In anticipation of the 70th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War a reporting back meeting of the regional NGO Union of Investigation Veterans has been held in the Russia’s Investigative Committee to summarize performance of the organization in 2014. The meeting was attended by Chairman of the Russia’s Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin.
In the lobby of the Board Hall of the Investigative Committee the guests were welcomed by jazz band JAZZ-PIK of A.T. Grechaninov children’s musical school attended by veterans’ grandchildren. An exhibition of children’s drawings was deployed on the initiative of veterans Galina Fetkulina and Sergey Shkryabach.
The meeting noted that the decision of the Investigative Committee board on the establishment of public association of investigation veterans of the national scale had been implemented step-by-step.
Veterans take active part in raising younger generation of investigators in investigations directorates. Permanent section of veterans supervises raising of cadets of Alexander Nevsky Cadet School of the Russia’s Investigative Committee.
New expositions of objects and photos from family archives of passed away veterans Sergey M. Gromov, Georgy N. Bystrov, Yuly D. Lyubimov, German P. Karakozov, Viktor V. Naydyonov, Andrey K. Kozheyan, Yury A. Zverev, Viktor A. Paritsa, Georgy A. Efenbakh, Vladimir I. Kravtsev and others were formed in the Hall of History of Preliminary Investigation of the Russia’s Investigative Committee.
Last year with the support of the veterans the Investigative Committee published a book “Investigation Veterans of Postwar Time” that collected biographies and recollections about veterans of investigation. This and other questions were mentioned in the report of Chairman of Council of NGO Union of Investigation Veterans Vladimir V. Dontsov.
Veteran of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, General Prosecutor of the USSR between 1988 and 1990, State Counselor of Justice Alexander Y. Sukharev reported on political events in the world and the near abroad.
In the conclusion of the meeting Alexander Bastrykin awarded decorations of the Russia’s Investigative Committee to activists of veterans’ movement. The decoration “For Service to Law” was awarded for the first time. Awarding the honors Mr. Bastrykin thanked veterans for contribution they made in the common cause and called to take active part in public life of the Investigative Committee.
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