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Source: People’s Republic of China – State Council News
Vladivostok, May 9 (Xinhua) — A military parade in honor of the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War was held in the center of Vladivostok, the capital of the Far Eastern Federal District (FEFD), on Friday. About 1,900 people and over 50 units of modern and vintage equipment took part in the parade.
Before the parade began, the Russian national flag and the Victory Banner were carried out to the central street of the city to the music of “Sacred War”. After that, the Governor of Primorsky Krai Oleg Kozhemyako congratulated those gathered on the holiday and thanked the veterans for their feat.
The military parade started at 10:00. Commander of the Pacific Fleet Admiral Viktor Liina rode around the parade formation and congratulated the parade participants on the 80th anniversary of the Victory. Those gathered observed a minute of silence in memory of those who died during the Great Patriotic War. Artillery guns fired during the performance of the Russian National Anthem.
The parade procession was opened by a company of Nakhimov drummers. The parade included a group of standard-bearers with the standards of the fronts, parade units in the uniform of infantrymen, pilots and sailors of the wartime, a combined company of Pacific Fleet officers, submariners and sailors of the Primorsky flotilla of the Pacific Fleet’s mixed forces, a combined battalion of the Pacific Fleet’s naval aviation, as well as cadets, border guards, employees of the Federal Penitentiary Service, young army members and members of military-patriotic clubs.
After the parade companies passed along the central street of the city, a parade of military equipment began, in which more than 50 vehicles took part, including the legendary T-34 tanks, the Soviet heavy self-propelled artillery unit of the Great Patriotic War ISU-152, the modern T-80BV tank, BMP-3 infantry fighting vehicles, armored personnel carriers, Bal and Bastion coastal missile systems, the Tiger-M special-purpose armored car, the Uran-14 multifunctional robotic complex of engineering troops on a tracked chassis, the Murmansk electronic warfare complex, and other vehicles.
The military parade also took place in Khabarovsk, Blagoveshchensk, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Chita, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Ussuriysk and other cities of the Far East. –0–