Ceremonial unveiling of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier memorial by the Moscow Kremlin walls in the Alexander Garden, on May 8, 1967. The eternal flame was lit up from the flame on the Mars Field in Leningrad and delivered to Moscow in an armored vehicle. Since 1997, Guard Post No. 1 has been located by the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Attendees, from right: Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee, Nikolai Podgorny, Chairman of the USSR Supreme Soviet Presidium, and Mikhail Suslov, Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee.
- Categories: Human Interest, Unrest, Conflicts & War, Politics, Arts, Culture & Entertainment
- Location: Moscow, Russia
- Event date: 08.05.1967
- Date published: 05.01.2021
- Author: Mikhail Kuleshov
- Credit: Sputnik
- Original: A67-12659, 6x6 film
- Media: JPEG, 3543x3544px, 4.8Mb