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The work was carried out in several regions of the operational responsibility of the companies (operating in 20 constituent entities of the Russian Federation) as part of the project “Power Engineers - to Great Victory”. In total, 43 energy facilities were designed within the framework of this memorial event.
So, for example, in the Belgorod region five transformer substations were festively decorated. Four of them are located on the territory of the Museum-Reserve “The Field of Prokhorovka”. Two substations that provide power to the museum facilities on the main square and near the new museum of home front workers have printed drawings in the style of the Soviet poster “We won the happiness of our children” and “Glory to the victorious soldier!”. The image at the power facility in the area of the main monument of the complex, the Belfry, recalls both the first, bitter days of the outbreak of the war and the victorious triumph of May 1945. The fourth object is dedicated to the commander of the Voronezh Front, Colonel General Nikolay Vatutin. On the walls of the fifth substation, located on the border of the Belgorodsky and Shebekinsky districts of the region, there is the illustrious sniper, Hero of the Soviet Union, guard foreman Nikolay Ilyin, who personally exterminated 459 German soldiers and officers, who was buried in these places. All drawings were made by Belgorod artists Pavel Larichev and Eduard Kurbasov.
The Nizhnovenergo branch, together with the regional branch of the All-Russian public movement “Victory Volunteers”, is implementing the “Victory Image” project. As part of it, at 11 transformer substations located in the courtyards of Nizhny Novgorod, portraits of war veterans living here are painted. Another five transformer substations have images depicting Victory and dedicated to conferring the title “City of Labor Valour” to Nizhny Novgorod. In total, by 9 May, 20 energy facilities will be festively decorated in the capital of the Nizhny Novgorod region.
Graffiti-themed art objects appeared at feeding centres in the Udmurt Republic. The image at the transformer substation located on Gogol Boulevard in Izhevsk is based on a plot dedicated to the fighters of the 174th separate Fighter and Antitank Red Star Order of the Komsomol of Udmurtia Division. It was formed in September 1942 at the initiative of the Komsomol members of the Votkinsk plant, which produced anti-tank guns during the war. The place for placing graffiti was not chosen by chance: it was on Gogol Boulevard (then Sovetskaya Street) that the artillery battalion was solemnly shown off to the front. Another art object dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the Great Victory appeared in the Hospital Park of Votkinsk, where an exhibition of military equipment will be held.
In Voronezh, on the eve of 9 May, 110 kV substation No. 6 was decorated. A painting with an area of almost 30 square metres depicts a soldier with a child in his arms against the backdrop of a battle going on in the distance. According to the authors, the creation of this artistic image was inspired by the monument to the Warrior-Liberator in Treptower Park in Berlin. Graffiti work was completed in three days, despite adverse weather conditions.
On the eve of 9 May, employees of Kirovenergo implemented the project “Our compatriots are heroes of the Great Patriotic War”. As part of it, the wall of the 35 kV “Beregovaya” substation in the park named after Gagarin of Kirov was decorated with graffiti with portraits of four marshals of the Soviet Union: Ivan Konev, Leonid Govorov, Konstantin Vershinin and Sergey Sokolov, as well as rank-and-file intelligence officer Grigory Bulatov, who was among the first to hoist the Red Banner on the facade of the Reichstag on 30 April 1945. The power engineers landscaped the area around the facility and set up additional lighting.
The decoration of one of the main streets of Kostroma - Ivan Susanin - was a transformer substation, which, with the efforts of Kostromaenergo’s power engineers, turned into a large holiday banner, which depicts a Soviet tank and the first degree Order of the Patriotic War against a peaceful blue sky. The authors of the idea were members of the Kostroma branch of the “League of Good” volunteer organization.
“Rosseti Centre and Rosseti Centre and Volga Region hold large-scale events in preparation for the anniversary of the Great Victory in 20 regions of the country. This is how we express our deep respect and gratitude to the veterans. The graffiti project continues and expands our tradition of using electric grid facilities for cultural, aesthetic and educational purposes. With it, we want to perpetuate the feat of our people, the names of heroes and the memory of the events of the Great Patriotic War,” stressed Igor Makovskiy, General Director of Rosseti Centre - the managing organization of Rosseti Centre and Volga Region.
Similar projects were implemented by the power engineers of Rosseti Centre and Rosseti Centre and Volga Region in the Yaroslavl, Lipetsk, Kursk, Kaluga and Vladimir regions.
