On August 10-21 the Night Wolves motorcycle club and the Russian Federation of mototourism holds the third series of the Victory Road motomarch to Sevastopol, which is dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the Great Victory. The motorcyclists’ way will take place on open spaces of our vast country, the Volga region, the North Caucasus, the Black Earth. According to Yevgeny Strogov, the Chairman of the Russian Federation of mototourism, “a goal of the motomarch is to perpetuate the memory of the heroes of the Great Patriotic War in this difficult time, when the global fascism is trying once again to raise its head, when traitors fanatics are suddenly becoming heroes and liberators -invaders, when they try to rewrite history in their own way and erase the memory of the Holy War, when a desire to worship the graves of our forefathers who gave their lives for freedom around the world, today sounds like a ‘terrorist activity’. Today The Victory Road motomarch has gone beyond the bounders of some motocross or simple motorcycle tour and become the national movement. We have a few starts, several routes. That means, they starts from very different points of the country, the north, the east, the west. They are connecting in the city of Rostov, and then we go to the North Caucasus, Chechnya, Ingushetia, and Ossetia. And through the Kavkaz port we go on the ferry to Crimea and Sevastopol through Simferopol.”
On August 9, the first convoy will start from Moscow towards Brest. Andrey Bobrowski, the head of the Victory Road motomarch, says: “In Brest we will meet our European guests, which we got, with whom we met in the course of the Roads of Victory motocross to Berlin. Accordingly, now these people have expressed a desire to come to visit us, to pass through Russia, to look directly with their own eyes, to see how the Russian people live, in the end of the process to get to the peninsula of Crimea as well, in order to see with their own eyes the truth that they are not shown today.”
Then, the next column will start from Moscow. It will be a united motocolumn with Saint-Petersburg’s one. “The meeting point will be in Rostov. On August 14th the already united motocolumm will drive from Rostov to the North Caucasus. The North Caucasus - Mineralnye Vody, Pyatigorsk, Grozny, Vladikavkaz, Magas, Terskol, Nevinnomyssk, Abrau-Durso and through the crossing to Sevastopol. In Sevastopol, the united motocolumn plans to be on August 20. And on August 21, all the participants of motomarch plan to participate in the bike show.”
Andrew Bobrowsky told Vestnik Kavkaza about the North Caucasus stage of the motor-rally: “The path to the Caucasus goes through Rostov. On August 14th we plan to go to the city of Mineralnye Vody. Accordingly, there, as the transition will be rather long, 600 km, we will arrive closer to the evening. Most likely, there won’t be any official event there, but nevertheless, the column will go through the city and probably we will meet with some officials, we are still waiting for confirmation.
On August 15, we plan to arrive in the city of Grozny. Accordingly, in the city of Grozny it is planned to carry out direct passage of the column with a stop near the memorial to WWII Soldier, holding a minute of silence. And, accordingly, there with the local authorities and our representatives of the Grozny branch too we will have some joint event, the format will be determined today or tomorrow.
Next we move to Vladikavkaz. Accordingly, Vladikavkaz has been waiting for us for a long time, last year we could not get there, this year we could not ignore them, and for us it is also a privilege to visit this city, too, the City of Military Glory. There will be also a visit to the memorial to the soldiers-liberators and defenders of the Caucasus.
And on August 16, we plan to visit Magas. In Magas we plan to transfer soul from the Brest Fortress to the memorial of the last defender of the Brest Fortress in Magas. For us too, it is quite symbolic. After that we plan to go in the direction of Krasnodar Region, through Nevinnomyssk, Terskol. In Terskol we plan to visit Elbrus ... Firstly, in Terskol we plan to visit the Vladimir Vysotsky museum, where the Height film was created. And we also plan to visit the memorials dedicated to World War II. We are now negotiating with the administration of Terskol for the joint activities, maybe even on Elbrus.
Next we plan, that is, in the North Caucasus, there are all the events. Next we move towards Abrau-Durso, and then to the direction of Sevastopol.”
“During our final stage of the Victory Road motomarch two motor-rallies will be held. That is, according to the Mototourism Federation, one of them will start from Brest, and ends in the city of Sevastopol on August 20. And the second motor-rally is small; it will be held on the peninsula of Crimea through the Ai-Petri pass and will take place on August 23,” Bobrowsky says.
According to him, 200-250 people will participate in the action, 60 of them are bikers from abroad: “They are representatives of Poland, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and France. Maybe it will be the representatives of Italy, the Czech Republic. That is the whole Europe. From each state, several representatives expressed their desire to go. That is, in fact, there were more willing to participate, but because it is the first common even with foreigners, we took those people with whom we met during the motocross, with whom it is clear what we are going to talk about.”
