The solemn meeting dated for the 82nd anniversary of a feat, took place at a memorial to 11 heroes sappers on the 114th kilometer of Volokolamskoye Highway

More than three hundred people gathered for solemn meeting with participation of representatives of authorities, the Moscow City Council, the military personnel and veterans of engineering armies, yunarmeyets and cadets. People gathered near the monument "Explosion" symbolizing a brave and self-sacrificing feat of soldiers sappers of a "panfilovsky" division to honor memory of heroes of the Fatherland and to attach younger generation to history. On November 18, 1941 at Strokovo's village of 11 sappers of the 1077th shooting regiment of the 316th "panfilovsky" division under command of the second lieutenant Firstov Petr and the junior political leader Pavlov Aleksey...