The collection publishes documents stored in the National Archives of the Republic of Belarus. The State Archives of the Russian Federation, the State Archives of the Vitebsk Region and the Zonal State Archives in Polotsk, about the events that took place on the territory of the Vitebsk Region and the conditions of the ongoing war and the first peaceful months. The main part of the documents is published for the first time, there is a detailed scientific reference apparatus. The collection is illustrated with facsimile copies of documents and photographs. Designed for historians, students, local historians, it will be interesting to a wide range of readers.