Upon the arrival of festivity of the 70th commemoration of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 a phenomenal activity "Everlasting Regiment" was held in Russia.
The eternal regiment blended up a rush of memory about the legends of the Great Patriotic War: the veterans of the armed force and naval force, the specialists of the back and partisans, detainees of the rightist camps, barricades, protection contenders ... About each one of the individuals who made their own commitment to the normal reason for Victory over autocracy.
Individual memory is the most essential importance of the Immortal Regiment.
How the Immortal Regiment began
The historical backdrop of the Immortal Regiment started in 2007.
On the eve of May 9, a surprising dream jumped out at Gennady Ivanov, director of the Council of Veterans of the Police Battalion in the Tyumen Region.
He saw his comrades going with pictures of war veterans on one of the squares of the city.
Note "Family collection on the parade", distributed in the "Tyumen News" on May 8, 2007, talked about this activity, at that point still anonymous.
Furthermore, on Victory Day Gennady Kirillovich took a photograph of his dad and alongside companions who bolstered his motivation, conveyed it along the primary road of Tyumen.
The next year, an extensive segment turned out with photos of the bleeding edge fighters, the activity was known as the "Triumph Parade".
After two years, such parades were held in excess of 20 locales of our nation.
In Moscow, in 2010 and 2011 on Poklonnaya Hill held an activity "Saints of Victory - our incredible granddads, granddads!", Which turned out with pictures of their granddads and awesome granddads, Moscow schoolchildren alongside their folks.
Lastly, in 2012 in Tomsk, as well, were held with pictures of troopers. At that point the activity got its present name "Undying Regiment".
In 2013, Nikolai Zemtsov, together with the People's Artist of the USSR Vasily Lanov, out of the blue directed the parade of the Immortal Regiment in Moscow on Poklonnaya Hill, which was gone to by around a thousand people.
In 2014, there were at that point in excess of 40 thousand members.
In 2015, the RPO "Everlasting Regiment - Moscow", the All-Russian People's Front and the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation engaged the president requesting the entry of the Immortal Regiment through Red Square.
Thus on May 9 in Moscow, 500,000 individuals went to the parade of the Immortal Regiment and among them - President Vladimir Putin with a picture of his dad, a cutting edge fighter.
Everybody had a feeling of the nation as one family.
So full and profound the significance and loftiness of the Victory Day have not been uncovered yet .
Everlasting regiment was held in Tyumen, St. Petersburg, Kaliningrad, Vladimir, Grozny, Vladivostok, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Stavropol, Sevastopol - 1,200 urban communities, 12 million of our comrades.
