United Russia has opened 789 Hero's Desks in the Moscow region since 2022

Since 2022, the United Russia Party (UER) has opened 789 "Hero Desks" in educational institutions of the Moscow Region, which contain information about students who have performed heroic deeds. This was announced on May 5 by the press service of the party.

Personalized desks appear in schools, colleges and technical schools where the future heroes of the country studied. The project is dedicated to participants of the Great Patriotic War (WWII) and other local conflicts, soldiers of the special military operation (SVO), as well as cultural figures, artists, scientists and athletes.

So, in the Orekhovo-Zuyevsky Lyceum, on the eve of Victory Day, a desk was opened in honor of the Great Patriotic War veteran, sniper Alexandra Alyoshina, who recently turned 102 years old. She is an honorary citizen of the Moscow region. During the Second World War, she trained more than 20 snipers for the front.

"They (schoolchildren. — Ed.) they will sit down [at the "Hero's Desks"], they will see soldiers here. This means that they were protected by these soldiers. This is very good," Alyoshina said.

She added that she regularly watches the Victory Day Parade on Red Square and mentally "walks" the entire way with the female soldiers.

A desk of WWII Hero Dmitry Khondak, who personally captured 40 German soldiers near Vyazma in October 1941, will be opened at Balashikha school No. 1. His grandchildren and great-grandson, as well as the Honored Artist of Russia, singer Varvara, will take part in the ceremony.

In addition, a desk will be opened at Lyceum No. 28 in Lyubertsy in memory of veteran Maria Bodrova, who became a nurse at a military hospital at the age of 13 and then went to the front. Bodrova's granddaughter Diana Basenko will open the Hero's Desk. She presented a portrait of her grandmother to the school museum.

Diana Alumyants, head of the Young Guard of United Russia in the Moscow region, called such projects a daily reminder of people who have become important to the country's history. As proof of the effectiveness of the project, she told about ninth-grader Ana Andryushina from Zhukovsky, who sits at the "Hero's Desk" dedicated to Nikita Utin, a graduate of her school and a participant in the SVO.

"Anya is not just a good student, she makes trench candles, she weaves tactical bracelets and at the same time draws her classmates to such kind and important things today," Alumyants shared.

She explained that Molodaya Gvardiya is actively developing the project throughout the Moscow Region. She called the main task of the initiative the need to preserve the memory of the country's heroes among young people.

"As long as we remember our past, we have a future. And that's when there are more such smart and well—mannered girls and boys," concluded Alumyants.

The program of Victory Day celebrations in Moscow has been published

On May 5, the annual patriotic action "Fire of Memory" was held in the Alexander Garden near the walls of the Moscow Kremlin. The event was organized by the Popular Front. At the Grave of the Unknown Soldier, representatives of the movement, Russian celebrities and public figures, as well as war correspondents transferred particles of Eternal Flame into special lamps. They will be handed over to veterans of the Great Patriotic War (WWII) in the regions and special operations soldiers on the front line, as well as to 14 foreign countries. For such an initiative, MOSGAZ specialists have developed unique flame preservation equipment.