Pandemic coronavirus made adjustments to the program celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Victory in the great Patriotic war. Cancelled the visits of foreign delegations, parades. Will be held on may 9, and the familiar March of “Immortal regiment”. But the organizers have found a way to keep the tradition of processions with portraits of their relatives-participants of war and in today’s complex epidemiological situation.
As told to “MK” head of the Executive Committee of the all-Russian public movement “the Immortal regiment of Russia” Artem Khutorskoy, everyone will be able to participate in an online March on may 9, which will be broadcast all Day in different information resources.
-Now in the holidays we offer to citizens to send us digital photos of the banners with portraits of relatives-participants of war, – told Artem Khutorskoy. From this dataset are a digital platform will automatically generate visual file. May 9, early in the morning in the far Eastern time till evening on the Kaliningrad time on our information resources and the media will continually go March “Immortal regiment”. All portraits will be uploaded to this database will be able to see the whole country.
the Broadcast will be on your website?
-Not only on our website. Involves a lot of information resources. This “Memory Bank” of Sberbank, and the platform of social networks Mail Group, as well as national media. That is, wherever possible, will be online broadcast of the procession.
How many portraits of soldiers is already in your database?
-Only database of our website contains about 80 thousand persons. It is updated every day, Plus several hundred thousand persons, information about which there is other information resource. And huge database of photographs and documents of the Museum of Victory. I’m not talking about the Way the Memory of the Ministry of defence. There are millions of photos! There are too many state agencies and businesses have joined this idea. And now, all present a United front.
I am Sure that the March will not be less ambitious than in previous years.
the Immortal regiment March, when its members carry the may 9 banners with portraits of their relatives held in dozens of cities across the country and abroad. Only in Moscow the procession involved hundreds of thousands of people. A participant marches past five years and was President Vladimir Putin, which has carried on the red square, the portrait of his father-veteran.
