Memorial complex “Stefanovo".

By the winter of 1942, a partisan zone had formed in the Belynichi district. The villagers of Stefanovo supplied the partisans not only with food and clothing, but also became partisans or contacts themselves. After another sabotage, during which the partisans destroyed the German government, the brutal SS decided to take revenge on the peaceful villagers and took cruel measures to intimidate the villagers and make them live in fear. This is evidenced by a commemorative plaque at the entrance to the memorial complex. There were 97 people in Stefanovo, 96 of whom were shot or burned alive. They were mostly women, children, and the elderly: the youngest of them was only a few months old, and the oldest was 70 years old. The only one who was able to escape from this horror was R.M. Gorbachevsky, who managed to escape, although he was seriously injured. But he did not live long after the war either – he died in 1953.

The troops of the 2nd Belorussian Front liberated the territory of the Belynichi district from the invaders on June 29, 1944.

After the war, the village of Stefanovo, like Khatyn, did not revive. In memory of the tragedy of those years, on September 8, 1968, a monument to the victims of fascism was erected on the site of the destroyed village. The stones located next to the monument symbolize the places where houses once stood. A lone tree, left over from a once large garden, and a granite monument of a woman with a child in her arms, next to which is a plaque with a commemorative inscription, remind us that such tragedies should not be repeated.