IDGC of Centre’s power engineers by 9 May produced a film dedicated to the soldiers of the Great Victory

IDGC of Centre is completing work on a large-scale military-patriotic project dedicated to soldiers-liberators: the film "I Remember, I’m Proud".

The film, timed to the 72nd anniversary of the Great Victory, was based on memoirs of veterans of the Great Patriotic War, as well as fragments from front-line letters presented by IDGC of Centre’s employees and their children, thematic poems and songs in their performance presented in small stories. All of them are united by the desire to thank the heroes for the Victory. The project found a warm response from the company’s employees: representatives of all its eleven branches participated in the preparation of the videos from which the film was composed.

The power engineers approached the creation of the film as responsibly as possible. This involved all stages without exception: from congratulations and gifts to veterans participating in the project to the selection of the most vivid, piercing front-line letters and works about the war.

So, in the Kostroma branch of the company, part of the filming took place in the city military history museum, where the economist of the business planning department Tatiana Nikonorova read on camera a letter from the sister of the medical battalion Marina Igonkina from just liberated Stalingrad. According to Tatiana, she felt literally every line of this message from the past. And the leading engineer of the automated dispatch control system department Andrey Mozokhin put all his emotions in a few short lines from the letter of captain of the 1st Guards Cavalry Corps Alexander Petrov, who was in 1942 surrounded by Rzhev, to his wife: "We hardly have a chance to survive. Do not cry, my dear. I’m not afraid to die for the Motherland. It’s my duty."

IDGC of Centre’s employees also took an active part in the project. In the part of the film prepared by Orelenergo’s employees, 5-year-old Nastya Kotogarova, the daughter of Ksenia Vetrova, a specialist in the public relations department, and 10-year-old Platon Platonov, the son of the engineer for capital construction Valentina Chusova, sounded the poems of Zinaida Silkina about a little girl, who survived bombing, and Orel’s writer Dmitry Blynsky, who told of his teacher, who was brutally murdered by the fascists. The youngest participant of the project was 1.5-year-old Lisa Moskaleva, the daughter of Smolenskenergo’s property management specialist Ekaterina Naydenova, the great-granddaughter of the war participant Mikhail Fedorov: in the video, the girl draws a postcard and presents it to the veteran. And one of the main characters of the part of the film, prepared by Tambovenergo’s employees, was 6-year-old Rita Shivnova, the daughter of a specialist in investment management of the branch Tatiana Shivnova. The girl drew a monument to the Hero of the Soviet Union Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, installed on one of the central streets of Tambov.

Filming in Kurskenergo ended with a memory action - at the memorial complex "Kursk Bulge", erected in memory of one of the most important battles of the Great Patriotic War, the children of the branch’s employees wrote letters to the great-grandfathers-heroes, they made white cranes and, tying them to balloons, released into the sky.

But, of course, the brightest and most touching part of the video project was the congratulations of veterans and their memories. Nikolay Shevtsov, who strode along the front lines to the Victory and then worked for many years at Belgorodenergo; the former employee of Smolenskenergo, a worker of the rear Mikhail Fedorov; Pavel Ivasiuk, lieutenant colonel of the reserve, who worked for more than 30 years at Bryanskenergo, among whose medals there are medals "For the Defense of Moscow" and "For Victory over Germany"; a veteran of the war and the Tver energy system Nikolay Kashtanov are just a few of those whose stories sound in the picture, filling our hearts with gratitude to those who gave us a peaceful sky over our heads.

The project "I remember, I’m proud" did not leave any of IDGC of Centre’s employees indifferent. And the resultant film became another evidence of the inextricable link between the heroes who defeated fascism and subsequent generations.

"I took part in the project with great pleasure. The military-patriotic subject, the theme of the Fatherland, the Motherland, heroism and courage of our people is very close to me: there is someone and something to be proud of. In the film, I read a poem of my own that I wrote on 27 January 2014, on the anniversary of the complete liberation of Leningrad from the German-fascist blockade," Vladimir Gorlanov, an engineer of relay protection and automation of Tverenergo, said.

"For several hours my mother and I listened to the story of the veteran Nikolay Shevtsov and did not notice at all how the time flew by. He spoke very emotionally, interestingly. Most of all I was surprised by his perseverance. Right on the battlefield, digging trenches, the soldier continued to learn: he always had a textbook with him. I am proud to have met him, I will certainly tell my friends what I learned about the war," said Vlad Bugrov, 6, the son of Artem Bugrov, the head of the capital construction department of Belgorodenergo.

Editing of the film will be completed by 9 May. It can be seen on the official website of IDGC of Centre, as well as in social networks.