Vladimir Putin sent his greetings to participants and guests of the opening ceremony for the national commemorative event Memory Watch 2018 and wished them a good search season.

Before departing from Volgograd, Vladimir Putin visited the Russia – My History Interactive Museum.

On the 75^th anniversary of the victory in the Battle of Stalingrad, the President visited the Battle of Stalingrad State Historical Memorial Museum on Mamayev Kurgan. He laid a wreath at the Eternal Flame in the Hall of Military Glory and honoured the memory of those who perished with a minute of silence.

Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu took part in the event devoted to International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the anniversary of the complete lifting of the Nazi siege of Leningrad.

Vladimir Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who arrived in Russia on a short working visit, visited the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Centre.

Vladimir Putin toured the recreation of the battle near the village of Arbuzovo on the southern tip of Nevsky Pyatachok during his visit to the Proryv [Breakthrough] Panorama Museum. The President also met with veterans and members of youth organisations, and watched a new feature film Frontier with them. Its main character was transported from today to January 1943, when bloody fighting took place on Nevsky Pyatachok.

At Piskaryovskoye Memorial Cemetery, the President paid tribute to the memory of Leningrad residents and the defenders of the city as he laid flowers at the monument to the Motherland. Then, the President visited Nevsky Pyatachok military-historical complex, where he laid flowers at the Landmark Stone monument.

Vladimir Putin signed Executive Order On Improving the Material Position of Certain Categories of Veterans of the 1941–1945 Great Patriotic War, Living in the State of Israel.

Vladimir Putin laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on the Day of Memory and Sorrow.

On Victory Day, Vladimir Putin joined the Immortal Regiment march with a portrait of his father, who fought in the war.

A reception celebrating the 72^nd anniversary of Victory in the 1941–1945 Great Patriotic War was hosted in the Kremlin.

After the military parade on Red Square, Vladimir Putin laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in the Alexander Garden.

Vladimir Putin attended the military parade to mark the 72^nd anniversary of Victory in the 1941–1945 Great Patriotic War.

Vladimir Putin congratulated the leaders of Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Abkhazia and South Ossetia, as well as the citizens of Georgia and Ukraine, on the 72^nd anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.

Vladimir Putin chaired the 39^th meeting of the Russian Pobeda (Victory) Organising Committee in the Grand Kremlin Palace.

Vladimir Putin signed the Executive Order On Celebrating the 75^th Anniversary of the Victory by the Soviet Army in the Battle of Stalingrad against Nazi German Troops.

Vladimir Putin attended a meeting of students of the German embassy in Russia’s German School, a secondary school in Bad Salzungen (Germany) and Rzhev School No. 12.

Vladimir Putin met at the Kremlin with delegates to the National Historical Assembly, organised by Russian Military Historical Society and the Russian Historical Society.

Vladimir Putin laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on the 75^th anniversary of the start of the 1941–1945 Great Patriotic War. The ceremony by the Kremlin wall is held on the Day of Memory and Grief.