Flowers-Laying ceremony at National Historical Memorial Reserve “Babyn Yar” took place on October 3, 2011 within state and public actions dedicated to the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the Babyn Yar tragedy.
The participants of the ceremony were Viktor Yanukovich, President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Lytvyn, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Avigdor Lieberman, Deputy Prime Minister of Israel, Mykola Azarov, Prime Minister of Ukraine, Mykhailo Kulyniak, Minister of Culture, Dmytro Tabachnyk , Minister of Education, Youth and Sports of Ukraine, Oleksandr Popov, Head of Kyiv City State Administration, Hanna Herman, Head of Main Office for Humanitarian Politics at the Presidential Administration of Ukraine, Ukrainian parliamentarians, high officials of Israel: Yuli-Yoel Edelstein Information and Diaspora Minister, Sofa Landver, Minister of Immigrant Absorption, representatives of public organizations, thousands of citizens.
All the participants of the ceremony have paid tribute to the victims of Babyn Yar with a moment of silence.
