A wreath-laying ceremony to the Grave of Unknown Soldier and the monument of Georgy Zhukov, coinciding with the Day of Memory and Grief—the anniversary of the start of Great Patriotic War in 1941—and the Victory Parade of 1945, took place in Kremlin’s Alexander Garden.

The ceremony was attended by the Head of Moscow City Government V. Platonov, deputies of Moscow City Hall, war veterans and representatives of Russia’s traditional confessions, and the general public.

The Muslim delegate for the ceremony was the Deputy Chairman of Russia Muftis Council and the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of European Russia, member of the Community Board of the Ministry of Defense of Russian Federation Harith hazrat Saubyanov.