Victory Day is one of the most important holidays and should be remembered as a great day in the history of our country. Officers of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation honour the memory of the fallen and the veterans and paying tribute to the Soviet soldiers who forged the Great Victory! Each region did it in its own way - in an original, heartfelt way, with warmth, respect and awe. Officers of the Investigative Committee of Russia held ceremonial marches, concerts and meetings in all regions of the country.   

In the Altai Territory, investigators organized a river trip for the veteran of the Great Patriotic War Mikhail Mikhailovich Kudryavtsev in the city of Kamen-na-Obi. During the voyage on the spring Ob River the pupils of the city band Carousel performed songs from their repertoire for Mikhail Mikhaylovich. Officers of the Main Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia in the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol organized a large-scale patriotic motor rally across the peninsula along the Sevastopol-Kerch route. Officers of the Chechen Republican Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia visited Great Patriotic War veteran Yunus Abdulshaidovich Abdulshaidov in the mountain village of Sogunty, Nozhay-Yurtovsky district, who will celebrate his centenary in a month.  

Many departments of the Investigative Committee of Russia organized personal concerts for veterans. For example, officers of the Kaliningrad Regional Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, together with cadets of the departmental cadet classes of the Grand Duke Alexander Nevsky Cadet Corps visited 96-year-old Tatyana Yakovlevna Krivosheenkova, a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, in Svetlogorsk and staged a festive concert for her. Officers of the Investigative Department and cadets of the departmental cadet class performed her favourite poems and songs Dark Night, Smuglyanka, Katyusha and even a march by a group of drummers.  Officers of the Orenburg Regional Investigation Department organized a ceremonial formation-concert for the veteran of the Great Patriotic War Mikhail Aleksandrovich Khludenev, patients and employees of the Orenburg Regional Clinical Psychoneurological Hospital of War Veterans state healthcare institution. Officers of the Irkutsk Regional Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, together with students and representatives of the P.A. Skorokhodov Irkutsk Cadet Corps congratulated Great Patriotic War veteran Georgy Ivanovich Khromov with a Gifts from War poem performed by Irkutsk poet Ivan Kharabarov and the In the Dugout song.  Cadets of the Andrei Kasimov class of the Kozhil Secondary School in the Balezin District of the Republic of Udmurtia congratulated Aleksandr Mikhailovich Malenkov, a veteran of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945,  on his 95th birthday. The cadets marched to the house of the veteran, who welcomed them with the accordion in his hands.  The cadets sang several wartime songs to the accompaniment of his accordion.

Officers of regional departments of the Investigative Committee took part in a variety of events, such as St. George Ribbon, Immortal Regiment, Letter of Victory, Garden of Memory and many others. In Karachay-Cherkessia, officers of the investigative department organised a DobroPochta campaign and approached the sponsored Special (correctional) general education boarding school type I republican state educational institution to prepare hand-made cards, so that every veteran, home front worker and war child, receiving a gift, would know that their deeds are significant, not forgotten and evoke gratitude and admiration of posterity.   

The investigative departments of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation regularly clean up the gravesites of soldiers who fell during the Great Patriotic War. Сhildren of the Investigative Committee officers and pupils of sponsored institutions and educational establishments of the department are involved in the activities for the purposes of patriotic education. They take great care to clean up memorials and obelisks as they listen to stories about the deeds of Soviet soldiers.  Many investigative departments also take on the patronage of memorial complexes in their regions.   

Our ancestors shoulder to shoulder defended the Motherland from enemies and paid a huge price for the victory over fascism! We bow down before our dear winners, esteemed veterans and homefront workers with endless gratitude! Decades pass, generations change, but the memory of the Great Victory will forever remain in our hearts!

 

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