President’s ice hockey team took part in All-Belarusian Youth Construction

A record has been set at the construction sites of the Republican Centre for Patriotic Education of Youth: over 2,700 youngsters have worked there as part of nineteen student teams and volunteers – as noted by First Secretary of the Central Committee of the BRSM Youth Union, member of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly Aleksandr Lukyanov during a labour action at the All-Belarusian Youth Construction site

Today, the players of the President’s ice hockey team and activists of the BRSM Youth Union have also taken part in the action symbolically launched at the Eternal Flame in the Brest Hero Fortress, where the participants honoured the memory of the soldiers who defended the border fortress in 1941 and laid flowers. After that, they began to work, raking chernozem soil in the territory adjacent to the facilities and planting tree seedlings.

According to Aleksandr Lukyanov, this year marks the 20th anniversary of the return of the tradition of youth construction sites in Belarus.

“In 2004, the Augustovsky Canal in the Grodno Region was announced as the first such construction site. We know that other countries, our closest friends – Russia, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan – are now following this example,” the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the BRSM Youth Union emphasised.

He is convinced that it is important for young people to be a part of the heroic history of Belarus and the entire former USSR, “Of course, they are also taking part in the future of our country, because this is a site that will educate future generations.”

Dmitry Baskov, head coach of the President’s ice hockey team, a member of the Council of the Republic of the National Assembly, noted, “This centre is located on the heroic Brest land, because the frontiers of the Brest Fortress symbolise courage, heroism, and patriotism for the Belarusian people. We, in turn, instil in the younger generation love, respect, pride and responsibility for our Motherland, for its past and future, by our own example. I have been recently communicating with many youngsters for whom patriotism is not just a word from a history textbook, but a really important part of their lives. In particular, thanks to the younger generation, patriotic projects are emerging in our country that will benefit our Belarusian society for many years to come.”