I. Metshin took part in a wreath-laying ceremony in Victory Park
Marat Muginov
(Kazan City
KZN.RU, 9 May). Today in celebration of the 71th anniversary of the Victory in
the Great Patriotic War in Kazan Victory Park ceremony of laying flowers to the
Eternal Flame, Monument to the mothers and widows of fallen soldiers took place.
The solemn
ceremony was attended by war veterans, President of Tatarstan Rustam
Minnikhanov, State Counsellor Mintimer Shaimiev, Chairman of State Council
Farid Mukhametshin, Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan Alexei
Pesoshin, RT President's aide Leila Fazleeva, Mayor of Kazan Ilsur Metshin and heads
of republican agencies and the Executive Committee of the city.
Wreaths
were laid at the Eternal Flame of the Glory Memorial colonnade. The memory of
the fallen during the war those present observed with a minute of silence. Also
flowers were laid at the Monument of the mothers and widows of fallen soldiers,
the memorial of sailors who died in World War II.