Social sphere

The department on labor and social security of the Petrikov regional executive committee has registered 13,664 receivers of pensions and allowances including 2,295 participants of the Great Patriotic War, 3 people, who worked in the blockade Leningrad, 890 prisoners of concentration camps, 15 disabled veterans, 54 awarded with orders and medals for labour and military service during the Great Patriotic War, 8 politically repressed, 101 participants of the liquidation of Chernobyl consequences, 52 Chernobyl disabled and 9 receivers of pensions for special services to the Republic of Belarus.

The region numbers 397 large families including 42 families with five and more children, 89 one-parent families, 124 families with disabled children, 4,060 lonely people and 7 people over 100 years old.

Some 39 mothers with many children were awarded the Order of the Mother of the Republic of Belarus.