A tragic date in the history of our Motherland is 22 June, the Remembrance and Mourning Day. On this day in 1941, Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union. The Great Patriotic War began, which lasted four years and claimed 27 million human lives. In the USSR, 1,710 cities and more than 70,000 villages were destroyed.

As throughout Russia, on this sad day a minute of silence is held at the St Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering. Students, staff, and teachers pay their debt of memory and gratitude to the defenders of the Fatherland, bowing their heads to the heroes who defeated fascism. Humanity has no right to forget about this feat, about what our people sacrificed in the name of life, peace and freedom.