On the action "Immortal regiment" in the hero-city of Brest in Belarus were about 1, 5 thousand People, said the press center of the action in Tomsk.
"This year, the examination coordinator, the Campaign has collected about 1, 5 thousand people, which included not only the inhabitants of Brest, but Bobruisk, Grodno, capital of Russia, as well as guests from Germany and Israel," - said the press center, BelTA news Agency.
As said campaign coordinator Peter Picco, the townspeople were warmly greeted column " Shelf ". Participants with portraits of soldiers marched from Lenin square to the Brest fortress, where they held a solemn meeting. Before the action "Immortal regiment" were held in the far East and Siberia, and similarly in Grozny and St. Petersburg. The number of participants in events at home, in Tomsk, the expertise of the organizers, was a record - about 30 thousand People. Also, the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin with the portrait of his father, who defended his Homeland from the Nazis, stood at the head of the procession "Immortal Regiment" in red square in the Russian capital. Only shares in the capital was attended by more than 300 thousand People. The action "Immortal regiment" was held in Tomsk in 2012. A year later she was engulfed 120 cities in 2014 - five cities in seven countries. In the past year with portraits of fathers, grandfathers and great grandfathers have passed more than half a million people. In 2015, the Event officially became the Russian. By results of examination coordinators, it will involve more than a million people in the world. To hold the "Immortal regiment" In the current year is expected to be more than a thousand settlements. In addition to Russia, the action will take part South Korea, Austria, Belarus, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Mongolia, Norway, Ukraine, USA, Estonia.

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