On June, 22nd, 2011 in St.-Petersburg and Leningrad region with support of Committee on external relations of St.-Petersburg started motocross «the World and memory», devoted to the 70 anniversary of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War.

It is the international Christian action of a remembrance of defenders of Fatherland and victims of war. As its initiators clerics of the St.-Petersburg diocese of Russian Orthodox Church and Evangelichesko-Lutheran Church with the assistance of several motor clubs from Germany and Russia have acted.

Motocross will begin with putting on of colors on the Piskarevsky memorial cemetery and on a memorial «the Broken off ring» Vsevolozhsk area of Leningrad region, and then will pass on territory of Germany with visiting of places of intensive operations and burial places of the Soviet soldiers in territory of ... Read more »