Moscow gymnasium students will learn about the history of the partisan movement in the Vitebsk region

March 30, Vitebsk / Diana Kurilo - BELTA /. Moscow gymnasium students on the eve of the Day of Unity of the Peoples of Belarus and Russia will learn about the history of the partisan movement in the Vitebsk region, the chairperson of the Vitebsk branch of the Belarusian Peace Foundation, Zoya Krot, told a BELTA correspondent. The high school students of the capital's Gymnasium No. 1584 will first be welcomed by the Rossony land. Here, the students will visit the Museum of Military Comradeship, the memorial room of Hero of the Soviet Union Pyotr Masherov, and visit places associated with his military past. Then the gymnasium students will get acquainted with the sights of Polotsk, and then Vitebsk awaits them. In the regional center, they will meet their peers - students of Gymnasium No. 5, members of the young scouts club, who replenish the funds of the school museum dedicated to the 39th Army, which liberated Vitebsk, and visit the museum of Hero of the Soviet Union Minay Shmyrev. As Zoya Krot noted, such an excursion will continue the friendly contacts of schoolchildren interested in the history of the Great Patriotic War and will undoubtedly serve for the patriotic education of young citizens of the Union State. The initiative to organize the excursion belongs to one of the teachers of the gymnasium, a native of Belarus. Russian gymnasium students will stay in the Vitebsk region from April 1 to April 3. -0-