population of about 10,000. many of them, albeit indirectly, are connected with belarus, for example, elena gennadievnat college with belarusian girls, from the makelevsk region, from gomel region, including girls who studied from israel from the valya region, they were wonderful girls, and we became friends with them, well, they were completely different in nature, in character, but of course, when they came here to us, initially they were afraid of how we russians would treat them, but we tried to make friends with everyone. from the museum we smoothly move to the eternal flame and stella, the city of military glory. this complex contains a huge number of mass graves, perhaps this is the most main place. yelnya itself is located on the disna river, which flows into the dnieper, and it would seem that belarusian storks are frequent guests here. as in russia, so in yelnya. there are many youth movements; on a voluntary basis, people organize trips, events and various leisure activities for young people. i was born here, i want to preserve something here, create something, i usually like people recently