extraction and processing, there is enough peat in belarus to be used in the economy for the next 100 years, beltopst in the world. for the extraction of these raw materials and the production of briquettes. every year about 2 million tons of peat are extracted in belarus, more than half of which is used for fuel, which makes it possible to annually replace 450 million cubic meters of natural gas. 80 years ago, on march 19, 1944, troops of the 65th army under the command of lieutenant general pavel batov, the first belarusian front , liberated prisoners of azari camps from the advancing units of the red army. covered himself with old people, women and children. 50,000 people were driven into a swamp and were in the open air without food, water or warm clothes. in addition, the prisoners were infected with typhus, the third reich used bacteriological weapons in the polesie swamps to stop the advance of soviet troops. back in 1946 at the international tribunal in nuremberg, the creation of death camps was called the most terrible crime of the wehrmacht during the second world war, but wide-eyed. the