June 22 is a sad and tragic date for our entire country. On June 22, 1941, the Great Patriotic War began, breaking millions of human destinies.
Every year, in honor of this date, commemorative events are held throughout the country, and one of them is “ Memory Watch" This open patriotic action is held in the Alexander Garden of the Russian capital, near the Eternal Flame, on the night of June 21-22.
Guests and residents of Moscow are invited at 23.00 on June 21, 2015 to Bolotnaya Square, where a rich interactive and theatrical program awaits them. The organizers have prepared a retrospective of the last peaceful day before the start of the most terrible war in human history. The audience will see an ordinary Soviet courtyard with flower beds and dance stages.
A special platform will be installed on Bolotnaya Square intended for passing the GTO standards. There will also be Soviet soda fountains, stalls with sweets and ice cream in the style of a bygone era, as well as a field kitchen.
Exactly at 3:00, June 22, the column from Bolotnaya Embankment will pass to the Alexander Garden. To more accurately convey the atmosphere of the first days of the war, along the entire route, and the distance from Bolotnaya Embankment to the Alexander Garden is about 1.5 kilometers, artillery guns, anti-tank hedgehogs, military fortifications, repeaters with a signal about the start of the war and thematic music will be installed.
Exactly at 4:00 the start of hostilities against Soviet Union. According to the already established tradition, each participant in the action will light a candle of memory at the Eternal Flame at exactly 4:15.
The event also includes a solemn official ceremony of laying wreaths and flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
Special audio points will be installed in the Alexander Garden, through which military songs will be broadcast, and unique footage of military chronicles will be seen on huge screens. By the way, a film about the war will also be broadcast on Bolotnaya Square.
The main goal of the “Memory Watch” is to tell the younger generation about the great sacrifice that our fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers made for the sake of the existence of Russia.
The “Memory Watch” campaign leaves few people indifferent: thousands of residents and guests of the city take part in it every year. This year the number of participants may break a new record, which is associated with the 70th anniversary Great Victory and a general rise in patriotism among Russian citizens.
Representatives of the Moscow City Hall will take part in the “Memory Watch”, incl. Sergei Sobyanin, youth associations, public organizations and patriotic clubs, whose members, together with veterans of the Great Patriotic War, will stand in one line to honor the memory of all those who died for our Motherland and remember how the war began.
As part of the campaign, it will be possible to take a tour of the memorable places of the Great Patriotic War on double-decker buses and ride a river tram.
This year, the “Memory Watch” campaign has officially been given the status of an all-Russian event. Thus, it will be held according to a single standard not only in the Russian capital, but in all cities military glory and hero cities.
As for Moscow, thematic commemorative events will be held in all 11 administrative districts from 10 to 11 pm. The locations for some events were chosen to be areas where Moscow militia divisions were formed in the first months of the war.
The organizers of the patriotic event “Memory Watch” set as their main goal the preservation of the memory of all those who did not spare their lives, protecting our future, the formation of the cultural identity of our country and a socially active civic position among young people and motivating citizens to a more active civic position, preserving the continuity of generations of cultural and historical traditions.
Anyone can take part in the “Memory Watch” campaign. To do this, you need to go through a simple registration procedure on the website located at vakhtapamyati.rf.
You can also submit your application to the lists of district delegations. Participants of the action will receive memorable paraphernalia (candles, badges, St. George ribbons) and dry rations. In case of bad weather, raincoats will be available.
"Patriotism is love for the Motherland, devotion to one's Fatherland, the desire to serve its interests."
EXPLANATORY NOTE
The educational institution of additional education for children, the Palace of Children and Youth Creativity, presents the work “Memory Watch” in the nomination: “Methodology for organizing and conducting: “Lessons of Courage”, ceremonial events dedicated to memorable events of Russian history.”
In all centuries, the heroism and courage of Russian soldiers, the power and glory of Russian weapons have been an integral part of the greatness of the Russian state.
67 years ago, together with the entire people, the troops of the Soviet Army stood up to defend their Motherland, showing courage and valor, an unbending will to win, defending the freedom and independence of our country in the Great Patriotic War.
The war is merciless and cruel, it claimed the lives of many innocent and sinless people, but Russia survived, passing on to new generations the memory of the dead and faith in the greatness of the people's feat.
Syzran during the war years: There were no lines of fire here, no shells were exploding overhead. But here, deep in the rear, trains with the wounded from near Moscow, children from besieged Leningrad, and the occupied territories of Ukraine were sent. Here the destinies of people who built military enterprises in a matter of months were intertwined. Trains left from the Syzran station to the west with the inscription: “Everything for the front, everything for victory!” There is not a single family in the city that has not been affected by the war.
The most important thing for everyone was one thing - to survive and win this terrible war. On the battlefields, 11,607 Syzran soldiers died the death of the brave.
The war has scattered our fellow countrymen all over the world. All the fallen were received by their native mother earth.
And as Konstantin Simonov said: “Remember at what price it cost THEM that you walk on a free land!”
Being a patriot means doing what you do best with full dedication. This is how every person can express their love for the Fatherland.
My profession and favorite thing has become the organization of special cultural and entertainment events.
Achieving the highest results in the work I love is the main goal for me and my team. I am grateful to everyone from whom I found understanding and support for my civic position, as I was able to make the “Memory Watch” campaign a reality.
I consider myself part of the history of my city.
We live in a wonderful city. We have something to be proud of.
We are the heirs of the glory of the heroic people, therefore we must sacredly preserve and respect the memory of our fathers and grandfathers.
Modern schoolchildren know little about the Great Patriotic War.
And this is unacceptable.
In order to change the situation, to arouse young people’s interest in the events of those heroic years, a lot of work is being done on patriotic education at the Palace of Children and Youth Creativity. It represents a systematic and targeted activity to form in the younger generation a high patriotic consciousness, a sense of loyalty to their Fatherland, readiness to fulfill civic duty and protect the interests of the Motherland.
"Memory Watch" has become one of the most significant, traditional city events.
Currently, the system of patriotic education of children and adolescents, traditions, and paraphernalia is being revived. In addition to preparing the younger generation for military service, there is a need for career guidance for young people to choose military professions.
The relevance and timeliness of these methodological recommendations is justified by the need to develop the following human qualities: the ability to correctly navigate the information space and events, fostering patriotism and respect for the historical past, humanity, as well as the eradication of nationalism and chauvinism.
Target: methodological support for organizing and conducting the solemn event "Memory Watch".
Task: Preparation of teaching materials, scripts, photos, videos for the solemn event “Memory Watch”.
Direct connection between ideas and real life makes it possible to implement this project in the shortest possible time in any region.
- for society as a whole - the education of historically literate, active citizens who can adequately respond to changes and are ready for a conflict-free problem solving, attracting veteran and creative organizations to work with youth, to make fuller use of their experience and spiritual potential in order to preserve and continue the glorious military traditions;
- for the local community - unites and coordinates the multifaceted work of all bodies state power, local government and public formations in this area,
- For educational institutions- for teachers: teachers’ mastery of innovative technologies;
- for students: developing a sense of patriotism and civic responsibility.
The "Memory Watch" event is being implemented on the eve of the celebration of Victory Day in the Great Patriotic War.
Implementation mechanism.
Stage 1: Formation of the organizing committee.
Participants: Department of Youth Affairs, Palace of Creativity for Children and Youth, Western Department of the Ministry of Education and Science, Department of Culture, Advertising and Information.
Stage 2: Writing a script.
Participants: Collectives of the Palace of Children and Youth Creativity
Stage 3: Inviting event participants.
Invitation of project guests: Representatives of the Administration of the Syzran city district, deputies of the Syzran City Duma, the city Council of Veterans of the Great Patriotic War, the city Council of Veterans of Afghanistan, Chechnya, the Council of Mothers, Fallen Soldiers.
Stage 4: Project program.
- military-patriotic composition on the square of the Palace of Children and Youth Creativity;
- guest performance;
- a solemn procession along the central street of the city to the eternal flame;
- memorial meeting at the eternal flame: a minute of silence, laying of flowers, lowering of wreaths of Memory and Glory onto the waters of the great Russian river Volga;
- firework.
Stage 5: Actions based on the results of the project.
- informing the public about the results of the event through the media;
- film release;
- release of a booklet;
- distribution of the booklet among educational institutions of the city, public organizations, military units.
Stage 6: Conducting a round table.
Participants: Youth, students, students of educational institutions of the city, representatives of military units, public organizations, etc.
Speech by event participants;
Operation of the "free microphone";
Conducting a final survey of all round table participants.
Stage 7: Sustainability of the event.
The “Memory Watch” takes place annually on the eve of Victory Day in the Great Patriotic War.
"Memory Watch" is a tribute to the heroic past of a great people
CONCLUSION
“Memory Watch” has become one of the best city traditions, uniting all generations, revealing the origins of historical events for young people, instilling in the younger generation a sense of duty, respect and love for the Fatherland.
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From June 21 to 22, 2019, as part of the Day of Remembrance and Sorrow, two significant events organized by the Moscow Department of Culture will be held in Moscow: "Line of Memory" on Crimean embankment And "Memory Watch. Eternal Flame" V Alexander Garden.
Promotion "Memory Line"
On June 22, 1941, the Great Patriotic War began and continued1418 days. Every day is a symbol of mass heroism, courage and fortitude shown by Soviet soldiers in the fight against the Nazi invaders.
On this memorable night for the entire Russian people, June 21, during the “Line of Memory” campaign Crimean embankment of the Muzeon park will be illuminated by fire 1418 candles, each of which will highlight a specific day of the most terrible war in the history of mankind.
Everyone can take part in the action. Volunteers on the embankment will help find a candle symbolizing a specific day of the war associated with family history and light the fire of memory.
The program will start at 19:00 and will be presented performances and a concert program dedicated to the theme of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War . The musical and dramatic program “Link of Times” will feature artists from Moscow theaters: GITIS, the Most Theater, the Moscow Attic Theater, the Moscow musical theater for children and youth “Improvt” and others. On the stage of the event, actors will recreate excerpts from the memories of war participants, read poems by front-line poets, talk about the battle path of the heroes and take viewers back to the terrible years of the Great Patriotic War. Russian artists will also take part in the program: People's Artist USSR Vasily Lanovoy, Honored Artist of Russia Alexander Sklyar, group "Five", Vladislav Kosarev, group "Acapella Express", Ekaterina Guseva and others.
In memory of all those who died during the war, the first candle will be lit at 22:00, symbolizing June 22, 1941, after which everyone will be able to join the ritual.
IN 22:30 the beginning will take place musical and poetic marathon "Living Memory". Fragments of messages from the Sovinformburo relating to the period 1941–1942 will be heard on stage, and participants of the action will also read fragments from the memoirs of witnesses of the Great Patriotic War, their diaries and works.
IN 23:40 the premiere of a dramatic performance will take place on the stage of the event "Postmortem" Moscow independent Theater-Studio "15" under the direction of Dmitry Bikbaev, created specifically for the event based on the story "Sashka" by Vyacheslav Kondratyev. The play unfolds events from the lives of young soldiers who first encountered the horrors of war.
After completing the music and drama program in 00:40 Guests will be treated to a screening of the film “The Ballad of a Soldier,” directed by Grigory Chukhrai at Mosfilm. The film was released exactly 60 years ago.
The program will end with a broadcast of the announcement of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War in the voice of Yuri Levitan and a minute of silence.
Campaign "Memory Watch. Eternal Flame"
The “Memory Watch” campaign, which will be held in Moscow for the 28th time this year, will take place on June 22 at 03:00. Boys and girls from youth associations, public organizations and patriotic clubs, as well as everyone, together with veterans of the Great Patriotic War, will take part in the Action to remember the events of 1941, honor the memory of those who fell for the Motherland and lay flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
At four o'clock in the morning, the voice of Yuri Levitan will announce the beginning of the war and the laying of flowers will take place. Among the participants in the laying ceremony are the Honor Guard Company, honored guests and representatives of youth organizations. After laying flowers, participants will honor the memory of the victims with a minute of silence.
Promotion "Memory Line":
Date and time: June 21 from 19:00 (gathering of guests from 18:00) to 02:30 – cultural program of the event; you can see the installation from 1418 until 23:30 on June 22
Venue: Crimean embankment, Muzeon Art Park
"Memory Watch. Eternal Flame":
Venue: Alexander Garden
Students of the All-Russian state university Justice and its branches together with cadets Cadet Corps The Investigative Committee of Russia and students of the Saratov State Law Academy took part in commemorative events dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the start of the Great Patriotic War.
The patriotic action “Memory Watch” took place in the Belarusian city of Brest, which in 1941 took upon itself the first blows of the enemy army. At dawn on June 22, 1941, Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union without declaring war. The first blows were taken by the Brest Fortress, which was subjected to powerful artillery shelling and an air raid, after which the fortifications were attacked by German assault troops. Defense Brest Fortress became an important battle in which Soviet troops were able to show their readiness to defend their homeland to the last drop of blood.
75 years after the tragic events of June 1941, University students visited Brest, where on June 21 a reconstruction of the events of the last peaceful day in the city took place. Students were introduced to everyday life Soviet people, throughout the day, residents of the city in costumes of the 40s walked along the main street of the city, not suspecting that the war would begin tomorrow; retro cars drove along the roads, returning viewers to the past, allowing them to see history with their own eyes. Students of the University of Justice and its branches supported the memorial concert by performing military patriotic songs for city residents.
In the predawn hours of June 22, all participants in the “Memory Watch” action joined the memorial procession along the alley of the Brest Hero Fortress Memorial Complex, and at exactly 4 a.m., just as the war began, a requiem meeting dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the start of the war began and defense of the Brest Fortress. Rector of VSUYU Olga Alexandrova together with the leadership of the city of Brest and memorial complex The “Brest Hero Fortress” laid flowers at the Eternal Flame, after which the students also had the opportunity. More than two hundred University students were able to honor the memory of those who fell at the walls of the Brest Fortress on a memorable morning.
“We - the heirs of the victors, the true soldiers of freedom - must know that the great Soviet people won the Victory,” noted VSUYU rector Olga Alexandrova. - This is already the third patriotic event, and I think that it will become a good tradition. Every year we will come here to the Brest Fortress to honor the memory of the fallen.”
The participants of the action were greatly impressed by the detailed reconstruction of the defense of the Brest Fortress. Students were able to observe with their own eyes the terrible events of June 1941, feel all the horrors of war and understand that such cruel wars should not be allowed on Earth in the future.
Such actions are especially important for patriotic and moral education young people, because it is necessary to know history so as not to repeat the mistakes of the past. Taking part in the patriotic action “Memory Watch”, dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the start of the Great Patriotic War, the younger generation adopts the valuable heritage of our grandfathers, preserves in memory the tragic events of those years in order to prevent future outbreaks of nationalist hatred in the world.
Reports about the action on TV
- TV channel video report
For the third year in a row, the guys from the Dobrynya search team of the Ermak patriotic club are going to go to the Smolensk region for the international Memory Watch. What kind of event is this? And, most importantly, why do young guys, leaving the comfort of cities, go to forests full of mosquitoes and various difficulties, where there is no Wi-Fi and cellular communications, live in tents and work every day, digging up mountains of earth?
Let's figure this out.
How did search associations begin?
Second world war claimed millions of lives, and often in the fields where bloody battles took place, the remains of people remained unburied. There are many places on the map of Russia that are marked by the most massive battles with the Nazis: these are the outskirts of Volgograd, the Novgorod region, the Vyazemsky forests, the Sinyavsky swamps and others.
In the post-war period, the authorities did not pay enough attention to the problem of searching for and burying the dead, and it is no secret that many participants in the Great Patriotic War are still listed as missing.
Therefore, unorganized groups of people independently went to the battlefields, found the remains of wars and reburied them.
Beginning in the 1980s, such disparate groups began to unite, and in the spring of 1988, the first All-Union meeting of representatives of search teams of the USSR took place, at which it was decided to organize the All-Union Coordination Council of search teams. From this time on, the search for those killed in the war was no longer spontaneous, but centralized.
At the end of 1988, according to the decree of the USSR Ministry of Defense, the “Places of Military Glory” hikes switched to the “Memory Watch” format to search for and bury the missing. Already in May 1989, the first “All-Union Memory Watch” took place near the village of Myasnoy Bor, Novgorod region. On next year The “Memory Watch” was held in the Smolensk region, and subsequently in regions throughout the country.
Since 1989, it was also decided to maintain the All-Union Book of Memory, in which it was planned to record information about soldiers killed in the war. At the end of the same 1989, it was decided to create the Coordination Center of the USSR Ministry of Defense for perpetuating the memory of the defenders of the Fatherland, whose responsibilities included ensuring interaction between military structures, state and party organizations and foreign public associations regarding the search, discovery and recording of military graves.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, it was decided to give the search association legal status, and then the Association of Search Associations “People's Memory of the Defenders of the Fatherland” (“AsPO”) was registered with the Ministry of Justice. As a result, many participants in the search organization left ASPO and began to create their own autonomous search teams, which were financed by charitable foundations and other organizations.
In 1993, the Government of the Russian Federation adopted the law “On perpetuating the memory of those killed in defense of the Fatherland”, search work acquired official status and support from government authorities. In subsequent years, amendments were made to existing legislation in order to ensure adequate funding for exploration work.
Since 2006, the President of Russia assigned the Ministry of Defense the authority to perpetuate the fallen defenders of the Fatherland, at the same time a new Internet project was launched, the United Data Bank Memorial, which contained data on irretrievable losses during the military operations of the Great Patriotic War, and where each could try to find information about a relative who disappeared during the war.
An action that has been held throughout Russia for several years now - “Memory Watch” - is intended to find them and restore the names of the heroes.
How and when does the “Memory Watch” take place?
Typically, “Remembrance Watches” are held twice a year – a few weeks before Victory Day on May 9 and at the end of summer, but in many areas they take place from early spring to late autumn.
Members of search groups go to the places where battles took place during the Great Patriotic War to search for the remains of soldiers who died on the battlefield. They work in “field” conditions, with shovels, probes, metal detectors and other devices. In addition, we can also talk about the detection and recovery of military equipment.
By the end of the two-week “Memory Watch,” all the found remains of soldiers are solemnly reburied.
After the “Memory Watch”, various thematic events can be organized: exhibitions, round tables, conferences and others. In addition, all year round A search is underway for the relatives and friends of those fallen soldiers who were found and identified.
Who can take part in the search?
Members of military-patriotic detachments and public search associations take part in this annual event. Anyone can join search teams, provided that they are willing to endure the “hardships of field life,” because the teams spend the night in tents and go out on search “missions” for 10-12 hours during the day.
But the most important thing is that we are ready to become part of one team, united by a common goal. And this goal is simple - first of all, paying tribute to the memory of those people thanks to whom we live today. And the second, no less important, is to instill love, respect and pride in the glorious heroic history of our Motherland through a specific deed.
Commander of the Dobrynya search detachment D.N. Sizov
(Website materials used
"Union of search teams of the Russian Federation")