The Pyotr Masherov Memorial Week will be held from February 11-17 in the Vitebsk region

Numerous events dedicated to the 95th anniversary of Pyotr Mironovich Masherov's birth will be held these days in all regions of the oblast. Thus, commemorative evenings, literary exhibitions in libraries, and photo-documentary exhibitions in museums are planned. The most interesting of them will unfold in places connected with Masherov's life. In the Museum of Military Comradeship in Rossony District, where Masherov worked as a mathematics and physics teacher, and led the partisan underground during the war years, the exhibition "Immortal Memory Lives" will be presented. The exhibition features his personal belongings, gifts, books, and printed materials about his life and activities. The Senno Historical and Local Lore Museum will hold classes that will allow schoolchildren and students of the city to learn more about their famous countryman. Thematic class and information hours will also be held in vocational education institutions of the oblast.

Many interesting biographical facts will be announced on February 12 at the Vitebsk Regional Palace of Children and Youth Creativity, where regional local lore readings dedicated to Masherov's anniversary will take place. On February 13, flowers will be laid at his bust on Zamkovaya Street. The "Star Relay of Memory" will start here, and in the evening, festive events will continue at Vitebsk State University, which has borne Pyotr Masherov's name since 1998. Masherov received his higher education within the walls of this educational institution in the distant years of 1935-1939. Now the university carefully preserves the memory of its graduate. The evening program, prepared by current VSU students together with teachers, includes video sequences about Masherov's life and creative performances. Veterans and invited relatives of Masherov will share their memories with the youth.

Events dedicated to the 95th anniversary of Pyotr Masherov's birth will be held in the oblast throughout February.

Pyotr Mironovich Masherov was born in 1918 in the village of Shirki, Sennensky District. In August 1941, he organized and led the underground resistance in Rossony. From April 1942, he was the commander of the N.A. Shchors partisan detachment, and from March 1943, he served as the commissar of the K.K. Rokossovsky partisan brigade. He was the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Belarus from 1965 and a candidate member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU from 1966. He was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union (August 15, 1944) and Hero of Socialist Labour (1978). He was a prominent Soviet party official who enjoyed immense popularity and support among the population.

Masherov's tragic death on October 4, 1980, in a road accident (his car collided with a potato-laden dump truck) caused a significant public outcry.