The remains of 35 servicemen of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army have been reburied in the village of Chernyshi in the Liozno district

At the memorial in the village of Chernyshi in the Liozno district, where the remains of more than 3.5 thousand Soviet soldiers rest, the remains of 35 soldiers of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, discovered during search operations on the territory of the Krynkovsky village council, were reburied with military honors.

Presumably, the Soviet soldiers died in late 1943 – early 1944, when positional battles were fought in the Liozno region. The burials were discovered based on archival data and during a survey of local residents. Servicemen of the 52nd separate specialized search battalion together with the search associations "Vitebsk Frontier" and "Scouts of Military Glory" took part in the recovery of the remains in June of this year.

- Unfortunately, the names of the fallen are unknown, as are the 6.5 thousand fighters who died liberating the region, - said Ivan Fedorov, Chairman of the Liozno District Executive Committee, at the funeral meeting. - But they are all heroes for us, who at the cost of their lives defended peace and freedom, the independence of our country, and showed by personal example how to love the Motherland and sacrifice everything for it.

Ivan Fedorov thanked the searchers and local residents, everyone who takes care of the numerous military burials in the Liozno region. He expressed confidence that we will live in a free, peaceful, prosperous country as long as we preserve historical memory and work to perpetuate the memory of all the heroes of that war.

In the Liozno region there are 98 military cemeteries, in which the ashes of more than 33 thousand soldiers rest. 

Photo by Dmitry OSIPOV.