The international ecological and patriotic action “Garden of Memory” opens the seventh season. On March 18, the first trees will be planted in Sevastopol and Crimea, and the action will end on June 22 on Poklonnaya Hill in Moscow. People in foreign countries also join the action.
📍 In 2026, 20 countries have already joined the initiative – Abkhazia, Austria, Argentina, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Egypt, India, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Cyprus, China, Moldova, Nicaragua, Peru, Tajikistan, Tunisia, Uzbekistan, South Ossetia. The list continues to grow.
At a press conference in TASS, Elena Shlineva, head of the Department for Relations with Compatriots and Historical and Memorial Work of Rossotrudnichestvo, noted:
“This action is joined not only by compatriots living abroad, but also by foreign citizens, because they honor their heroes – not only through World War II, but also through their wars. This is the action that unites everyone abroad. At one time, this action was all-Russian – and now it has really acquired a great international character.”
According to her, each country plants its own plants: in Mongolia – lilacs, in Tanzania – palm trees, in Laos – mango trees, in Morocco – lemons, pomegranates and ficuses. Soon in Austria, trees will be planted at the main obelisk of the former Mauthausen concentration camp, in Belgium – at the cemetery of the city of Genk, where the largest Soviet military burial is located.
The Garden of Memory is an ecological and patriotic project founded in 2020 by the Victory Volunteers movement together with the Victory Commanders Memory Fund and the Federal Forestry Agency. For six years, more than 160 million memorial trees have been planted in 83 states – each in honor of the one who died during the Great Patriotic War. Thanks to the foreign network of Russian houses, the action acquires an international scale: Rossotrudnichestvo organizes tree planting, involving both compatriots abroad and foreign citizens in the process.
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