The railway journey is part of a commemorative program launched by Moscow municipal authorities and known as Grand Memory Expedition for the 60th Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War. A total five hundred are travelling-34 World War II veterans, and Moscow children and youth activists.
They will visit a War Memorial on Mamayev Hill, site of one of the most dramatic WWII battles, to lay wreaths and flowers in the Martial Glory Hall. A public rally will gather on the hill to commemorate Soviet soldiers who died in the battle of Volgograd.
The guests will visit the Memory Museum in what was the city central department store before the war. Field Marshal von Paulus, commander of German forces on the Volga, had his HQ there, and was taken POW, January 31, 1943.
The Moscow delegates will also see the Battle of Stalingrad panorama museum.
