Led by Armenian Prime-Minister Tigran Sargsyan, Defence Minister
Seyran Ohanyan, mayor of Yerevan Gagik Beglaryan and political and
military officials and representatives of the Armenian Apostolic
Church laid a wreath at the Eternal Flame and the tomb of the Unknown
Soldier in Yerevan's Victory Park, NewsArmenia reprts.
During World War II, the Armenian nation sent about 600,000 soldiers,
300,000 of them from Armenia, 200,000 from other Soviet republics and
100,000 from other countries, about 175,000 of whom died in combat.
