Dear colleagues, staff and students of the University!

Please accept my sincere congratulations on our main state holiday – Independence Day of the Republic of Belarus!

This holiday unites all those who are proud of their country, honor its history, and make a daily contribution to the prosperity of their native Belarus with their hard work and talent.

On this festive day I wish happiness, health, and well-being to you and your loved ones!

May there always be a clear, peaceful sky above your head, and may every day of your life be filled with joy and warmth!

the Rector of the University A.N. Chukanov

On July 2, 2025, a solemn signing of a cooperation agreement took place on the basis of VSMU between the educational establishment Vitebsk State Order of Peoples' Friendship Medical University, represented by the Rector Alexei Chukanov, and the state educational establishment Secondary School No. 3 named after L.N.Belitsky in Mozyr, represented by the Director Elena Pribyshchuk.

On July 2, 2025, Vitebsk State Medical University hosted a solemn event dedicated to the Independence Day of the Republic of Belarus.

In his address to the audience, the University Rector Alexey Chukanov noted:

"... The fact that all conditions have been created today for us to work peacefully is a great merit of previous generations.

And I am sure that we will be worthy followers of them..."

On July 1, 2025, the Palace of the Republic (Minsk) hosted a solemn meeting and a festive concert of artists «Golas Rodnay Zyamli» dedicated to the Independence Day of the Republic of Belarus.

The VSMU staff also took part in the event as part of the Vitebsk Region delegation.

On June 30, 2025, the unique historical, educational and socio-patriotic project "Victory Train", which has been implemented by the Belarusian Railway in cooperation with Russian Railways since 2021, stopped for two days in Vitebsk. The train consists of 12 cars, 10 of which are exhibition cars, which represent the transition from one historical episode to another: the pre—war years - the Great Patriotic War — Victory. Together with the heroes of the exhibition its visitors "walk the path from Gomel to Moscow, from Stalingrad to Berlin".

For the second year VSMU volunteer students have been accompanying visitors and participants of the project (guided tours and monitoring of compliance with security measures). On July 1, Alexey Chukanov, the Rector of the University, and Dmitry Kuzhel, the Vice-rector for Ideological and Educational Work, visited the mobile museum "Victory Train".