PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, April 30 (RIA Novosti correspondent Oksana Guseva) – Great Patriotic War veterans residing at Kamchatka will go to the Rodygino army firing range in the outskirts of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
 
According to the spokesman for the Russian Northeast Forces Group, about 20 veterans invited by the group’s command will come to the range to see advanced materiel – tanks, armoured personnel carriers (APC), antiaircraft guns and field artillery guns – operated in a show of combat techniques.
 
After visiting the range and meeting servicemen, Col. Vladimir Samoylov, Chief of the Coastal Defense Forces of the Northeast Forces Group, will invite the veterans to “a frontline tent” to treat them to solders’ food and “combat 100 grams” of vodka, the spokesman said.

The Northeast Forces Group has taken care of the veterans residing in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Vilyuchinsk, Yelizovo, etc., within the framework of preparation for celebrating the 60th anniversary of VE-Day.

The veterans have paid a visit to the Omsk submarine at the Rybachy naval base (Vilyuchinsk) and to regular Air Force and Air Defense Force units in the vicinity of the town of Yelizovo. They also have gone to sea on a minesweeper and a small antisubmarine warfare (ASW) ship to see ASW training of the Pacific Fleet.