The Permanent Mission of the Republic of Tatarstan in St. Petersburg and Leningrad oblast holds celebrations to mark the 70th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War and the 71 anniversary of the death of a legendary Tatar poet, Hero of the Soviet Union Musa Jalil. As known, namely in the land of Leningrad fierce battles were going where the poet was captured and began his “way to immortality.”

August 25 a tour for veterans and the Tatar community of St. Petersburg is organized to places of battles of the 2nd Udarny Army, in the footsteps of the poet-hero Musa Jalil “Memory and Glory Road” on the route: St. Petersburg – Tosno – Lisino – Housing – Radofinikovo – St. Petersburg. Participants will lay flowers to the monument-bust of M. Jalil in Tosno and memorials to fallen soldiers in the village. Radofinikovo.

On the same day, at the monument to Musa Jalil (at St. Petersburg, Gavanskaya street , Building 18) a meeting in memory and laying flowerswill be held. Beginning at 10am

The Permanent Mission of the Republic of Tatarstan
In St. Petersburg and the Leningrad oblast