Pyongyang, August 16 (KCNA) -- A delegation of the State Duma of the Russian Federation led by Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin laid a wreath at the Liberation Tower on August 15.

Present there were Kang Yun Sok, vice-chairman of the Standing Committee of the Supreme People's Assembly of the DPRK, Pak In Chol, chairman of the SPA, and Aleksandr Matsegora, Russian ambassador to the DPRK.

The guard of honor of the Korean People's Army lined up at the tower.

The national anthems of the Russian Federation and the DPRK were played.

A wreath in the name of the speaker of the State Duma of the Russian Federation was placed at the Liberation Tower amid the playing of wreath-laying music.

The participants paid silent tribute to the memory of the fallen fighters of the Soviet Army who devoted their precious lives to the sacred war for Korea's liberation and looked round the tower.

On the same day the delegation visited the cemetery of the fallen fighters of the Soviet Army in Sadong District to lay a wreath in the name of the speaker of the State Duma and flowers. -0-