Exactly at 22 o'clock the first volleys of fireworks will sound. Will come, in literally, the highlight of May 9th. Looking into the evening sky, everyone will think about their own. But there is something that unites this day. With simple and warm thoughts, today almost eight million people across Russia took part in the procession " Immortal Regiment" Two million more than last year. The action became truly nationwide. 850 thousand people came out in Moscow alone. This became important to all of us.
Especially from a bird's eye view you can see how this river of life and memory stretches through the center of Moscow. A real sea of people. And the day that united, connected all generations with the thread of Victory - both those killed in battle and the living; and those who had this happiness - to kiss their hands and hug them tightly, thanking for a peaceful life, and those who know their heroes only from stories and letters, from not always clear photographs that they keep at home as the most valuable memory. They brought them out today for everyone to see - here he is, my hero!
Between the Dynamo metro station and the square Belorussky railway station An hour before the start of the procession there is a complete feeling of celebration. With us now are all those who decided to walk this entire path - almost six kilometers to Vasilievsky Spusk and definitely pass by iconic place. After all, here, on the platform of the Belorussky Station, they said goodbye in 1941, seeing off to the front, and rejoiced, meeting those who survived and gave victory.
The faces are all one, simple and open. Eyes, who know the price life and such dear happiness - to live without war, without fear and tears. Their gift to us today cannot be appreciated in any way. All we can do is just walk with them in the same formation, clutching frames with cloudy photographs to the white knuckles and guessing as we go similar features in their great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.
Some have no cards left with their heroes at all. And it was a difficult time - there was no time for photographs. And some simply did not survive terrible years. But what is important is that the memory is alive. And many carry whole scatterings of photographs. Families went to war.
“This is my father, this is his uncle, they survived the war. And the older brother - he went missing. These are three brothers, all of them survived. And one lost his memory and lost his family,” say the march participants.
Looking at the portraits, you clearly understand: from the first day they all believed in Victory, in the fact that they would soon return home, but they would never forget their fighting friends. They believed, and therefore did not extinguish their living feelings for their closest and dearest, who knew how to wait like no one else.
An amazing story happened today almost... live. Two sisters who had never seen each other in 60 years met during the " Immortal Regiment“- they recognized each other from identical photographs and told Channel One journalist Pavel Krasnov about their father.
“My granddaughter suddenly saw a portrait of our grandfather, my father. We approach, I say: you must be Lena! Daughter from his first wife. And this turned out to be our father. And so we met today,” says a participant in the action.
In the column of the “Immortal Regiment” today is Vladimir Putin with a portrait of his father, Vladimir Spiridonovich Putin. He went to the front in June 1941 and, defending the Nevsky patch, a key bridgehead during the breakthrough Leningrad blockade, was seriously wounded by a grenade fragment. And today there is not a single soldier’s fate, much less a feat, that would not stir the soul.
How often after the war they tried to find each other. That pain ached, but front-line friendship was stronger than tank armor and gave no rest. “Where are you now, fellow soldiers?” - they whispered all their lives like a prayer. And it seems to be heard everywhere today: “We are all here!”
People are cheerful and friendly, sincere and cheerful. But to fully describe the sensations from here, from inside the procession in simple words impossible. It's quite cool today, but the air itself seems to be heated with emotion. Here, on Pushkin Square, there are no longer hundreds of us, or even thousands, but tens of thousands - people with portraits are flocking from all the surrounding alleys. As they say, our regiment is arriving, and ahead is the heart of the capital.
For the first time in 75 years, in the hands of a great-great-grandson, a wooden accordion today began to sing “Katyusha” to the delight of the people.
“Our great-grandfather, he loved her, he never parted with her. Unfortunately, he died. And finally we convey these sounds, this joy to the rest of the people,” says a participant in the action.
Much of what keeps the warmth of the hands of the winners has been taken with them by their descendants today.
“This is my grandfather’s helmet. He was a tanker until he became a pilot. During the war it was very noisy, there were explosions, and that’s why it was specially made so that at least a little bit you couldn’t hear them, it was quiet,” says a participant in the procession.
Military marches on bagpipes are not at all exotic for good spirits. Another reminder that this was our common victory over fascism with the allied countries, from where dozens of descendants of World War II soldiers also came. Thomas Connolly - Scots Guardsman. He smashed the Nazis in France, Belgium and Germany. His son Gordon Connolly says he couldn't help but come out.
“This war united everyone and showed what a feat Russia accomplished for the whole world. My father told me that we owe it to you for the fact that we now live in the world - it was you who lost millions of people, more than all other countries,” he says.
“My father fought shoulder to shoulder with Soviet soldiers. He said they were great guys. He liberated Europe, and it’s very important to me that today he is at this grand celebration,” says John Paterson, the son of a World War II veteran.
For the first time, the grandson of Yuri Nikulin, his full namesake, along with his great-grandsons Stanislav and Sophia, are walking with a portrait of his famous grandfather in the “Immortal Regiment”. Senior Sergeant Nikulin was awarded with medals“For courage” and “For the defense of Leningrad.” It is not easy to recognize another legend of our cinema in this photo - at the front, Anatoly Papanov commanded an anti-aircraft artillery platoon, and in 1942 he was seriously wounded.
“For him, of course, Victory Day was the most main holiday per year. He put on his orders and medals because he had them. When their platoon occupied some village, and the whole village was burned out, and the next morning they hear a rooster crowing! Dad says: we covered him with an overcoat, gave him some water, fed him something, and they had this rooster as a symbol peaceful life“says Elena Papanova, daughter of Anatoly Papanova.
“Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, my grandfather’s sister, and even today people come up and ask. This is the same Zoya who was in the partisan detachment, who was the first woman hero Soviet Union. This is my duty, and it is very important for me that her feat is not forgotten. And so that people remember those who fought for them during the Great Patriotic War,” says German Kosmodemyansky, a descendant of Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya.
The most poignant stories in this ocean of people are, perhaps, the fates of the “children of the regiment,” boys who had to endure something that even many adults can barely endure.
“At the age of 13, he was left an orphan, his parents died, and he was picked up by troops passing by,” says a participant in the procession.
And how many more such front-line stories are told in a voice trembling with excitement, how many soldiers' destinies and views - a countless number. But each of us is here today only to bow and say to those who, under fire and in the rear, did not spare themselves: thank you, dear ones, for the Victory! Thank you for not sticking to the price!
“We are grateful to them for the Victory, for this peace that we now have. They had a dream to walk along Red Square during the parade. Thanks to this campaign, we can make their dream come true. I brought my dad here; he died in February 1942. And so I brought him so that he could feel that he had contributed to this victory. It is important for us to see our grandfather through, because he himself could not pass here. I would like that he, even in our arms, would pass here, today on this day. This is ours family celebration, our family tradition. We want to pass this on to our great-grandchildren, my daughter. We remember how they celebrated this holiday when they were alive. We weren’t told much; this is a celebration with tears in our eyes. But it was clear from their faces what they had gone through,” say participants in the “Immortal Regiment” action.
Here, on Red Square, it seems that the people in the portraits even look at us especially warmly. These eyes, which have seen a lot of grief and horror, seem to ask us over time: don’t let this happen again! And they silently thank those to whom they gave life. For the fact that they remember, appreciate and understand how important it is for them, who have gone down in history forever, to be together here and now. Walk in this quiet formation. Rather, even float above our heads in the same place as the peaceful sky.
For more than three hours this endless stream of smiles and glances did not subside. This series of thoughtful and cheerful faces. The songs of those years, bitter and joyful stories did not stop. And the May evening was filled with a clear feeling that everyone did not carry a portrait of a hero, but led him, his dear one, through the whole of Moscow, tightly holding his hand.
Russia celebrates the 73rd anniversary of the victory on Wednesday, May 9 Soviet troops above German fascist invaders. In addition to military parades dedicated to the holiday, the regions are also hosting the “Immortal Regiment” event; up to a million people are going to take part in it in Moscow.
The Immortal Regiment is a procession of people with photographs of front-line soldiers and home front workers during the Great Patriotic War, the Wordyou website reports. Without the memory of the past there can be no peaceful future - this is the motto that guides the organizers and participants. The procession always causes awe and trembling, because it shows firsthand the countless number of those who laid down their health and lives in the name of protecting the Motherland from the enemy.
Participation in the event is voluntary and free. There is no need to register in advance - you can register on the website if you wish. Also this year, the promotion service publishes user stories about heroic relatives.
Immortal Regiment in Moscow 2018 - what time does it start, route
The gathering will begin from noon to one o'clock in the afternoon and will last until 15:00 - the procession column is expected to be divided into 25 sectors. About 40 volunteers will be assigned to each of them. Participants will have to walk along Leningradsky Prospekt, 1st Tverskaya-Yamskaya, Tverskaya, Manezhnaya and Red Squares. Next, the columns will be distributed to Moskvoretskaya embankment and the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge. The procession is expected to last four hours - until seven in the evening.
You can join the procession or watch the action at any point along the route. At the same time, the organizers advise that if you infiltrate the column, do it not “from the head”, but in the middle-tail, so as not to violate the integrity of the procession.
You can take water and a snack with you. Be sure to dress appropriately for the weather and wear something comfortable. Also don't forget commemorative photo"military" relative. Many, for lack of a photo, walk in a column with balloons and flowers, or with signs indicating the date of birth and death of a relative or information about his personal military history.
“We think that about 1 million people will take part, last year more than 800 thousand people came, but then it was very cold, it was raining and snowing. This year the weather promises to be good, so we assume that the figure may approach and even cross the 1 million mark,” say the organizers.
Immortal Regiment - blocking traffic in Moscow May 9, 2018
During the Immortal Regiment procession, Leningradsky Prospekt from the Dynamo metro station to the center, 1st Tverskaya-Yamskaya, Tverskaya and Mokhovaya streets, Teatralny proezd, Kremlevskaya and Moskvoretskaya embankments, as well as the Bolshoi Moskvoretsky Bridge will be blocked.
Also, not all metro stations along the procession will be open. “Dynamo” and “Belorusskaya” will not be closed, “Mayakovskaya” will be closed as Tverskaya is filled with protesters, but “Chekhovskaya”, “Pushkinskaya” and “Tverskaya” will be closed at exactly 13:00. You can join the column by exiting any of the listed stations, but you will not be able to join the “Immortal Regiment” by exiting any alley on Tverskaya. Therefore, plan your route in advance.
Moscow authorities urge citizens to be tolerant and use public transport on the holiday so as not to create unnecessary excitement by overloading the roads with traffic jams.
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The “Immortal Regiment” continues in Moscow and other cities. The stream of people seems endless. And it’s not surprising - on May 9, we need rituals that allow us to pay tribute to our loved ones and celebrate victory. But Gazeta.Ru is finishing its online broadcast and wishes everyone a festive mood. And, of course, peace.
Our colleagues from the photo service have collected the most striking shots of the “Immortal Regiment”, which is still ongoing in Moscow.
Photo report: Procession "Immortal Regiment" in Moscow
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One of the march participants in Moscow told Gazeta.Ru that he started moving in a column near the Dynamo metro station at 15.00, and only now approached the Central Telegraph building at the beginning of Tverskaya (intersection with Gazetny Lane). That is, he spent almost three hours in the Immortal Regiment. According to him, about a million people came to the rally. In general, these data coincide with the information disseminated by the media. We are waiting for official confirmation of this.
There are a lot of children in the Immortal Regiment today. Many participants write about the importance of linking generations in memory of the heroism of veterans.
“The Immortal Regiment” has been going on in Moscow for almost two hours, but the number of people carrying portraits of their loved ones-heroes is not decreasing. Tverskaya and Tverskaya-Yamskaya are still filled with dense rows of people.
Muscovites walk along Bolshaya Ordynka. At the intersection with Klimentovsky Lane, riot police officers invite all participants in the action to go to the Tretyakovskaya metro station, reports a Gazeta.Ru correspondent.
Many participants in the marches different cities Russia is told that participants in the Second World War did not like to talk about the war. Nevertheless, bit by bit, each family collects its own story of those terrible historical events.
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin also participates in the Immortal Regiment. He congratulates the veterans. “Unfortunately, every year there are fewer and fewer of them around us. But the more valuable are the minutes of communication with them,” the politician emphasizes.
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In Lugansk, the “Immortal Regiment” action is also taking place with broad support from the population. In total, about 50 thousand citizens took to the streets of the city. Organizers say residents of areas controlled by Kiev also joined the march.
Even foreign tourists joined the Immortal Regiment. On TV they show a guy from the USA, whose ancestor participated in the opening of the second front.
Next to President Putin is Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. He also holds in his hands a portrait of his hero the same terrible war, The victory in which united the whole world.
President Vladimir Putin joined the marchers on Red Square. Since 2015, he has joined the Immortal Regiment every year and carries a photograph of his father.
The procession of the “Immortal Regiment” has officially started in Moscow. According to some estimates, about a million people will walk along Tverskaya Street.
The Immortal Regiment is also present in virtual space. Social media users say short stories about the great exploits of their ancestors. Therefore, if you do not have the opportunity to go outside the streets of your city, share a fragment of your family history with other users.
The Immortal Regiment initiative first received the status of an all-Russian (but not political) event in 2015, when the whole country was preparing to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Victory over fascism. On May 9, 2015, the “Regiment” column was led by Russian President Vladimir Putin, who carried a portrait of his front-line father along Tverskaya.
By the way, in 2015, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Great Britain, Germany, Ireland, Iceland, Lebanon, Norway, USA, Estonia and South Korea joined the action.
This year the “Immortal Regiment” is gathering a truly huge number of people. For example, this is what the procession in Yekaterinburg looks like. And this despite the fact that the weather in the capital of the Urals today is not the most favorable.
The first “Immortal Regiment” took place in 2012 in Tomsk. It was organized by local journalists. Then onto the streets of this Siberian city About 6 thousand people came out. Already in next year More than 120 cities and towns in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan joined the action. The number of participants has already increased to 180 thousand people. And a year later, in 2014, protests took place in Belarus and Israel.
The geography of the "Regiment" is still expanding. In 2018, for the first time, marches took place in Syria, Switzerland and even Antarctica.
In Moscow, the procession is just getting ready to start, but live broadcasts already show a queue at Tverskaya Zastava Square, then a little further than the Dynamo metro station. This, by the way, is more than 2.5 km. Last year, more than 500 thousand people took part in the action in the capital. Apparently, this year this record will be broken.
The purpose of the action is to preserve and pass on the memory of our ancestors, who at the cost of their lives gave us peace and freedom. This noble task unites people all over the world, and therefore the action has crossed state borders— processions of the “Immortal Regiment” take place not only in Russian cities, but also in countries former USSR, Europe, USA. The organizers of the processions told Gazeta.Ru the day before about how events were taking place in other countries.
Good afternoon, dear readers! The “Immortal Regiment” is marching across the country - a non-profit, non-political, non-state action that grew out of a small civil initiative and united many countries of the world. Everyone can take to the streets with photographs of relatives who took part in the Great Patriotic War and join the procession to eternal flame or other memorial place in the city.
In Moscow the action starts at 15.00. "Gazeta.Ru" shares the stories of the participants of the action and talks about how the processions take place in Russia and abroad. Stay with us.
Millions of people took part in the Immortal Regiment marches, which took place on May 9 in all Russian regions. To the action.
"We survived thanks to the efforts of all the people"
The "Immortal Regiment" began the procession with Far East. About four thousand people took part in the Immortal Regiment march in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. According to the organizers of the Immortal Regiment procession, last year one and a half thousand people took part in it.
Despite the very bad weather, a procession took place in the easternmost locality Russia - the village of Provideniya in Chukotka.
"The weather was very bad - snow and rain and strong wind, so it might have been less people than expected - up to 100 people. But we survived, made a circle of honor in the square and went to the house of culture, where we all sang the song “Victory Day” together,” Svetlana Chuiko, coordinator of the action in the village of Provideniya (population two thousand), told TASS.
In Vladivostok, according to the organizers, up to 50 thousand people took part in the action. The number of participants in the action was so large that the route of the column was doubled - up to six kilometers.
In Irkutsk last year, 20 thousand people took part in the action. This year, according to the organizers, there are more than twice as many - 47 thousand.
The procession of the “Immortal Regiment” in Yakutsk was attended by 20 thousand people (last year - seven thousand), and in Blagoveshchensk - 9,500.
In Khabarovsk, 50 thousand people took part in the procession. A striking difference from last year, when 800 people took part in the procession.
"IN modern Russia there was nothing more patriotic. Even, probably, throughout history - for our multinational people to rise up like this and people come out with portraits of their ancestors, war veterans and home front workers. Direct proof- number of participants. In particular, about five thousand people have already announced the participation of about five thousand people in Khabarovsk alone, and there are already ten thousand throughout the region - and this does not take into account Khabarovsk,” the head previously told Pravda.Ru regional headquarters branch of the ODD "Immortal Regiment of Russia" in the Khabarovsk Territory Andrey Beloglazov.
Despite the bad weather, the Immortal Regiment gathered 20 thousand people in Krasnoyarsk (compared to 3,500 last year).
In Simferopol, 40 thousand people took part in the procession (in 2015 - seven thousand).
In Tula, 180 thousand people took part in the procession of the “Immortal Regiment” (last year - 100,000).
In Penza, 11 thousand people took part in the Immortal Regiment procession (last year - 2500), and in Belgorod - 25 thousand (3500 in 2015).
Immortal Regiment in Primorye
“The march of the Immortal Regiment in Kaliningrad lasted more than an hour,” said Sergei Yakushev, coordinator of the action in Kaliningrad. According to the organizers of the procession, the column several times completely filled the avenue, which was more than 1 km long. More than 30 thousand people walked with portraits of relatives and friends who participated in the Great Patriotic War.
Participants of the action in Krasnodar region became 356 thousand people. 75 thousand people marched in the column of the “Immortal Regiment” in the capital of Kuban (42 thousand last year).
And in Kazan, 45 thousand people joined the “Immortal Regiment” (two thousand in 2015).
In St. Petersburg, up to 500 thousand people took part in the action, according to volunteers.
Head of the regional executive committee of the branch social movement“Immortal Regiment of Russia” in St. Petersburg Dmitry Sayapin told Pravda.Ru about the history of his family: “We were looking for our great-grandfather for 70 years, because we did not know his burial place. And last year, in May, together with the search engines, personally, with part of our family, they raised his remains, found them in the forests of the Novgorod region, and buried them in mid-May - near Staraya Russa."
The largest "Immortal Regiment" took place on May 9 in Moscow. More than 700 thousand people took part in the action here.
To the participants of the action in Russian capital Vladimir Putin joined.
The head of state, together with other protesters, walked along Red Square. In his hands, the president held a portrait of his father, Vladimir Spiridonovich Putin, who volunteered to go to the front.
Immortal Regiment in Voronezh
"The memory of this war, it seems to me, is in our genetic level. We can say that we absorb it with our mothers’ milk. And, naturally, no one abroad - I mean those who were not born in Russia - can understand why this really has such a meaning for us great importance. Our front line practically passed through every house and through every family. No one has lost as much as we have lost. And it’s very good that this initiative has now appeared,” the director of the Museum previously told Pravda.Ru modern history Russia.
“Historical memory is what unites us all, makes us a people. That’s why we perceive with such pain when monuments to our heroes and our soldiers are destroyed. That’s why we are still trying to find the remains and return to the families the memory of those who disappeared without lead. As they say: "The war is not over until it is buried the last soldier". Restoration of historical justice, what Russian people proved - he can store historical memory, can protect it - of course, this is part of our national idea", emphasized Irina Velikanova.
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In the center of Moscow, as in many cities around the world, on May 9 the “Immortal Regiment” procession took place. People carried signs with images of their relatives who fought in the Great Patriotic War, flags of Russia and the Soviet Union, RIA Novosti reports. Many of them are dressed in uniform Soviet soldiers, infantrymen, pilots.
People came to the rally different ages, many of them are children. Almost all participants are tied St. George ribbons. They also carried flowers and balloons.
This year the procession ended at about 20:00. “This year the action lasted longer than usual due to the fact that a record number of people took part in it - more than a million people,” Interfax reported. official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Irina Volk.
Thus, the “Immortal Regiment” in Moscow set a new record - last year the event attracted 850 thousand people.
In particular, the procession was attended by more than 100 employees of the RSK MiG corporation, as well as volunteers who carried signs with images of famous fighter pilots and designers of the corporation, including fighter pilot Stepan Mikoyan, who fought at Stalingrad, and designer Vano Mikoyan .
Vladimir Putin also joined the Immortal Regiment march. Putin is participating in this action for the fourth time. All past years, Putin carried a photograph of his father in his hands. As in previous years, actor Vasily Lanovoy walked next to the head of state.
In addition, along with Putin, the procession was attended by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, who had previously watched the parade on Red Square and laid wreaths at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. The Israeli Prime Minister carried in his hands a portrait of the Jewish hero of the Red Army, Wolf Vilensky. The Serbian President held an image of his grandfather.
Putin, Vucic and Netanyahu joined the procession at the Nikolskaya Tower of the Kremlin and followed in the ranks of the protesters to the Spasskaya Tower. Then they headed inside the Kremlin.
In the morning a parade took place on Red Square in Moscow, dedicated to the Day Victory. The parade was hosted by Acting Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergei Shoigu, the procession was commanded by the Commander-in-Chief Ground Forces Oleg Salyukov. The latest technology was shown at the parade military equipment, many of its types were presented to the public for the first time.
The “Immortal Regiment” action is also taking place in St. Petersburg. Its participants began a procession along Nevsky Prospekt, Interfax reports. Before the start of the procession, a column of retro cars with veterans of the Great Patriotic War drove through the city center. Patriotic War and home front workers.
Participants of the “Immortal Regiment” with portraits of veteran relatives lined up on the area from Alexander Nevsky Square to Suvorovsky Prospekt. The governor takes part in the procession Northern capital Georgy Poltavchenko, speaker Legislative Assembly Vyacheslav Makarov, plenipotentiary representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Northwestern Federal District Alexander Beglov, members of public organizations.
City authorities expect that the number of march participants will exceed 700 thousand people. At about 16:00 on Dvortsovaya it will begin festive concert. At 22:00 there will be a fireworks display in honor of the 73rd anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War.
Meanwhile, as the radio station “Echo of Moscow” reports, reports are coming from the regions about being forced to participate in the “Immortal Regiment” action. First of all, this concerns schoolchildren and students, since in many regions the main organizers of the action were the departments of education and youth of local administrations.
Thus, in Saratov teachers were required to participate in the action high school N44 and parents of students - 10 people from each class, reports the Svobodnye Novosti agency. In Grozny, students who did not attend the march were threatened with not being allowed to take tests, the portal reports