World
Abaza
Congress

The regional branch of the World Abaza Congress in St. Petersburg, headed by the Chairman of the Supreme Council of the WAC Mussa Ekzekov, the Abkhazian Diaspora of St. Petersburg and cadets of the A. Mozhaysky Military Space Academy honored the memory of those perished in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Participants in the ceremony laid flowers at the memorials of natives of Karachay-Cherkessia and Abkhazia at the Piskarevskoye cemetery.

According to archival materials, 55.5 thousand people from Abkhazia were drafted into the ranks of the Soviet Army and Navy. Over 17 thousand people did not return from the front.

Over 46 thousand people were drafted from Karachay-Cherkessia. Almost half of them have not returned home.