Hundreds of people - representatives of local authorities, organizations, educational institutions, veterans, and the general public - took part in a commemorative meeting dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War on 22 June. The event was held at the mass grave of Soviet soldiers and partisans in the Gillibert Park in Grodno. People laid flowers and wreaths at the monument, honored the memory of the war victims with a minute of silence.