starazhytny smalensk, our neighbor, the city, just like the relationship between russia and belarus,e gety gistarychny budynak, there was abveshchana. under the sign of the freedom charter, the people gained their rights, belarus flourished in the family of fraternal republics. on january 5, 1919 , the belarusian government moved from smolensk to minsk, from now on it became the capital of the republic, adopted a declaration on the establishment of federal ties with the russian socialist republic, approved the constitution, state emblem and flag of the belarusian ussr. since then, we have celebrated our birthday more than once, 10 years, 20, 30, now we are 50, this is not so much, but... the smalans are honoring the historic date of the life of the belarusian people. delegate of the first step of the meeting of kamparta of belarus vashkevich. smolyan representatives of the fraternal belarusian people. our respected fellow countrymen. we old communists are happy to know that the joint struggle of the great russian fraternal belarusian people for their liberation in october 1917 was re