On 2 July, on the eve of Independence Day, a veteran of the Great Patriotic War Yadviga Yerobkina received congratulations on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Belarus from the Nazi invaders. During the war Yadviga Yerobkina was a medical worker on a sanitary train. She was awarded the Order of the Great Patriotic War second class. Belarusian Labor and Social Security Minister Natalia Pavlyuchenko came to congratulate the war veteran.