The names of 103 students and employees of the University will be immortalized on the Walk of Fame of the KFU

New memorial stones will be installed as part of the 75th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.

In the year of the 75th anniversary of Victory, additional memorial stones will be installed at the Walk of Fame in the rector's garden of Kazan Federal University.

“Now the names of 458 students, teachers and employees of Kazan University, who were participants of the war, are inscribed on the memorial stones of the Walk of Fame. This year, after 4 months of working in the archives, I was able to find 103 new names. These are mainly students who went off to war in 1941-1945, as well as employees of those universities consisting the Kazan Federal University who died or returned from the war,”- said Valery Telishev, Chairman of the Veterans Council of the KFU, candidate of Historical Sciences, member of the Academy of Military Historical Sciences.

New memorial stones are planned to be installed after the restrictive measures imposed due to the spread of coronavirus infection are revoked, KFU’s press office reports.