On 31 August, in an unusually bright late afternoon, survivors, relatives of the victims and emergency services personnel gathered at the memorial site for the Zolitūde tragedy. It will be 13 years since the tragedy in November, and the victims have finally been given a memorial site – the Garden of Remembrance – for the 54 people who lost their lives when the “Maxima” supermarket collapsed.
Viktorija Ulanova lost her mother, Nataļja Igumnova.
“We searched for her for a lon...
