miners of SUEK-Krasnoyarsk celebrated Victory Day / Society news of Krasnoyarsk and the Krasnoyarsk Territory / Newslab.Ru

On the eve of the 81st anniversary of the Great Victory, employees of the branches of JSC SUEK-Krasnoyarsk took part in dozens of commemorative events.

This holiday for coal miners is one of the most important of the year: behind every tradition there is a deep personal meaning, and the memory of the heroes lives in the hearts and is passed on from generation to generation, they say in SUEK-Krasnoyarsk.

On the eve of the holiday, the miners congratulated the veterans. The manager of the Nazarovsky open-pit mine, Viktor Gubanov, and activists of the enterprise visited Dmitry Danilovich Abramov, a participant in the Great Patriotic War. At the age of 18, he went to the front, went through Hungary and Czechoslovakia, met Victory in Austria in the Alps, and after the war he devoted himself to mining work, becoming one of the outstanding directors of the enterprise.

“It is very important for us to come in person, say words of gratitude and once again bow to the person thanks to whom we live, work and raise children under a peaceful sky today,” noted Viktor Gubanov.

At the Borodino Mechanical Repair Plant (a branch of ESC SUEK LLC), the memory of the heroes was honored at the monument to young home front workers, opened in the year of the 75th anniversary of the Victory.

“Every year we lay flowers and honor those who, along with adults, overcoming fatigue, hunger and hardship, stood at the machines and brought Victory closer,” says Yulia Matukhno, head of the personnel service and administrative and economic activities of the Borodino RMZ.

Employees of the Berezovsky open-pit mine laid flowers at the memorial on the territory of the enterprise, and youth council activists organized a mini-concert for their colleagues with songs of the war years, a waltz and poetry.

A special place was occupied by initiatives that carefully preserve history in detail. Every year the “Walls of Memory” are replenished – exhibitions with photographs of war participants and home front workers, relatives of enterprise employees. The teams decorated the windows of administrative buildings for the “Windows of Victory” campaign. Videos about the war, stories about front-line soldiers – veterans of the Company, as well as touching poems sung by the children of miners were broadcast on television screens at production sites.

Traditionally, many sporting events are dedicated to Victory Day. On the eve of May 9, Russian bench press and darts competitions were held at the Borodino open-pit mine. Athletes from the Berezovsky mine met at a football tournament. The miners also joined the track and field relay races in Nazarovo and Borodino.

Activists of the youth council of the Borodino open-pit mine visited the preschool children of the “Thumbelina” kindergarten: they told the children about the main holiday of the country and gave each group an encyclopedia about the Great Patriotic War. Little patriots and teachers, in turn, invited the miners to a concert in honor of Victory Day.

On the holiday, miners, railway workers and factory workers joined citywide events. In Borodino, Nazarovo, Sharypovo they walked with portraits of the heroes in the “Immortal Regiment”, laid flowers at the memorials, and honored the memory of all those who fell with a minute of silence. And in the evening, hundreds of lights were lit in the cities of responsibility of SUEK-Krasnoyarsk – residents united in the “Candle of Memory” and “Rays of Victory” events.

Memory is not limited to holidays, it continues in business, coal miners emphasize. This week, employees of the Berezovsky open-pit mine, together with students of Profklassov.FM, will plant an alley in the courtyard of school No. 1 in Sharypovo, so that living trees will become a symbol of the triumph of life and gratitude to heroes. Activists from the enterprise's youth council will also go to kindergartens to tell children about the unprecedented feat of their ancestors.