Search teams from Bashkortostan take part in the international exhibition «Memorial-2011»

On June 22, an international exhibition devoted to performance of intergovernmental agreements on military burial dumpings and confined to the Day of Remembrance and Mourning — the 70 anniversary of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War is opened in the Central Exhibition Hall "Manezh".

The exhibition is spent according to the commission of the President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev. Its organizers are the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation, the Fund of assistance to defence problems research «Nauka-XXI» with the assistance of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Regional Development of the Country and the Russian state military historical and cultural centre at the Government of the Russian Federation (Rosvoentsentr).

Participants of the exposition are representatives of more than 20 Russian regions, the European and Asian countries, public associations of veterans, museums, 41 search associations.

Bashkortostan is represented by the Regional Public Fund of Search Teams. In "Manezh" it will show the greatest exposition which will occupy 100 square metres. The name of the exposition is «Innovative Technologies for Search of Missing Defenders of Motherland».

Under the order of the Republican Government for participation in the exhibition 2 million 814 thousand roubles were directed to the Fund.