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Employees of IDGC of Centre - Kurskenergo division participated in the held in the Kursk region events, dedicated to the Day of Memory and Sorrow - the 74th anniversary of Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union.
Traditionally, on 22 June the main events took place at the Memorial to the fallen in the Great Patriotic War in the city of Kursk. Employees of Kurskenergo, veterans and representatives of the Veterans’ Council and the Youth Council of the branch laid flowers at the Eternal Fire and honoured the memory of fallen soldiers with a moment of silence. The power engineers also took part in commemorative marches that passed in districts of the region.
Shortly before the Day of Memory and Sorrow Kurskenergo held a commemoration event with the participation of students of educational institutions. Nearly 300 students and teachers of high schools and colleges from all over the Kursk region gathered in Kurskenergo to learn about martial exploits of the Kursk power engineers in the Great Patriotic War and about how after the war they reconstructed the ruined power facilities.
"It is our sacred duty to pay tribute to the millions of compatriots who gave their lives for the sake of the Great Victory," stressed Acting Director of Kurskenergo Vyacheslav Istomin. "We are extremely grateful to the soldiers who fell in battles, and those who were approaching the Victory, working in the rear, for what they did for us, for a happy life and a peaceful sky over our head."
Please, be reminded that on the eve of the 70th anniversary of the Victory the power engineers landscaped and put in order more than 120 graves of Soviet soldiers. One of these graves was discovered by workers of of Kurskenergo in the Popovkinskaya Cottage forest in the settlement of Tomilinsky in Dmitrievsky district of the Kursk Region. On funds allocated by the trade union of Kurskenergo an obelisk was erected on the mass grave. And thanks to the conducted search operation by the power engineers it was found that army scouts were buried in the mass grave, who in 1942 were surrounded and fought to the last bullet. The workers of Dmitrievsky Distribution Zone continue to search and hope to identify names of the heroes.