The action “Immortal regiment” was attended by 12 million Russians – Ekho Moskvy radio station

This assessment gives the organizers. The head of the regional public patriotic movement Nikolai Zemtsov said that the column passed 1,200 cities. In Moscow on the street it was about half a million people with portraits of their relatives – the Great Patriotic War. In addition, the campaign was conducted and abroad.

On Tverskaya and Red Square together with other participants, and was the capital’s mayor Sergei Sobyanin.

Movement “Immortal regiment” was created in 2012 Tomsk journalists of local TV-2, which is now off the air. The purpose of the action – to save every family memory of the relatives, veterans of the Great Patriotic War.