On the eve of May 9, the participants of the Great Patriotic War received targeted assistance from the enterprise. Each of them was visited by representatives of the BMK Veterans Council, presented gifts and congratulatory addresses with words of gratitude from the plant's staff.
On May 8 at 11.00 a solemn meeting will take place, which will be held at the stele to the metallurgists who died during the Great Patriotic War. The leaders of the BMK, the administration of the Beloretsk district, the military commissariat, the Council of Veterans and the trade union committee of the combine will congratulate the heroes of the front-line soldiers and home front workers. The collectives of the city Palace of Culture will give their creative congratulations, and the cadets of secondary school №20 will add special solemnity to the atmosphere of the event. The rally will end with a festive fireworks display and the launch of a pennant in honor of the Great Victory.
On Victory Day, the families of the plant workers will take part in the all-Russian action "Immortal Regiment". The procession will end near the Eternal Flame, where a solemn event will take place. The leaders of the BMK will also take part in it, they will lay flowers at the memorial.
Of the six and a half thousand metallurgists from Beloretsk who left for the front, about two and a half thousand did not return back, having died heroes. More than four thousand employees of the enterprise were awarded medals and orders. The workers of the Beloretsk Metallurgical Combine made their contribution to the Great Victory. Not a single unit of the Soviet Union's automatic weapons could have fired without the spring wire produced at the BMK during the war. The plant organized the production of incendiary bombs and projectile heads for the Katyusha guards mortars, fingers for tank tracks were made. Balloon ropes, special grades of piano, sea and cable wires were also sent to the needs of the front.
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