In the capital of Pomerania, on the military burial of Elias cemetery will be a monument to residents of the Arkhangelsk region killed during the Soviet-Finnish war of 1939-1940.
This is the copy of the memorial, set last year in the country near the town of Kuhmo. According to the author, the Russian sculptor Denis Stretovych, the stele would be divided through the cleft, symbolizing the front line between the USSR and Finland.
a Joint project of the Arkhangelsk branch of the Russian military-historical society, the governments of the region and “the Russian newspaper” “In the Wake of the 9th ski battalion: return to the Motherland” dedicated to preserving the memory of northerners who died during the Soviet-Finnish war.
Funds for the memorial in Arkhangelsk, and for another search expedition to Finland allocated this year from the regional budget in the framework of the presidential grant, and the grant of RVIA.
Today is the preparation of project documentation for the installation of the monument and landscaping around it, says the Secretary of the regional branch of RVIA Alex buglak. Contractors have already started the production of the stele – work carried out in Karelia. The opening ceremony is scheduled to be held in September. Meanwhile, on the eve of the burial of soldiers of the 9th battalion of the ski members of the regional branch of the military historical society, the combined search party of the region and the journalists of “Russian newspaper” was organized Saturday.
And the inhabitants of the Arkhangelsk village of Ust-Vaga themselves raised money for a new monument to the fellow countrymen, participants of the great Patriotic war – its opening took place today, 24 June. Financial support for rural activists gave the regional centre “the Patriot” as well as the administration of vinogradivsky district.
Meanwhile, in the Arkhangelsk today one hundred and fifty residents came to the Park named after Lomonosov to join the all-Russian action “memory Garden”: the funds for the purchase, delivery and watering of trees were selected business representatives Pomerania. According to the head of Arkhangelsk Igor GOJIRA, the title “City of military glory” requires: leadership of Arkhangelsk, deputies of oblast and city teachers, doctors, journalists planted along the tracks at the Solovetsky stone in honor of the 75th anniversary of the Victory 75 lilac bushes.
