According to RIA Novosti, the opening ceremony of the monument to “Those killed in the defense of the Fatherland” and the consecration of the icon case on the 561st kilometer of the M-11 Neva highway were timed to the 75th anniversary of the Victory.
As noted in the press service of RIO, in this place in 1942, the Soviet 2nd Shock Army made the last attempt to break through the enemy’s encirclement.
Earlier, URA.RU reported that the activists of the “Victory Volunteers” and the Search Movement of Russia will hold international community work days before the Day of Remembrance and Sorrow and put in order thousands of memorials of the Great Patriotic War.