Ministry of Transport and Communications of the Republic of Belarus

The motor rally was attended by the Minister of Transport and Communications Alexey Lyakhnovich and the First Deputy Minister Valery Verenich. The event united employees of all departments of the central office of the transport establishment.

The participants of the rally started at 9 am from the 12th km of the R-23 Minsk – Mikashevichi highway. They moved in an organized column, accompanied by vehicles of the Transport Inspectorate.

The first points of the route were the mass graves of Soviet soldiers in Pyatevshchina village, Minsk district and in Ozero village, Uzda district. The participants of the motor rally honored the memory of the dead with a minute of silence and laid flowers.

A visit to Stankovo Secondary School named after Marat Kazei is another stop on the route. The establishment's representatives laid flowers at the grave of the partisan scout, a young hero of the Great Patriotic War.

A tour of the school museum was arranged for the participants of the ally. Aleksey Lyakhnovich presented Stankovo school with souvenirs in honor of the patriotic run of the Ministry of Transport and left a note in the Book of Honored Guests.

The final stage of the event was a visit to the Military Historical Complex "Partisan Camp".

As Alexey Lyakhnovich noted, the Ministry of Transport is holding a patriotic motor rally, dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Belarus from the Nazi invaders, on the eve of the country's main holiday – the Independence Day of the Republic of Belarus.

"Today, the fifth generation of the victors' descendants lives in Belarus, who, fortunately, don’t learn the horrors of war. However, in order to preserve this peace, the terrible events of the past must not be forgotten. Therefore, today we pay tribute to the memory of those who died during the Great Patriotic War, to all those who, at the cost of their own lives, won freedom for us on Belarusian land," the minister said.