Pamyat Searching Group Participated in the Military Historical Festival "Sky Front - 2019" in Karachay-Cherkessia


Pamyat Searching Group Participated in the Military Historical Festival "Sky Front - 2019" in Karachay-CherkessiaPamyat (Memory), the searching group of Yakovlev Chuvash State Pedagogical University, went to the Zelenchuksky district of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic. The military and historical festival "Sky Front - 2019" is held in the Arkhyz Gorge from July 25 to August 20. The festival is dedicated to the memory of the Red Army soldiers, who died in the battles for the liberation of the Caucasus.
More than 200 people from 20 regions of the Russian Federation, as well as Ukraine, the Republic of Belarus, Germany and the Czech Republic will take part in the project. The project includes a number of activities for finding and perpetuating the memory of the soldiers killed in the battles for the Caucasus in 1942. At the first stage, it is planned to conduct some exploratory work in the area of snow and ice fields of the Marukh Glacier and the Sanchar Passes (about 3000 m above the sea level), as well as in the vicinity of the village of Khurzuk. At the second stage, one of the episodes of the battle for the Caucasus will be reconstructed near the village of Arkhyz. At the end of the festival, a group of participants who have undergone specialized training will go along the route of the rangers of German divisions to Elbrus across the Khotutau Pass. Then they climbed Elbrus carrying the imitated Victory Banner.

On their way the group visited visited Mamayev Kurgan (Mamay's burial mound), Pavlov’s House and Gerhardt Mill in Volgograd.

August 5, 2019
Photos from the archive of Pamyat