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To mark Victory Day, Amur State University hosted its traditional "Victory Waltz" event, bringing together hundreds of students. Faculty, staff, and students gathered on the square in front of the university to honor the memory of the heroes of the Great Patriotic War.

"Generations change, technologies evolve, but we are all united by the memory of the sacrifices and feats accomplished by our grandfathers. In times of the gravest trials, people are united by kindness, courage, and, of course, music. It sounds both in the trenches and in the rear. As long as we remember the songs of the war years, we pass on the very feelings that our grandfathers and great-grandfathers had," said Natalia Roiba, Acting Rector of AmSU, in her speech.
Sergey Utenbergenov, Chairman of the Blagoveshchensk City Organization of the "Association of Elderly People", also addressed the gathering with a welcoming speech:

"Dear friends, for the eighty-first time we celebrate the great holiday of Victory. For us to have a future, our memory of the past must be strong. We must recall what kind of enemy came to our land on June 22, 1941—an army armed to the teeth, battle-hardened, supported by the industries of all Europe.
Only our fathers and grandfathers stopped it and raised the Victory Banner over the Reichstag in Berlin.
'Thank you, Grandfather, for the Victory'—these are words of gratitude, words of memory. But we must also say: 'Grandfather, protecting this Victory is my duty.' And today, the grandchildren of Great Patriotic War participants are fulfilling this oath with weapons in hand, there in the Donbass."
Following this, to the strains of the song about the Great Patriotic War, "May Waltz", 35 student couples performed a touching dance. As they swirled in the waltz, the young men and women seemed to weave an invisible thread connecting May 1945 with today.