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Defender of the Fatherland Day to be marked in Russia
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MOSCOW, February 23 (Itar-Tass) -- Russia is marking Defender of the
Fatherland Day on Tuesday, February 23rd. It's going to be celebrated for
the 23rd time this year. Unofficially, the Russians call it a men's
holiday. In Soviet times, starting from 1918, February 23 was called the
Red Army Day. The holiday assumed a new meaning, as a day of military
glory, in contemporary Russia, in accordance with the federal law 'On Days
of Military Glory'. February 23rd was declared a day off in 2002.
On Tuesday, the Russians will pay tribute to servicemen and their
families, veterans of the army and Navy and to soldiers and officers who
fought in Afghanistan.
The army is the backbone of Russian statehood and a guarantor of
stability in the country.
On the eve of the holiday, Moscow youth organizations have trimmed and
groomed wartime burials and monuments in the Russian capital. Together
with the veterans of the Great Patriotic War they visited the former
battlefields in the Moscow region.
More than 160 festive events will be held in Moscow on the Defender of
the Fatherland Day. By tradition, Russian leaders and deputies of the
Federation Council will lay wreaths to the Grave of an Unknown Soldier
near the Kremlin Wall on Tuesday morning. Besides, Russian military
leaders, representatives of veteran and other public organizations will
lay wreaths at the monument to the wartime military leader, Georgy Zhukov,
and a monument to law enforcers who died performing their line of duty.
A separate festive program has been prepared for veterans and
servicemen who undergo treatment in Moscow hospitals.
Festive marches, shows, concerts and theatrical performances devoted
to the holiday will be held all across Russia from the taiga to the Baltic
Sea. The units and formations of the Russian Armed Forces will mark
February 23 with parades.
Thousands of artillery guns in Moscow, other Hero cities and
administrative centres will fire 30 salvos in memory of the dead defenders
and in honour of the living ones.
.Eternal fire returns to the Grave of Unknown Soldier memorial.
MOSCOW, February 23 (Itar-Tass) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev
will light the eternal fire at the Grave of an Unknown Soldier near the
Kremlin Wall on the Defender of the Fatherland Day on February 23. The
memorial complex near the Kremlin Wall is undergoing reconstruction.
Therefore, the eternal fire was temporarily moved to Poklonnaya Hill on
December 27, 2009 and installed at the entrance to the Central Museum of
the Great Patriotic War.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will personally light the eternal
fire.
Restoration works in the Alexander garden continue day and night. New
elements of the 'Grave of an Unknown Soldier' memorial complex have been
built. Presidential Property Manager Vladimir Kozhin says that the
restoration of the memorial complex in the Alexander garden will be
competed by May 9.
"The Grave of an Unknown Soldier memorial will be unveiled after
renovation by Victory Day," Kozhin said.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has ordered to set up a national
memorial of military glory in the Alexander Garden with an aim to preserve
the historical and cultural heritage of the peoples of Russia. A new
commemorative token has been installed to honour cities awarded the
honorary title of "Cities of Military Glory". The title was introduced in
2006 and is awarded to cities "in the territory of which or in the
vicinity of which defenders of the Fatherland sowed courage, inner
fortitude and mass heroism, including cities which are already bearing the
title of 'Hero Cities'.
This year new names have been added to a list of 19 cities, which have
already gained the "City of Military Glory" status. The new cities include
Arkhangelsk, Kozelsk and Pskov. Earlier, this title was awarded to
Belgorod, Kursk, Oryol, Vladikavkaz, Yelnya, Yelets, Malgobek, Rzhev,
Voronezh, the town of Polyarnyi, the cradle of the Northern Fleet located
in the Murmansk region, Luga, Rostov-on-the Don, Tuapse, Velikiy Novgorod,
Dmitrov, Velikiye Luki, Vyazma, Kronshtadt and Naro-Fominsk.
Over the past forty years, one of the memorial's key elements, the
Eternal fire, has given birth to a new tradition that brings Russian
politicians, foreign delegations, war veterans and also thousands of
Moscow newly-weds to the Kremlin Wall. They come here to pay homage to the
unknown hero.
-0-fil/
MOSCOW, February 23 (Itar-Tass) -- Russia is marking Defender of the
Fatherland Day on Tuesday, February 23rd. It's going to be celebrated for
the 23rd time this year. Unofficially, the Russians call it a men's
holiday. In Soviet times, starting from 1918, February 23 was called the
Red Army Day. The holiday assumed a new meaning, as a day of military
glory, in contemporary Russia, in accordance with the federal law 'On Days
of Military Glory'. February 23rd was declared a day off in 2002.
On Tuesday, the Russians will pay tribute to servicemen and their
families, veterans of the army and Navy and to soldiers and officers who
fought in Afghanistan.
The army is the backbone of Russian statehood and a guarantor of
stability in the country.
On the eve of the holiday, Moscow youth organizations have trimmed and
groomed wartime burials and monuments in the Russian capital. Together
with the veterans of the Great Patriotic War they visited the former
battlefields in the Moscow region.
More than 160 festive events will be held in Moscow on the Defender of
the Fatherland Day. By tradition, Russian leaders and deputies of the
Federation Council will lay wreaths to the Grave of an Unknown Soldier
near the Kremlin Wall on Tuesday morning. Besides, Russian military
leaders, representatives of veteran and other public organizations will
lay wreaths at the monument to the wartime military leader, Georgy Zhukov,
and a monument to law enforcers who died performing their line of duty.
A separate festive program has been prepared for veterans and
servicemen who undergo treatment in Moscow hospitals.
Festive marches, shows, concerts and theatrical performances devoted
to the holiday will be held all across Russia from the taiga to the Baltic
Sea. The units and formations of the Russian Armed Forces will mark
February 23 with parades.
Thousands of artillery guns in Moscow, other Hero cities and
administrative centres will fire 30 salvos in memory of the dead defenders
and in honour of the living ones.
.Eternal fire returns to the Grave of Unknown Soldier memorial.
MOSCOW, February 23 (Itar-Tass) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev
will light the eternal fire at the Grave of an Unknown Soldier near the
Kremlin Wall on the Defender of the Fatherland Day on February 23. The
memorial complex near the Kremlin Wall is undergoing reconstruction.
Therefore, the eternal fire was temporarily moved to Poklonnaya Hill on
December 27, 2009 and installed at the entrance to the Central Museum of
the Great Patriotic War.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will personally light the eternal
fire.
Restoration works in the Alexander garden continue day and night. New
elements of the 'Grave of an Unknown Soldier' memorial complex have been
built. Presidential Property Manager Vladimir Kozhin says that the
restoration of the memorial complex in the Alexander garden will be
competed by May 9.
"The Grave of an Unknown Soldier memorial will be unveiled after
renovation by Victory Day," Kozhin said.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has ordered to set up a national
memorial of military glory in the Alexander Garden with an aim to preserve
the historical and cultural heritage of the peoples of Russia. A new
commemorative token has been installed to honour cities awarded the
honorary title of "Cities of Military Glory". The title was introduced in
2006 and is awarded to cities "in the territory of which or in the
vicinity of which defenders of the Fatherland sowed courage, inner
fortitude and mass heroism, including cities which are already bearing the
title of 'Hero Cities'.
This year new names have been added to a list of 19 cities, which have
already gained the "City of Military Glory" status. The new cities include
Arkhangelsk, Kozelsk and Pskov. Earlier, this title was awarded to
Belgorod, Kursk, Oryol, Vladikavkaz, Yelnya, Yelets, Malgobek, Rzhev,
Voronezh, the town of Polyarnyi, the cradle of the Northern Fleet located
in the Murmansk region, Luga, Rostov-on-the Don, Tuapse, Velikiy Novgorod,
Dmitrov, Velikiye Luki, Vyazma, Kronshtadt and Naro-Fominsk.
Over the past forty years, one of the memorial's key elements, the
Eternal fire, has given birth to a new tradition that brings Russian
politicians, foreign delegations, war veterans and also thousands of
Moscow newly-weds to the Kremlin Wall. They come here to pay homage to the
unknown hero.
-0-fil/
