Photo: Alexander Vasiliev
On Tuesday, Vladivostok was a dress rehearsal for the parade in honor of Victory Day.
Through the main streets of the city marched columns of military personnel and emergency services, and military equipment. This year\’s festival will be conducting and participating foreign troops — from France and the United States.
Rehearsal itself out most ambitious in recent years, because it was as close to the spectacle that awaits us on May 9. There was only one exception — on the podium was the Vladivostok veterans. However, the number of citizens who came to look at the preparations for a large-scale parade, it is still impressive. Some, in search of a pleasant appearance, tried to break through the cordon, but law enforcement officers to quickly suppress these attempts — two of the most persistent people even had to be fined.
It is worth noting that in the May parade will take part over a thousand people. Among them, the company commander of the Pacific Fleet headquarters, formations of surface ships and submarines, naval coastal defense troops, historical company PNI, smart companies Emergencies Ministry, the Interior Ministry and the Moscow State University Nevelskoy, sailors and officers from the U.S. Navy destroyer «Lassen» as well as the French Navy frigate » Vendemiaire. »
One of the most popular episodes of the parade spectators — transportation of military equipment — this time to gather at the park Svetlanskaya of anti-aircraft missiles «OSA» and «C-300» self-propelled «Red», the various military weapons and vehicles, a total of about forty units .
