"Their courage deserves the highest forms of recognition": The Ministry of Transport plans to name planes, trains, and ships after the "heroes of the Air Defense Forces"

The Ministry has the "deepest respect" for the memory of the soldiers who died in the battles for the Kursk region and "other regions of the country," said the Assistant Minister of Transport. Russia Anastasia Rubanova.

«The feat of Russian military personnel, their courage and self-sacrifice deserve the highest forms of recognition, including the perpetuation of their names in various forms.", Rubanova explained.

According to her, naming ships and aircraft after “heroes” will emphasize the connection between generations and “the continuity of traditions of courage and loyalty to the Fatherland.”

Previously, regional educational institutions began to be named after "SVOshniks." For example, School No. 52 in Ulyanovsk was named after one of its graduates. Alexandra Shishkova, deceased in Ukraine. Despite the fact that graduates asked to name the school after the director Radium Sharkaeva, who led the institution for 50 years.

School No. 404 in St. Petersburg Kolpino bears the name Maxim Smirnov — a graduate who died in the same "SVO." The decision to rename the building was made by the city's Toponymic Commission.

And in Tomsk named after the person who died in the war in Ukraine Maxim Peskov They named the cadet corps where he studied.