Tatarstan Prime Minister Ildar Khalikov lays flowers at Arsk cemetery

A solemn flower-laying ceremony was held today at Arsk cemetery. Tatarstan Prime Minister Ildar Khalikov, Chief of Staff to the President of the Republic of Tatarstan Yury Kamaltynov, Deputy Prime Minister - Chief of Staff of Tatarstan Cabinet of Ministers Shamil Gafarov, Deputy Chief of Staff to the President of the Republic of Tatarstan – Head of Department for Internal Policies of the President of the Republic of Tatarstan Aleksandr Terentiev, Head of Kazan Executive Committee Aleksey Pesoshin, veterans of Great Patriotic War, two heroes of the Soviet Union Sabir Akhtyamov and Boris Kuznetsov took part in the ceremony.

Participants of the event honoured the memory of the fallen. Members of Tatarstan Government and veterans laid flowers to monuments of the fallen soldiers, Hero of the Soviet Union, honoured citizen of Kazan, legendary pilot Mikhail Devyataev, and former Chairman of Executive Committee of Kazan City Council of People's Deputies, war veteran Aleksandr Bondarenko.