On the letter of commendation from the President of the Republic of Belarus

Representatives of various fields of activity have been awarded state awards and commendations from the Belarus president. Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko signed the relevant decree and executive order on 10 November.

The merits of 83 people have been marked with orders, medals, and honorary titles. They have been awarded in recognition of many years of fruitful work, professionalism, a significant contribution to ensuring the country’s defense capability and to the effectiveness of the internal affairs agencies’ efforts to protect public order and fight crime, in recognition of courage, bravery, and selflessness demonstrated in the course of alleviating emergency situations, in recognition of the development of agribusiness, the agricultural and forestry sectors, the gas, chemical, and food industries, for high performance indicators, and for outstanding achievements in the spheres of statistics, science, education, culture, art, and sport.

The Order of Labor Glory has been bestowed upon Anna Norkus, Director General of Vitebsk Broiler Poultry Factory, and Grigory Chuiko, Director General of the agricultural enterprise Agrokombinat Zhdanovichi. The Order for Service to the Homeland, 3rd class has been bestowed upon Yevgeny Kokurin, Head of the Sector for Coordination of the Armed Forces’ Operations of the Military Security Office of the State Secretariat of the Security Council.

The Order of Honor has been awarded in recognition of merits of six people, including Tatiana Galinskaya, an operator of poultry farms and mechanized farms of the broiler production branch of ZAO Servolux Agro, and Valentina Yakovleva, a machine milking operator at OAO Dvorets Truda-Agro.

Two employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations have been awarded Medals for Excellence in the Prevention and Mitigation of Emergencies: Oleg Sysunov, senior instructor-rescue worker of Station No.5 of the Oktyabrsky District branch of the Emergencies Ministry in Minsk, and Pavel Shevko, master-rescue worker of Station No.1 of the Leninsky District branch of the Emergencies Ministry in Minsk. Nikolai Borisenko, chief advisor of the Public Security Sector of the Coordination and Inspection Office of the State Secretariat of the Security Council, has been awarded a Medal for Excellence in the Maintenance of Public Order.

A large group of representatives of various fields of activity have been awarded Medals for Labor Merits. Among them are Igor Korniyenko, swimming coach and instructor at the Gomel Oblast Olympic Reserve Center for Paralympic and Deaflympic Sports; Sergei Machekhin, a forest master at the Krugloye forestry enterprise, and Aleksandr Rachinsky, a tractor driver at OAO Korelichi-Len.

The Medal of Francysk Skaryna has been awarded in recognition of merits of Anastasia Voronova, an artist of the G.I. Tsitovich National Academic Folk Choir of the Republic of Belarus; Aleksandr Zheludkevich, Head of the Magnetic Materials Physics Laboratory of the Applied Science Center for Materials Science of the National Academy of Sciences, and Tamara Pavlyukovich, Director of the Brest Puppet Theater, which is an honored collective of the Republic of Belarus.

The decree has also conferred honorary titles of the Republic of Belarus.

The title of Honored Figure of Arts has been bestowed upon Vladimir Goncharuk, Head of the Drawing Department of the Belarusian State Academy of Arts, and the title of Honored Figure of Culture upon Yelena Atrashkevich, an instructor at Minsk State College of Arts.

The title of Honored Worker of Agriculture has been conferred upon the heads of agricultural enterprises: Valery Pavlyukevich of the agricultural enterprise Olekshitsy in Berestovitsa District, Aleksandr Kukhtenkov of the agricultural enterprise Larinovka in Orsha District, Sergei Penyaz of the agricultural enterprise Kozlovichi-Agro in Slutsk District, and Ivan Rynyak of the agricultural enterprise Niva-Barsuki in Kirovsk District.

For many years of fruitful work and achievements in their professional life 38 representatives of various spheres have been awarded presidential commendations. Among them are Vasily Sysoev, First Deputy Chairman of the Minsk Oblast Executive Committee; Aleksandra Marchenko, an embroiderer at the Skarbnitsa research and production republican unitary enterprise of Belarusian folk crafts, and Aleksei Yarkovets, Deputy Chairman of the National Statistical Committee.