More than 10,000 seedlings were planted and a military burial site was landscaped in the Vitebsk region
The traditional republican campaign "Let's Restore the Forests Together" was joined by Anatoly Linevich, First Deputy Chairman of the Regional Executive Committee, Sergey Egorov, Chairman of the Vitebsk District Executive Committee, Yuri Lipsky, General Director of Vitebsk State Forestry Association, Sergey Meshkoshkin, Head of the Regional Emergency Situations Department, and cadets of the military-patriotic club "Rescuer".
All of them became voluntary participants in the initiative to plant trees and improve the military burial site No. 4442 in the village of Arekhi, Surazh rural council.
The event began with a requiem rally at the burial site, where more than 140 soldiers who died for the freedom of their Motherland in 1943 in battles against the Nazi invaders are buried, and continued with the planting of thuja trees near the tombstones and a concrete obelisk with a red star. Wreaths and flowers were laid in memory of the soldiers by representatives of the authorities, work collectives, and youth. Anatoly Linevich noted that the events of the Great Patriotic War and the feat of Soviet soldiers will live forever in the memory of the people. Descendants, grateful for the peace and freedom won at a high price, allwhen they will care for military graves and mass graves and bring flowers to them, plant trees.
Next, the participants of the event moved to the Brigitpol forestry of the Surazh forestries, where they planted more than 10 thousand pine and birch seedlings on an area of about 2 hectares. The forests of Surazh, which were a partisan region during the Great Patriotic War, will be green with young trees – future eternal pines and white-trunked birches in memory of the partisans who managed toIn 1942, the "Surazh Gate" was created -- a 40-kilometer gap in the front line between the flanks of the German Army Groups "North" and "Center", forming a corridor in the section from Velizh to Usvyaty, through which weapons and ammunition, medicines and food, civilians and soldiers were transported. Sergey Egorov spoke about this important historical moment, connected with the heroic past of our land.
All of them became voluntary participants in the initiative to plant trees and improve the military burial site No. 4442 in the village of Arekhi, Surazh rural council.
The event began with a requiem rally at the burial site, where more than 140 soldiers who died for the freedom of their Motherland in 1943 in battles against the Nazi invaders are buried, and continued with the planting of thuja trees near the tombstones and a concrete obelisk with a red star. Wreaths and flowers were laid in memory of the soldiers by representatives of the authorities, work collectives, and youth. Anatoly Linevich noted that the events of the Great Patriotic War and the feat of Soviet soldiers will live forever in the memory of the people. Descendants, grateful for the peace and freedom won at a high price, allwhen they will care for military graves and mass graves and bring flowers to them, plant trees.
Next, the participants of the event moved to the Brigitpol forestry of the Surazh forestries, where they planted more than 10 thousand pine and birch seedlings on an area of about 2 hectares. The forests of Surazh, which were a partisan region during the Great Patriotic War, will be green with young trees – future eternal pines and white-trunked birches in memory of the partisans who managed toIn 1942, the "Surazh Gate" was created -- a 40-kilometer gap in the front line between the flanks of the German Army Groups "North" and "Center", forming a corridor in the section from Velizh to Usvyaty, through which weapons and ammunition, medicines and food, civilians and soldiers were transported. Sergey Egorov spoke about this important historical moment, connected with the heroic past of our land.