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RF Marks 67th Anniversary of Battle of Stalingrad Victory

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RF Marks 67th Anniversary of Battle of Stalingrad Victory


02.02.2010

The Day of Rout of Nazi troops in the Battle of Stalingrad by Soviet forces is marked in Russia on Tuesday. The Battle ended 67 years ago, on February 2, 1943, with Soviet troops' outright victory, reports ITAR-TASS.

This Day of Military Glory, sealed in the Federal law dated February 10, 1995, and in the Presidential Decree dated March 13, 1995, ushers in a series of public and military holidays and memorable dates of military history in February, an official at the Rosvoyentsentr (State Military Historical and Cultural Center) has told Itar-Tass. The Day of Rout of Nazi troops in the Battle of Stalingrad by Soviet forces is among the first ten Days of Military Glory instituted in contemporary Russia. It has been marked since 1996.

The Rosvoyentsentr official mentioned such important dates of the current month as the 65th anniversary of the seizure of Budapest by the troops of the 2nd and 3rd Ukrainian Fronts (February 13), the Day of Commemoration of servicemen-internationalists (February 15), and the Fatherland Defenders' Day, equated to a Day of Military Glory (February 23).

In the estimate of historians, the Battle of Stalingrad, which continued for 200 days and nights, was the longest and most arduous one in the entire Second World War. The Nazis lost about 1.5 million men killed, wounded, or taken prisoner. Over 2, 000 tanks, 10,000 artillery guns and mortars, and 3,000 airplanes of the enemy were destroyed.

One hundred and twelve Soviet servicemen were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. Over 707,000 people were awarded the medal "For the Defence of Stalingrad", instituted in December1942.
The scope of celebration of the 67th anniversary of the Battle of Stalingrad, in the estimate of Rosvoyentsentr press service, is comparable to the jubilee celebrations in previous years.

In the year of the 65th anniversary of the Great Victory, the celebration of days of military glory is included in the list of ceremonial events. On Tuesday, people are expected to throng the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 on Poklonnaya Hill. Films are to be shown and meetings with war veterans are to be held in the Diorama Complex of the museum, one of the halls of which is dedicated to the Battle of Stalingrad.

In view of the restoration work on the National Military Glory Memorial in the Alexander Garden and the transfer of the Eternal Flame to the Military Glory Memorial on Poklonnaya Hill, a tribute of memory is to be paid to the fallen defenders of the Fatherland over there.

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