About visiting monuments of the Great Patriotic War and laying flowers by employees of the «State Archive of Public Associations of the Mogilev Region»

On the eve of significant dates for the city of Mogilev and the entire Republic, namely the Day of Liberation of the City, as well as the Day of Partisans and Underground Soldiers on June 27, employees of the «Institution of State Archives of Public Associations of the Mogilev Region» visited the «Usakino» memorial complex in the Klichevsky district. Memorial complex «Usakino» is a place that keeps an important reminder of The Patriotic War, about the victims among the peaceful population and defenders of the country – combines monuments and real preserved objects of those times.

The Klichevsky district is often called partisan: during the war, 5 partisan brigades and 16 detachments operated here, and the Klichevsky partisan zone was guarded by about 18,000 people. It was here that the printing house operated, where the newspapers «Za Radzimu» and «Voice of the Partisan» were published, and the airfield, where planes regularly arrived to deliver mail, letters, newspapers, medicines, doctors, surgeons, and ammunition. The seriously wounded were taken from here.

In March 1942, the partisans managed to liberate the entire nearby territory from the Germans. However, there are bitter moments in the history of the Klitschko partisan zone: because of the failures in the fight against the partisans, the invaders retaliated against the peaceful population. And in response, they burned 69 villages in the region and killed more than 3,000 people.

In 1985, in memory of all the terrible events that happened in these places, a memorial complex appeared in the village of Usakino.

Pictured: employees of the «State Archive of Public Associations of the Mogilev Region» institution.