June 22 is the Day of Memory and Sorrow in Russia, the official date commemorating the start of the 1941–1945 Great Patriotic War.
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Vladimir Putin is to lay wreath at Tomb of Unknown Soldier on June 22
The President will take part in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Alexandrovsky Garden on June 22 in memory of those who fell defending their homeland in the battles against Nazi invaders.
Announcement, June 22, 2017