The State Archives of the Vitebsk Region has prepared a virtual exhibition of documents «Arlyanyaty: We didn’t walk around with wine those days – we simply breathed wine», dedicated to the Independence Day of the Republic of Belarus and the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory

The exhibition exhibition «Arlyanyaty: We didn’t walk around with wine those days – we simply breathed wine» presents materials from a collection of documents with the memoirs of participants in the Great Patriotic War and texts of articles about young patriots of the Vitebsk region, published in the newspaper «Vitebsk Workers» in 1987.

For the first time, stories about pioneers and schoolchildren of the Vitebsk region, participants in the Great Patriotic War, were published on the pages of «Vitebsk Worker» in 1975. Materials about young heroes were collected thanks to the associate professor of the Vitebsk Pedagogical Institute named after S.M. Kirov N.I. Dorofeenko, with the help of the regional Komsomol committee, the regional museum of local history, the regional Palace of Pioneers, the Orsha city House of Pioneers, the Rossony museum and the newspaper editorial office. The stories from the pages of the newspaper told not only about the military exploits of the young war participants, but also gave brief biographical information.