Exhibition "Partisans of Belarus" opened in Bashkortostan

The publishing house “Belarus Today” presented the joint exhibition “Partisans of Belarus” with the National Archives in the State Concert Hall “Bashkortostan”. The exposition is organized as part of the concert-requiem “Every third”. The premiere of the project will be held in Ufa on October 27, writes sb.by.

Traditionally, as part of the concert-requiem tour in the regions of the Russian Federation, historical documents of participants of the guerrilla movement in the territory of the BSSR, as well as biographies of Belarusian underground workers are presented. On interactive stands and graphic tablets you can get acquainted with color cards and award lists of heroes of the Great Patriotic War. In each new city, the exhibition is aimed at natives of Russian regions who fought in the BSSR. The database of the project “Partisans of Belarus” contains registration sheets for 950 natives of the Bashkir ASSR, who were partisans on Belarusian soil, said Pavel Sukhorukov, head of the advertising department of the Belarus Today Publishing House.

- One of the illustrative fates of natives of Bashkortostan, presented at the stands, is the military biography of Ivan Mavlyga, a native of the Alsheevsky district of Bashkortostan. He did not participate in the battles of partisans on the territory of the BSSR, but was awarded the medal “Partisan of the Patriotic War” of the 2nd degree. The fact is that Ivan Mavlyga served as a navigator of the air squadron crew. And he broke 15 times across the front line, through the German air defenses, to deliver ammunition and necessary materials to the partisans. The navigator took more than 4 thousand wounded and representatives of the headquarters of the partisan movement to the big land, Pavel Sukhorukov said.

The project “Partisans of Belarus” is implemented by the Publishing House “Belarus Today” together with the National Archives of the Republic of Belarus. On the portal, award lists, characteristics, personal files, battle sheets and logs of squads are digitized and made available to the public. To date, about 250 thousand documents about the participants of the partisan movement have been digitized.