The memory of the dead soldiers was honored in the Kazan Pobeda Park

(KZN.RU, May 9). Today, on the day of celebration of the 72nd anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, the laying of flowers to the Eternal Flame and the Monument to Mothers and Widows of the dead soldiers took place in the Kazan Pobeda Park.

Veterans of the Great Patriotic War, including Boris Kuznetsov, the Hero of the Soviet Union, Rustam Minnikhanov, the President of Tatarstan, Mintimer Shaimiev, the State Counselor of the RT, Farid Mukhametshin, the chairman of the State Council of the RT, Alexei Pesoshin, the Prime Minister of the RT, Asgat Safarov, the head of the Office of the President of the RT, Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of Kazan, and other officials attended the solemn ceremony of laying flowers.

Wreaths were entrusted to the Eternal Flame of the Memorial of Glory colonnade and to the Monument to the Mothers and Widows of the dead soldiers. The President of the RT and his entourage congratulated the assembled on the Victory Day, talked with war veterans and members of the search party.

Laying flowers today also took place in Arskoe and Arkhangelskoe cemeteries in Kazan.