Medals "Gold Star" of the Hero of the Soviet Union, "For Military Merit", "For the Defense of Odessa", "For the Defense of Sevastopol", the Order of Lenin, two Orders of the Red Banner - all these are awards of the Hero of the Soviet Union, the commander of the torpedo boat detachment of the Black Sea Fleet, the captain 3rd rank Konstantin Kochiev.
Today for the South Ossetian people is a memory of unparalleled heroism and the price of Victory, - said President of South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov, speaking at the Victory Parade, which is taking place on the theater square of Tskhinval.
"The contribution of South Ossetia to the overall victory is incomparable with the size of the country. We have lost more lives of our soldiers than a whole number of far abroad states taken together, claiming the historical significance of their role in the victory over Nazi Germany," he said.
Representatives of the Russian embassy in South Ossetia, headed by Marat Kulakhmetov, laid flowers at the monument to Soviet soldiers located at the Tskhinval cemetery.
"Russian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to South Ossetia Marat Kulakhmetov laid flowers at the monument to Soviet soldiers who died in the evacuation hospitals of Stalinir from 1941 to 1945, at the Zguder cemetery in Tskhinval," the Russian Embassy said in a statement posted to the diplomatic agency's Facebook group ".
President of South Ossetia Anatoly Bibilov has laid a wreath at the memorial to the residents of the village of Pris, Tskhinval district, who fell on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War, the press service of the head of state reports.
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"A great symbol of the memory of the people ..." - under this name a solemn rally was held on the Alley of Glory of the Hero City of Tskhinval, timed to coincide with the next anniversary of the Victory of the Soviet people over the Nazi invaders.