On 22 June 2021, a staff member of the Department of Guided Tours Organization of Bolgar Museum-Reserve Glavnova V. N. held a video event on “We remember. We mourn” devoted to the Day of Memory and Mourning – the day when the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 began.
80 years ago, on 22 June 1941 at 4 a.m., without a declaration of war, without any claims to the Soviet Union fascist Germany attacked our country, bombed our cities and airfields. The Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 began. It had cost millions of lives. Tens of thousands of families lost their loved ones. Thousands of people were left disabled forever. In total, about 27 million of our compatriots including soldiers died during all these tragic events.
At the event, visitors of the site learned about the terrible and cruel war. They became acquainted with the history of our country during the Great Patriotic War and knew about the feat of Soviet people in the victory over fascism.

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