Hockey team of President joins landscaping at Khatyn Memorial

The October Revolution Day is traditionally celebrated with work and good deeds. Today, on the eve of the holiday, the ice hockey team of the President joined in the improvement of the landmark Belarusian site. The ice team and their families came to Khatyn to contribute to the reconstruction of the shrine.

Zhanetta Volchek, wife of the player of the Belarus President hockey team:

“I always tell my children what my grandparents told me during the war. And this is a sacred thing of Belarus, which we have to pass on to our children from generation to generation.”

The participants of the events laid flowers and icon lamps to the memorial. A moment of silence near the Eternal Flame honored the memory of the victims.

Seven student construction teams have been working at the youth construction site this summer. In total, more than 1600 volunteers, including those from Russia, took part in the labor activities for the improvement of the shrine. The monument to the Nepokorny has already been restored, and the church has been reconstructed. The facility will be fully restored by the 80th anniversary of Khatyn.