OREANDA-NEWS. April 26, 2010. All the veterans participated in the Petsamo-Kirkenes Operation during which the Red Army liberated the eastern part of Norway.

During his meeting with veterans at the Norwegian Armed Forces Museum, President Medvedev stressed the importance of preserving the truth about World War II and preventing attempts to rewrite history to suit the ambitions of individual politicians.

Dmitry and Svetlana Medvedev, King Harald V of Norway and Queen Sonja visited an exhibition dedicated to Soviet prisoners of war buried in Norway. In 2009, the Falstad Memorial and Human Rights Centre launched a project called Soldiers' Graves Need Names which aims to collect information to identify nearly 11,000 Soviet prisoners of war who died in Nazi concentration camps and were subsequently buried in Norway.

More than 4,000 Soviet soldiers died in battle during the liberation of northern Norway. Their remains were exhumed and transferred to Russia for reburial in Murmansk Region in 1951.