Pre-festive events held on eve of Victory Day

8 мая 2016

MINSK

This week was filled in Belarus with many bright events fr om which the mosaic of gratitude and memory is composed. The memory, which we carried through 71 years and will, no doubt, carry on.

Billboards appeared on the streets of Minsk, where famous Belarusians talk about their grandfathers and great-grandfathers, who defended their native land. In this way the family histories of Darya Domracheva, Victoria Azarenka, Alexei Kalyuzhny, Kirill Shimko and Oleg Rummo were presented. It is planned that such billboards will be installed in the regions.

The flashmob Flowers of the Great Victory started in one of the most tragic places on the memory of every Belarusian: in Trostenets. During the war, more than 200 thousand people were killed here.

NOVOPOLOTSK

Novopolotsk held a traditional contest wh ere schoolchildren sang victory songs to veterans.

MINSK REGION

Reconstruction of the Battle for Berlin, which became the final point of the terrible war, was held on the Stalin Line on the eve of May, 9.

MINSK

On the eve of the Victory Day the International Forum of vintage cars gathered in Belarus participants from 9 countries and more than 90 cars. On the same day a bus-museum started its journey to every region of Belarus.

A Youth Open-Air is held in the capital today presenting museum exhibits, theatrical performances accompanied by military songs in modern arrangements.