
In the Far East, the first in Russia celebrated Victory Day by the solemn parades of the military, the passage of the latest BTRs and flamethrower systems of the Solvekla, as well as the Immortal Regiment campaign, RIA Novosti reports.
The solemn procession in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky began exactly at noon local time (03:00 Moscow time). On the main area of the city, more than 800 military and employees of other departments were held as part of 11 ceremonial calculations. For the first time, the Marines of the Pacific Fleet showed Kamchattsya "sets of soldiers of the future" - the equipment "Ratnik". She proceeded in the city center and military equipment. The holiday continued by the Immortal Regiment campaign, where several thousand residents of the region participated.
On Chukotka, the column of the "Immortal Regiment" was held at noon (03:00 Moscow time) in Anadyr. After that, a solemn rally took place, its participants laid flowers to the victory monument, honored the memory of the minute of silence in the battles. Military units of the military unit 90099 and security officials passed the ceremonial march. The columns of the "Immortal Regiment" were held in all villages of the Providen city district.
About 1,5 thousand troops and more than 50 units of equipment were held in Vladivostok at the parade. The parade was opened by a company of drummers - pupils of the Nakhimovsky Naval School. The legendary T-34 tank, released in 1942 and took part in the Battle of Stalingrad, drove through the city center. The townspeople first saw the new BTR-82A armored personnel carriers, the OSA air defense systems were also passed along the street, the BASTION COUGE missile systems, and the shell-C1 anti-aircraft missile systems, and the Grad lap-circuit fireworm systems.
The “Immortal Regiment” campaign was held on Victory Day in all municipalities of the Primorsky Territory, the press service of the regional administration reports on Wednesday. "The most massive movement in Vladivostok became - here more than 35 thousand people carried their heroes portraits," the report said. The action "Immortal Regiment" took place in Primorye for the sixth time. For the first time, residents of the region took to the streets of the region with portraits of their relatives - participants in the Great Patriotic War in 2013. The celebrations in Vladivostok will end with a festive salute, reports Interfax .
About a thousand servicemen, Suvorovtsy and Cossacks marched at the parade in Ussuriysk . The Victory Parade opened the T-18 tank, for the first time the legendary T-34-85 tank was followed, restored to the factory state by coastal military.
In Blagoveshchensk, the solemn passage of more than two thousand military and employees of the power structures of traditionally took place without the participation of military vehicles, but more than 25 units of modern military and special equipment on Lenin Square all day.
In Belogorsk , the second largest city in the Amur region, the number of participants in the parade reached the maximum in the history of the garrison - about 1.3 thousand people, one company was first dressed in a "set of a soldier of the future" - the warfare "warrior".
The parade of troops of the Khabarovsk garrison, in which more than 1.9 thousand military personnel of the Eastern Military District and other law enforcement agencies participated in Khabarovsk. The parade was accepted by the acting commander of the vvo troops, Lieutenant General Alexander Tchaiko. The parade was commanded by the deputy commander of the troops of the military district, Lieutenant General Sergei Solomatin.
This year, women-servants first took part in the parade in Khabarovsk . For the first time, the audience also saw the heavy flamethrower system of the TOS-1A Solcupek, BTR-82A armored personnel carrier, the Army motorized vehicle AM-1, UAZ "Pikap", the complexes of the Ler-2 and Infauna RAB, and service vehicles of the military police. In addition, the T-80, T-72B3 tanks, infantry combat vehicles (BMP-2), armored personnel carriers, anti-tank guns MT-12 Rapira, tank-wrap fires Tornado-G, ISKANDER, S-300 PS, ARS TORK TORK, have more than 100 units of equipment, proceeded as part of a mechanized column.
In the military parades in Vladivostok, Khabarovsk, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Ussuriysk, Belogorsk, Chita, Ulan-Ude, more than 7.5 thousand, as well as about 330 units of military equipment, take part.
After the parade in Khabarovsk, the Immortal Regiment was held. According to the regional authorities, more than 50 thousand people participated in the action.
The 2018 Victory Parade in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk has become the most numerous in the number of participants since the celebration of the 70th anniversary. About a thousand people passed along the victory of the regional center. The solemn march was completed by the modern military equipment, which is in service with the 68th Army Corps: BTR-80, communication machines, chemical intelligence machines, digital radio-radio stations, the Sani mortar, Rapira anti-tank gun, guns of Giacint-B, the Osena anti-aircraft missile system, and Uracarus Arming system.
After the parade along the main square and the streets of the city, a column of the Immortal Regiment walked. This year, the action gathered a record number of citizens, the organizers reported 10 thousand people who joined the procession in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. In total, the 30,000th "Immortal Regiment" was collected on Sakhalin and Kuril Islands.