{"id":1024139,"date":"2026-05-12T08:41:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T05:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/?p=1024139"},"modified":"2026-05-12T08:41:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T05:41:49","slug":"memory-of-heroes-a-rally-at-a-military-cemetery-in-polotsk-in-honor-of-victory-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/news\/1024139","title":{"rendered":"Memory of Heroes: A Rally at a Military Cemetery in Polotsk in Honor of Victory Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Employees of <strong>the Polotsk Zonal Archives<\/strong> took part <strong>in a rally dedicated to the Great Victory<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The rally took place at <strong>Military Cemetery No.4251 in the Gromy neighborhood of Polotsk<\/strong>. This is the largest military cemetery (more than 500 soldiers) in Polotsk, where the remains of the city&#8217;s liberators lie. The rally was organized by <strong>Polotsk Secondary School No.14 named after M.S.Grinevich<\/strong>. Participants included students from Schools Nos.14 and 12, employees of city businesses and organizations, and relatives of fallen soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>The granddaughters of <strong>Lieutenant Fyodor Petrovich Kulikov, Evgeniya Borisovna Rodionova (Kazan, Republic of Tatarstan, Russian Federation) and Lyudmila Nikolaevna Pikaeva (Saransk, Republic of Mordovia, Russian Federation)<\/strong>, attended the rally. They contacted <strong>Pavel Mikhailovich Safronov, an archival researcher<\/strong> who studies the heroism of the Soviet people during the Great Patriotic War, through social media to arrange a visit to the burial site of their grandfather, Lieutenant Fyodor Petrovich Kulikov.<\/p>\n<p>For several years, <strong>Anatoly Kuzmich Kholopov and his large family<\/strong> have visited the burial site. His father, <strong>Kuzma Petrovich Kholopov, was one of the 23 heroic guardsmen<\/strong> who sacrificed their lives to hold the bridge across the Western Dvina during the liberation of Polotsk in July 1944.<\/p>\n<p>The rally was held in a very pleasant, warm, and touching atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pictured:<\/strong> A rally at a military cemetery in Polotsk in honor of Victory Day (08.05.2026).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\"  width=\"100%\" cellpadding=\"5\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"gen_table\">\n<tr align='center'>\n<td align='center'><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1-100.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" id=\"media-1083400\" class=\"wp-image-1083400 alignnone size-full\" width=\"80%\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align='center'><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Employees of the Polotsk Zonal Archives took part in a rally dedicated to the Great Victory. The rally took place at Military Cemetery No.4251 in the Gromy neighborhood of Polotsk&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1024139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024139"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1024139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024141,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024139\/revisions\/1024141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1024139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1024139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.gov.by\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1024139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}