54 veterans and home front workers received medals “70 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.”. A ceremony at which awards were presented commemorative, held on 20 February on the eve of the Day of Defender of the Fatherland, in the Tver Academic Drama Theatre. Handed medals Governor Andrew Shevelev.
According to the press service of the government of the Tver region, the start of the campaign award has been given in this day in the Grand Kremlin Palace, where President Vladimir Putin presented commemorative medals to veterans and home front workers from different Russian regions. The ceremony was attended and a resident of Upper – Party Battles of Rzhev Bazilevich Kladkevich.
In the Tver Drama Theater gathered veterans, residents of besieged Leningrad, home front workers, juvenile prisoners of concentration camps, – representatives of the generation that broke the back of Nazi war machine, and returning from the war, rebuild the country from the ruins. Andrew Shevelev stressed the feat of the Soviet people did not know analogs. “No matter how hard today some Western politicians to erase from the minds of their fellow citizens commemorate the decisive contribution of our people to the Great Victory, they will not work. The truth is always on the side of truth, and the truth is that you have accomplished a feat which has no equal in the history of mankind. And you did a great thing, in the words of the author of the famous poem “I killed near Rzhev” Alexander Tvardovsky, “not for glory – for the sake of life on earth”, “- said the head of the region.
The fate of everyone who came to the celebration, forever inscribed in the annals of the golden pages of the country and the Upper Volga.
Full Cavalier of the Order of Glory, a legend Ivan Andreevich Ruleva rushed to the front from the first days of the war, but due aging could get to the front in 1943. By providing them uninterrupted communication was defeated in many battles, services to the country marked by six orders and twenty-five medals.
The Chairman of the Board of war and labor veterans of military glory of the city of Rzhev and the Rzhev district Eugene S. Book courageously fought the Nazis as part of the guerrilla unit in the forests of Belarus, and today continues to fight for the truth about the war, telling the younger generation that went through their forefathers.
Irina Osipova was born a month after the outbreak of war in Leningrad. Her family could not leave the besieged city by the Nazis. Miraculously surviving, the entire siege they remained on the territory of Leningrad.
Galina Golubeva in the first months of the war with his family has been stolen from the Smolensk region in Germany. Child went through the Nazi camp slave labor. Only in 1945 with the arrival of the Soviet Army and relatives she had been released. Seeing a lot of grief and death, Galina chose the profession of medical assistant and for many years worked on an ambulance in Likhoslavl area, saving lives.
Alexei V. Dedkin – of those who, sooner he grew up, stood at the machines on the factory floor, shouldered the brunt of concerns about the harvest. Alexei V. 12 years he worked on the farm in Maksatikhinsky District, agriculture, and he tied the subsequent working career. He was awarded “For Valiant Labor in the Great Patriotic War».
At the end of the ceremony the head of the region said: “I am sure that it will be years, turn of the century, but in your legendary generation will always be equal, children will be checked with your own actions, thoughts and deeds. You have been and will remain a high standard of citizenship, solidarity and great service to the Fatherland. A low bow to you for the feat of courage and heroism! All of us – your children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren – it is important that as much as possible not interrupted a live connection between the present day Russia and your heroic past ».
Awarding residents Upper passed through the war, continue to celebrations in the municipalities of the region. Total for the Tver region produced more than 38,000 commemorative medals “70 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.».
Full list of veterans were awarded commemorative medals at a ceremony in the Tver Drama Theatre on February 20, You can find HERE .
Photo by press-service of the Government of Tver region
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