Pyongyang, June 30 (KCNA) -- A delegation of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation led by Minister Olga Lyubimova on a visit to the DPRK laid a wreath before the Liberation Tower on June 29.

Present there were Sung Jong Gyu, minister of Culture of the DPRK, officials concerned, Aleksandr Matsegora, Russian ambassador to the DPRK, and staff members of his embassy.

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 Ministry of Culture 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. -0-