In Memory Day of the tragedy of the Belarusian village Khhatyn
destroyed by nazis in the Great Patriotic War, on March 22, 2013 the Ministry
of Communications and informatizations of Republic of Belarus will issue a postage
stamp. "Khatyn". Designer: Ivan Lukin. Printing: offset. Colour: full colour.
Paper: chalk-surfaced, gummed. Perforation: comb 131/2. Size of stamp:
29,6x52 mm. Edition: 60.000 copies.
The issue is printed at the Republican Unitary Enterprise
“Bobruisk Integrated Printing House A. T. Nepogodin” in mini sheet
of 6 values. Size of sheet: 122x131 mm. Letter “M” is equal to the air-mail tariff of a postcard abroad.
The village Khatyn is a symbol of the tragedy of the
Belarusian people, its mournful page in the history of the Great Patriotic War.
On March 22, 1943 were killed or burned by retaliatory division of security
police from structure of the Ukrainian collaborationist formation of 149
civilians of Khatyn. The 118th retaliatory battalion was created from
inhabitants of the western areas of Ukraine and prisoners of war of Red Army.
The former Polish major Smovsky was ordered a battalion. German "chief"
of a retaliatory battalion was the major SS Erich Kerner.
