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Campaigns in memory of WWII victims held throughout Russia

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Campaigns in memory of WWII victims held throughout Russia


22.06.2022

Photo credit: Y. Ivanko / mos.ru (CC BY 4.0)

The memory of victims of the Great Patriotic War are honored on Wednesday, June 22, on the Day of Memory and Sorrow. The Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union on this day 81 years ago, TASS reports.

Funeral visits, rallies, concerts are held throughout the country. In many regions, they began at night, at 4 o'clock in the morning, when Nazi troops invaded the territory of the USSR.

Traditionally, Russian President Vladimir Putin lays a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier near the Kremlin wall on this day.

More than 1,000 sites will be covered by the Candle of Memory campaign. Residents of more than 130 cities will be able to watch the "Fiery Pictures of War."

The Candle of Memory campaign started on June 21. By tradition, the main candle is lit in the Yelokhov Cathedral in Moscow. It was there that the first liturgy was held for the Victory over the enemy. According to various sources, up to 27 million people became victims of the war. 

The "Candles of memory" are lit not only in Russia, more than 30 states have joined the campaign, Olga Zanko, the head of the Victory Volunteers movement, said.

On the night of June 22, 1,418 candles were lit on Krymskaya Embankment in the Muzeon Park of Arts in Moscow - the number of days of the war. Before the ceremony, a recording of Yuri Levitan's speech about the beginning of the war was played. A memorial service for the dead was held in the Main Church of the Russian Army. 

Installations will appear in all hero cities, cities of military glory and cities of labor prowess. The artworks will be united by a common slogan - "Remember."

Residents of St. Petersburg will lay flowers at the Motherland monument at the Piskarevskoye Memorial Cemetery. Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony will be performed in Izhevsk and Novosibirsk. The "Roads of Memory and Glory" film festival will start in Cherkessk. An interactive performance "The War Started the Next Day" will take place in Kurgan.

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