Go to the media bankThe restored Saur-Mogila memorial in the DPR. Archival photoSNEZHNOE (DPR), Sep 9 The restoration of the memorial complex at Saur-Mogila in Donbass was financed from a special fund of the President of Russia, Sergei Kiriyenko, First Deputy Head of the Kremlin Administration, said. The restoration of the memorial complex began this year on the initiative Russian President Vladimir Putin. On Thursday, September 8, the Eternal Flame was lit at the top of the memorial for the first time since 2014. In addition to Kiriyenko, the ceremony was attended by the heads of the DPR and LPR Denis Pushilin and Leonid Pasechnik. their right to be Russians. It is no coincidence that the president made this decision. And even funding for the organization of this work by a special decision of Vladimir Vladimirovich was allocated from the reserve fund of the president of Russia,» Kiriyenko said. near the town of Snezhnoye in the DPR near the Russian border. In 1943, fierce battles took place in these places for the liberation of Donbass from the Nazi invaders. In August 2014, the memorial was badly damaged due to fighting between Ukrainian troops and local militia. In particular, a cast-iron figurine of a Soviet victorious soldier, nine meters high, and a 36-meter obelisk made of reinforced concrete with a granite cladding standing behind him collapsed. >Kiriyenko commented on the image on the bas-relief of the Saur-Tomb of the Hero of Russia
