BUINICHI, 23 September (BelTA) - The Council of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Belarus-Russia Union State has arrived in Mogilev on a visit, BelTA has learned.
Among those arrived in the regional center on a working trip are Chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union State of Belarus and Russia, Chairman of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Volodin, First Deputy Chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union State of Belarus and Russia, Chairman of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus Igor Sergeyenko, and State Secretary of the Union State Dmitry Mezentsev.
The program on the first day featured a visit to iconic and historical places of Mogilev and Mogilev District.
Buinichi Field was one of them. In early July 1941, Soviet soldiers, police officers and people's militia held the defense of Mogilev for 23 days. Buinichi Field witnessed the fiercest battles: here the infantry of the 88th Infantry Regiment under the command of Colonel S. Kutepov and firing crews of the 340th Artillery Regiment of Colonel I. Mazalov confronted the tank forces of the Nazi invaders. Russian writer and war correspondent Konstantin Simonov was a witness of those events.
His essay for the Izvestia newspaper, and also Pavel Troshkin’s photos that captured the destroyed German tanks made the Buinichi field a real symbol of courage and bravery, and the fame of the feat of the defenders of Mogilev went far beyond the borders of Belarus and Russia.
Among those arrived in the regional center on a working trip are Chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union State of Belarus and Russia, Chairman of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation Vyacheslav Volodin, First Deputy Chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union State of Belarus and Russia, Chairman of the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus Igor Sergeyenko, and State Secretary of the Union State Dmitry Mezentsev.
The program on the first day featured a visit to iconic and historical places of Mogilev and Mogilev District.
Buinichi Field was one of them. In early July 1941, Soviet soldiers, police officers and people's militia held the defense of Mogilev for 23 days. Buinichi Field witnessed the fiercest battles: here the infantry of the 88th Infantry Regiment under the command of Colonel S. Kutepov and firing crews of the 340th Artillery Regiment of Colonel I. Mazalov confronted the tank forces of the Nazi invaders. Russian writer and war correspondent Konstantin Simonov was a witness of those events.
His essay for the Izvestia newspaper, and also Pavel Troshkin’s photos that captured the destroyed German tanks made the Buinichi field a real symbol of courage and bravery, and the fame of the feat of the defenders of Mogilev went far beyond the borders of Belarus and Russia.
Representatives of the Council of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union State of Belarus and Russia together with Mogilev Oblast Governor Anatoly Isachenko honored the memory of the Red Army soldiers and civilians killed during the Great Patriotic War with a minute of silence, and laid flowers at the memorial stone to Konstantin Simonov. Here, Bogdan Kovalev, a young student of Mogilev Children's School of Arts No. 1, recited Konstantin Simonov's poem “Tank” for the participants of the event.
A large-scale construction project is underway on Buinichi Field at present. The future Museum of Glory of Mogilev Oblast will be built here. The representatives of the delegations together with Anatoly Isachenko got familiar with the construction, the future interior of the new museum.
The Council of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union State of Belarus and Russia is set to hold a meeting in Mogilev to discuss a number of topical issues on 23 September.
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