<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi today laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, a war memorial dedicated to Soviet soldiers killed in World War II.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The prime minister, braving cold weather, stood for a few minutes before the flame which illuminates a bronze inscription that reads "Your name is unknown, your deed is immortal" at the memorial.<br /><br />A Russian military band played, as Modi laid the wreath at the memorial.<br /><br />The remains of the unknown soldiers killed in the Battle of Moscow in 1941 were initially buried in a mass grave of the Shtyki Memorial at the 40th km of the Leningrad highway at the city of Zelenograd.<br /><br />To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the battle, in December 1966, these remains were relocated to the Kremlin in the Alexander Garden here.<br /><br />The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier was designed by architects D I Burdin, V A Klimov, Yu R Rabayev and sculptor Nikolai Tomsky.<br /><br />The memorial was unveiled to the public on May 8, 1967.<br />The dark red porphyry monument is decorated with a bronze sculpture of a laurel branch and a soldier's helmet laid upon a banner.<br /><br />The torch for the memorial's Eternal Flame was transported from Saint Petersburg where it had been lit from the Eternal Flame at the Field of Mars.<br /><br />To the left of the tomb is a granite wall with an inlay stating: "1941 - To Those Who Have Fallen For The Motherland - 1945".<br /><br />To the right of the tomb, there is a granite alley made of porphyry plates with encapsulated soils from hero cities, Saint Petersburg, Kiev, Volgograd, Odessa, Sevastopol, Minsk, Kerch, Novorossiysk, Tula and Brest.<br /><br />The plate for Volgograd has since been changed to Stalingrad, the city's name during the Second World War.</p>
<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi today laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, a war memorial dedicated to Soviet soldiers killed in World War II.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The prime minister, braving cold weather, stood for a few minutes before the flame which illuminates a bronze inscription that reads "Your name is unknown, your deed is immortal" at the memorial.<br /><br />A Russian military band played, as Modi laid the wreath at the memorial.<br /><br />The remains of the unknown soldiers killed in the Battle of Moscow in 1941 were initially buried in a mass grave of the Shtyki Memorial at the 40th km of the Leningrad highway at the city of Zelenograd.<br /><br />To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the battle, in December 1966, these remains were relocated to the Kremlin in the Alexander Garden here.<br /><br />The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier was designed by architects D I Burdin, V A Klimov, Yu R Rabayev and sculptor Nikolai Tomsky.<br /><br />The memorial was unveiled to the public on May 8, 1967.<br />The dark red porphyry monument is decorated with a bronze sculpture of a laurel branch and a soldier's helmet laid upon a banner.<br /><br />The torch for the memorial's Eternal Flame was transported from Saint Petersburg where it had been lit from the Eternal Flame at the Field of Mars.<br /><br />To the left of the tomb is a granite wall with an inlay stating: "1941 - To Those Who Have Fallen For The Motherland - 1945".<br /><br />To the right of the tomb, there is a granite alley made of porphyry plates with encapsulated soils from hero cities, Saint Petersburg, Kiev, Volgograd, Odessa, Sevastopol, Minsk, Kerch, Novorossiysk, Tula and Brest.<br /><br />The plate for Volgograd has since been changed to Stalingrad, the city's name during the Second World War.</p>