Memorial ceremony in Ilyitsino 09/23/2026translated

On September 23, for the seventh time, a memorial ceremony was held in the Zaraysk municipal district in honor of the hero pilot, senior lieutenant Viktor Alexandrovich Petrov. Squadron commander V.A. Petrov died heroically on September 23, 1942, fulfilling his military duty. The event began in the Church of the Savior Not Made by Hands in the village of Ilyitsino. The following gathered to honor the memory of Senior Lieutenant V.A. Petrov and all the soldiers who died in the Great Patriotic War: the head of the Zaraisk headquarters of the Committee of the Families of Soldiers of the Fatherland, Sergei Lotsmanov; veterans of local wars and military districts; students of MBOU "Lyceum No. 5" in Zaraysk; parishioners of the church. The rector of the church, Priest Kirill Romanov, performed a litany for the fallen soldiers and addressed those present with a pastoral word. Then the ceremony participants arrived at the place where pilot Petrov’s flight was interrupted on September 23, 1942, and laid flowers at the memorial stele to the hero.