The Embassy of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka in Russia congratulates all Russian citizens on the occasion of National Unity Day!
On November 4th the Russian Federation annually celebrates National Unity Day. This public holiday was established in 2005 to commemorate the events of 1612, when Kuzma Minin and Dmitry Pozharsky led the people's volunteer army to liberate Moscow from occupation by foreign occupation forces. The monument to Kuzma Minin and Dmitry Pozharsky, who later became national heroes, is located in Red Square opposite St. Basil's Cathedral.

The holiday is also the feast day of the Russian Orthodox icon of Our Lady of Kazan, which was the main shrine of the Minin and Pozharsky's volunteer army.

Sri Lanka Navy's Naval and Maritime Academy Delegation (Trincomalee) led by Commodore Kalana Jinadasa, NMA Commandant, accompanied by the Heads of the Academy's Anti-Submarine Warfare, Gunnery and Logistics Programmes, is in Russia this week to inaugurate the series of reciprocal visits of the Sri Lanka Navy Naval and Maritime Academy and the principal Miltary Education & Research Centre of the Russian Navy – the Admiral N. Kuznetsov Naval Academy, stationed in St. Petersburg.

Sri Lankan delegation headed by Thusitha Wanigasingha, Additional Secretary, (Law & Order) participated at the INTERPOLITEX-2019 exhibition, which commenced on October 23, 2019, at the All-Russian Exhibition Centre in Moscow. "INTERPOLITEX" is the largest exhibition in Russia and one of the largest in Europe, dedicated to the means of protecting state and public security.