Ceremony of giving military honors to the hero of the Great Patriotic War was held in Chisinau

Ceremony of rendering military honors to WWII hero Alexei Polyakov in ChisinauCHISINAU, Aug 27 At the military cemetery Memorial complex «Eternity» in Chisinau on Saturday held a ceremony of rendering military and Orthodox honors to the hero of the Great Patriotic War, the Red Army soldier Alexei Polyakov, who died on the Sherpen bridgehead in August 1944, said the chairman of the National Committee «Victory», head of the search movement Alexei Petrovich. The remains of the hero were discovered by Moldovan search engines in February of this year.In Belarus, the project «Without a statute of limitations» helped to find new burial places «Before being sent for burial to their homeland, in the Voronezh region, dozens of residents of Chisinau, parliament deputies, representatives of the diplomatic corps of Russia and Belarus came to say goodbye to the hero-liberator,» Petrovich wrote in his Telegram channel «Soldier of Victory». The head of the search movement noted that military honors were given to the hero by veterans from the Union of Officers of Moldova and the Union of Veterans of the War in Afghanistan. Orthodox honors were paid by the cathedral of military priests under the leadership of Archimandrite Nikolai. «The remains of the Red Army soldier Polyakov were handed over to the embassy of the Russian Federation in Moldova for subsequent delivery to their homeland,» Petrovich emphasized. Earlier, in an interview with a RIA Novosti correspondent, the chairman of the National Committee «Victory» said that in this the remains of 19 Soviet soldiers were reburied with full honors. On the eve of May 9, with the support of the Russian embassy, ​​the remains of the senior sergeant of the Red Army Valentina Yercheva, who died in 1944 near the village of Raskaets in the Stefan Voda district, were transferred to the Tula region. — Order of the Patriotic War, I degree, by which it was possible to establish the name of the soldier — commander of a rifle platoon of the 1145th rifle regiment of the 353rd rifle division, junior lieutenant Fyodor Nikitovich Sotvorenny, born in 1915, a native of the Mogilev region of Belarus. Remains of Soviet soldiers from 22 graves will be transferred to Estonia