The State Archives of Grodno Region held a presentation of documents of the Headquarters of the Kastus Kalinovsky Partisan Brigade

As part of the events on the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Belarus from the Nazi invaders, the State Archives of Grodno Region held a presentation of documents of the Headquarters of the Kastus Kalinovsky Partisan Brigade.

The participants at the event included Professor at the Grodno State University, Ph.D. Valery Cherepitsa, Head of Records and Archives at the Grodno Region Executive Committee Alina Zabolotnaya, Director of the National Historical Archives of Belarus in Grodno Tatiana Afanasyeva, retired colonel and veteran of the Armed Forces, Honoured Border Guard of Belarus, participant in the Great Patriotic War, Honoured Citizen of Grodno Grigory Obelevsky, employees of the State Archives of Grodno Region and the State Archives of Public Organizations of Grodno Region.

The presentation featured 25 original documents highlighting the activities and combat operations of the Partisan Brigade named after Kastus Kalinovsky (journal of combat operations conducted by the brigade, intelligence messages and reports, letters and reminiscences of the Chief of Staff of the Chudinov Partisan Brigade, reports on combat and subversive operations, on the women’s group in the Zvezda Partisan Detachment, a topographical map with ink notes, lists of the brigade’s personnel etc.). The attendants got acquainted with the original documents and their virtual copies.