Monument to Soviet pilots installed in Errol / В Эрроле установили памятник советским летчикам

On 11 November 2020 a monument to the Soviet pilots was installed in Errol, Scotland. Ambassador Andrei Kelin laid a wreath to commemorate the fallen men and made a speech on the occasion of the monument’s installation. See the story of how this memorial was made, brought from Russia to the UK and installed thanks to the joint efforts of Russian and British citizens. Ambassador’s speech: Dear friends! Today, on 11th November, Remembrance Day, the memorial to the Soviet pilots has been installed in Errol, Scotland, also commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the end of World War II. I would like to say a few words about that episode of the war. The Soviet Union desperately needed airplanes, and in 1943, in the heat of the bloody battles, the British Government passed over a number of twin-engine Albemarle bombers. To perform the secret task of transporting them, a group of pilots from the Moscow special air group have come to the airbase in Errol in 1943 where they joined the RAF 305 Squadron, formed to prepa