Klichev. Monument to military journalists.

The author of this unconventional monument is sculptor Alexander Minkov. One of the reasons for the placement of this monument in Klichev is the fact that the local forests were the center of the partisan movement.

The author of the composition placed on a pedestal made of rounded natural stone, black marble leaflets soaring upward, with the names of newspapers published in the Partizan region.

An installation of a marble plaque with the name of underground publications published during the occupation from 1941 to 1944 was made in the boulder massif. There was also a brief historical information, and a symbolic pen completes the composition. The forest printing house produced 420 issues of newspapers with a total circulation of more than 160,000 copies and 618 leaflets with a circulation of about 200,000 copies. The newspaper 'Za Rodinu' (For the motherland) was published here from March 1943 with a circulation of 500-1000 copies and was a powerful ideological weapon that rallied a large group of partisan journalists around itself. The publication was published until August 1956, then changed to Mogilevskaya Pravda.

There are no surnames on the monument, but many people who come here remember Vanya Markov, a young man who distributed leaflets under the noses of the Germans, and Mikhail Beloborodsky, who wrote essays and notes to the newspaper. The feat of the journalists who fought with pen and camera and contributed to the overall victory is invaluable. The cameras captured and brought to contemporaries the heroics and everyday life of wartime, and at the Nuremberg trials, one of the material evidence of Nazi crimes was photographs of war correspondents.

The monument was created on the initiative of the regional branch of the Belarusian Union of Journalists, which was supported by the media teams of the region. During the war, the newspapers 'Kirovets', 'Bobruisk Partizan', and 'Golos Partizan' were also published here. It is noteworthy that there were more newspapers published at that terrible time than in the pre-war period. A pen was equated to a bayonet. The money needed to create the monument was donated by both editorial offices and individual journalists.

The guerrilla heart of Mogilev region is the so-called Klichev district. The "Monument to military Journalists" in this heroic region has become another symbol of heroism, bravery, self-sacrifice and selfless love for the Motherland.