In the Eastern Military District began active preparations for the military parade on the 68th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War.
Military parades involving military equipment held in Khabarovsk, Vladivostok, Ussuriisk, Belogorsk, Chita and Ulan-Ude, traditionally at 1000 local time.
Members of military parades have passed a single drill, training in the ranks and grand mouth. Technology, which will take part in the parades held maintenance, and moved to places for training.
The main parade of the Eastern Military District will be held in Khabarovsk on Lenin Square. In review under the Banner of Victory and the State Flag of the Russian Federation on the town square will be more than 1.5 thousand soldiers, representing the genus and species of Russian Armed Forces and law enforcement agencies in which military service is provided. As part of the mechanized column will feature about 50 pieces of military equipment, including T-80 tanks, BMP-2 BTR-80 anti-aircraft missile system S-300 missile systems «Tochka-U», multiple launch rocket systems «Grad», and various artillery pieces and mortars, cars «Hussar.»
Only in military parades in the Eastern Military District will be used more than 6700 soldiers and about 160 pieces of military equipment.