Thirty-two people who
are working at the Novolazarevskaya station will take part in the parade.
MOSCOW, May 8.
/TASS/. The first Immortal Regiment march in Antarctica will take place ahead
of Victory Day at the Novolazarevskaya station of the 63rd Russian Antarctic
Expedition, one of the march organizers, station surgeon Mikhail Vorontsov,
told TASS.
"We’ve been
taking part in the Immortal Regiment in St. Petersburg each year since the
launch of this movement. This time, as Victory Day falls on the wintering, we
thought why not the sixth continent, as long as the Immortal Regiment is
marching across the whole planet? Such events have never been held here before,
and ours will be the first one. The station head, Yury Nezderov, approved our
proposal," Vorontsov said.
The winterers
prepared placards with photos of their relatives who fought in the Great
Patriotic War beforehand. Thirty-two people are working at the Novolazarevskaya
station, and all of them will take part in a short-distance march from the
station’s entrance gates to its unofficial symbol - a large round shield with
the station’s name and a map of the sixth continent on it.
A group of scientists
from India’s Maitri station located nearby will also come to Novolazarevskaya.
Indian and Russian polar scientists will attend a festive dinner and watch
fireworks in the evening.
The Russian Antarctic
Expedition is an ongoing expedition of the Arctic and Antarctic Research
Institute. Five permanent Russian stations are operating on the sixth continent:
Progress, Novolazarevskaya, Vostok, Mirny and Bellingshausen. Winterers spend
about a year in Antarctica, while seasonal groups work there in summer.
The Immortal Regiment
The Immortal Regiment
movement was first launched in Tyumen in 2007 and was initially called
"Victors’ Parade." It acquired its current name in 2012 in Tomsk, and
in 2013 it involved 120 cities. In 2014, residents from about 500 cities in
seven countries crowded streets carrying portraits of their relatives who fought
in World War II (the Great Patriotic War). The movement officially became
nationwide in 2015. According to the Russian Public Opinion Research Center,
96% of Russian citizens - a lot of young people among them - like the idea of
the Immortal Regiment. The Immortal Regiment is taking place in many countries
now.
Source: ITAR-TASS
08-05-2018
