Victory Day is celebrated in Russia on May 9. In the capital, festive events were prepared in honor of the holiday. Concerts, exhibitions and other activities will take place in city squares and streets, parks and squares. The Moscow 24 portal has collected information about the main events in honor of the holiday.
Procession "Immortal Regiment"
One of the central events will be the traditional Immortal Regiment procession. Hundreds of thousands of citizens will gather at the Dynamo stadium to carry portraits of their relatives who participated in the Great Patriotic War and honor their memory.
The "Immortal Regiment" campaign starts in Moscow at 15:00
The organizers of the event note that the number of participants in the event in 2018 could reach a million. Citizens will have to cover a distance of 5.9 kilometers on foot. The procession will end on Red Square.
Volunteers will distribute water to people along the way. You will be able to have a snack in 47 field kitchens, which are located along the route of the column.
Victory Day in the Parks
Festive venues will open in 21 capital parks. Visitors of all ages will be able to try their hand at completing a historical quest based on the battles on the Kursk Bulge, watch theatrical performances, and also see military equipment of those years. Guests can also enjoy performances by military bands and retro-style dancing. In addition, everyone will be able to taste real soldier’s porridge from the army field kitchen.
On this day, the Hermitage Garden will be transported to the difficult war years: the atmosphere of the 1940s will be recreated here. From the very morning, a brass band and a men's chamber choir will perform military songs, and at 18:00 a Victory costume ball will begin on the dance floor. Here you will hear the melodies of tango, waltz, the popular Spanish dance Rio-rita in the 1930s, as well as the fast and fiery Polish Krakowiak. Even if you don’t know how to dance at all, don’t be afraid: professional dancers will help beginners.
A military-historical quest dedicated to the battles on the Kursk Bulge will be organized in Tagansky Park. It was one of the largest tank battles in world history: about two million people and six thousand tanks took part in it on both sides. Teams of participants will learn how front-line reconnaissance, defensive operations and counter-offensives took place. The quest will last from 13:00 to 18:00, and you can join it at any time.
A “Wall of Memory” will appear in Babushkinsky Park. At this stand, visitors will be able to write the names of their relatives and friends who participated in the Great Patriotic War. There you can also leave wishes for veterans. By the way, the T-34, the most famous tank of the war years, will be exhibited in the park (this model was widely used in 1942–1947 and later served for a long time on the remote borders of the country).
Vorontsovsky Park will present a theatrical and poetic production dedicated to the Great Patriotic War and Victory Day. Guests of the park will not be left out either - everyone can become a participant in the theatrical interactive program. In the central clearing, a wartime medical center, a field kitchen, and, of course, military equipment will be installed. There will also be an exhibition of works by contemporary photographers who photograph historical reconstructions of battles.
Street events
A festive program of more than 100 special performances was prepared by participants of the Moscow Spring a Capella festival. They will perform songs of the war years on the city streets.
Live concerts will also take place on May 9 at three train stations in the capital. There, musical groups will perform songs about the Great Patriotic War. Events in honor of the holiday were prepared at the Belorussky, Rizhsky and Kazansky stations.
You can watch a light show on the Manege building in the evening. In 2018, films broadcast using video mapping technology were dedicated to the history of the cities of heroes. A similar event will be held on May 9 at the Victory Museum.
Fireworks
Photo: portal Moscow 24/Lidiya Shironina
You can watch the festive fireworks at 33 sites in the city, 17 of them are located in parks. The pyrotechnic show will begin on May 9 at 22:00 and will last about five minutes. During this time, more than 80 thousand salvos will be fired into the sky over Moscow.
One of the main traditions on Victory Day is the fireworks, which everyone looks forward to. This year, fireworks will be launched from 33 points, so they can be seen in any area of the capital.
The salvos of most of the largest points are always clearly visible from the bridges over the Moscow River, so the main thing is to take your seat on time. You can watch the fireworks from the Pushkinsky, Krymsky and Patriarchal bridges, as well as from the Bogdan Khmelnitsky Bridge, located a stone's throw from the Kievskaya metro station (next to Europe Square).
Another great option to watch several fireworks at once is to take a trip along the Moscow River on a river boat. For this, direct routes between Kievsky Station and Novospassky Bridge are most suitable.
Traditionally, most Muscovites watch fireworks at the capital's viewing platforms, and the Victory Day fireworks are no exception. The most suitable sites for this are observation areas near the buildings of Moscow State University and the Russian Academy of Sciences. Advice: usually a lot of people gather there, so in order to avoid unpleasant situations, it is better not to go there with children.
Another excellent observation point, which few people know about, is located on the roof of the gate to Gorky Park. True, for the opportunity not only to see the fireworks, but also to examine them through the binoculars installed there, you will have to pay
Finally, you can enjoy the view of the sky with colorful lights in any of the capital’s parks. A particularly beautiful view will open from Poklonnaya Gora and the “floating bridge” of Zaryadye Park.
In addition, in the central district, fireworks can be viewed from Gorky Park, Bauman Garden, Hermitage Garden, Tagansky Park and Krasnaya Presnya Park.
Public transport operation
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On May 9, Mosgortrans routes will operate according to a Sunday schedule with the maximum number of rolling stock from 12:00 to 19:00. At the same time, during the day, 55 routes were canceled or changed due to the parade on Red Square.
The metro and MCC operate as usual - until one in the morning. During the parade, the metro stations "Revolution Square", "Okhotny Ryad", "Teatralnaya", "Alexandrovsky Sad", "Borovitskaya" and "Lenin Library" were open for entry and transfer only.
Lobby No. 2 of the Park Pobedy station is open only for entrance. On this day it will be possible to exit to the odd side of Kutuzovsky Prospekt towards Victory Park only from lobby No. 1.
After the parade, the central stations "Revolution Square", "Okhotny Ryad", "Alexandrovsky Sad" and "Arbatskaya" of the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line, "Borovitskaya", "Lubyanka", "Kuznetsky Most", "Kitai-Gorod", "Pushkinskaya" , "Chekhovskaya", "Tverskaya", "Park Kultury" of the Sokolnicheskaya and Circle lines, as well as at the Oktyabrskaya metro station of the Circle and Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya lines, "Vorobyovy Gory", "University" and "Sportivnaya" stopped accepting passengers. You can go out into the city from them.
Suburban trains on May 9 will carry passengers according to the Sunday schedule. An additional train will be assigned to the Kursk direction. In addition, 64 electric trains will additionally stop at the Moscow-Sortirovochnaya-Kyiv station - this is the closest commuter station to Poklonnaya Gora.
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An extensive program has been prepared for Victory Day in Moscow: residents and guests of the city will enjoy concerts with the participation of military bands and Russian pop stars, a painting master class, reading letters from the front, an exhibition of secret documents and much more.
Festive program on Poklonnaya Hill
The celebration on Poklonnaya Hill will begin with the broadcast of the Victory Parade at 10:00. After this, a concert will take place here, at which the Mariinsky Theater Symphony Orchestra, the Central Military Orchestra of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, soloists of the Moscow Operetta Theater Vasilisa Nikolaeva and Vladislav Kiryukhin, the group “Respublika” and many others will perform.
At 19:00 - a minute of silence in memory of those killed in the Great Patriotic War. Then Sergei Zhigunov, Ekaterina Guseva, Sati Kazanova, Marina Devyatova, Elena Maksimova, Ruslan Alekhno, Dmitry Dyuzhev, Tamara Gverdtsiteli, Alexander Buinov and musicians of the Central Border Ensemble of the FSB of Russia will appear on stage.
The concert will end at 22:00. Free admission.
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Songs about war at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior
At 10:00, the Victory Parade will be broadcast near the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. From 16:00 to 18:00 there will be a concert where guests will hear popular songs about the war in modern interpretation. Golden hits of the Soviet stage and original songs will also be performed.
At 19:00 there is a minute of silence. After it, the orchestra will perform under the direction of People's Artist of Russia Pavel Ovsyannikov.
At 20:30, popular Russian artists will take the stage to perform songs from the war and post-war years. Free admission.
War cinema on Pushkin Square
At 09:00 a film concert will begin on Pushkinskaya Square, and after it guests will see a broadcast of the Victory Parade. Films about the war will also be shown here, starting at 11:15 and 13:05. Viewers will also be told about how such films were created - from films shot during the war years to modern ones.
At 18:00 the concert will begin, Diana Gurtskaya, Sogdiana, the group “Brilliant”, Anita Tsoi and others will perform.
At 19:00 there is a minute of silence in memory of the victims. Afterwards the festive concert will continue. At 21:00 the karaoke program of the musical group “Turetsky Choir” starts.
At 22:00 the fireworks display will be broadcast on the big screen.
Free admission.
What the museums have in store
Military museums can be visited for free. The State Defense Museum of Moscow, the Zelenograd Museum, the Panorama Museum “Battle of Borodino”, the Museum of Heroes of the Soviet Union and Russia, the museum complex “History of the T-34 Tank” and others will not charge an entrance fee on May 8 and 9.
Each of them prepared a special program for Victory Day. For example, at 13:00 at the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War there will be a presentation of a video for the song “Kite”, filmed by students of a creative film studio. In the Big Cinema and Concert Hall at 16:00, guests will see the play “I will return...”, which is based on front-line letters from Boris Vasiliev’s story “Exhibit No...”. At 17:30 they will show the documentary film “How I Became a Teacher” about the writer and veteran of the Great Patriotic and Soviet-Japanese Wars Pyotr Mikhin.
The Moscow State Defense Museum invites you to the theatrical interactive program “Front Behind the Front Line”. One of the central themes of this day is the partisan movement. Guests will be told not only about their exploits, but also about their everyday life. Starts at 12:00 and 15:00.
The photo exhibition “Eternal Flame” will be presented at the Zelenograd Museum. It will be dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the creation of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier memorial complex near the Kremlin wall. The exhibition will be open from 10:00 to 20:00.
Flowers will be laid at the memorial site of the Great Patriotic War at the Museum of Heroes of the Soviet Union and Russia. A festive concert will also be held here.
They will teach you how to paint military-historical miniatures at the Battle of Borodino panorama museum at the Steadfast Tin Soldier master class. Starts at 14:00. At the “History of the T-34 Tank” museum, guests will be invited to complete interactive creative tasks.
May 9 is the last day when you can see the exhibition “1942. At the Victory Headquarters" in New Manege. It is unique in that for the first time it shows documents from the highest authorities, whose decisions influenced the outcome of hostilities in 1942. The exhibition itself runs until June 25.
No pre-registration required.
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Military equipment and field kitchen: holiday in the parks
IN Gorky Park the holiday will start at 10:00 and end at 22:00. An installation of letters from soldiers from the front will appear on the walls of the main entrance. Their texts will be heard from the speakers. A live broadcast of the Victory Parade will be shown on the balustrade, and a concert will take place on the main stage.
You can see military equipment and try field cuisine on Pushkinskaya Embankment. There will also be areas where park guests will dance to the music of the war years.
In the Muzeon art park they will tell you how many days the Battle of Stalingrad lasted, how many bombs were dropped on Moscow and how many cities turned into ruins during the war.
Festival Square Sokolniki Park turn into a chessboard. Figures representing the armies of the USSR and Germany will fight there. Air fountains “Tongues of Flame”, tantamaresques in the form of guns of the Great Patriotic War and signs with poignant lines from the last letters of soldiers from the front - this and much more will also be seen by guests of the park. In addition, congratulations to veterans can be left on the installation in the form of a large triangular letter. A festive concert will also be held here. The events will take place from 13:00 to 22:00.
For visitors Tagansky Park prepared a documentary play “Katya + Sergey. Letters." The production was based on the correspondence between Major General Sergei Kolesnikov and his wife. The choir of the Mishanyan and Co. Orchestra and the Valery Bukreev Orchestra will perform on the park stage. Everyone will learn to dance in the style of the 1940s. The holiday will end with a children's parade - young Muscovites will march through the stadium and park alleys in homemade costumes. Event times are from 10:00 to 22:00.
The atmosphere of the 1940s will be recreated in Hermitage Garden. Guests will see Soviet vintage cars and hear music performed by a military brass band and a male chamber choir. The Victory Ball “At six o’clock in the evening...” will begin at 18:00. Everyone will dance with the veterans to the songs of the war years, and at open lessons, guests will learn to dance the Krakowiak, tango and waltz. The celebration will end at 22:00.
The Walking Band Festival will take place in Bauman Garden. The brass bands “Mosbras”, ½ Orchestra, “Polite People”, “Second Line” and Pakava It will perform here. Master classes on graffiti, beatboxing and freestyling will be held for young people. There will also be a retro zone with treats. Starts at 13:00. The events will take place until 22:00.
IN Biryulevsky Arboretum at 12:00 the celebration “Gratitude of Generations” will begin. The program includes performances by creative groups, congratulations to veterans and master classes. Everyone can make paper flowers.
Victory Day at the Moscow Spring festival
In the living room pavilion on Tverskaya Square, visitors will be taught how to decorate photo albums and postcards for veterans. Classes will be held from 11:00 to 16:00. All guests are also invited to the concert “Poems and Songs about War”.
At the venue next door, on Stoleshnikov Lane, guests will be treated to a retro program “Songs and Music of the Soviet Period.”
Performances by young musicians, dance master classes and much more will take place on Novy Arbat. The concert will begin here at 12:30. The children's group "Inspiration", the children's and youth choir "Joy", the choir of school No. 1060 and the Popov Big Children's Choir will perform. At 19:00 the traditional jazz ensemble Moscow Trad Jazz Band will take the stage.
At 12:00, the “Field Hospital” will open on Revolution Square. The youngest guests will be taught first aid. There will also be a lesson on making bouquets of fresh flowers that can be given to veterans.
Greeting cards using the scrapbooking technique and military hats will be made in the park near the monument to Karl Marx. A front-line album and a brooch from the St. George ribbon will be made on Kuznetsky Most (near the Central Department Store).
You will learn how to bake bread from rye flour, cook jelly and prepare a dessert in the shape of a star at the culinary studio on Klimentovsky Lane. Master classes will be held from 12:00 to 18:45.
