Mikhail Bukhtuyev’s tank - used as a battering ram of an armored train - is among the objects subjected to voting for “7 Wonders of Belorussia”

The site of  Belorussian “Narodnaya gazeta” (www.ng.by) is holding an internet voting for “7 Wonders”. Among the main objects of which the Oktyabrsk district of Gomelskaya region of Belorussia is proud of  is  a monument of the only tank that was used as a battering ram against an armored train in military history. The act was performed by a native of Tuvan Todzha, 18-year-old Mikhail Artemievich Bukhtuyev. Every year during state holidays, and on Mikhail Bukhtuyev’s birthday - 23 November - wreaths are brought to the monument, as Larisa Teplova, the chief of the department of ideological work of Oktyabrsk district administration informed “Tuva-Online”.

“This year we kept the tradition without change, and flowers were brought to the grave of Hero of Soviet Union Mikhail Artemievich Bukhtuyev in village Protasy of Oktyabrsk districts. Unfortunately the weather was very bad and the photographs did not come out too well, - Larisa Teplova informed us. - There is also a Wall of Consecration” on the main square of the village, with bas-relief’s of all the Heroes of the Soviet Union, who took part in the liberation of the district. The photograph shows the bas-relief with the name M. A. Bukhtuyev. The celebration with bringing flowers and wreaths to the Wall of Consecration is performed on all the corresponding state holidays.”

On 23 November, there was a ceremony also in Tuva, with bringing flowers to the bust of the Hero of the Soviet Union, M. A. Bukhtuyev, which is located on the Square of Victory. On this day, a Guard of Honor was on duty at the Post No. 1 - by the hero’s portrait in School No. 1.