Celebrations in honor of Victory Day begin in Kazan. Tomorrow, volunteers will hand out St. George ribbons to passers-by, and actions, athletics relay races and theatrical performances will begin in all districts of the city. What kind of help veterans will receive with tears in their eyes for the holiday, which streets will be closed for driving and what can be used to leave after the fireworks on May 9 - in Realnoe Vremya's material from business Monday at the city hall.

Waiting for May 9th

Starting tomorrow in Kazan, the all-Russian campaign "George's Ribbon" begins - on April 24, volunteers will walk around the city from Gorky Park and distribute 15,000 ribbons to residents. This action will open a series of events that will be held in the regions of Kazan. On the eve of the 73rd anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War on May 7, the DK im. Lenin, after the repair, will be hosted by a solemn meeting with the participation of 500 veterans and home front workers, after which the holiday will move to the Wings of the Soviets park. In the large shopping centers of Aviastroitelny and Novo-Savinovsky districts, from April 25 to May 10, the festive edition of the radio newspaper “Victory Bell!” will be broadcast again.

On May 3, in the park, named after the hero of the Soviet Union, test pilot Alexander Vasilchenko, at the administration of the Kirovsky and Moskovsky districts, the Alley of Winners will open, where people can post photos and stories of relatives who participated in the Great Patriotic War. In addition, an athletics relay race will be held at the Tasma Stadium on April 25. Another track and field race will be held under the name "1418 days of war".

Veterans will be honored and the Victory greeted in the Vakhitovsky and Privolzhsky districts on May 4 in the Kaleidoscope park and on May 7 in the garden. Kirov. In the house of veterans at Dubravnaya, 35, the district administration promises to organize a field kitchen with tea tables. On May 8, Sovetsky District will organize a large theatrical performance at the Raketa stadium with the participation of more than a thousand artists. About 500 children of the district will take part in the procession of the Immortal Regiment.

At the republican level, veterans will be congratulated on May 8 at the Opera and Ballet Theater named after M. Jalil.

According to the head of the Department of Culture of the Kazan City Hall, Azat Abzalov, theatrical part the team led by Maxim Skalozubov answers. Photo kzn.ru

With tanks on the move and bombers from the swamps

The main part of the events, of course, will take place directly on May 9th. The official laying of wreaths and flowers at the Arsky and Arkhangelsk cemeteries will take place on Victory Day at 8.00 am. At 9.00 garlands and flowers will be laid at the Eternal Flame and the monument to Mothers and Widows in Victory Park. It is better to come to the parade, which will again take place on the Millennium Square, in advance. It is planned that at 9.45 there will begin a theatrical prologue with the participation of 2,000 artists. According to Azat Abzalov, head of the Department of Culture of the Kazan City Hall, a team led by Maxim Skalozubov is responsible for the theatrical part.

Another 2,000 people will attend the parade. The troops of the Kazan garrison under the leadership of Major General, head of the Kazan Tank School Kirill Kulakov will pass in front of the city residents, followed by 14 units of mechanized military equipment. It is worth mentioning it separately: the employees of the Tank School restored the equipment of the war years from the hulls received from Novosibirsk. This was done on the initiative of Major General Kulakov. Thanks to him, repaired tanks T-34, IS-3 and BM-13 "Katyusha" will pass through Kazan on Victory Day for the first time.

The morning program will end with a two-hour concert starting at 11 am. On the Millennium Square it will also be possible to see, touch and maybe even get into the cockpits of modern models of military equipment. For this purpose, the T-80, T-90 tanks, as well as BMP-2, BMP-3 and BTR-80 tanks will be brought to the celebration. And the pearl of the exposition of the search movement of Tatarstan will be the Pe-2 bomber, parts of which were found and recovered from the swamp.

In parallel with the main site in the Victory Park from 10.00 to 20.00 there will be festivities. The festival "Heirs of Victory" and the festival of children's brass bands "Fanfare of Victory" are organized on the central stage. Veteran choirs will sing there from 2 to 4 pm.

At one o'clock in the afternoon, the organizers will begin to gather participants in the Immortal Regiment action. The march itself will begin at 15.00 and will follow the route of last year - the start is scheduled at the intersection of Marx and Gorky streets near the Agrarian University, and the finish line is at the Millennium Square. This year, the city authorities expect no less participants in the action than last year, when more than 120,000 people took to the streets with portraits of their relatives. The evening concert program will begin at the Millennium Square at 20.00 and end with fireworks at 22.00.

This year, the city authorities expect no less participants in the action than last year, when more than 120,000 people took to the streets with portraits of their relatives. Photo by Maxim Platonov

The movement of cars will be limited, and those walking will be protected by anti-rams

At least partially reduce the traditional crush in public transport after the fireworks on Victory Day may increase the work of transport.

Work public transport May 9 will be organized in enhanced mode. There are additional subway trains. At the end of the event, a special supply of buses is provided on Levo-Bulachnaya Street near Kirovsky Lane and on the Leninskaya Dam near the publishing house, Azat Abzalov said.

Extended on Victory Day and public transport hours - it will run from 5 am to 12 am.

For motorists, the preparation of the city for the celebration of May 9 will not go unnoticed. On May 3 and 5, due to the rehearsals of the parade from 18.00 to 22.00, traffic will be limited on the Millennium Square and along the Lenin dam. This will be repeated on May 7 from 9 am to 1 pm and on May 8 from 7 pm. The reason is the rehearsal of the concert program.

Entrances to all venues for the celebration, like last year, will be fenced with special equipment, which confirms that Kazan remembers the numerous tragedies in Europe and America that led to death. Anti-ram equipment will also appear in places where the movement of cars will be limited.

All public spaces involved in the festival will be inspected for the presence of explosives before the start. Security will be monitored by both the personnel of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and private security companies. In addition, medical facilities will operate in an enhanced mode, and doctors will be on duty at the celebration sites.

Veterans left less than a thousand

As of April 4, 13,196 veterans and persons equivalent to them live in Kazan. There are only 946 people left who participated in and disabled the war. Almost 11 thousand people are home front workers and widows of fallen war veterans. Almost a thousand and a half more Kazan citizens are widows of war veterans who are not home front workers.

Traditionally, on Victory Day, veterans are in the spotlight. This year, the authorities announced their intention to renovate 23 apartments of lonely participants in the Great Patriotic War. Answering a question from Realnoe Vremya, Azat Abzalov, head of the Department of Culture of the Kazan City Hall, said that the number of apartments was determined on the basis of incoming applications. Last year, 41 apartments were renovated using them.

On the eve of the holiday, 4,131 war veterans and the widows of the participants will be helped with food. In Kazan, the cost of a food package will be more than 4,000 rubles. Similar actions will be held not only in the capital of Tatarstan, but throughout the republic. They are organized by the Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Protection of the Republic of Tatarstan.

The health of veterans is remembered not only on the eve of May 9th. On April 20, Kazan polyclinics completed their annual comprehensive medical examination. Over the past year, 2,535 veterans were treated in hospitals, in total, as of January 2018, 8,360 veterans and persons equated to them were registered at the dispensary. Some veterans are registered with departmental institutions.

By Victory Day, students will also clean up the veterans' apartments and household plots. As part of the “Live and Remember” campaign, military burials will be put in order at the cemeteries in Samosyrovo, Derbyshki and Tsaritsino, and residents will clean monuments and steles at citywide subbotniks.

As part of the road works for 2018, the city authorities will repair the streets named after the participants in the war. Asphalt concrete pavement will be renewed on the streets of Oleg Koshevoy, Adel Kutuy, Bichurin, Vatutin, Marshal Chuikov and Simonov.

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Location

All-Russian action "St. George's Ribbon"

Theatrical performances, concerts, creative and sports workshops, lectures

Parks of culture and recreation

Motocross

Along the Garden Ring from Akademika Sakharov Avenue to Gorky Park

Laying wreaths and flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and the monument to Georgy Zhukov

Evening concerts

Broadcasts of the Victory Parade on big screens

Final concert of the Moscow Easter Festival with symphony orchestra Mariinsky Theater directed by Valery Gergiev

Fireworks

16 special sites and 17 parks

Parade on Red Square on May 9, 2019

The parade will be opened by foot columns of cadets of military schools and active servicemen. According to the organizers, this year there will be many debutants who will walk along Red Square for the first time.

The culmination will be the procession of military equipment. The mechanized column will include:

  • Mobile ground missile systems "Yars"
  • Anti-aircraft missile systems S-400 and anti-aircraft gun 2S38
  • Operational-tactical missile systems "Iskander-M"
  • Armored personnel carriers "Boomerang"
  • Self-propelled anti-tank missile systems "Kornet"
  • Self-propelled artillery gun "Phlox"
  • Armored vehicles "Typhoon"
  • Multiple launch rocket system "Tornado-S"
  • Reconnaissance and strike robotic complex "Companion"

Viewers will also see the latest military equipment, and this year they are all cars:

  • Mini-trucks Lada 4x4 Pickup will pass through Red Square.
  • Chaborz M-3 light, highly passable and armed tactical all-terrain vehicle.
  • Another novelty is the new command convertibles, Aurus executive class cars.

The parade will end with a flight of military aircraft and an air show.

18 helicopters and 56 aircraft of operational-tactical, long-range, military transport and army aviation of the Aerospace Forces, including the latest KA-62 helicopter and A-100 aircraft, will take part in the air part of the parade. In total - 74 cars, according to the number of years since the Victory Day.

Rehearsals for the Victory Day parade on Red Square

  • April 29 at 19:00
  • May 4 at 19:00
  • May 7 at 10:00 – dress rehearsal

Look military equipment it is possible along its route to Red Square from the street. Nizhniye Mnevniki, where she has been based since April 20. The equipment will pass along the Zvenigorod highway, then turn along the Garden Ring to the street. Tverskaya-Yamskaya, passing into Tverskaya, where there will be a stop and you can go to the cars and take photos.

The equipment is returning along Vasilyevsky Spusk, through the Kremlin Embankment, Vozdvizhenka Street and Novy Arbat, with a turn to the Garden Ring and Zvenigorodskoye Highway.

On April 29, the rehearsal will begin at 19:00, the second night rehearsal will take place on May 4, and on May 7 from 10:00 - a dress rehearsal, which will almost completely correspond to the Victory Day parade on May 9, 2019.

Where can I watch the air part of the parade

  • Petrovsky Park
  • Leningrad highway
  • Friendship Park near the River Station
  • Tverskaya Zastava Square near Belorussky railway station
  • Sofia and Kremlin embankments

Action "Immortal Regiment" in Moscow in 2019

May 9 is a holiday with tears in our eyes, and this year one of the touching actions, the Immortal Regiment, will be held again. All those who lost their relatives in the war, who had relatives who were home front workers, are invited to take part in it. The gathering will start at 13:00, and the procession itself - from 15:00. In 2019, more than 700 thousand Muscovites are going to take part in the procession.

The route of the Immortal Regiment action in Moscow will run from the Dynamo metro station to Red Square: along Leningradsky Prospekt, 1st Tverskaya-Yamskaya Street, Tverskaya Street, Manezhnaya Square and Red Square. Then the procession will split up and proceed along the Moskvoretskaya Embankment and the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge.

Residents of other cities in Russia can get information about the place of gathering and the time of the procession on the official website of the event.

The best places to watch fireworks on May 9, 2019 in Moscow

Best places to watch fireworks:

  • Moskvoretskaya embankment
  • As well as bridges - Crimean and Borodinsky, Pushkin and Bagration

The evening sky of the city will be decorated with golden peonies, colorful chrysanthemums, as well as red, blue, green and yellow balloons.

Operation of the metro and surface transport

On May 9, ground transport will operate according to the weekend schedule. The work of transport routes that bring passengers to the Victory Park on Poklonnaya Hill will be strengthened.

On May 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 10 and 11, parking in the paid parking area will be free.

Unified schedule of events

More than 300 different events have been organized for guests and residents of Moscow from May 1 to May 10, 2019, these are concerts and memorial events, exhibitions and sports programs. Victory Day celebrations will be held at sites in the city center, districts and city parks. The festivities will start at 9:00.

Unified annual schedule of events:

  • 9:00 - the beginning of the work of festive sites
  • 10:00 - Victory Parade on Red Square
  • 13:00 - festive events in honor of the 74th anniversary of the Great Patriotic War at the sites of the city
  • 15:00 - start of the action "Immortal Regiment"
  • 18:55 - minute of silence
  • 19:00 - evening concerts
  • 22:00 - fireworks

Moscow Spring Festival

Recall that from 1 to 12 May in Moscow for the third time as part of a cycle of city street events, the Moscow Spring festival is being held. The Moscow Spring Festival is also a competition. Star jury and the audience themselves will choose the best performers. Recall that in 2018 the Grand Prize was received by the Six AppeaL group (USA).

On May 8 and 9, a special program dedicated to the Victory Day is planned within the framework of the festival, within which you will see theatrical and musical performances at venues and in parks in Moscow.

The work of museums and exhibitions

  • On May 9, in Moscow, the Victory Museum on Poklonnaya Hill can be visited for free. The museum will be open from 10:00 to 20:30. In addition to museum exhibits, visitors will visit an exhibition dedicated to the most significant medal of the Great Patriotic War - the medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945."
  • Impressive tank battles will take place at the T-34 Tank Museum on May 9th. Three dozen radio-controlled scale models of Soviet and German tanks will recreate the events of 1943 on the legendary Kursk Bulge. Start - at 14:00. Participation in the event on the territory of the museum and memorial complex is free. Pre-registration is not required. Visiting the museum - with entrance tickets. All established benefits apply.

You will have two hundred reasons to celebrate City Day 2018 in Moscow. There are so many official events alone that the head begins to spin. Choose what is closer to you in terms of geography and interests, and do not sit through the weekend of September 8 and 9 in a cozy home armchair. The capital will be too interesting for that.

Cathedral of Christ the Savior

On Saturday, September 8, a concert program will be held at the walls of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior from 12:00 to 21:00. It will be a real gift for lovers of classical music. Guests will see performances by the best classical bands in Moscow: the Central Military Band of the Ministry of Defense Russian Federation, "QUATRO", a team created in 2003 by graduates of the Academy of Choral Art A.V. Sveshnikov and recognized as one of the best and most promising musical groups of the Russian stage. Also in the program are performances by choral ensembles: the choir of the Danilov Monastery and the choir of the Sretensky Monastery.

Tsvetnoy boulevard

At the same time, the Good Moscow 2018 festival will unfold on Tsvetnoy Boulevard, which from year to year gathers all caring citizens around it. The largest charitable and public organizations in the format of the exhibition will tell who needs support and share socially significant issues capital Cities. Here everyone will take part in creative master classes and purchase goods made by the wards of the foundations. Rest assured, the funds raised will go to good causes.

In addition, during the festival you can join the charity run. To do this, just register on the site.

The festival on Tsvetnoy Boulevard will end with a big concert, which will become a kind of gratitude to all the participants of Good Moscow 2018. Viva!, Lera Masskva, Katya Lel, Legalize, Andrew Goodwin, Mark Tishman and other performers will perform on the main stage.

Lublino

One of the main venues, which will host the celebration of the City Day on September 8, will be the Cultural Center. I. M. Astakhov in Lyublino. Here, the audience will be pleased with "Degrees", "Yin-Yang" and the singer Klava Koka, entertainment for adults and children, as well as delicious food in the food court area.

City Day in the parks

Naturally, all the capital's parks will join the celebration. So even those who do not know can safely go to any of them. Muzeon will host a concert and theater program for two days. Fashion will be the main topic. Spectators are waiting for design shows, lectures, exciting style master classes, image intensives from Vlad Lisovets, a performance by the Wide Open group, Tesla boy and Nastya Kudri.

In the Catherine Park, they promise to organize master classes and arrange a theatrical celebration, which will be visited by famous performers. For artists in the style of popular radio stations - forward to Victory Park on Poklonnaya Hill, where Katya Lel, Denis Klyaver, Buranovskiye Babushki and Babkiny Vnuki, Sati Kazanova, Mark Tishman, Tamara Gverdtsiteli, Zheka, Maxim Lidov, Elena Sever, Yakov Kirsanov and Denis Goditsky, Katerina Rostovtseva, Viktor will perform from 12 to 21 Dorin, Yuta, Ksenia Dezhneva, VIVA group, Anzhelika Agurbash, OPERA PRIMA, Alexey Goman, Albina Dzhanabaeva, Sergey Kuprik, Marina Devyatova, Igor Sarukhanov, Oleg Gazmanov, Mikhail Shufutinsky and even Vadim Kazachenko with Tatyana Ovsienko. The next day from 15:00 to 20:00 there will be concerts by Anna Semenovich, Sogdiana, Alexander Aivazov, Viktor Rybin and Natalia Senchukova.

In the Tsaritsyno park on September 8 and 9, visitors are waiting for classical music performed by a symphony orchestra, as well as a performance by the State Academic Choir under the direction of Minin, artists from the Pavel Slobodkin Center, the Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Singing Center and other musical groups.

But in Izmailovsky Park they will give rock! The Metro On Stage festival on September 8 will bring together artists who have been known for several years and those who have only recently appeared on the musical rock sky: Nike Borzov, Animation, Alessiee, Margosha, Times Square, Pravada, Lascala and many others.

The meeting point is the bank of the Round Pond from 12:00 to 21:00.

In addition to performances, the festival site will be equipped with a territory of professional make-up artists, where everyone will be given the image of a real rock star. On September 9, Izmailovsky Park will continue the fatal theme, only this time young performers will take the stage. The festival "Promotion" will open up many new names for the audience, which are worth listening to.

Kristina Orbakaite, Inna Malikova, Dzhigan and New Gems will be special guests of the holiday in the Children's Landscape Park, which is located in South Butovo. In the evening, there will be fireworks for those gathered here.

On the afternoon of September 8, in the Angarsk Prudy park, you can see excerpts from famous capital theater productions, and the program will continue with a concert with the participation of Irina Dubtsova, Misha Marvin, Dmitry Malikov, Diana Gurtskaya and other popular stars of the national stage.

Choose any park nearby and you won't go wrong. After all, not a single green zone of the city remained aloof from the celebration of City Day 2018 in Moscow.

A large festive program awaits the guests of Zaryadye. Dance and music groups, favorite songs and incendiary hits, street theater performances, original shows, illusionists and a drum orchestra will not let you get bored. Both days in the park will give interactive performances for big and small guests, and visitors to the Reserve Embassy will be able to entertain themselves with exciting master classes.

theater capital

Theater fans will also not be bored on City Day. Excerpts from famous performances will be shown by the capital's actors to the audience at numerous city venues. On the square near the shopping center "Kaleidoscope" the Moscow Drama Theater "Aparte" will present their works, and on Shchorsa Street representatives of the "Glas" theater and the Moscow drama theater Dzhigarkhanyan. Theatrical performances can also be seen at the Moskovsky Sports Center, on Skolkovskoye Highway, 2 and on Sirenevy Boulevard in Troitsk.