As part of the celebration of the Independence Day of the Republic of Belarus and in memory of the 80th anniversary of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, the information and visual project “Forest Song" was presented in the central city gallery "Mahal" with the support of Consulate General of the Republic of Belarus in Istanbul in the Çanakkale Province (Turkey) on July 9.
A joint project of the National Library of Belarus and the National Archives of the Republic of Belarus introduced visitors of the event to the history of the Belarusian partisan movement through documents of that time: various handwritten materials, leaflets, propaganda posters, newspapers, photographs, sketches, excerpts from stories, poems and songs.
Representatives of the regional authorities of Turkey, business, cultural figures, the Belarusian diaspora, and the media took part in the event.
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