Immortal Regiment- this is typed in last years popularity, social movement in memory of the participants of the Second World War. It is believed that it was organized by the Chairman of the Council of Veterans of the Tyumen Region, Gennady Ivanov. In 2007, he organized the “Parade of Winners”, during which people carried portraits of their relatives - veterans.
What is the Immortal Regiment?
The Immortal Regiment is an action in memory of the participants in World War II who defended our Motherland. The procession is a civil initiative, and participation in it is the desire of the citizens themselves. At the march of the Immortal Regiment, people bring posters with portraits of their relatives - veterans of the Great Patriotic War. Patriotic War. As a sign of gratitude to those who went through the war or remained forever on the battlefield, people carry portraits of their relatives. The action does not have any political overtones and was invented only to honor and preserve the memory of the defenders of the Fatherland.
Immortal Regiment: where to come?
In each city, the Immortal Regiment starts from a certain point and usually passes through the central streets of the city. On the official website of the movement there are announcements about where each specific action will take place on May 9. The Immortal Regiment campaign is held in different cities of Russia.
Immortal Regiment: do I need to register?
One of important points The shares of the Immortal Regiment remain the creation of a chronicle of the regiment. To “enroll your grandfather in the regiment” you need to register on the movement’s website. In your personal account, you can tell the story of your family so that the memory of the feat remains for future generations.
Who can be enrolled in the Immortal Regiment?
Any relative who in one way or another took part in the defense of the Fatherland can be enrolled in the immortal regiment. This is not necessarily a participant in hostilities. Home front workers, partisans, concentration camp prisoners, and everyone who suffered but fought during the Second World War are accepted into the Immortal Regiment and are considered heroes.
How to make a portrait?
A small photograph will not be noticeable during the procession of the Immortal Regiment, so it is recommended to print it on a banner and attach it to a special stick so that the photo can be seen above the crowd. You can prepare such photographs yourself using a photo from a family album. It will be enlarged in a photo studio or at order collection points. The recommended size is approximately A4 format (20x30 cm). To prevent the photograph from being damaged by the elements or during the procession of the Immortal Regiment, it can be laminated.
Can the whole family participate?
Anyone can participate in the event; children often carry portraits of their great-grandfathers and great-great-grandfathers in the Immortal Regiment. The whole family can participate in the social movement.
What is prohibited?
The action has its own charter. During the march of the Immortal Regiment, any political slogans are prohibited. Other rules apply:
1. “Immortal Regiment” considers its main task to preserve in every family the personal memory of the generation of the Great Patriotic War.
2. Participation in the “Immortal Regiment” implies that everyone who remembers and honors their relative - an army and navy veteran, a partisan, an underground fighter, a Resistance fighter, a home front worker, a prisoner of a concentration camp, a siege survivor, a child of war - on May 9 goes out onto the streets of the city with his (her) photograph or, if there is no photograph, with his (her) name, in order to take part in the parade in the column of the “Immortal Regiment”, or to independently pay tribute to the memory by bringing a banner with a portrait, name, or photograph to the Eternal Flame, etc. memorial place. Participation in the “Immortal Regiment” is strictly voluntary.
3. “Immortal Regiment” - Non-profit, Non-political, Non-state Civil Initiative. Every citizen can join the ranks of the Regiment, regardless of religion, nationality, political and other views. “Immortal Regiment” unites people. Anything that serves others is unacceptable to us. One country - one regiment.
4. “Immortal Regiment” cannot be an image platform. The use of any corporate, political or other symbols* in anything related to the “Immortal Regiment” is excluded.
5. The regiment cannot be personalized in any, even the most respected person: politician, public figure(including historical), official. The regiment is millions of those who have left and their descendants.
6. Coordination and assistance in holding the parade of the May 9 Regiment is carried out by the headquarters of the “Immortal Regiment”, which, along with the organizers of the Civil Initiative on May 9, 2012, includes organizations and citizens who certainly share the provisions of the Charter and have expressed their readiness to become coordinators of the Regiment in their region.
7. In order to preserve the Charter, decisions controversial issues, an expression of the collective opinion of the cities of the Civil Initiative, the Open Council of the Regiment was formed. Any coordinator who has experience in conducting the “Immortal Regiment” in his region in accordance with the principles of the Charter can enter it by declaring his desire.
8. Changes and additions to the Charter can be made by decision of most cities Open Council Shelf.
9. Our ultimate goal is to turn the “Immortal Regiment” into a nationwide tradition of celebrating Victory Day on May 9.
Help me find information about my grandfather, a war veteran, there is no information left in the family.
The Immortal Regiment website does not directly engage in search work, but we can give how to start a search.
Can I join the Immortal Regiment just with a photograph?
People should see the faces of the soldiers of the Great Patriotic War. If you carry a photograph, few will see it. Especially in a column. Therefore, we recommend that you come to the column of the Immortal Regiment with banners. You can just come with a photo, but it’s better to enlarge it.
If you make your own banner, what size should it be?
The optimal size of the banner is approximately A4 format (20x30 cm). In case of bad weather, it is better to roll up the photo in laminate.
What should I do if I don’t have a photograph of a front-line soldier?
If your photo album does not contain photographs of a front-line soldier, you can make a banner on which the name, surname, patronymic and military rank. With this banner you too can join the ranks of the Immortal Regiment.
Organization of the Regiment in the regions
Who should I ask questions about the organization of the Immortal Regiment?
All questions can be directed to your city coordinator. His contacts are on the website in the section. If your city is not on the map of the Immortal Regiment, you can ask a question to Headquarters by writing a letter to [email protected]
We want the Immortal Regiment to take place in our city too. How to do it?
If you want to become the coordinator of the Immortal Regiment in your city, read the memo
If you are ready to work with the Immortal Regiment, you can send a request to the regimental mail - [email protected]
Where and when will the construction take place in my city? Do I need to register in advance?
There is no need to sign up in advance, just come with a portrait of a front-line soldier to the formation. The organizers inform the media of your city in advance about the place and time, and information about this will appear on your city’s page in the news section.
If you do not find information, contact the coordinators. You can find contacts in the section.
Is it possible to go through the ranks without entering history on the site?
Of course, take a photo or banner and come to the formation.
Working with the site
Who can I enroll in the Immortal Regiment? Only front-line soldiers? Is it possible to enroll in the Regiment not a grandfather, but a grandmother who survived the blockade?
Certainly! Not only is it possible, but it is also necessary. And also his father, great-grandfather and other relatives - an army and navy veteran, a partisan, an underground fighter, a Resistance fighter, a home front worker, a concentration camp prisoner, a blockade survivor, a child of war.
How to record the history of your relative in the Regiment?
To record the history of your relative who participated in the Great Patriotic War in the Regiment, you need to home page website, click on the “Tell your story” button or select the “” section in the menu.
The created page is reviewed by the administrator and published within 72 hours.
Is it possible to edit a relative’s story posted on the site and add a photo?
Yes, to do this you need to go to your personal account in the “My Stories” section. Then select the name you want and click the Edit button. After making changes, be sure to save them.
If you are not ready to become a coordinator, you can record the story in any nearby town or city in which you live today. If such a city is not on the list, you can publish the story in the general section of the country, for example “ Russian Federation, Russia", "Israel", etc.
How to bookmark a story?
To add a story to bookmarks, you first need to log in to your personal account. After that, open the desired page and next to the veteran’s photo, click the “Add to Bookmarks” button.
Done, now you can always quickly return to the desired story through the bookmarks section in your personal account.
Where did the story I contributed to the site disappear to?
The story does not disappear, but goes to the coordinator for moderation. It must be published within 72 hours.
If the story has not appeared on the site after this time, please contact the coordinator in your locality. To do this, go to the page of your locality. Just above the photos of the soldiers you can find the “Coordinators” section.
If the coordinator does not respond, write to us at the regimental mail [email protected].
How to add related stories to my relative's page?
The updated version of the site makes it possible to connect the stories of relatives: your grandfather’s page can be attached to your grandmother’s page. To do this, you just need to provide a link to the page with the existing story.
Timed to coincide with Victory Day, the “Immortal Regiment” action turned out to be a larger-scale event than opponents of the unity of the Russian people would like: half a million people walked through the streets of Moscow with photographs of their front-line relatives. And even more than that, participation in the procession by President Vladimir Putin, who led the column of demonstrators, became a powerful symbolic act, maximally emphasizing the idea of patriotic unification of Russians.
It is not surprising that the criticism followed was harsh and planned - photographs of discarded posters with photographs of front-line soldiers began to surface on social networks, which, according to anonymous rumors, were carried by people “driven” to Moscow for extras. For many, a photograph of a trash can full of St. George's ribbons was enough, and details such as the time and location of the shooting and its author were not key to assessing its credibility.
Head of the regional patriotic public organization“Immortal Regiment - Moscow”, one of the organizers of the event Nikolai Zemtsov told journalists of the publication “Vzglyad” that the country needs such actions now, they allow you to feel alone big family, regardless of place of residence. According to Zemtsov, the number of participants, which exceeded expectations, only confirmed that people need such events.
The “Immortal Regiment” began to grow in numbers of volunteers, and the army already took to the streets of our cities. This is reality. With its strength and beauty, the regiment gathers friends of Russia. And the enemies tremble: such a unification of Russians is scary for those who would like fragmentation, malicious attacks by different parts of society on each other. And here is such a disappointment for them: we showed that we are one family, and we were led by a president who showed that he is a person like everyone else, and spoke about the connection between his simple soldier father and the country. We were all in the same formation that day,” noted Nikolai Zemtsov.
As for negative stuffing, Zemtsov noted that any good deed is accompanied by a wave of negativity. According to him, the photographs were taken rather clumsily and were intended only for a quick glance.
« But they cooked everything up so poorly: for example, the cut St. George ribbons in trash can- I've never seen anything like this. The same goes for discarded posters. Look at the photographs of our procession: there is a sea of various banners, rarely the same ones. And in those photos there are some identical structures thrown into a pile... Just look at the faces of the participants. Everyone smiles, laughs, and there is an emotional upsurge. How can a person go and throw something away after this?” - says Zemtsov.
Meanwhile, it became known that the Immortal Regiment movement has already appealed to the Prosecutor General’s Office. The chairman of the movement's council, Sergei Lapenkov, sent an appeal to the Prosecutor General's Office and the Moscow Prosecutor's Office - he asks for a legal assessment of the photographs posted on the Internet, which show discarded posters with images of veterans of the Great Patriotic War.
“We consider such actions insulting to veterans. In addition, there is reason to believe that these actions fall under the article “Public insult to the symbols of military glory of Russia” of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, since the posters have a St. George’s ribbon,” Lapenkov explained to reporters.
The main task of the Immortal Regiment is to preserve in each Russian family in memory of the soldiers of the Great Patriotic War. Participation in the Immortal Regiment means that everyone who remembers and honors their army and navy veteran, partisan, underground fighter, resistance fighter, home front worker, concentration camp prisoner, on May 9 goes out onto the city streets with a photograph of a soldier to take part in the parade in the Immortal column shelf, or pay tribute to memory yourself by bringing a photograph to the Eternal Flame or other memorable place. Our ultimate goal is to turn the Immortal Regiment into a nationwide tradition of celebrating Victory Day on May 9.
1. What do you need to do to take part in the May 9 Parade as part of the Immortal Regiment?
First, you need to look in your home archives or on third-party sources for your soldier’s full name, military rank and some other data. Then try to register it on the Immortal Regiment website. The most important and important step in participating in the action is making a sign with a portrait and data of a soldier and showing up at the beginning of the May 9 Parade in our city.
2. Help me find information about my grandfather, a war veteran, is there no information left in the family?
We do not do search work, but we can tell you from which open sources you can obtain information about your relative who participated in the Great Patriotic War.
Most full information contained in the “Find a Soldier” section. At the bottom of the page there is a presentation that can be downloaded. There you can find information on how and where to search.
There are two websites prepared using the Ministry of Defense databases. Nothing more complete than them exists in the public domain. Mistakes are, of course, possible. The sites are valuable because they contain scanned copies of documents.
5. Can I enroll not my grandfather in the Immortal Regiment, but my grandmother, who fought? Certainly! Not only is it possible, but it is also necessary. As well as father, great-grandfather and other front-line relatives. 6. Which regiment should I enroll my grandfather in if he was conscripted from a city where there is no “Immortal Regiment”? You can enroll a front-line soldier in the regiment of your city, or, if there is none in your city, in the section ‘Russian Federation, Russia’.
7. Maybepassing in the ranks without registering your grandfather on the site? Of course, take a photo or a pillar and come to the formation.
8. Where to do itpillarwith a portrait for the “Immortal Regiment”? To find out the addresses of partner salons, you need to contact the organizer in your city. The coordinates of the organizers can be found on the website moypolk.ru in the section “Regimental Headquarters”. 9. Can I join the “Immortal Regiment” just with a photograph? If you do it yourselfpillarwhat size should it be?
People should see the faces of the soldiers of the Great Patriotic War. If you carry a photograph, few will see it. Especially in a column. Therefore, we strongly recommend that you come to the “Immortal Regiment” column with a photo on pillars (sticks). Make them yourself or order them at order centers. You can come with a photo, but it is better to enlarge it. The recommended size is approximately A4 format (20x30 cm). In case of bad weather, it is better to roll it up in laminate.
10. Whatwhat to do if you don’t have a photo of your front-line soldier? If your photo album does not contain photographs of a front-line soldier, you can make a sign on which the NAME, SURNAME, PATRONIC NAME and military rank will be written. With this sign you can also join the ranks of the “Immortal Regiment”.
11. Where and when will the construction take place in my city? Do I need to register in advance? There is no need to sign up in advance, just come with a portrait of a front-line soldier to the formation. The organizers inform the media of your city in advance about the place and time, and it will also be posted on the website moypolk.ru. If you do not find this information, contact the organizers in your city.
The “Immortal Regiment” campaign will take place on May 9, 2018 in all major cities Russia. When the procession begins in Moscow, what is the route, is pre-registration required, say the organizers of the event.
Victory Day is a sacred holiday for all Russians, when citizens remember their fathers and grandfathers who took part in the events of the Great Patriotic War. People take to the streets with portraits of their relatives: the action is intended to show that their feat will never be forgotten. The “Immortal Regiment” procession has been regularly organized in Russia since 2012, the movement is growing every year: now similar events are taking place in many countries around the world.
Citizens intending to join the “Immortal Regiment” for the first time are concerned about many issues. Many people are interested in how they can register to participate in the event, what to take with them, and what the route is.
Rules for participation in the “Immortal Regiment” campaign
The organizers explain: the event is absolutely voluntary, anyone can join the procession on any part of the route, no registration is required. You can first fill out a form on the Immortal Regiment website, but this is not required condition: participants only need to make a poster or banner with a portrait loved one and the dates of his life and come to the gathering place at the appointed time (you can find out about this on the relevant regional movement websites).
There are also no rules for making posters and sign signs: you can order them from special organizations or make them yourself. Here it is important to remember the weather and take measures so that the portrait does not deteriorate before the end of the procession. Let us note that since 2018, members of the “Immortal Regiment” can remind not only of the participants in the hostilities, but also of their mothers, wives, daughters - all those people for whom male soldiers gave their lives.
Route of the “Immortal Regiment” in Moscow
The “Immortal Regiment” campaign in Moscow starts at 15.00, but the gathering of participants will begin at 12.00. The column will pass along Leningradsky Prospekt, along Tverskaya and Tverskaya-Yamskaya streets and further through Okhotny Ryad, Manezhnaya and Red Squares. Then the participants will be distributed along the Moskvoretskaya embankment and the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge. The procession should end at 19.00.
Those interested can join the action at the Dynamo, Belorusskaya, Mayakovskaya, Tverskaya, Pushkinskaya and Chekhovskaya metro stations. The organizers warn that it will be impossible to get into the column from the alleys along Tverskaya Street. The Moscow City Hall reminds that during the procession the Okhotny Ryad, Revolution Square, Teatralnaya, Alexandrovsky Garden, Lenin Library, Borovitskaya, and Ulitsa 1905 Goda stations will be closed for passengers to enter and exit. , "Krasnopresnenskaya" and "Barrikadnaya".
Security measures during the “Immortal Regiment” action in Moscow
Organizers warn that anyone wishing to join the march will have to go through metal detectors. Banners should not be too large or heavy: for example, if metal parts or thick wooden planks were used in their manufacture, they may not be allowed into the column.
Length of the Immortal Regiment route in Moscow
Participants wishing to walk along the entire route (from the Dynamo metro station to St. Basil's Cathedral) will have to cover 5.9 km, which will take at least 2 hours. You can leave the procession at any time, but join again only at the above-mentioned metro stations. The procession will be considered completed only after there are no participants left on the route.
What else do members of the Immortal Regiment need to know?
The uniform is any, you can wear military clothing - tunics, caps, and so on. You can take some food and water with you, but only in plastic bottles. The organizers also promise that several field kitchens and water distribution points will be deployed along the procession.
Parents with small children can take strollers along the route, but bicycles and scooters are not allowed. Ambulance teams will be on duty along the entire route.
The “Immortal Regiment” campaign in 2017 covered about 50 countries.