About 250 people are improving Victory Square in Vitebsk

April 24, Vitebsk / Olga Bogacheva - BELTA /. About 250 people are involved in the improvement of Victory Square in Vitebsk, the head of the housing and communal services department of the Vitebsk City Executive Committee, Valery Kirsanov, told a BELTA correspondent. The grand opening of the first stage of Victory Square, timed to coincide with the celebration of the 65th anniversary of the victory of the Soviet people over the German fascist invaders, is scheduled for May 8, 2010. To prepare as fully as possible for this event, about 250 residents of the regional center are helping today in the improvement of the facility. In addition to bringing order and cleaning its territory, representatives of various work collectives, including the Chairman of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee Alexander Kosinets and the Mayor of Vitebsk Viktor Nikolaikin, were also engaged in planting new trees in the Winners' Park adjacent to the square. Cultural workers of the regional center are working in the Summer Amphitheater, which is preparing to open its concert season on May 2. The staff and students of the Vitebsk State Medical University are participating in the construction of the library and morphological building of their university. In general, according to preliminary data, over 200 thousand Vitebsk residents and 460 thousand residents of the Vitebsk region took part in the republican subbotnik. It is expected that the region will earn over Br1 billion. Half of these funds will be transferred to the republican budget. The second part will be directed to the improvement and repair of military burials, places of military glory, the development of existing and the creation of additional infrastructure of agro-towns. -0-