Almost 30 thousand Muscovites will receive assistance for the Victory anniversary

About 28,500 Muscovites will receive financial assistance for the anniversary of the Great Victory on May 9, Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said.

In his Telegram channel, he said that the amount of "payments will be increased by an average of 2.6 times and will range from 25 thousand to 70 thousand rubles, depending on the category of recipients."

According to tradition, payments will be credited to disabled people and participants of the Great Patriotic War; military personnel who served in military units that were not part of the active army; persons awarded orders and medals of the USSR for service from June 22, 1941 to September 3, 1945; awarded the medal "For the Defense of Leningrad."

In addition, cash payments are due to disabled people from childhood as a result of wounds, contusions or injuries sustained during the war; participants in the defense of Moscow; residents of besieged Leningrad and Sevastopol and Stalingrad; widows of military personnel who died during the war; former prisoners of Nazi concentration camps, prisons and ghettos; home front workers; and some other categories of citizens.

In February, an award ceremony was held in Moscow for veterans of the Great Patriotic War, home front workers and former prisoners of fascism. As Sobyanin reported, they were awarded commemorative medals for the 80th anniversary of the Victory, which is celebrated this year.

Commemorative badges were received, among others, by a partisan of the Western Front, a biologist Nina Danilkovich, a colonel, a participant in the 1945 Victory Parade Dmitry Epifanov, a tankman, a scout and a participant in the first Parade on Red Square Yuri Shabunin, a fighter of the Red Army since 1942, retired admiral, Assistant Minister of Defense of the USSR Svet Turunov, a participant in the liberation Ukrainian SSR, Poland, East Prussia and Germany Viktor Karavaev, former Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Navy, blockade runner Yuri Kvyatkovsky and artillery gunner, intelligence officer, retired Colonel Ivan Lytkin.