The chairman of the public safety committee of the Tomsk mayor's office, Vladimir Kiryanov, told the TV2 news agency. According to him, these are preliminary estimates of the number of participants and spectators of the Victory Parade. According to preliminary data, about 25 thousand Tomsk residents served in the ranks of the Immortal Regiment. Vladimir Kiryanov also added that no violations of public order were recorded during the festive procession.

The press center of the Immortal Regiment Headquarters is conducting a text broadcast of the Regiment's passage throughout its entire geography. The broadcast is carried out on the websites moypolk.ru and tv2.tomsk.ru . On May 9, the “Immortal Regiment” starts in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky (-5 hours Moscow time) and ends in Brest (+4 Moscow time). In a number of cities (Ufa, Bishkek), columns of the “Immortal Regiment” marched on May 6-7.

The coordinator of the event, Olga Rastorgueva, told the TV2 News Agency about how the Immortal Regiment marched in Anadyr. Just over 14 thousand people live in the city; today 120 residents joined the column of the Immortal Regiment. “We didn’t have a citywide demonstration this year; they are held only in anniversary years. The Immortal Regiment was built during a concert on the square: more than a hundred people stood in it, for Anadyr this is a lot,” noted Olga Rastorgueva.

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As the coordinators of the action in Vladivostok, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and Anadyr told the TV2 News Agency, celebrations are already underway in the East of Russia, and the passage of the Immortal Regiment has already been completed. In Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, people began to gather for the parade at 9 a.m. (4 a.m. Tomsk time). The first to join the column of the Immortal Regiment were pensioners who were afraid of missing the procession, the action coordinator Igor Varichenko told us.

The formation of the regiment will begin on May 9 on Novo-Cathedral Square at 10:40. This year, the column of the “Immortal Regiment” in Tomsk will follow directly behind the front-line soldiers. According to the organizers, about 20 thousand Tomsk residents will join the ranks of the regiment. “Last year there were about 18-20 thousand participants in the Immortal Regiment in Tomsk. This year we are focusing on the same number,” explained one of the founders of the movement, Sergei Kolotovkin.

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As the coordinators of the “Immortal Regiment” action told the TV2 News Agency, the Victory Parade has already taken place in the Amur region and the Republic of Sakha. In Blagoveshchensk, the Victory Parade started at 9 a.m. (6 a.m. Tomsk time). According to local journalist Marina Evseeva, more than 4.5 thousand people stood in the column of the Immortal Regiment, among them there were many children: they walked at the head of the column with photographs of their great-grandfathers.

As the coordinators of the action told the TV2 news agency, in the Urals, columns of the “Immortal Regiment” have already marched in Chelyabinsk, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Tagil, Kurgan, Magnitogorsk and Perm. So, in Nizhny Tagil, two thousand people came to the Victory Parade with photographs of their relatives who fought on the fields of the Great Patriotic War, and joined the column of the “Immortal Regiment”.

The day that united people of different generations, faiths and incomes is coming to an end - Victory Day of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War. An official meeting took place in Tomsk, citizens laid flowers at the Eternal Flame at the monument to military and labor glory, and even a military parade took place. And yet, for several tens of thousands of Tomsk residents, the main thing today was the procession in the column of the “Immortal Regiment”.

In the Asinovsky, Chainsky and Shegarsky districts and the city of Strezhevoy, about three thousand people took part in the “Immortal Regiment” action, the organizers of the action in the districts told the TV2 news agency. So, in Asin the column of the “Immortal Regiment” passed for the first time. The organizers expected about 300 participants, but on May 9, about a thousand people joined the column.

Webcams are installed on Novo-Cathedral Square and near the Camp Garden , where the main celebrations in honor of the 69th anniversary of Victory Day in the Great Patriotic War will take place. You can follow the progress of the festive column on the website tv2video.ru . In addition, journalists from the TV-2 television company will report during the event on how the procession is proceeding. Watch live broadcasts from Lenin Avenue on TV-2 at 10:30, 11:30 and 12 o’clock.

The Victory Parade started today in Tomsk at 11.00. Participants in the festive procession proceeded from Novo-Cathedral Square to the Camp Garden, where a minute of silence was held and wreaths and flowers were laid at the Memorial of Military and Labor Glory. Tomsk residents could watch the rally and military parade on the Internet , as well as on large screens located in the center of Tomsk.

About 200 people marched in the column of the “Immortal Regiment” in Kyiv, Ukraine; 50 veterans of the Great Patriotic War also joined the action. The coordinator of the action, Pavel Zatvornitsky, told the TV2 news agency about this. This year, Victory Day celebrations in Kyiv have been cancelled. And, according to Pavel, the organizers of the action were afraid of its disruption and provocations from various political forces.

The main characters of the main holiday are veterans of the Great Patriotic War. On the eve of Victory Day, Rush Hour journalists visited Yevgeny Stepanovich Trifonov. He participated in the liberation battles in the west of our country and in a number of European countries. He was 17 when the war began.