Russia remembers WWII POWs in Maribor, museum still in pipeline
Maribor, 3 May - Delegations of the Maribor municipality and the Russian Embassy in Slovenia paid their respects Wednesday to Soviet prisoners of war who died at a Nazi camp in the city ahead of Russia's Victory Day. A museum has been planned on the site for three years, but negotiations on the details are still ongoing.
Maribor
Yury Metelev (left), the head of the Russian Science and Culture Centre, and Maribor Mayor Andrej Fištravec, lay a wreath on the site of a WWII Nazi camp for POWs Stalag XVIII D.
Photo: Andreja Seršen Dobaj/STA
Maribor
Yury Metelev (left), the head of the Russian Science and Culture Centre, and Maribor Mayor Andrej Fištravec, lay a wreath on the site of a WWII Nazi camp for POWs Stalag XVIII D.
Photo: Andreja Seršen Dobaj/STA
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