Minsk

Minsk, Khatyn, Mound of Glory, Minsk Ghetto, Prisoner of War Camp "Stalag-352".

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In the first part of the tour you will get acquainted with two memorials in Minsk. Yama is a memorial at the site of the second Jewish pogrom in Minsk. In the mass grave in the Yama lies 5,000 murdered Jews. You will see the monuments “Black obelisk” and “The Last Way” and learn the history of their creation. Learn about the fate of the Minsk ghetto and Sonderghetto.

The memorial "Mosyukovshchyna" was built on the site of the former camp of prisoners of war "Stalag-352". The eternal flame burns at the cemetery "Clay", where the remains of 80,000 killed here Red Army and 3,500 Italians.

Then a trip to Khatyn and to the Mound of Glory.

We will see the places of the first counteroffensive of the Red Army under the leadership of Commander Russianov near the Ostroshitsky town. You will learn about the most significant successes and failures of the Belarusian partisans during the Second Patriotic War - the murder of Gauleiter Beloruthenia Wilhelm Kube, the retention of a gap in the German front (the Surazh gate), theft of the latest documentation for German Tiger tanks, about rail warfare.

We will get acquainted with the Khatyn memorial, the history of its creation and development. Inspection of the memorial is independent.

We will tell you three stories of the destruction of Khatyn - German, Soviet and history, recreated on the basis of trials held in the early 70s in Grodno and Minsk. You will learn why the chief Khatyn executioner Grigory Vasyura became a hero and was shot by a court verdict only in 1978.

We will also visit the Mound of Glory, one of the most important places in the fate of Belarus. This monument was built as a sign of the infinite gratitude of the Belarusian people for the liberation of our lands from the Nazi invaders. We will climb to the top of a 37-meter mound, which opens unusually beautiful landscapes of our Motherland.

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During the tour, we will visit the Minsk ghetto and the Yama memorial, the Shtalag-352 prisoner of war camp, the Khatyn memorial complex and the Mound of Glory. You will learn about how Minsk lived and fought during the fascist occupation, about the tragedy of burnt Belarusian villages.

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