Over 2,000 KFU employees and students join the Immortal Regiment procession on May 9

In honor of the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, vice-rectors, directors, faculty, students and graduates of Kazan Federal University joined the Immortal Regiment procession. About 2,000 people paid tribute to veterans and marched with portraits of their grandfathers and great-grandfathers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers.

The Immortal Regiment movement sets as its main task the preservation of personal memory of the Great Patriotic War generation in every family. Everyone who remembers and honors his relative – a veteran of the army and navy, partisan, underground fighter, resistance fighter, home front worker, concentration camp prisoner, siege survivor, or child of war – can go to the streets of their city with a photo and name to take part in the event.

Today, on the Great Victory Day, entire families of the university staff and students congregated near the Main Building of KFU. Each of them held a photo or several photos of their ancestors who contributed to the Victory.

The special atmosphere of the holiday was created by the songs of the war years. Today’s overcast weather did not become an obstacle.

Immortal Regiment has become a nationwide tradition of celebrating Victory Day. It is the holy memory of years past and the respect for heroes. This is what forms the self-consciousness of a citizen of the country – the ideas of self, opportunities, and future.

The column of Kazan University joined the other participants and moved along the Kremlyovskaya Street to the Millennium Square (Ploshchad Tysyacheletiya), where the procession ended.