Vitebsk region will host participants of a ski crossing in honor of the 65th anniversary of Victory and the 80th anniversary of the Airborne Forces

February 12, Vitebsk / Sergey Kotovets - BELTA /. The Vitebsk region will host participants of the Russian patriotic event "Ski March in Honor of the 65th Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War and the 80th Anniversary of the Airborne Forces," which will take place in the region from February 13 to 16. This was reported to a BELTA correspondent by the Ideological Work Department of the Regional Executive Committee. The event started on February 9 in Nizhny Novgorod and covers the locations of units and detachments of the Airborne Forces of Russia and Belarus, as well as the sites of heroic battles during the Great Patriotic War. The ski team is formed from students of military-patriotic classes of the Nizhny Novgorod region and veterans of the Airborne Forces. En route, they will visit Pskov, Polotsk, Vitebsk, as well as Smolensk and Vyazma. The total length of the route is over 2,500 km, including about 600 km that the participants will cover on skis. The event will conclude on February 24 in Moscow. The Belarusian stage of the event will begin on February 13 and will take place in the Polotsk and Vitebsk districts. The participants of the march will visit the Polotsk National Historical and Cultural Museum-Reserve. In Vitebsk, the main events will be held at the 103rd Separate Guards Mobile Brigade. Russian schoolchildren will meet with veterans of the unit, visit memorable places, the brigade's Hall of Military Glory, and the Museum of Internationalist Soldiers. Joint concerts and sports competitions will be organized on the unit's territory. On February 15, the Russians will participate in the memorial events of the Vitebsk garrison dedicated to the Day of Remembrance of Internationalist Soldiers. On the same day, presentations of military-patriotic classes of the Vitebsk and Nizhny Novgorod regions, demonstration performances by soldiers of the 103rd Brigade, and sports and cultural events will be held at the Luzhesnyan boarding school-gymnasium. Then, the participants of the march will head to Smolensk. The goal of the event is the patriotic and spiritual-moral education of youth, as well as strengthening friendship between Belarusian and Russian students of military-patriotic classes. The organizers of the march are the Ministry of Education of the Nizhny Novgorod Region, the Nizhny Novgorod Council of Airborne Forces Veterans, and the regional organization of the Russian Union of Afghanistan Veterans. -0-