V. Andreichev, a 95-year-old participant of the Great Patriotic War, arrived in Brest from Krasnodar to participate in commemorative events

The honorary citizen of Krasnodar went to Brest on the eve of the anniversary of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. Vladimir Andreichev is 95 years old, and it was in Belarus that he found the morning of 22 June, 1941. Every five years he comes to Brest, which he considers his second homeland. Vladimir Borisovich Andreichev is a child of war, a juvenile prisoner of Nazi concentration camps. His mother died not far from the Brest Fortress. He himself was shot here in 1942. Today, Vladimir Andreichev's name is listed in the Book of Memory among those executed. After the war, he devoted his life to education and youth work. For almost two decades he was the Vice-Rector of one of the Krasnodar universities. His great-grandson came to Belarus with Vladimir Andreichev.