On the eve of Women's Day, the Order of Motherhood was awarded in Vitebsk
The "main responsible persons" for the women of the Dvina region were invited to meet with large families: Chairman of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee Alexander Subbotin and Chairman of the Vitebsk City Executive Committee Alexey Geroev.
The culmination of the celebration was the awarding of the state award – the Order of Motherhood – to women for giving birth to and raising five or more children.
These awards were presented to Yulia Gulyashko, a shop assistant at "Marko" store of "Marko-service" LLC from Glubokoye; housewives Natalia Litvinova from Novopolotsk, Yulia Lyutik and Olga Savitskaya from Vitebsk; cashier-controller at "Euroopt" store of "Evrotorg" LLC branch in Vitebsk Veronika Malakhevich; employee of the branch "Tollchin Road Repair and Construction Department No. 147" of State Enterprise "Vitebskoblodorstroy" Alla Poznyak; computer operator of "Chistyye Krinitsy" LLC from Orsha Kristina Romanovskaya; milking machine operator of MTF "Devino" of "Teplichny" branch of RUP "Vitebskenergo" Olga Solovyova; and director of Vitebsk private unitary enterprise "ShiKom-plyus" Lyudmila Shotova.
– A total of over a thousand women from the Dvina region have been awarded the Order of Motherhood for giving birth to and raising five or more children. On the eve of the holiday, from this grand stage where we honored our mothers of large families, I want to wish them and all other mothers to always remain young, blooming, joyful, and to always keep spring in their souls, – said Alexander Subbotin. – All the titles a woman receives in her life are honorable. They exude kindness, warmth, and coziness: besides the title of mother, there is wife, grandmother. Any of them obliges us men to a great extent and inspires us to perform feats for you, to dedicate poems to you, to love you more and more.
On the pre-holiday day, men wished women warmth, comfort, prosperity, and peace in every home, that their loved ones be healthy, and that everything develop positively.
In healthcare, education, culture, the agro-industrial complex, light industry, trade, and the financial and banking sector of the Vitebsk region, the majority are representatives of the fair sex. An active civic position, a high educational and professional level, initiative, and a responsible attitude to work have become integral features of our contemporaries.
Flowers, words of gratitude for the feat of motherhood, performances by choreographic groups and soloists were addressed to these remarkable women. Together with the heroines of the occasion, their family members present in the hall, and many other distinguished women of the Vitebsk region shared the bright and moving moments of the holiday.