RF ambassador to Armenia participates in ceremony to hand over Flame  of Memory

ArmInfo.  On the eve of the 81st anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War, Russian Ambassador Sergei Kopyrkin took part in the ceremony to hand over the "Flame of  Memory" to Yerevan Secondary School No. 21 of the Russian Ministry of  Defense, organized by the All- Russian Popular Front movement and the  Rossotrudnichestvo office in Armenia.

According to the press service of the Russian Embassy in Armenia, in  his welcoming address, the head of the Russian diplomatic mission  emphasized the importance of preserving the legacy of the great feat  of the Soviet people and the inadmissibility of rewriting the history  of the Great Patriotic War:

"In Armenia, the memory of our shared Victory is sacredly honored and  we remember that 600,000 sons and daughters of the Armenian people  went to the front. Armenian families sheltered children evacuated  from besieged Leningrad. We worked together to rebuild our country  after the war. These heroic deeds, selfless labor, and compassion are  an important part of our shared heroic history, which cannot be  allowed to be distorted or rewritten," the diplomat said.

It is noted that this year marks the tenth time that a particle of  the Eternal Flame from the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in the  Alexander Garden is being transferred to Russian regions and foreign  countries.