"The Great Patriotic War in the lives of employees of  Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno": Sergey Berkner

Sergey Samuilovich Berkner was born on May 16, 1923 in Bialystok. In 1942 he joined the underground anti-fascist organization in the Bialystok ghetto. In 1943, he joined the partisan group "Forward", was a spy for the staff of the Konstanty Kalinowski brigade. Sergey Berkner awarded the Order of Patriotic War 2nd class (1985), medals "Partisan of the Patriotic War" 1st class, "For Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945".
Since 1945, Sergey Samuilovich Berkner worked as a fitter at Grodno Pedagogical Institute. In 1949, he graduated from the English Department of the faculty of foreign languages of our University, and since 1951 worked as a teacher of the Department of English in Ulyanovsk. Since 1962, Sergey Berkner has been a Professor at the Department of English at Voronezh State Pedagogical University. Doctor of Philology, Professor, Sergey Berkner wrote a memoir-historical book "The Life and struggle of the Bialystok ghetto".
From the memoirs:
"At my father's insistence, I was smuggled over the ghetto fence to a partisan unit in the forest. Other prisoners saw this as madness and a deadly risk. Many then believed that somehow they would survive the ghetto, that the Germans sent people from here not to the furnaces, but "to work".
But my father already saw how it would end soon. So he didn't just give me life once-he gave me fate. The partisan resistance itself was a chance to survive. I survived. I met my future wife in the group. And my father died in a concentration camp, where all the inhabitants of the ghetto – children, old men, and women-were taken from the Bialystok freight station. But first he and other underground workers started an uprising in the ghetto. It was an act of dignified death. By the way, they were secretly helped by some of the Germans. We had a friend, the German social Democrat and anti-fascist Arthur Villa Sade. In Bialystok he was officially in charge of the textile mill. Before I left the ghetto for the partisans, I met with Sade. He gave me a Belgian carbine. Already being in the partisans, I appreciated the gift-we had weapons worth their weight in gold.
Before joining the Red Army, more than half of the detachment died. The rest lived in dugouts. Food for themselves was obtained in the villages or captured the German wagon train. Mainly engaged in sabotage in the German rear and helped Soviet prisoners of war.
Not far from our deployment was a small camp for Soviet prisoners of war. We killed the German guards and released 50 people. Exactly half of them went to us as partisans."
From the book "The Great Patriotic War in the lives of employees of Yanka Kupala State University", author-compiler - Andrey Getsevich.

Yanka Kupala State University published a publication about the fate of University employees during the Great Patriotic War

Andrey Gecevich, a PhD in History, Associate Professor is the author of the book, which is dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Yanka Kupala State University and the 75th anniversary of the Great Victory.
As the author of the book "The Great Patriotic War in the lives of employees of Yanka Kupala State University" noted, the preparation of the anniversary edition is a tribute to the people who defended the independence of their native land 75 years ago. The book contains memoirs of employees and documentary evidence of participants in the war, who in peacetime were rectors, deans of faculties, heads of departments, teachers, employees of departments, library, economic divisions of the University, commandants of dormitories.
One publication contains information about more than 90 University employees who passed the hardships of the war years. They fought on the main fronts of the Patriotic War, partisanized, saved lives in the besieged Leningrad, and also took part in the war with Japan, Finland. Some lived in territories temporarily occupied by the enemy and joined the Кed Army during the last period of the war. There are also young prisoners of German concentration camps among the heroes of the book, who went through hard trials at a young age, found the strength for creative work in peacetime, became teachers and worked for many years in Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno.
The author has done a lot of work with documentary sources. The book includes autobiographical data, information from award documents, as well as preserved memories of not only the characters themselves, but also their close relatives, colleagues, students, and coworkers. The anniversary scientific publication is addressed to a wide range of readers, first of all, pupils and students, all who are interested in the history of their native country and Yanka Kupala State University.
We plan to tell about the fate of employees of Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno during the Great Patriotic War every day on the University's website. As part of a special section dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the Great Victory, publications about the heroes of the book by Andrey Gecevich "the Great Patriotic War in the lives of employees of Yanka Kupala State University" will regularly appear.

25.04.20 - The VIII scientific and practical conference of schoolchildren "Physics is around us" will bring together young physicists at Yanka Kupala State University

24.04.20 -  The X Republican scientific and practical conference "From Alpha to Omega" will be held at Yanka Kupala State University;

The results of the contest of methodological developments of educational activities will be summed up in Yanka Kupala State University;

The results of the contest "Mentor - 2020" will be summed up at Yanka Kupala State University

22.04.20 - A single day of information will be held at Yanka Kupala State University;

The final of the competition "Best University group-2020" will be held at Yanka Kupala State University

17.04.20 - The II Republican youth festival-contest "MEDIASPHERE-2020" will be held at Yanka Kupala State University;

Students of Yanka Kupala State University are invited to participate in the contest for the best essay;

The V Grodno tournament of young mathematicians in the Junior League will be held at Yanka Kupala State University

16.04.20 - The II Republican youth festival-contest "MEDIASPHERE-2020" will be held at Yanka Kupala State University;

The fantasy musical "The Last Trial" within the II Republican youth festival-competition "MEDIASPHERE-2020" will be held at Kupala University

14.04.20 - Methodical seminar of mentors of educational groups "School of the mentor" will be held at Yanka Kupala State University

Teachers of Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno are actively mastering distance learning technologies

A program of professional development of teachers “University of Educational Innovations: Distance Learning Technologies” was launched at Kupala University.

The program of full-time distance courses includes classes during which teachers and faculty specialists will be shown successful and promising methods of distance learning, as well as projects for creating and using distance courses.
According to the head of the Educational and Methodological Department of the Yanka Kupala State University Marina Kolotsei, distance education technologies have become firmly established in the educational practice of preparing students in most of the University's specialties. Elements of the distance learning model have been most successfully tested by University teachers in mixed and heuristic learning. Very often, classes begin in the classroom and continue in a network form, or, conversely, the interaction of teachers and students begins in a virtual space and flows smoothly into live communication at lectures and practical classes. Classical forms of the educational process are flexibly transformed, modified, become more practice-oriented and in demand by students.
In the classroom, students learn and test options for organizing and conducting online lectures, ways to create interactive learning elements in the Moodle system, get acquainted with the author's methodology for organizing distance learning activities of students using Google services, get practical experience in creating interactive video tasks, learn to use the case method in working with students in remote form, master the technology of conducting heuristic Internet classes, develop sets of computer tests.
During the course, students will act as both teachers and students. Teachers will work on two different platforms — the teacher's and the student's. The new methodological technique will help students not only master their own digital space, but also evaluate the possibilities of students' digital space.
The course program is designed for eight classes, which will be held in March-April 2020 in organizational form. The result of the students' work will be electronic interactive educational and methodological complexes for students.
Among the moderators of the courses are Marina Kolotsey, head of the Educational and Methodical Department, Anatoly Bogdevich, head of the Educational Department at EMM, Svetlana Gonchar, head of the Foreign Languages Department, Lee Jeong-gu, head of the International Business and Marketing Department, Oleg Kolyago, head of the Educational Innovations laboratory, and director of the Grodno State Educational Institution “Lyceum No. 1”, Igor Maslov.

The Ministry of Education of Belarus has set the lower threshold of marks for CT-2020

The Ministry of Education has determined marks that are considered unsatisfactory based on the results of centralized testing, which is stipulated by the Ministry’s resolution No. 16 of March 3, 2020, published on the National Legal Internet Portal.

For Belarusian or Russian languages marks from 0 to 9 points (inclusive) will be considered unsatisfactory, for Philology specialties — from 0 to 24.
For the first subject of the profile test – mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology – marks from 0 to 19 points are equated to unsatisfactory (inclusive). The lower threshold value of marks in the history of Belarus, world history (recent times), social studies, geography, foreign languages (English, German, French, Spanish, Chinese) is set at a level from 0 to 24 points (inclusive).
With regard to the second subject of a profile test, in mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology marks from 0 to 9 points (inclusive) will be considered unsatisfactory, in the history of Belarus, world history (modern times), geography, foreign languages (English, German, French, Spanish, Chinese) — from 0 to 14 points (inclusive).
At the same time, marks from 0 to 6 points will be considered unsatisfactory when enrolling in security universities subordinate to the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Emergencies and the State Border Committee. Also, these thresholds will affect military faculties, specialties “production, storage and processing of crop products”, “livestock, fish farming, beekeeping”, “rural construction and land improvement”, “land reclamation and water management”, “agricultural engineering”. Also, these subjects include Belarusian or Russian languages, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, history of Belarus, world history (modern times), social studies, geography, foreign languages (English, German, French, Spanish, Chinese). The lower threshold value of marks was the same for CT-2019.
According to BelTA