Opening of the exhibition «Lidchina is proud of them»

On March 28, 2023, the opening of the exhibition «Lidchina is proud of them» took place at the Zonal State Archives in Lida.

The exhibition was based on the documents of the fund «Collection of documents of personal origin of veterans of the Great Patriotic War, labor veterans, cultural and national economy figures of Lida and the Lida region».

The exhibition presents documents of a veteran of the Great Patriotic War and labor Balabay Zoya Dmitrievna and a veteran of the Great Patriotic War and labor, deputy chairman of the Lida regional executive committee from 1965 to 1986 Baranov Georgy Pavlovich.

The director of the archive Svetlana Gennadievna Svirko addressed the audience with an opening speech, who recalled the main foundations of the morality of the Belarusian people, its unshakable traditional values – love for the native land, responsibility for it during the years of difficult military trials, the ability to work and respect for work, family, family, the preservation of historical memory and the continuity of generations. She drew attention to the fact that the history of every Belarusian family is part of the history of the country, where each new generation writes its chapter.

The opening of the exhibition was attended by the son of Baranov Georgy Pavlovich – Valery Georgievich Baranov, who shared his memories of his father. Valery Georgievich spoke about his family, recalling his grandfather Pavel Lukyanovich and his father’s brothers, Vladimir Pavlovich and Leonid Pavlovich, who heroically died during the Great Patriotic War, about his grandmother Faina, who died at the hands of the Nazi invaders, about his father’s participation in the Komsomol underground movement in the Vitebsk region.