Thank you for supporting the trend that the president once set. Eismont at the Wood Chop Championship

Anniversary V Championship of wood picking among journalists is held in Minsk district, on the shore of the Vyach reservoir. This year the competition brought together 37 teams. The strongest and most skillful, enduring, masterfully managing not only with a feather, but also with a saw, an axe, will be determined in the nominations “Presidential Ring of Wood”, a pick of firewood among men and women, cutting logs with an axe, as well as in relays and competitions “One blow!” and “Test for strength!”. For numerous spectators and fans, various competitions are also provided - from sawing logs "In the eye" to tugging sleds with firewood, sb.by reports.

- It is a pleasure to meet you in this beautiful place, on the shore of our picturesque pond, for the fifth time. Thank you for supporting the trend set by the President. Could we ever have thought, starting this improvisational holiday, that five years later we would have a large-scale, virtually unprecedented championship, which has no analogues in the world? I congratulate all of us on that.

The audience was shown a video about how President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko in his small homeland together with his team cut firewood. Thus, the Head of State decided to support the participants of the championship not only by word, but also by deed. “So that journalists know that they are not the only ones working,” the President said.

Having completed the pick of firewood, Alexander Lukashenko signed an autograph on the axe. "I give my axe to the worker, Belarus," he said. - Hey, reporters. Hello to the journalists! They're good! This is solely in their honour.”.

So today the main prize for the winner of the V championship on wood chopping is a good axe of Belarusian production, with which the President cut firewood, as well as his working gloves, just yesterday.

Anniversary V Championship of wood picking among journalists started on the shore of the Vyach reservoir