Heroes of the Great Patriotic War are remembered in Nizhnevartovsk

100 people from the village of Nizhnevartovskoye went to war and only 17 of them returned home. All in all, on the plates of the memorial complex, which was restored last year for the 75th anniversary of the Victory, there are more than 550 names of the victims. Commemorative events began here the day before, when the traditional ritual of laying flowers took place.
"Victory Day is indeed great glory, great pride, but also great sorrow for our entire country. We lost more than 27 million in the Great Patriotic War. These are not numbers, these are lives, destinies. It is in our power to preserve the memory of these people," she noted. municipality administration.