Vitebsk regional organization of the Belarusian Officers' Union recognized as the best in the country
Last Friday, a meeting of the council of the Vitebsk regional organization of the Belarusian Union of Officers was held. The plan of events for 2019 was considered. The meeting took place at the regional military commissariat.
It all started with pleasant news: following the results of the republican campaign "The Belarusian Union of Officers Raises Patriots for the Country", the Vitebsk regional organization of the BSO was recognized as the best in the republic.
Sergey Denisov reported that the organization has about 1400 officers, of whom 542 took an active part in the republican campaign. In the past year, they visited 101 educational institutions in the region (which is one-third of their total number), 12 military units, and 54 work collectives. Such traditional meetings with youth, military personnel, and workers are aimed at the civic-patriotic education of the population.
Based on the results of the campaign, the Republican Council of the Belarusian Union of Officers awarded the activists of the Vitebsk region.
Guard Major General of the reserve **Alexander Skachkov** was awarded the badge "Honorary Member of the Belarusian Union of Officers".
The badge "For Active Work" was awarded to the heads of several BSO organizations: retired Major **Alexey Yakimenko** (Tolokhin), retired Lieutenant Colonel **Leonid Kabush** (Dubrovno), Chairman of the Novopolotsk city organization of the BSO, retired Lieutenant Colonel **Anatoly Korotaev**.
Certificates of the Republican Council of the BSO were awarded to the heads of district organizations: retired Lieutenant Colonel **Boris Romanov** (Gorodok), retired Colonel **Valery Zhandarov** (Shumilino), as well as the head of the Department of Emergency Situations, Major of the internal service **Sergey Avodnyov** (Ushachi).
The Republican Council of the Belarusian Officers' Association has expressed gratitude to the heads of the Vitebsk and Orsha city organizations – reserve Lieutenant Colonel Vasily Krivko and reserve Colonel Igor Filippov, respectively, as well as the deputy chairman of the Shumilino district organization, retired Lieutenant Colonel Vyacheslav Konoshenko.
The coming year promises to be eventful for the Belarusian Officers' Association. In particular, from April 3 to July 3, the Belarusian-Russian event "Road of Memory and Victory" will take place, with a significant part of its activities held in Polotsk, Novopolotsk, and Ushachi. Among the initiators are the Public Chamber of the Union State of Belarus and Russia, the military scientific society under the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Belarus, the Belarusian Officers' Association, the main department of the Smolensk region for youth affairs and civil-patriotic education, and the Smolensk regional branch of the Russian Union of Afghanistan Veterans. Sergey Denisov emphasized that members of the regional organization should take an active part in this event, as well as in the socio-political life of the country.
"Vitbichi".