2015 Moscow Victory Day Parade
The 2015 Moscow Victory Day Parade was a parade that took place in Red Square in Moscow on 9 May 2015 to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the capitulation of Nazi Germany in 1945. The annual parade marks the Allied victory in the Second World War at the Eastern Front, on the same day as the signing of the German act of capitulation to the Allies in Berlin, at midnight of 9 May 1945. President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin delivered his twelfth holiday address to the nation on this day, right after the parade inspection that was presided by Minister of Defense General of the Army Sergey Shoygu.
2015 Moscow Victory Day Parade
Soldiers at the 70th anniversary Victory Day Parade
T-14 Armata Tank in the 2015 Moscow Victory Day Parade
T-15 and Kurganets-25 during a rehearsal for the parade with covered turrets
The Immortal Regiment is a massive civil event in major cities in Russia and around the world every 9 May during the Victory Day celebrations. It is also a public non-profit organization, created in Russia on a voluntary basis with the aim of "immortalizing" the memory of home front workers, armed forces service personnel, partisans, personnel of resistance organizations, and personnel of law enforcement and emergency services. It involves people carrying on the memory of war veterans, with participants carrying pictures of relatives and/or family friends who served in the country's labor sector, paramilitary units, the Soviet Armed Forces and law enforcement organizations during the Second World War.
Local residents in Saint Petersburg take part in the 2016 Immortal Regiment, carrying portraits of their ancestors who fought in the "Great Patriotic War"
2018 Immortal Regiment participants march with a Soviet Victory Banner in Saint Petersburg
2017 Immortal Regiment in Kaliningrad
The 2016 procession in Maykop, the capital city of the Russian Republic of Adygea