Now the assembly is holding an international forum on preserving the memory of the Second World War and the Great Patriotic War.

Representatives in Moscow, Crimea, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Slovenia and other countries take part in it.

“What we have now begun together is the creation of societies for the descendants (members) of military units and formations that took part in the Great Patriotic War,” RIA Novosti quotes Belyaninov.

On January 19, the 80th anniversary of the breaking of the blockade of Leningrad was celebrated in St. Petersburg with festive fireworks over the Peter and Paul Fortress.