On January 27, in the territory of the Volgograd Memorial in Tashkent, a commemorative action was held, dedicated to the 77th anniversary of the complete liberation of Leningrad from the Nazi siege. The action was organised by the Embassy of the Russian Federation in the Republic of Uzbekistan and the Representative Office of Rossotrudnichestvo in the Republic of Uzbekistan.
The event was attended by Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Republic of Uzbekistan Vladimir Tyurdenev, defence attaché of the Russian Embassy in Uzbekistan Aleksandr Zemzerov, Head of the Rossotrudnichestvo Office in Uzbekistan Mikhail Vozhdaev, diplomats of the Russian Embassy in Uzbekistan, Representative Office of Tatarstan in Uzbekistan, chairmen and activists of the Russian, Tatar, Bashkir, and Crimean Tatar cultural centres, residents of the besieged Leningrad, the public, and the media.
The procession of the ceremonial guard marked the beginning of a commemorative action, during which a flower-laying ceremony took place at the Eternal Flame and at the burial place of a capsule with earth and ashes of Uzbek soldiers brought from the Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery of St. Petersburg.
Within the event, Russian Ambassador to Uzbekistan Vladimir Tyurdenev presented commemorative medals of 75 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 to distinguished persons for their active participation in patriotic education of citizens and solving social and economic problems of WWII veterans.