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A Memory Candle was lit at USUE
June 22, 1941. Today we know this date as the Day of Remembrance and Sorrow, but our ancestors remembered it as the day the war had begun.
Every year on June 22, on the Day of Remembrance and Sorrow, which was established on June 8, 1996, a nationwide Memory Candle campaign is held: candles are lit throughout Russia in honor of those who fell during the Great Patriotic War, defending their lives and our peaceful future.
“At USUE, we do remember that during the war, in the old educational building of the University, Moscow plant No. 217 was placed - the only enterprise in the country, which produced bomb sights, artillery directors, and survey support devices. Every year on June 22, we post a guard of honor and lay flowers at the memorial plaque at the old University building,” Karina Gints, a curator of exhibits at the Museum of USUE History, said.
Under the museum, there is an Honor and Memory student search team, whose members participate in Memory Vigils. The team is searching for the missing soldiers of the Great Patriotic War and their subsequent identification supported by ID tags, objects, and archival documents. It is very important for the students to preserve the historical memory of those events and pass it on from generation to generation.
Initially, the search team, at that time it was of SINH students, was set in 1975 by the third rector, Nikolai Veselov. The team was engaged in historical and educational activities and studied the battle route and feats of Ural divisions in the Great Patriotic War. Since 1990, some SINH students began to search under the Association of search teams of the Sverdlovsk region, Vozvracshenye. And 13 years later, in 2003, at the Museum of USUE History, they established their team - Honor and Memory. From 2003 to 2006, the team made expeditions to the Belgorod, Kursk, Smolensk, and Leningrad regions. The members of the team were awarded the badge of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation "For active search". On January 28, 2014, a new squadron was formed, which continued the same vigorous activity of the previous Honor and Memory teams.
