A. Turovich, an employee of the Novogrudok Museum of History and Local Lore, provided photographs of partisans that had not previously been published for further work on the partisan theme.

In 1942-1943 on the territory of Mirsky, Korelichsky and Novogrudok districts, a special cavalry detachment operated, which later grew into a brigade, its ranks totaled more than 500 people.

Being held captive by wartime law was considered a monstrous and shameful affair. On August 16, 1942, Stalin issued an order declaring all those who had surrendered “traitors to the motherland”, and the families of prisoners were ...

Revisionists insist on revising the history of the partisan movement in Belarus, presenting it in a rather distorted light. The partisan in their interpretation is solid partisanism and lawlessness.

Belarusian writers Vladimir Kolesnik and Yanka Bryl were born on Korelichskaya land, returned to their small homeland from earnings from Odessa, when the tsarist empire had already collapsed.

Since 1940, D. Denisenko is the foreman of the military service of the commandant squadron in the 6th cavalry division named after S.M. Budenny in the city of Lomza. In the early hours and days of the war, in the cauldron of encir...

Recovery bit by bit the biography of Dmitry Denisenko. The question is – why? There are a lot of different rumors about the partisan Mitka, his comrades Mitkovtsi today.

Today in the Korelichi district there is no one with the surname Evert, but here in the Volkovysk district 6 people are registered, carriers of the surname with German roots.

Vasil Bykov with grand-nephews of Ales Adamovich Seryozha and Zhenya. Photo by Eugene Koktysh.

In the workshop of George Poplavsky. Early 1980s Evgeny Zhilin, Vasil Bykov, Vera Savina. Photo by Eugene Koktysh.