On 27 April 2021, staff members of the Museum of Bulgarian Civilization held an information-knowledge event on “Great war – great victory!” for the students of Bolgar sanatorium-type residential school and of Bolgar comprehensive school №1. The event was devoted to the 76th anniversary of Victory of Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.
The candle in memory of the dead in the Great Patriotic War was lit, and it was burning during the event.
Four long years, 1418 days lasted the bloodiest war in human history. According to declassified information of the State Planning Committee of the USSR, losses of the Soviet Union in the Second World War comprise 41 million 979 thousand people. The total population decline of USSR in 1941-1945 is more than 52 million 812 thousand people. Irrecoverable losses among them because of war factors are more than 19 million soldiers and some 23 million people of civilian population.
Children watched a documentary “900 days of courage” and paid a tribute to the perished by a minute of silence. Kids told how they honor and preserve memory of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, of compatriots who died at the front and of war veterans. Schoolchildren actively participated in a quiz indicating their knowledge of historical data about the war. All participants of the meeting received the ribbons of St. George.

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