240 residents of Belarus have been awarded the Order of Motherhood. Among them are representatives from the Vitebsk region.

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko signed Decree No. 358 on awarding the Order of Motherhood. 240 residents of the republic, representatives of various fields of activity, were awarded for the birth and upbringing of five or more children.

Among the awardees are representatives from the Vitebsk region – Anna Ananich-Fanitskaya, deputy director of the Euroopt store of the Eurogondal LLC branch (Novopolotsk); Tatyana Voitseнок, an employee of the centralized library system (Novopolotsk); Nadezhda Davydko, an assistant educator at kindergarten No. 99 (Vitebsk); Yana Dergacheva, a housewife (Pervomaisky district of Vitebsk); Irina Moroz, an employee of the Babynichi kindergarten of the Polotsk district; Svetlana Morozova, a sanitary worker at the Braslav boarding house for the elderly and disabled; Oksana Nyadvetskaya, a machine operator at the liqueur and vodka production workshop of Vitebsk Liqueur and Vodka Plant Pridvinye OJSC; Yulia Pavlovich, a specialist in retail banking services at banking services center No. 216 of Belarusbank Savings Bank OJSC in Polotsk; and Tatyana Shatilo, head of the department of the territorial center for social services to the population of the Shumilino district.