July 27 schoolchildren and students from St. Petersburg will go to the fourteenth expedition "Defense trail" on Elbrus. They plan to visit places of military glory and commemorate soldiers of the Great Patriotic War, are going to install memorial plates in the highlands of the Caucasus "Pass of military glory."
The expedition, which will last from July 27 to August 20, this year is dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War and the 30th anniversary of the beginning of the creation of the memorial "Defense Path" in the Western Caucasus. First expedition The “Defense Path” took place in 2004. Schoolchildren and students of St. Petersburg install memorial plates each year. "Pass of military glory" in the field of fierce fighting. During past expeditions, 16 such memorial signs were installed. This year three more passes will be added to the route and for the first time two glaciers will be added. Young Petersburgers will install memorial plates "Glacier of Military Glory" where many Soviet soldiers remained in the depths of snow and ice. This is the Gara-Bashi glacier on the slope of Elbrus in Kabardino-Balkaria and the North Marukh glacier in Karachay-Cherkessia.
According to the channel St. Petersburg