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Solemn event devoted to paying tribute to dead soldiers held in FSUE “Rosmorport” Moscow Region’s Moryak recreation and retreat center
A solemn event devoted to the celebrations marking Victory Day was held at the FSUE “Rosmorport” Moscow Region’s Moryak recreation and retreat center on May 7, 2019.
Rosmorrechflot deputy head Andrei Tarasenko, FSUE “Rosmorport” Deputy General Director Sergey Simonov and chairman of the Council of Veterans of Marine and River Fleet Yuri Mikhailov presided a festive meeting.
The honorable guests congratulated the participants in the meeting on Victory Day and expressed gratitude to veterans for courage and bravery, heroism and fidelity to Motherland. The Victory Day is one of the holidays, which unites Russian people and fill the hearts with pride for the great nation, which fought for honor and independence of the country.
The participants in the events, including war veterans and homefront workers, representatives of the transport sector and trade unions organizations laid wreaths at the monument “In Commemoration of Mariners and Ships Lost during the 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War” located on the territory of the recreation and retreat center.
The minute of silence was observed to remember those dead during the Great Patriotic War.
The guests of the holiday were set up with dishes of field kitchen. Poetries and songs of military years were performed by students and cadets of the Moscow State Academy of Water Transport – the branch of the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Military Education “Admiral Makarov State University of Maritime and Inland Shipping”.
The Moryak recreation and retreat center is a traditional place for hosting patriotic events. The pioneer’s flotilla created with the involvement of a Hero of the Soviet Union, first Polar explorer Ivan Dmitriyevich Papanin was once deployed in this place. Detachments of the flotilla were named as crews. The names were given in honor of a certain ship. Crewmembers took young sailors under their patronage. Every year a march was held to remember the victims of the Great Patriotic War. On the initiative of young sailors obelisks were erected in nearest villages. Several years later the Moryak recreation and retreat center was opened.
