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Back to newsOn June 22, the Day of Memory and Sorrow, employees of OJSC Severneftegazprom took part in laying flowers at the Eternal Flame at the monument of three wars.
The annual city action «Memory Watch» began at 10.00 local time. It was attended by representatives of city enterprises and organizations, public associations, veterans and home front workers, employees of the City Administration, deputies of the City Duma, schoolchildren and pupils of kindergartens. They honored the memory of the fallen during the Great Patriotic War with a minute of silence. A guard of honor was posted at the obelisk to the fallen soldiers. The head of the city of Novy Urengoy Andrey Voronov, the representative of the Governor of the YaNAO Natalya Ryabchenko and the chairman of the city Council of WWII veterans Anatoly Aleshkin addressed the audience. Then the laying of flowers took place.
On this day in the summer of 1941, the most bloody and terrible war in the history of our country began. The offensive of the Nazis, which began at 4.00 am, took place in three directions - to Moscow, Leningrad and Kyiv. This day was the longest for many soldiers and commanders of the Red Army, who were taken by surprise in the border districts in the early morning by explosions of shells and bombs in barracks and field camps.
Having taken part in the action, the staff of OJSC Severneftegazprom expressed their involvement in the universal memory of the great feat of the Soviet people.