The Great Victory Parade was held on the square in 1905. Thousands of people gathered today in the city center to thank the veterans of the Great Patriotic War who suffered all the hardships and provided us with a peaceful sky over their heads. On how to celebrate this momentous day in the photo report of JustMedia. En.

The military parade started from the moment of silence. Then, along the square, front-line soldiers and workers of the rear moved. Military parade opened three legendary T-34 tanks.

Also on this day, anti-aircraft missile systems Buk, Tiger armored vehicles, Grad rocket launcher systems and Hurricane rocket launchers, T-72 tanks, self-propelled artillery pieces and Iskander tactical missile systems, Flamethrower heavy systems and combat vehicles.

Mi-8 and Mi-24 combat helicopters, Su-24M front-line bombers and MiG-31BM interceptors have risen to the sky..

In total, more than 60 military vehicles and 2.3 thousand people took part in the military parade.

During the Great Patriotic War more than 100 thousand Sverdlovsk residents left the front, 41,800 people did not return from this war - 21,400 were killed in battles, 4780 died in hospitals from the received wounds, 15500 were missing, 106 thousand were tortured in fascist concentration camps. 62 Urals are awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.

In the city during the war the headquarters of the Ural military district was located, on the basis of which more than 500 different military units and formations were formed, including the 22nd Army and the legendary Ural Volunteer Tank Corps.

After the end of the parade, the Immortal Regiment once again passed through the center of the city - the descendants of those who defended the Motherland on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War, but did not live to the present day, posters carrying photos of their veterans.