Mintimer Shaimiev has joined to the “The Immortal Regiment Online” action

On 9 May the Tatarstan State Counselor Mintimer Shaimiev joined the “The Immortal Regiment Online” action having published the portrait of his father Shagisharip Shaimiev, who was drafted in 1941 and fought at the forefront near Moscow. In 1942 after serious injury he was invalided out of the army and for the next 25 years worked as the chairman of the collective farm in his native village of Anyakovo.