SOLEMNITY IN MEMORY OF RUSSIAN PRISIONERS OF WAR AT RUSSIAN CHAPEL

Ljubljana, 25 July 1999



A ceremony in memory of Russian prisoners of war who died in a snowslide during World War I was held at the small Russian Chapel below Vrsic, which was erected in memory of their dead fellowprisoners by the survived in 1917. On the commemoration on Sunday, President of the Republic of Slovenia laid a wreath at the chapel.