An
event was held during the international RUSSIA EXPO on Energy Day to present
the project ‘Protecting the Victory Flame’ as part of the 80th
anniversary of the complete liberation of Leningrad from the Nazi blockade.
The
project ‘Protecting the Victory Flame’ brings together memorials with Eternal
Flames and Flames of Memory throughout Russia. There are currently 1,637 of
them online on the project’s interactive map. Each year, there has been an
increase in the number of Eternal Flames and Flames of Memory connected to
natural gas grids as part of the gasification of the country’s regions. In 2023
alone, 14 new Eternal Flames were lit, and 19 memorials switched from
intermittent to permanent lighting.
The
event also included a video broadcast from the lighting ceremony of the first
new Eternal Flame in 2024. “The project ‘Protecting the Victory Flame’ is a
tribute to the memory of those heroic years and fallen compatriots. Today, the
first new Eternal Flame of this year will be lit at a memorial in the village
of Bolshaya Neklinovka in the Rostov Region. I congratulate all Russians on the
80th anniversary of the complete liberation of Leningrad from the
Nazi blockade,” Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said.
In
addition, the participants in the Bolshaya Neklinovka ceremony were greeted via
video conference by Gazprom Mezhregiongaz General Director Sergey Gustov and
Rostov Region Governor Vasily Golubev.
Energy Day
was organized by the Russian government, the Ministry of Energy, and the Russia
Directorate of the Exhibition of Achievements. The event was managed by the
Roscongress Foundation.
