Over 130 million trees in 78 countries: the international "Garden of Memory" campaign took place in the Vitebsk region
On the shore of Lake Losvido in the Vitebsk region, an event was held that united different generations to honor the memory of the heroes of the Great Patriotic War. Employees of the Investigative Committee of the Republic of Belarus for the Vitebsk region, students of PSU named after P. Masherov, and pupils of the Dolzha secondary school gathered at the military burial site No. 4431 to lay flowers and pay tribute to the fallen soldiers.
– We are proud of the feats accomplished by our ancestors. Honoring their memory is the sacred duty of each of us. A huge number of our soldiers perished, and we continue the search for the missing every year, – emphasized the head of the Investigative Committee of the Republic of Belarus for the Vitebsk region, Major General of Justice Alexander Gutska.
The "Garden of Memory" event, dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Victory, is an international initiative launched in 2020, which aims to plant 27 million trees in memory of every Soviet citizen who died during the war. Mikhail Bystrov, Deputy Head of the Rossotrudnichestvo representative office in Belarus, First Secretary of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in the Republic of Belarus, spoke in more detail about this:
– 78 countries have joined our initiative. 130 million trees have already been planted. We still cannot establish the names of all the fallen soldiers, so we must remember their heroism.