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On 22 December, on their professional holiday, power engineers honoured the memory of the heroes who fell in the Great Patriotic War and laid flowers at the Eternal Flame in Tula. The ceremony was also attended by representatives of the Council of Veterans and Youth of Tulenergo.
The country’s only Memorial to Heroes-Power Engineers is a unique complex that was opened on 19 September 2020, in the year of the 75th anniversary of the Great Victory. It was here in 1941 that the city’s front line of defense passed, which thwarted the plans for an offensive by the Nazi troops on Moscow.
The central element of the complex is an obelisk of 1,418 cm high (according to the number of days of war), and its heart is the Eternal Flame, a particle of which was delivered from Moscow from the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. On the commemorative steles of the memorial complex, the names of 18 Heroes of the Soviet Union and 41 full holders of the Orders of Glory and the Patriotic War are immortalized.
“During the war, the power engineers faced severe trials. Their contribution to the victory over the enemy cannot be overemphasized. On the front line, with weapons in hand, they defended the Motherland, and the crews of electricians remaining in the rear maintained the power supply of the besieged cities. The memory of those who defended their native land at the cost of their lives, of their feat and post-war achievements is the key to the successful implementation of our plans in the development of the energy complex,” stressed General Director of Rosseti Centre and Rosseti Centre and Volga region Igor Makovskiy.
