RIA Novosti / Mikhail Fomichev
WWII Victory Day: international celebration on Red Square - LIVE on RT
Published 09 May, 2010, 06:37
Edited 09 May, 2010, 20:08
On May 9, Moscow will host the 65th anniversary Victory Day parade. For the first time in decades, foreign troops are participating in it.
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Military from 13 nations will join Russians on the Red Square. Primary allies in the World War II – the United States, Great Britain, France and Poland – as well as former members of the Soviet Union – Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Ukraine – have contributed 70 soldiers each to march through Russia’s main square.
The Russian military will deliver a 10,000-strong force for the anniversary celebration, from the elite honor guard to a joint military tattoo of 1,000 musicians. The public will see 160 pieces of state-of-the-art and historical hardware, from the legendary T-34 tank to its modern descendant the T-90.
It will also be the first public demonstration of the modernized mobile strategic missile system Topol-M and the short-range air defense system Pantsir. Aircraft like the Ka-52 strike helicopter and Tu-160 strategic bomber will fly over the Kremlin at the low altitude of about 300 meters.
RT photos from the grand rehearsal of the Victory Day parade in Moscow
A fireworks show will be held at 22-00 Moscow Time on May 9. The best places to watch the fireworks are listed below:
• Zaryadye (near the former Rossiya Hotel site)
• Kropotkinskaya (Prechistenskaya Nab.)
• Vorobyovy Gory (100 meters south-east of the ski-jump)
• Park Pobedy (400 meters from the WWII Museum, at the end of the alley)
• Izmailovsky Park (Stadium between Petrovsky Pond and Vympel Stadium)
• Kursky Railway Station area (Kazakova str. on the lower football field of the Physical Culture Institute)
• Kuzminky Park (Zarechye str.)
• Otradnoye (10 Yurlovsky Proyezd)
• Koptevo (Bolshaya Akademicheskaya str.)
• Mitino (22 Mitinskaya str.)
• Tushino (Tushinsky Aerodrome)
• Nagatino (In the Nagatinsky Poima park east of Prospect Andropova)
• Obruchevskiy District (200 meters south of the intersection of Leninsky Prospect and Mikluho-Maklaya str.)
• Yuzhnoe Butovo (500 meters south-east of the intersection of Kadyrova str. and Admirala Lazareva)
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