MINSK, 12 April (BelTA) – A national clean-up day (aka subbotnik) started in Belarus on 12 April, BelTA has learned.
Subbotnik is a day of voluntary work. Today, Belarusians will be landscaping populated areas, tidying up historical and cultural places, memorial complexes, war memorials, burial sites of soldiers and partisans of the Great Patriotic War. The clean-up day can also be held at workplaces.
Government agencies and local authorities are spending the clean-up day in local communities. They are tidying up historical and cultural places and populated areas, preparing children's recuperation centers and camps for the summer season. Some representatives of government agencies will be planting trees on windfall areas as part of the forest restoration campaign Bringing Forests Back to Life on the last day of the campaign.
Volunteers participating in the clean-up day are provided with the necessary tools and instruments, as well as personal protective equipment (gloves or mittens; people working on the roadway will be given high-visibility vests, people working at construction sites will wear protective helmets).
The money earned on this day, including at workplaces, will be used to build the National History Museum of Belarus.
A reminder, on 5 February Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko signed Decree No. 50 to build the National History Museum and the Park of People's Unity and to put together a permanent exposition of the museum in the areas of Orlovskaya Street in Minsk in 2025-2027. The project to build the museum was assigned the status of the All-Belarusian Youth Construction Site that suggests the participation of young people under 31, including student construction brigades.
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