About events in honor of the 80th anniversary of the Victory Day
16.05.2025
9 April, on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, Charge d’affaires of Belarus in the United Kingdom Dzmitry Kazlouski and Minister-Counsellor of the Russian Embassy in the United Kingdom Alexander Gusarov laid flowers at the graves of three Soviet soldiers buried at the military cemetery in Tidworth, Wiltshire, South-West England.
On April 30, the Delegation of the Embassy of the Republic of Belarus to the United Kingdom headed by Charge d’Affairs Dzmitry Kazlouski together with representatives of the Embassy of Russia in the UK visited the Memorial to the Prisoners of the Nazi Camps on Jersey Island. The memorial is dedicated to the memory of prisoners of the Nazi concentration camps who were on Jersey Island during the occupation during World War II.
On May 6, the Delegation of the Embassy of the Republic of Belarus in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland visited the War Memorial Cowdray Hall in Aberdeen, Scotland. It is dedicated to the memory of those who died in the First and Second World Wars.
On May 6, the Delegation of the Embassy of the Republic of Belarus in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland visited the International Memorial in Dundee (Scotland) in honor of the crews of submarines based in local docks during World War II and killed during combat missions. The memorial plaques immortalize the names of all such submarines and each crew member. Among them are the sailors of the Soviet submarine B-1 under the command of Hero of the Soviet Union, Captain Second Rank Fisanovich I.I., including a native of Belarus, the commander of the navigation electricians' department, Gonchar V.P.
On May 7, the Delegation of the Embassy of the Republic of Belarus headed by Chargé d'Affaires D.Kazlouski with Consul General of the Russian Federation in Edinburgh D.Moskalenko laid wreaths at the Memorial Stone erected in the village of Errol (east of Scotland). It was here, in 1943-1944, in an atmosphere of strict secrecy, that Soviet officers served, whose task was to ferry Albemarle bombers from the territory of Great Britain to the Soviet Union.
