“Steel character is a gentle heart.” In Grodno opened a mural dedicated to women machine builders

In Grodno, on September 25, the grand opening of the mural dedicated to the professional holiday of industrialists took place, the correspondent of sb.by reports.

New street art is located on the end of the building of the State Archives of Grodno region. This year the mural is dedicated to the Year of the Belarusian woman. In the center of the composition is a portrait of a girl presented in the image of an employee of the enterprise - in a helmet, working uniform, with drawings in her hands. On the middle plan - the famous heavy-duty dump truck and trolleybus.

Deputy Minister of Industry Denis Bakei spoke about the good tradition of decorating regional centers with thematic murals:

- Last year, thanks to the efforts of the Ministry of Industry and the industry trade union, such an art object appeared in Brest, and this time in Grodno. Mural is primarily dedicated to our women, as 2026 is declared the Year of the Belarusian Woman. It symbolizes her iron character, with which she comes to work and works on an equal footing with men. But she goes home with a tender heart, becomes a caring mother, daughter, wife, brings warmth to the house. By the way, the Ministry of Industry today employs more than 30 thousand women.

Denis Bakey also noted that there are a number of industrial enterprises in Grodno:

- This is our holding "Autocomponents", this is the production of driveshafts, this is a mechanical plant. Also in the Grodno region is a large holding "Lidselmash", which produces our grain drying complexes. More industrial organizations are concentrated in the region, and local enterprises are in the forefront in terms of production volumes. In general, the objectives of the industry have been set, and by the end of the year they will be achieved. This is the achievement of certain volumes and exports, but our main task is the technological independence of Belarus.

A machine builder is a person who creates and creates every day, coming to work. Mechanical engineering can rightly be called the foundation of the real sector of the economy and the support of the economy of our country. We have dynasties at our enterprises, young people come. This is an indicator that the industry is developing and confidently looking to the future.

Another festive event in a series of events was the solemn wedding ceremony of two employees of the Grodno OJSC Belkard. Bride — Valyuk Svetlana Igorevna, working as deputy chief metrologist of the department of the chief metrologist, before the eyes of colleagues and industry management became the wife of Alexander Ablazhevich — electronic engineer of the site for repair and maintenance of balancing and welding equipment of the repair and maintenance shop.

In the production line of enterprises of machine-building complex of Belarus there are tens of thousands of items. From the most complex chips to the world's largest dump trucks, cars and agricultural machines, machine tools and optics, electrical engineering and elevators. Belarusian engineering ensures high-quality work of energy, construction, transport and agro-industrial complex. Belarusian factories are city-forming enterprises that provide employment, develop regions and create the future. But behind every great machine, every complicated machine, every blueprint, there's a man.

During the opening ceremony of the mural, well-deserved awards were also presented to industry workers. 194.3 thousand people worked in machine building in Belarus in 2025