On May 7, 2026, employees engaged in the construction projects of the Rooppur NPP (the People’s Republic of Bangladesh (PRB)) and the Kudankulam NPP (the Republic of India), with the Engineering Division of the Rosatom State Corporation being the projects’ general designer and general contractor, joined the international “Remembrance Garden” campaign.
Employees of the Engineering Division and its contractors, which makes approximately 600 people, and their families planted over 200 mango and lychee trees in Bangladesh, namely in the Green City, the nuclear workers’ settlement. And this is for the third time that the Rooppur NPP construction team has participated in the international “Remembrance Garden” campaign.
“Over the past seven years, the “Remembrance Garden” campaign has become an issue of international significance. Local residents join globally the Russian initiative, along with studying our history and cherishing our traditions. Joint events foster national unity and give rise to friendly ties. These joint campaigns give our employees an opportunity to express promptly gratitude to their grandfathers and great-grandfathers, honor the memory of heroes, and become involved in a common and meaningful undertaking,” said Alexey Deriy, ASE JSC Vice President for Projects in Bangladesh.
In India, approximately 200 people are going to participate in the event. On May 7, mango trees, arborvitaes, palm trees and flowers were planted in Anuvijay, the Russian nuclear specialists settlement. On May 9, saplings and flowers are to be planted out at the premises of the Russian House in Trivandrum. Besides the Russian nuclear workers, Indian partners from among contractors and the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd. (NPCIL) have joined the “Remembrance Garden” campaign.
“Today, far from our homeland, but cherishing it in mind, we are performing an important and deeply symbolic deed, i.e. planting trees in the memory of heroes of the Great Patriotic War, whose heroic deed has remained a moral beacon for us,” pointed out Artur Zhukov, ASE JSC Acting Deputy Director and Head of the Construction Management Office at Kudankulam NPP site. “At the Kudankulam NPP site, Russian specialists are building an up-to-date, safe, and reliable energy facility. We proceed with our creative work, by strengthening cooperation and contributing to sustainable development. Every tree planted today stands for remembrance, gratitude, and the continuity of generations. This is our contribution to preserving historical truth and respecting the heroic deeds of those who gave us peace,” he went on to say.
Rosatom’s Engineering Division is a traditional partner with the “Remembrance Garden”, with company employees participating in events both in Russia and abroad. Every tree is planted as a token of hope, unity, and continuity of life. Volunteer projects like this strengthen not only the team spirit but serve to remind that even small deeds can change the world for the better.
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The “Remembrance Garden” international event is launched by the “Remembrance Garden” ANO, the “Volunteers of Victory” all-Russian social movement, the Foundation in the Memory of Victory Сombat Leaders, and assisted by the Russian Ministry of Natural Resources and the Federal Forestry Agency. The event is implemented to support the national “Environmental protection” project.
The agenda of this environmental and patriotic event is planting 27 million trees in the memory of everyone who died during the Great Patriotic War. The message of this event is that green monuments are planted to pay tribute to heroes. At the same time it addresses the issue of forest preservation and restoration by mitigating the carbon footprint. Green monuments are planted every year in all Russian regions and abroad. Over the five years of the campaign, volunteers from 78 countries have joined it.