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Baltic Fleet honored memory of WW2 victims

Baltic Fleet honored memory of WW2 victims 23.06.2011
Text: Baltic Fleet Information Support Group
Photo: Wreath laying. Baltic Fleet Information Support Group
A memorable activity associated with 70th anniversary of the Great Patriotic War took place on June 22 in Kaliningrad at 1200 Guardsmen Memorial, Baltic Fleet Information Support Group.

Early morning representatives of Baltic Fleet command, Kaliningrad regional government, and WW2 veterans light candles at the memorial and kept one minute's silence in remembrance of the Motherland's defenders killed in action. Citizens of Kaliningrad light Candles of Memory in their homes.

Memorial activities of the Remembrance Day continued at 9 am at the monument to Marshal A.M. Vasilevsky with a wreath-laying ceremony.

Baltic Fleet staff officers, veterans of the Great Patriotic War, city officials and locals paid tribute to the WW2 heroes at 1200 Guardsmen Memorial.

Solemn meetings were held in BF units in that day. Servicemen laid wreaths and flowers on monuments and communal graves at basing sites of all military units.

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