BORDER RELAY RACE
This year the Border Service marked the 100th anniversary. In honour of this remarkable event a border relay race “100 years on frontiers’ guard” started in Minsk at the monument of Victory on the 28th of May, the date of the professional holiday, and will continue along all the frontier. Solemn thematic events will take place in more than 40settlements along the frontier. It will end on the 22nd of June in Brest fortress.
On the 14th of June the relay race arrived at Voronovo district. The district leaders, working people, veterans and young people came to the meeting at the memorial to the killed soldiers and partisans. The Deputy Head on ideological work of the State Border Committee colonel Dmitry Kvyatkovsky addressed a welcoming speech to the audience. He noted the importance of the event which connected the whole generations, showed the history and the reality of the frontier guards. The chairperson of Voronovo deputies’ Council Elena Ganevich, the first secretary of “BRSM” Natalya Metelitsa, Evgeny Druzhynin from Lida border detachment and Antonina Melko from veterans’ Council in Voronovo also spoke at the meeting.
The people honoured the memory of the soldiers who gave their life for the peaceful sky over our country with a minute of silence. The flowers were put to the memorial by the district leaders, frontier guards and veterans. The relay race included mobile expositions of the Belarusian State Museum of History of the Great Patriotic War, military historical club “Search”. The residents of Voronovo, Radun and Zabolots could get acquainted with plaster cast of the gun used during the war, domestic things of the military life, mass-propaganda materials, literature from “Officer’s library”, awards and equipment of the military time. A military orchestra of Lida border detachment pleased with their performance.
Natalya Ivut
Translated by Zinaida Tserpitskaya
