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Comrades,

I will be putting the program of the trip on Bair Travels webpage during the next couple of weeks.

As there were comments about too tight schedule, there is a proposal to make the trip 1 day longer, i. e. depart from Helsinki Wednesday - return to Helsinki Sunday, or depart Helsinki Thursday - return Monday.

As daylight is short in January, we will take care of sightseeing in the morning, shopping, partying and so on - in the afternoon.

The event is planned to be in Nikolskoe again, but there might be changes.

Red Army greetings,

Bair

Comrades,

just a small update - we are reenacting battle of January 43, so as many m35 gyms as possible, please!

Red Army greetings,

Bair

I'm offline as of now, as I'll be in Leningrad from tomorrow until the 29th. When I get back, I'll set to with the organisation for the Victory Day event.

Here is a link to some photos of this year's event:

http://www.armchairgeneral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=60154

(Thank you for these, Comrade Psjennikov). More photos will be available over the course of time, hopefully ones showing the mad overpowered ground charges that were fired at the start of the battle.

Good to have you all back safe. Reading about the pyros on the axis forum. As envyous as ever not to be able to go any pics would be great to see
pics so far posted on the axis forum

http://englishrussia.com/?p=1747#more-1747

http://news.ntv.ru/spb/125264/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LePtwmPr7Jw


Found this on the wwii forum

So...how come they had tanks!!
We never got to have tanks last year, definatly not fair

Comrades!!..


URRAH!!....

On behalf of the 63:rd Guards Rifle Division, I'd like to thank all those of you who took part in the event this year. Was great to meet you all again!

Comrade Rob, you did a very good job commanding the gun team.

Cheers to all of you!

/Zampolit

It's good to see the 2nd guards represented on Russian TV in style.

Seeing the film of the battle brought it all flooding back.The cold,the snow and the Kasha.

Well done to everyone who went.

URRAH!

2nd Guards Rifle Division

I have seen some of the pictures posted and like bigbad it bought back memories of the cold and hunger which was compensated with the our glorious victory!
Well done to all our comrades who took part in the battle, we salute you.

Guards Kapitan Roman Rodinovich Neman
2nd Guards Unit Commander

Youtube clips from the event

Artillery barrage before Soviet attack

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIvBRgTyFns

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WZ9jMyP ... re=related

German counterattack

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gu25FVlA ... re=related

Red Army strikes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bt2lDtfh ... re=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFHVAIj2 ... re=related

Red Army greetings,

Bair

See, everybody? I told you you missed a blinder this year!

I hate these gcses!why cant I go to russia!?

2nd Guards Rifle Division

It's a pity that the unit trip to Finland/Russia is cancelled but we all have to agree that the global financial climate and especially in the UK and has had an impact, hopefully next year things will be better.

Guards Kapitan Roman Rodinovich Neman
2nd Guards Unit Commander