(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.