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The names of these previously unknown liberator soldiers, who rest in a mass grave under the shade of spreading trees in the Lan agro-town near Nesvizh, were identified by teachers of a local school along with students. And last year, on Victory Day, a new monument appeared here. The names of all those participants of the Great Patriotic War, whose life path was cut short in these places, are stamped on it.

My father, Mikhail Cherkashin, a Red Army Guards private soldier, who during the operation «Bagration» evacuated 450 wounded soldiers and officers to the sorting platoon, returned home with honors on April 12, 1945, after a serious injury. His Great Patriotic War took place in the 51st Guards Rifle Division. Lasting over 1,300 days, it ended shortly before the Great Victory.

The «Festive Parade of Orchestras» — a project dedicated to the 80th Anniversary of the Great Victory — was held at the с and brought together peacemakers, teachers, and students from Peace Schools across various regions of the country. They came to the capital at the invitation of the Belarusian Peace Foundation to take part in the celebration and attend a concert program featuring the State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Belarus, the wind orchestras of the Belarusian State Academy of Music and the Minsk State Music College named after M. I. Glinka, as well as the «Svetoch» Concert Orchestra of Wind and Percussion Instruments of the Belarusian State University of Culture and Arts.

Rare archival materials have been presented in Minsk at the exhibition «Belarusian Cinema on the Great Patriotic War». The exhibition is dedicated to the 80th Anniversary of Victory Day. 

On the eve of the great holiday — the 80th anniversary of the Victory, thanks to the project «Four Fronts — One Victory», initiated by the Belarusian Peace Foundation, the closest relatives of the legendary Soviet military leaders Ivan Bagramyan, Konstantin Rokossovsky, Georgy Zakharov and Ivan Chernyakhovsky visited Minsk. These major military leaders, commanding the fronts, together with their armies, during the unique strategic operation «Bagration» did everything possible to ensure that most of Belarus was liberated.

Festive events on the occasion of this great date took place in all corners of the country. Not a single front-line soldier, partisan, or prisoner of the fascist concentration camps was left without attention. They also remembered the departed heroes, the victims of that war, whose memory lives not only in the names of streets and on memorial plaques, but in every team, family, in the hearts of the descendants of the victorious people. On these memorable days, all Belarusians — young and old — were involved in the large-scale celebration of the 80th anniversary of the Victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War. After all, this event, given to the world in May 1945, is the foundation of the development of our country, the spiritual core of the nation, which cannot be taken away from us or rewritten.