Yanka Kupala state University of Grodno joined the republican action “Belarus remembers”
On May 4, university management and staff laid flowers at the monument to the cadets of the border guards who held the defense of Grodno in 1941.
Here, in the summer of 1941, in the tract of Pyshki, the summer camp of the Brest District School of the younger commanding officers of the border troops of People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs was located. On June 22-23, 1941, cadets fought with the Nazi invaders on the Neman River and near the village of Grandichi.
University rector Irina Kiturko, as well as employees and students of the Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno, honored the dead soldiers and laid flowers at the memorial to commemorate the heroism of the soldiers.
