A memorial cross in honor of Belarusian sailors who fought in the Crimean War will be erected in Sevastopol
A memorial cross in honor of Belarusian sailors who fought in the Crimean War of 1853-1856 will be erected in Sevastopol. Arseniy Kritsky, coordinator and author of the Russian-Belarusian project "Maritime Brotherhood is Indestructible!", announced this to journalists, as reported by a BELTA correspondent. BELTA.
The memorial cross will be installed during the "The Fleet Remembers Everyone, and Therefore Me!" event, dedicated to the fallen soldiers of Belarusian, Russian, and Ukrainian naval regiments who fought in the Crimean War. It is planned to erect three memorial crosses at the battle sites – one each for Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine. The first memorial cross will be installed on July 29 in the Nakhimovsky district of Sevastopol on Pavlovsky Cape. In the near future, the installation of a second memorial cross and the opening of a chapel at the mouth of the Alma River will be discussed with the city administration.
According to Arseniy Kritsky, it is symbolic that the cross in honor of Belarusian sailors will appear in the Sevastopol region, which has streets named Vitebskaya, Mogilevskaya, Brestskaya, and Minskaya, named in honor of Belarusian regiments. During the cross installation ceremony, copies of the standards of the Vitebsk and Minsk regiments, which heroically fought in the defense of Sevastopol, will be presented to representatives of the Belarusian delegation.
The memorial cross is made of pine and wrought iron, funded by Belarusian sailors – veterans of the USSR Navy and Afghan War veterans. The consecration of the memorial cross by Archbishop Dimitry of Orsha and Vitebsk will take place on July 21 at the Holy Assumption Cathedral in Vitebsk.
In the opinion of Alexander Golubovich, deputy director of the "Memory of Afghanistan" charitable foundation for assisting internationalist soldiers, such events hold great historical significance. "This is a unique international project, and it needs to attract attention," he believes.
The event of the military-patriotic project "Naval Brotherhood is Indestructible!" is organized with the support of the All-Russian Public Organization of Marines "Typhoon", the Eurasian Academy of Television and Radio, the charitable foundation for assistance to internationalist soldiers "Memory of Afghanistan", the international festival of social culture "100 Cities of the World", the Embassy of Ukraine in Belarus, the Embassy of Russia in Belarus, the Russian Creative Union of Cultural Workers, "RosVoenCenter" of Moscow, the administration of Vitebsk and the Vitebsk region, the Sevastopol Society "Belarus", the Ministry of Information of Belarus, the House of Press of Belarus, the "Naval Education" fund of St. Petersburg, the Belarusian Orthodox Church, the Black Sea Fleet of Russia, the Navy of Ukraine, the representative office of the Standing Committee of the Union State in Minsk, the "Komandarm" fund.