Belarus' consul general sees Great Victory as valuable lesson for future generations
Military-patriotic search detachments play a special role in preserving historical memory, their main task being to perpetuate the memory of fallen soldiers. Behind every relic found by searchers on the battlefields is the fate and name of a person who has been considered missing in action all these years.
A thematic exhibition "We are faithful to this memory" has been presented at the Museum of the History of Private Collections in Vitebsk. The initiator of the exhibition project was Larisa Brueva, Chairperson of the Council for Interaction of Search Detachments of the Vitebsk Region "Poshuk". The exhibition features materials from the history of the search movement in the Vitebsk region from 1984 to the present day.
The first search detachments and clubs began to appear in the Vitebsk region in the 1980s: "Iskatel" (Seeker) of Vocational School No. 96 and "Poisk" (Search) of Vocational School No. 19 in Vitebsk, "Razvedchiki voinskoy slavy" (Scouts of Military Glory) of Secondary School No. 2 in Novopolotsk, and "Rusichi" of Vocational School No. 110 in Orsha.
The first "Watches of Memory" and search expeditions in Belarus were held in the Dubrovno, Vitebsk, Liozno, Shumilino, and Polotsk districts of the Vitebsk region. And after the first regional search camp for educational institutions was held in the area of Lake Losvido, search detachments began to be created on the basis of school military glory museums.
In April 1991, there were about 30 detachments in the Vitebsk region, part of the Vitebsk Regional Association "Poshuk", registered by the All-Union Association of Search Organizations "People's Memory of Fallen Defenders of the Fatherland".
The glorious traditions of the search movement in the Vitebsk region within the framework of the Belarusian-Russian program "Sky of the Motherland" are now continued by searchers from the "Razvedchiki Voinskoy Slavy" detachment of Novopolotsk, " Gromovtsy" of the State Educational Institution "Secondary School No. 40 of Vitebsk named after M.M. Gromov", and "Aviapoisk" of Borisov.