On May 15 "South Caucasus Railways" CEO Victor Rebets has met with Great Patriotic War veterans who are to participate in the social campaign "Train of Friendship of War Veterans Against Nazism", organized by the "Russian Railways" OJSC.
Veterans Vardges Stepanyan and Artush Mkrtchyan, Retired Colonel Petros Petrosyan, who heads the Union of Great Patriotic War Veterans of Armenia, are to leave for Moscow where they will participate in the aforementioned campaign on May 20-23. On the Train of Friendship they will take the Moscow-Minsk-Brest-Moscow itinerary. "SCR" CJSC is paying for the participation of the veterans and those accompanying them.
Victor Rebets said that SCR had started Victory Day preparations beforehand - on May 7 they met with veteran-railman Gerasim Margaryan and handed him the keys to his renovated house.
During his meeting with the veterans the CEO mentioned that the train would take off from Belarus station - during the war echelons were off at the front and on May 9, 1945 trains brought victors back home.
The veterans will visit the Memorial and Victory Museum in Minsk. Rebets has added that heads of CIS and Baltic states' railways will meet the veterans in Minsk.
CJSC "South Caucasian Railway" is a 100% subsidiary of JSC "Russian Railways" and provides concession management of Armenian railroads. CJSC "Armenian Railways" was referred to the concession management to the company "SCR" according to the Concession Agreement signed on February 13, 2008. The term of the concession management is 30 years with possible extension for another 10 years.