Victory Relay arrived to the Abkhaz-Russian border

Symbols of the Victory Relay - cup and standard, met a solemn meeting on the Abkhaz-Russian border.

Psou. March 11th. Apsnypress. "Today we have taken the baton from Sochi, and now this pennant will move along the territory of Abkhazia. I, as a chairman of the veteran organization, will present at all six stations in the towns of Abkhazia, and speak to the people", - said the chairman of the veteran organization of the border guards in Abkhazia Pavel Motchalov.

The Deputy Chief of the Border Guard Department of FSB of Russia in Abkhazia, Colonel Vadim Vasilyev, noting the significance of the event, said: "More than 55,000 residents of Abkhazia took part in the World War II, more than 17 thousand did not return from the battlefields. We remember all those who fought for their country".

"We have common values with which we defeated the enemy, this tradition should be continued. Continuity of generations can not be lost. People who lost their memory, have no future", - said in his speech, the First Deputy Prime Minister Shamil Adzynba.

As the director of secondary school of Tsandripsh №2 Lyudmila Gumba, "this is a great holiday and we need to remember the feat of the Soviet soldier". She said that students with great responsibility are preparing for this event - watching movies of the war years and read the stories of Soviet Writers.