In 1941, 100,000 inhabitants lived in Grodno. The warm summer of 1941 came, but rumors of an imminent war were already in the air ...

June 22, 1941 is a tragic date in the history of our country. To date, much is known about the first day of World War II.

“I did not get acquainted with the events of the Great Patriotic War from textbooks. My great-grandfather's life led me through the history of the war. Honest, hard, courageous "

There are few books that grow to us today through the thickness of time from the past. They took place, are read, their language is not outdated, the heroes are courageous, their actions are understandable and cause pride.

Many dates of historical events published in publications, introduced into scientific circulation in textbooks. But there is also such a source as historical memory or social, transmitted from generation to generation in the oral ...

Grodno is one of the first cities to take the blow of fascist hordes. The beginning of the urban underground was laid by «Uncle Kolya's group»,named after the leader Nikolai Volkov.

Vasily Rozanov is one of the leaders of the anti-fascist underground in Grodno. He and his comrades in struggle are an example of the fact that Soviet people in the occupied territories, despite the mustache of the threat of enemi...

In honor of the fellow countryman, the famous Soviet military commander, Colonel General Nikolai Osipovich Pavlovsky, one of the streets is named in the historical part of Grodno. In 1903, when the future commander was born on it,...

Military operations, partisan operations, and sorties of reconnaissance often ended in the loss of human lives, wounded soldiers were taken out of the battlefield, the last thing to do was to leave a comrade dead.

Private diaries turn in the history of important documents. They are familiar with many forgotten events, people from the past, cast a shadow, and shed light on their biographies, expanding our vyavlvnnya border on a forgotten, he...