Timed to coincide with Victory Day, the action "Immortal Regiment" turned out to be a larger-scale event than opponents of the unity of the Russian people would like: half a million people marched through the streets of Moscow with photographs of their front-line relatives. And even more than that - the participation in the procession of President Vladimir Putin, who led the column of demonstrators, has become a powerful symbolic act, emphasizing to the maximum the idea of ​​patriotic unification of Russians.

It is not surprising that harsh and planned criticism followed - photographs of discarded posters with photographs of front-line soldiers began to surface on social networks, which, according to nameless rumors, were carried by people "driven" to Moscow for extras. For many, a photo of a trash can full of St. George ribbons turned out to be enough, and such details as the time and place of shooting, its author did not become key to assessing credibility.

The head of the regional patriotic public organization "Immortal Regiment - Moscow", one of the organizers of the event, Nikolai Zemtsov, told the journalists of the Vzglyad publication that the country needs such actions now, they allow you to feel like one big family, regardless of where you live. According to Zemtsov, the large number of participants, which exceeded expectations, only confirmed that people need such events.

The "Immortal Regiment" began to grow with volunteers, and the army has already taken to the streets of our cities. This is reality. With its power and beauty, the regiment gathers the friends of Russia. And the enemies tremble: such a union of Russians is terrible for those who would like fragmentation, vicious attacks on each other by different parts of society. And here is such a disappointment for them: we showed that we are one family, and the president stood at the head of us, who showed that he is the same person as everyone else, spoke about the connection of his simple dad-soldier with the country. We were all in the same formation that day,” Nikolai Zemtsov noted.

As for negative stuffing, Zemtsov noted that any good deed is accompanied by a wave of negativity. According to him, the photographs were taken rather clumsily and are designed only for a cursory glance.

« But they cooked up everything so badly: for example, cut St. George ribbons in a trash can - I have never seen anything like this. The same goes for the discarded posters. Look at the photos of our procession: there is a sea of ​​various banners, there are rarely the same ones. And in those photos there are some identical structures thrown into a heap ... Just look at the faces of the participants. Everyone is smiling, laughing, there is an emotional upsurge. How can a person then take and throw something away? Zemtsov says.

Meanwhile, it became known that the Immortal Regiment movement had already applied to the Prosecutor General's Office. The chairman of the council of the movement, Sergei Lapenkov, sent an appeal to the Prosecutor General's Office and the Moscow Prosecutor's Office - he asks for a legal assessment of the pictures posted on the Internet, which show discarded posters depicting veterans of the Great Patriotic War.

“We consider such actions offensive to veterans. In addition, there is reason to believe that these actions fall under the article “Public insult to the symbols of military glory of Russia” of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, since there is a St. George ribbon on the posters, ”Lapenkov explained to reporters.

The photo shows the first "Immortal Regiment" in our city. 2014

Every year, memories of that war go down in history, fewer and fewer veterans remain in the stands.

Every family has its Heroes. These are our fathers, grandfathers and grandmothers - all who defeated fascism in the Great Patriotic War. Someone went through the whole war, someone died in its first days, someone has more awards, someone has less. But the memory of the years scorched by the war is stored in every family, in the stories of relatives and friends, in letters from the front kept in the house, in military photographs.

"Immortal Regiment"- an action designed to preserve the memory of the Great Patriotic War, of everyone who, not sparing his life, fought for the liberation of the Motherland.

The Immortal Regiment is a tribute to the heroes of the Great Patriotic War who fell on the battlefields, who died from the bombing in besieged cities and villages. This is the memory of women and children who were burned alive in concentration camps or during punitive operations.
The Immortal Regiment is a reminder to current generations of the fate of the inhabitants of besieged Leningrad, the defenders of the Brest Fortress, Moscow, Stalingrad and Kursk, Voronezh and Orel, Belgorod and Sevastopol, Murmansk and Koenigsberg.

The immortal regiment is a memory of the liberators of our native land with you

The Immortal Regiment is a regiment of living, people's memory.

An immortal regiment is the least that each of us can do so that a bright memory lives on our parents, their brothers and sisters, relatives, friends and fellow soldiers. The warriors and defenders of the Russian land who defeated fascism will forever remain in the ranks of the Immortal Regiment.

The symbol of the project is a white crane, as a sign that those who died during the war and left already in peacetime remain in our hearts from generation to generation.
Eternal glory to the heroes of the Great Patriotic War.

Task: to carry on Victory Day a photograph of a veteran of the Great Patriotic War who will never again be able to participate in the parade on Victory Day. It does not matter whether the warrior died on the battlefields or passed away after the Victory

Every citizen can join the ranks of the regiment, regardless of religion, nationality, political and other views. "Immortal Regiment" - unites people.

The action itself is held on May 9, Victory Day. Participants of the action can take part in the formation of the column of the "Immortal Regiment" by making a pillar with a photograph of a soldier of the Great Patriotic War. A pavement sign is an enlarged, scanned photograph fixed on thick cardboard or PVC, laminated, attached to a holder.

Yesterday I brought my parents - front-line soldiers to the website of the Immortal Regiment of our city. I ordered pillars with their photos.

Are you ready to take part in the Immortal Regiment campaign?

On the 71st anniversary of Victory Day in Moscow, in addition to the parade, the all-Russian action "Immortal Regiment" was held, in which Russian President Vladimir Putin unexpectedly took part, having walked part of the way along with everyone else. The head of state stressed that the idea of ​​the march was born “not in offices, but in hearts” and should not become an official event. Vladimir Putin again took part in the Immortal Regiment action: joining the procession when the columns entered Red Square. In his hand he had the same portrait of his father as a year ago, writes "Moscow's comsomolets". A few days before the holiday, Putin said that the action, the idea of ​​which was born “not in the offices, but in the hearts,” should by no means become an official event. Therefore, his participation in the procession was not planned in advance. The head of state promised to go to Red Square if the working schedule allows. And it turns out that he kept his promise, especially since the schedule was not as busy as in the anniversary year (). The President has repeatedly said that this action was not some kind of administrative idea, reports "Russian newspaper". “However, if this movement develops and becomes traditional, we will support it with all the means at our disposal. We have the right to be proud of what was done by our ancestors and our country,” Vladimir Putin said. “Until the last fellow soldier walks along the cobblestones of Red Square, the procession will not end,” said Nikolai Zemtsov, coordinator of the Immortal Regiment of Russia action. People often came with their whole families, the children went in the form of front-line years, sometimes just in military caps. Among the participants were many elderly people and, of course, veterans. Someone walked with portraits of their relatives, someone - with pictures of fellow soldiers, colleagues, who did not live to see Victory Day. According to the organizers of the action, a much larger number of people took part in it than last year, when the Immortal Regiment gathered about 500,000 people. Long before the end of the procession, the press center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia reported that more than half a million people passed in the convoy, later raising the estimate to 650 thousand (). The President passed, like a year ago, Red Square and returned to the Kremlin through the Spasskaya Tower. And people walked with photos for several more hours. Indeed, there were more of them than a year ago, Kommersant notes. And no supernatural organizational efforts could force them all to come here ().

I consider the Immortal Regiment to be the best action in memory of the war. This is exactly what can unite people of any generation, political views or religious preferences. And, what is especially important, anyone can take part in this action, there is no elitism of traditional parades here. Today, 750,000 people came out to the procession in Moscow, this is a record for all the years of the action's existence.

The Immortal Regiment campaign was invented in 2012 by journalists from the Tomsk Media Group. Only 6,000 people took part in the very first procession, but since then the event has become nationwide. Over the past few years, the TV-2 channel, which organized the first action, was closed for excessive opposition, and the Immortal Regiment itself (now under the supervision of the state) has become one of the main events of Victory Day.

Last year, in addition to Russia, the action took place in 44 other countries of the world. A year later, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan refused to hold the action, citing the "difficult political situation" and the traditions of Islam, but it did not stop being mass (and the action was nevertheless held in Tashkent, despite the ban by the authorities). And in 2016, the search center of the Immortal Regiment began to work, which helps the relatives of the missing to restore the fate of their loved ones.

01. In Moscow, people lined up on Tverskaya a few hours before the start of the action. To avoid a crush, the police divided the crowd into groups and did not allow everyone to pass at once.

02. Red Square was tightly cordoned off. There were many police officers, riot police and volunteers. Snipers are visible on the roof of the Historical Museum and on the right on the Kremlin wall. Security was at the highest level due to the fact that Putin again took part in the action.

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04. Volunteers distributed water.

05. Everyone was fed free buckwheat porridge and poured hot tea.

06. Other volunteers specialized in distributing stickers and other paraphernalia.

07. Among the people there were traders who tried to sell flags and other symbols at exorbitant prices. Someone even tried to sell St. George ribbons, for which he was almost beaten, but escaped in time.

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09. A variety of people came to the rally. Someone carried portraits of Stalin.

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The main task of the Immortal Regiment is to preserve the memory of the soldiers of the Great Patriotic War in every Russian family. Participation in the Immortal Regiment implies that everyone who remembers and honors his veteran of the army and navy, partisan, underground worker, Resistance fighter, home front worker, prisoner of a concentration camp, on May 9 takes to the streets of the city with a photograph of a soldier to take part in the parade in the column of the Immortal regiment, or independently pay tribute to the memory by bringing a photograph to the Eternal Flame or another memorable place. Our ultimate goal is to turn the Immortal Regiment into a national tradition of celebrating May 9 Victory Day.

1. What do you need to do to participate in the May 9th Parade as part of the Immortal Regiment?

First you need to search your home archives or third-party sources for the name of your soldier, military rank and some other data. Then try to register it on the website of the Immortal Regiment. The most important and main step in participating in the action is the production of a pillar with a portrait and data of a soldier and turnout for the beginning of the Parade on May 9 in our city.

2. Help me find information about my grandfather - a war veteran, is there no data left in the family?

We are not engaged in search work, but we can suggest from which open sources you can get data about your relative who participated in the Great Patriotic War.

The most complete information is contained in the "Find a soldier" section. At the bottom of the page is a presentation that you can download. It contains information on how and where to search.

There are two sites prepared according to the databases of the Ministry of Defense. There is nothing better than them in the public domain. Mistakes are, of course, possible. Sites are valuable because they contain scanned copies of documents.

5. Can I enroll not my grandfather, but my grandmother, who fought in the Immortal Regiment? Of course! Not only possible, but necessary. As well as father, great-grandfather and other front-line relatives. 6. In which regiment to enroll grandfather, if he was called up from a city where there is no "Immortal Regiment"? You can enroll a front-line soldier in the regiment of your city, or, if he is not in your city, in the section 'Russian Federation, Russia'.

7. maybepassing in the ranks without registering a grandfather on the site? Of course, take a photo or a pillar and come to the formation.

8. Where to dopavement signwith a portrait for the Immortal Regiment? To find out the addresses of partner salons, you need to contact the organizer in your city. The coordinates of the organizers can be found on the website moypolk.ru under the heading "Regiment Headquarters". 9. Can I join the Immortal Regiment just with a photo? If you do it yourselfpavement signwhat size should it be?

People should see the faces of the soldiers of the Great Patriotic War. If you carry a photograph, few will see it. Especially in a column. Therefore, we strongly recommend that you come to the “Immortal Regiment” column with a photo on pavement signs (sticks). Make them yourself or order at the ordering points. You can come with a photo, but it is better to enlarge it. The recommended size is approximately A4 format (20x30 cm). In case of bad weather, it is better to roll up in a laminate.

10. Whatdo if you do not have a photo of your front-line soldier? If there are no photos of a front-line soldier in your photo album, you can make a pillar on which the FIRST NAME, LAST NAME, PATRONY FAMILY and military rank will be written. With this pavement sign, you can also join the ranks of the Immortal Regiment.

11. Where and when will the building be in my city? Do I need to register in advance? You do not need to sign up in advance, just come with a portrait of a front-line soldier to the formation. The organizers inform the media of your city in advance about the place and time, and it will also be posted on the moypolk.ru website. If you did not find this information, please contact the organizers in your city.