Residents of Southern Russia rally to commemorate war victims

Mourning rallies, laying flowers and lighting candles have been held tonight in the southern regions of Russia in honour of the Day of Memory and Grief.

On June 22, 1941, the German invasion into the USSR began. Every year Russia marks June 22 as the Day of Memory and Grief.

In the evening on June 21, in Volgograd, more than three thousand employees of law enforcement bodies with their families gathered on the Mamayev Kurgan to commemorate the people fallen in the Great Patriotic War (GPW).

In Rostov-on-Don, a mourning rally was held tonight on the embankment, where people honoured the memory of victims by a minute of silence; a mourning wreath was lowered into the river; and doves were released into the sky at the end of the event, the portal "161.ru" reports.

A mourning rally was held at night in Makhachkala at the monument to the Soldier-Liberator in the LeninKomsomolPark. Residents were given candles lit from the Eternal Flame; people figured them shaping the numeral of 70, symbolizing the 70^th anniversary of the Victory in the GPW, the "InfoMahachkala" portal reports.

The Day of Remembrance and Grief was also marked in Krasnodar, StavropolTerritory, Ingushetia and Kabardino-Balkaria.

Full text of the article is available on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’.