Russia is marking the 67th anniversary of Victory Day. All cities have their own ways of celebrating the day.
Yaroslav Roshupkin, press speaker of the Central Military District, said that Yekaterinburg is the only city where veterans will march.
On Petropavlovskaya Square in St. Petersburg, formerly Leningrad, a special gun salute will take place from the Naryshkin Bastion.
Dances for veterans will be organized in Yaroslavl. Special treatment for veterans is planned in Kirov. Portraits of veterans will be carried in Tomsk.
Nizhny Novgorod will have demonstrations of Uragan volley-firing machines, Rostov will demonstrate Rys armored vehicles. A historic reconstruction will be held in Volgograd, formerly Stalingrad. T-34 tanks will be displayed. Three regiments of the Pacific Fleet will attend the parade.
Ships in Sevastopol and Astrakhan will fire salutes.
Voronezh, Yaroslavl, Izhevsk, Tomsk, Volgograd and Krasnodar will have car displays. Yoshkar-Ola will have displays of military vehicles. Karachayevsk and Maikop will have horse races.
There will be 230 celebrations throughout cities, or over 12,000 taking into account district administrations. About 8-11 million citizens will take part.
Moscow had a parade on Red Square at 10 am with about 14,000 servicemen involved. 30 firework salutes will be made at 10 pm. A minute of silence was set for 6.55 pm.
Over 1300 veterans of the Great Patriotic War will meet in Georgia. Uzbekistan has been marking the day since 1999. It has over 7,000 veterans of war, 120,000 veterans of the home front and 3,000 families of people killed in the war. Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev will attend a flower-laying ceremony.
Russian Ambassador to Azerbaijan Vladimir Dorokhin attended the ceremony of honouring soldiers who died during the war.
