotic War, laying flowers at the monuments to the Komsomol members of the Proshkovo underground in Belarus, to the second secretary of the underground district committee of the Komsomol, partisan scout Hero of the Soviet Union Maria Pyntho - in Russia," the press service noted.

This year, the camp participants will traditionally hand over a garland through the Latvian border guards to lay at the monument to Hero of the Soviet Union Imants Sudmalis. The ideological inspirers of the youth camp "Be-La-Rus" are BRSM, the Union for Youth Progress of Latvia, and the Russian Union of Youth. According to the tradition established in the last decade, the international youth tent city is located on the territory of Belarus.