Present at the wreath-laying ceremony were An Tong Chun, vice-chairman of the Supreme People's Assembly, Kim Hyong Ryong, Army Col. General of the Korean People's Army, Kung Sok Ung, vice-minister of Foreign Affairs, officials concerned and other people in the city.

Also present there were a delegation of the Russian Federation Council headed by Vice-Chairman Yevgeni Bushmin, a delegation of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation led by Aleksandr Lapin, first vice commander and chief of staff of the Eastern Military District of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, charge d'affaires a.i. Alexandr Minaev and staff members of the Russian embassy here and Russian guests staying in the DPRK.

A wreath in the joint name of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea and the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly and the Cabinet of the DPRK was laid before the tower.

Also placed were wreaths in the names of the Ministry of the People's Armed Forces, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of External Economic Relations, the Korean Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, the DPRK-Russia Friendship Association and the Pyongyang City People's Committee.

Wreaths in the names of a delegation of the Russian Federation Council, a delegation of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and the Russian embassy were also placed.

Officials of the Russian embassy and working people of the city placed bouquets and flowers.

The participants offered silent tribute to the soldiers of the Soviet Army who fell in the battles for the liberation of Korea, before looking round the tower.

Laid at the cemetery of martyrs of the Soviet Army in Sadong District were wreaths in the joint name of the Central Committee of the WPK, the Presidium of the Supreme People's Assembly and the Cabinet and in the names of the Ministry of the People's Armed Forces, the Foreign Ministry, the Ministry of External Economic Relations, the Korean Committee for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries, the DPRK-Russia Friendship Association, the Pyongyang City People's Committee, the delegations of the Russian Federation Council and the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and the Russian embassy.

Earlier, officials of the embassy laid bouquets before liberation towers, statues of Soviet soldiers, cemeteries of fallen fighters and monuments to memory of fallen soldiers in local areas.

And members of the consul general of the Russian Federation in Chongjin also put wreaths at the Liberation Tower and the cemetery of martyrs of the Soviet Army in Chongjin.