Russia celebrates the Day of the Unknown Soldier
In Russia, a new memorable date which is celebrated on 3 December - the Day of the Unknown Soldier. On this day the people of Russia will pay tribute to all those who had been killed on the fronts and whose names and failed to install.

In Russia, a new memorable date which is celebrated on 3 December - the Day of the Unknown Soldier. On this day the people of Russia will pay tribute to all those who had been killed on the fronts and whose names and failed to install.
Russia marks a new memorable date - the Day of the Unknown Soldier. Directly on 3 December 1966 in commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the defeat of the German armies near Moscow remains of the Unknown Soldier was transferred from the mass grave at the 41st km of the Leningrad highway and solemnly buried in the Alexander garden.
From year to year the terrible events of the great Patriotic war are becoming further and further, but the search and identification of the dead on the fields of labour remain important in the Russian Federation. The Ministry of defence routinely conducts similar events. Experts want to install unknown and missing defenders of the Fatherland in the process of specialized research expeditions, research, archival documents and provide public access to archives, including those posted on the electronic resources, reports the press service of the Ministry reported.
Only for the year of 2014 unit of the Ministry of defence in cooperation with the social organization of the Search traffic of the Russian Federation" noticed about 14 thousand remains of Russian officers, soldiers and sailors and established names about a thousand killed. Search and perpetuate the memory of those killed in the defense of the Fatherland will continue in 2015.
Every year 10s thousand inhabitants of our planet with the aid of a generalized electronic infobase "memorial", which was created with the participation of the Ministry of defense, find information about relatives and friends, a relationship which ended in the great Patriotic war. For 5 years in consequence of the unique scale, technology and deadlines of the project was processed more than 19 million pages of archival documents, introduced more than 39 million records about individuals, refined over 42 thousand passports of military graves, installed the fate of about 800 thousand military, was considered to be missing.
Earlier Days.Roo was notified that the President has signed the law establishing in Russia a new memorable date. In this regard, the head of the Search engine traffic of Russia Elena Zuyeva reported that the creation of a similar celebration is extremely correct step. "The fact that the state appears this day, is for us a sign that the government understands the feat all the defenders of the Fatherland, and a sign that our work is not in vain, and these unknown soldiers also died not in vain. Very pleased that we were heard: children from search groups have raised this issue at the meeting with Sergei Ivanov at the children's center "Ocean". And extremely pleased that such a rapid reaction followed. In the current quarter, near the 3rd of December is not only the Day of the search units, but will be celebrated at the level of the whole country", - she said.