On the opening of the exhibition in the Belarusian State Archive of Scientific and Technical Documentation
On July 2, 2024, the Belarusian State Archive of Scientific and Technical Documentation opened the exhibition «Son of the Fatherland: Victory of the Soviet people in the works of G.V. Zaborsky», dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Republic of Belarus from the Nazi invaders and the Victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War.
Georgy Vladimirovich Zaborsky, an outstanding Belarusian architect, was born in Minsk in 1909. In 1933, after graduating from the Minsk College of Architecture and Construction, he entered the All-Russian Academy of Arts in Leningrad, where he studied with such masters as I.G. Langbard, A.S. Nikolsky, L.V. Rudnev and S.S. Serafimov.
Georgy Vladimirovich’s return to Minsk in 1940 was marked by his participation in a competition to design a monument for the city of Bialystok in honor of the reunification of Western Belarus with the BSSR. His project was recognized as the best, but the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War interrupted the architect’s creative work.
From the first days of the war, G.V. Zaborsky volunteered for the front. In the battles near Smolensk, he was seriously wounded and ended up in a hospital in Troitsk. Here, despite physical suffering, Georgy Vladimirovich created a series of sketches of monuments dedicated to the heroic events of the war. These works became the basis for the future Victory Monument in Minsk.
After the end of the war, the architect returned to Minsk and was actively involved in the process of reviving destroyed cities and villages. In addition to the restoration and construction of residential buildings and public buildings, G.V. Zaborsky carried out a lot of work on the development of various iconic places in the Memory of the Great Patriotic War. His most famous creation is the monument on Victory Square in Minsk, opened in 1954. This memorial has become a central place of remembrance for the Belarusian people. Also included in the exhibition are projects of the Zyslov memorial complex, the Victory Monument at the Rassvet collective farm, the monument to Hero of the Soviet Union T.T. Romashkov, etc.
The exhibition can be viewed in the Belarusian State Archive of Scientific and Technical Documentation, located at: Minsk, st. St. Cyril and Methodius, 4.
In the photo: Exhibition materials.
