The history of the publication, which has been alongside the district's residents through both joy and hardship, features numerous significant moments.
One of them is the newspaper's operation during the Great Patriotic War.The newspaper, then titled "Kalgasnaya prauda" (Collective Farm Truth), was published by the I.V. Stalin Lepel Partisan Brigade. Among the footage shot by front-line cameramen during their work in the Polotsk-Lepel partisan zone, there are truly unique scenes. For instance, the newspaper's printing house operations were captured on film, allowing us to see the process of typesetting from a case, as well as a mimeograph used for copying already printed sheets.
Literary workers P. M. Ustinov and A. F. Zenyuk, artists N. T. Gutiev and N. I. Obrynba, typesetter F. T. Pranik, printer P. V. Krasnov, proofreader I. A. Egorova, and others participated in the newspaper's publication at that time. K. R. Patsayko was the editor.
From the award sheet of the newspaper's literary worker Alexander Filimonovich Zenyuk, one can learn not only about his partisan biography (in particular, he participated in the defeat of an enemy echelon, where the combat debut of a homemade artillery piece, now exhibited in the Lepel Regional Museum of Local Lore, took place) but also appreciate the scope of the editorial work with his involvement: 64 issues of the newspaper, 116 releases of Soviet Information Bureau bulletins, and 41 types of propaganda leaflets.
In today's world, saturated with a vast amount of information, it is difficult to appreciate the full power of a small printed leaflet. But back then, it was like a lighthouse beam in the darkness, saying: "We are fighting!". Thus, alongside weapons, the approach of Victory was forged by the printed word of "Kalgasnaya prauda," supporting the people's spirit in the difficult years. One can see the tools of partisan printing firsthand today at the Lepel Regional Museum of Local Lore.