Happy Victory Day!

[Евгений]

On the Red Square in Moscow Victory Parade began. Broadcast from the square leads channel "Russia 1.
She opened the parade company of drummers of the Moscow Military Music School. For barabanschinkami area must pass band bearers with the state flag of Russia, the Victory Banner, the flag of the Armed Forces, and other flags. Then the parade will continue Marines, Air Force and Navy employees in the form of the Great Patriotic War. After that the area be made by foreign troops, and behind them - horse half-squadron. Continue to parade columns of different units and military educational institutions, and then the square will be technology. Then fly over the area of aircraft and helicopters, and complete the parade of military bands.

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in the parade participated 10,5 thousands of Russian troops and about 1,000 soldiers from the CIS countries, Poland, Britain, France and the United States. The event involved 161 pieces of military equipment, as well as 127 aircraft and helicopters.

In particular, the Red Square will be armored vehicles "Tiger", and reconnaissance patrol cars "Watch", BTR-80 armored infantry fighting vehicles BMP-3, T-90A, howitzers "MSTA-S self-propelled installation Buk- M2, flame-throwing system TOC, multiple launch rocket systems "Tornado", anti-aircraft missile systems S-400 air defense missile-gun complexes "Pantsir-C, tactical Iskander-M launchers and missile system Topol- M. In the sky above the square fly helicopters Mi-8, Mi-28N Night Hunter, Mi-24 Mi-26 Ka-27 Ka-50 Black Shark, Ka-52 Alligator, and AN-124 "Ruslan", the Su-27, IL-80, MiG-29, A-50, Su-27, IL-78, Su-24M, Yak-130, Tu-160, Su-25, Su-34.

The event was managed by the commander of the Moscow Military District, Colonel General Valery Gerasimov. Parades and Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov. During the parade, addressed the commander in chief, President Dmitry Medvedev.