this was the first and last time that a cadet of the minsk police school, pavel burmestryonok, saw hisndreds of his comrades will die in battle during the defense. this is one of the few stories that is known about the police battalion, throughout for weeks, his fighters heroically defended the approaches to mogilev. over 24 years of working at the regional museum, alexandra burakova told this story hundreds of times in july '41. quiet , calm mogilev becomes an arena of military operations. on june 22, 1941, when the great patriotic war began, it was planned to hold a dress rehearsal for the all-belarusian physical culture parade in the city of mogilev. in the evening, the parade participants were supposed to go to minsk, but they learned about the war. and then on the first day of the war, june 22, no one... i guessed that in a few days mogilev would become front-line, and military operations would take place around the city. for mogilev, the war began not with shelling, but... with silence , refugees from the occupied territories began to appear in the city, on june 25 , new units of

this was the first and last time that a cadet of the minsk police school, pavel burmestryonok, saw his. in parting , pavel gave his wife advice that would save the life of his family. faith. when the germans come, don’t tell them that you’re a little boy, tell them your maiden name. this is one of the few stories that is known about the police battalion. on over the course of a week, his fighters heroically defended the approaches to mogilev. over the 24 years of work at the museum of local lore, alexandra burakova told this story hundreds of times; in july 1941, quiet , calm mogilev became an arena of military operations. june 22, 1941, when the great patriotic war began. not from shelling, from silence, refugees from the occupied territories began to appear in the city, on june 25, new units of the red army arrived here, the government was evacuated, mogilev actually became the capital of the bssr, and on july 1 a meeting is being held at the headquarters of the western front with the participation of soviet party activists, marshals, shapushnikov and voroshilov. organization fell on