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On April 23^rd, the employees of the All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Aviation Materials (NRC "Kurchatov Institute" - VIAM) held a Saturday community service (Subbotnik) to improve the territory near the monument to the soldiers of the 7th People's Militia Division of the Baumansky district of Moscow.

They also honored memory to the soldiers and laid flowers at the memorial site.

The monument is situated at the 242^nd kilometer of the Minsk highway where the defensive line ran in October, 1941. Here the soldiers of the Baumansky district had been holding the enemies for a week, thus did not let the Wehrmacht develop the attack on the capital.

The 7th division was formed on July 3–7, 1941. In total, more than 12 thousand people entered in its member including employees of our institute, the plant “Aerogeopribor” employees, higher-education teaching personnel and students of the Bauman State Technical University, the Moscow State Institute of Chemical Mechanical Engineering, the Moscow State Institute of Engineering and Economics named after Ordzhonikidze as well as representatives of many other enterprises of the district.