St Petersburg remembers the victims of the terrorist bombing of the city’s metro that occurred exactly on this day a year ago.
Today, volunteers will hand out a thousand white roses at the entrance of Techknologichesky Institut where an improvised memorial to the victims of the terrorist act emerged on the day of the tragedy.
A Russian Orthodox remembrance service will be chanted at the Holy Trinity Cathedral on Izmailovsky Prospekt Avenue at 13:00 hours and after it city officials, as well as families and friends of the dead will take part in a flower-laying ceremony at the site of the tragedy.
Also, the St Petersburg Metro System is expected to present a Memory Book containing fifteen stories about the persons, who died in the terrorist act, and the entries left by people at the improvised memorial at Tekhnologichesky Institut.
At 19:00 hours, a remembrance concert will take place at the Oktyabrsky Grand Concert Hall. Its title is ‘Music against Terror’, TASS reported.
A suicide bomber, whom the investigators identified later as Akbarzhon Jalilov, a Russian citizen born in Kyrgyzstan, set off an explosive device on a train between the Sennaya Ploshchad and Technologichesky Institut stations, killing fifteen and wounding more than a hundred people.
The prompt reaction of police operatives and law enforcers made it possible to avert a second explosion at Ploshchad Vosstaniya station that would have caused far more casualties.
The criminal case over the bombing features about twenty individuals.
