Military museum dedicated to Operation Bagration opens in Svetlogorsk District
More than 3,000 people attended the ceremony to open the military museum in the Bagration memorial complex in Svetlogorsk District, told Alla Mankevich, head of the department of ideology, culture and youth affairs of the Svetlogorsk District Executive Committee .
Among the guests were war veterans, honorary citizens of Svetlogorsk, managers of industrial enterprises, and local residents.
The memorial built in the 71st kilometer of the Bobruisk-Mozyr highway is intended to perpetuate the place where the Red Army began the Bagration offensive in June 1944 which resulted in the complete liberation of Belarus from the Nazi invaders.
The opening of the museum was the second phase of the project to build the memorial, the first of which was completed in 2014. The museum dedicated to the Operation Bagration features installations with reconstructed dug-out shelters, fragments of temporary bridges, military machines and weapons.
The monument is seven meters high. In the center of the bas-relief are the figures of the four commanders: Konstantin Rokossovsky, Georgy Zhukov, Pavel Batov and Mikhail Panov. To the left and to the right of them will be advancing Soviet troops. On the background are arrows showing the two major directions of the offensive. The monument was financed by the Belarus-Russia Union State.