Azerbaijan youth football team visited the city of Taganrog to honor the memorial sites dedicated to battles fought by 416th Azerbaijani Taganrog division that participated at the Mius-Front battle and liberation of Taganrog in late August 1943. Mr. Alexander Zabezhailo, chief of administrative offices met the delegation in front of Taganrog Local Government to lay flowers to stela of Military Glory in Taganrog.
The visit was a result of longstanding and strong cooperation between Taganrog Foreign Relations Office, Public Affairs Office and the local Azerbaijani independent non-profit organization. The delegation accompanied by Mr. Zabezhailo and other local government officials visited the historic downtown area, including Peter The Great monument, Pushkin Embankment, Chekhov memorial sites and laid flowers to Great Patriotic War memorial at Sambek Heights.