Russia is marking the 68th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany and end of the Great Patriotic War. Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu is viewing the parade on the Red Square. Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces Lieutenant-General Vladimir Chirkin commands the parade. 2000 veterans were invited to watch it. Russian President Vladimir Putin observes the parade.
101 military vehicles and 68 planes and helicopters can be seen at the parade, including the Tigr and BTR-82A vehicles, T-90 tanks, Msta-S self-propelled howitzers, Buk-M2 and Pantsir-S air defense systems, Iskander-M, Topol-M, S-400 Triumf missile systems.
Rostov-on-Don will be the only city where the veterans will march. Veterans will be driven through Saint-Petersburg, Ulyanovsk and Samara. Over 10,000 people will take part in the car run in Tomsk.
Car runs will also be organized in Abakan, Novosibirsk, Berdsk, Barnaul, Gorno-Altaysk, Krasnoyarsk, Krasnodar, Novorossiysk, Temryuk, Volgograd, Nizhny Novgorod, Samara, Penza, Yekaterinburg, Kurgan, Vladivostok, Blagoveshchensk and Yuzhno-Sakhalin. Ukraine and Kazakhstan will have similar car runs.
The Central Stadium of Volgograd will have reenactment of the 1943 match of the Moscow Spartak vs Stalingrad Dinamo.
35 pupils in Ulan-Ude will have a bike run, passing 235km until Kyakhta to the frontier post of Hero of the USSR Garmajap Garmayev, first USSR hero of Buryatia.
Yekaterinburg will have a bike run, Saint-Petersburg will have a motorbike and car run. Their participants will make stops at the historic monuments of Rumbolovskaya Gora and Razorvannoye Koltso.
Young people in 60 cities will try to set a record and make 24838 push-ups, the number of days passed after the Great Patriotic War.
Moscow plans over 1,500 events to mark the Victory in the Great Patriotic War.
