Motor Boat Cruise to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Victory scheduled for Tatarstan veterans of Great Patriotic War

On May 13, at a briefing at Tatarstan Cabinet of Ministers, Tatarstan Deputy Minister of Labour, Employment and Social Protection Azat Gabdulkhatov said that a motor boat cruise from Kazan to Saint-Petersburg to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Victory is scheduled for veterans of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 from May 21 to June 3.

According to Azat Gabdulkhatov, 80 veterans of the Great Patriotic War, who participated in the liberation of Leningrad, and 60 cadets from Kazan Suvorov Military School will take part in this trip.

Speaking at the briefing, Tatarstan Deputy Minister of Culture Guzel Nigmatullina said that more than 2 thousand cultural and leisure facilities of Tatarstan were actively involved in organisation of events dated to the 69th anniversary of the Great Victory. In particular, Kamal Tatar State Academic Theatre organized charity performances for war veterans, their widows and home front workers, she continued.

A number of socially important events were also held in the municipal regions of the republic.

Tatarstan Deputy Minister of Education and Science Svetlana Giniatullina said at the briefing that Tatarstan Ministry of Education and Science together with Tatmedia will launch a new project dedicated to the Great Victory in Tatarstan in September this year. A series of programmes “The Cost of the Victory” will be broadcast on TNV television channel in the Russian and Tatar languages.

"The project is aimed to inform the younger generation about the heroic deeds of our people and the cost of the victory," she said.

Svetlana Giniatullina said that about 900 patriotic and ethnographic museums are open at Tatarstan schools. There are 56 school search teams involving over 800 students in 19 municipalities of the republic.

According to the speaker, the Timur movement remains one of the most effective means to raise the younger generation.