Women light candles during the Light a Fire in Your Heart campaign as part of memorial events to honour the memory of the Crimean deportation victims, in Simferopol, Republic of Crimea, Russia. Since 1994, May 18 has been celebrated in Crimea as the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Deportation of the Peoples of Crimea, in honour of the Russian Germans, Crimean Italians, Crimean Tatars, Armenians, Crimean Bulgarians and Soviet Greeks who were deported from Crimea in 1941-1944.
- Categories: Human Interest
- Location: Simferopol, Russia
- Event date: 18.05.2024
- Date published: 18.05.2024
- Author: Konstantin Mihalchevskiy
- Credit: Sputnik
- Source: Sputnik
- Original: Digital
- Media: JPEG, 4941x3646px, 9.7Mb
- Job-ID: 5b74dfdadca28f76