In Irkutsk, a new Wall of Memory is being prepared for opening by May 4 as part of the Remember Me campaign. 2643 photos of WWII participants and home front workers have already been collected.

As part of the photo collection for the fourth stage of the “Remember Me” campaign, which took place from February 2 to March 31, 2015, 2,643 photographs of participants in the Great Patriotic War and home front workers were collected. This was reported by the campaign coordinator, Viktoria Aslanova.
All the photographs have been processed. In Irkutsk, they have already begun printing 20 double-sided stands, each of which will display 132 photographs. On May 4, the ceremonial opening of the new “Wall of Memory” will take place. Also on this day, a presentation of the electronic Book of Memory will be held, which Viktoria Aslanova is now actively working on. It will include more than 15,000 photographs collected during the “Remember Me” campaign since 2013. The Book of Memory will be installed near the Eternal Flame and will remain there until June 21. After that, it will be moved to the Irkutsk City History Museum.
The main collection of photographs was carried out at the Committee for Social Policy and Culture of the Irkutsk city administration (40 Gorky St.) and in 18 municipal libraries. A large number of photographs were also brought by Irkutsk residents to the Irkutsk City History Museum, the Polyevy Family Humanitarian Center-Library, and the Irkutsk Regional State Universal Scientific Library named after I. I. Molchanov-Sibirsky. “Photographs were sent and are still being sent to the ‘Remember Me’ campaign website www.pomni-irk.ru,” Viktoria Aslanova said. “Photographs that were sent after March 31 will definitely be placed both in the electronic Book of Memory and on the campaign website, but only after May 9.” The 2,643 photographs of veterans will be placed in the Book of Memory by June 21, 2015. “The work of processing old photographs and verifying biographical information is very painstaking and labor-intensive, which makes it impossible to promptly post information on the website and in the Book of Memory,” Viktoria Aslanova noted. “There are fewer than 10 of us working, and we are making every effort to ensure that the photographs are posted as quickly as possible.”
According to materials from the press service of the Irkutsk city administration.