Day of Remembrance and Grief – the beginning of Great Patriotic War in Naberezhnye Chelny

21 June 2017, prior to Day of Remembrance and Grief – the beginning of Great Patriotic War annually marked in Russia, an excursion to Monument to soldiers who fell in battles during the Great Patriotic War in 1941-45 was organized by Guzel Galyazetdinova, specialist in rehabilitation of the Rehabilitation Centre for Children with Disabilities in Naberezhnye Chelny. The event gathered 13 children – clients of the Centre.

The children laid flowers to the Monument, honoured the memory of those died in battles with a minute's silence. During the excursion the children learned that the war brought grief to every family, broke the peaceful lives of millions of people. The people defended their Homeland at the cost of enormous losses. Our brave warriors defended their native land, have turned back the Nazi hordes and defeated them.