The procession of the "Immortal regiment" began in the capital of Russia

The action " Immortal regiment ", which promises to be the biggest of all events celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Victory in the great Patriotic war, started on the first day weekend, may 9, at the center of the capital of Russia.
Procession will go from the Belarusian square on Tverskaya-Yamskaya and Tverskaya streets through Okhotny Ryad to red square, Manezhnaya square. It is expected that the parade will last about 2 hours and will End in the area of Bolshoy Moskvoretsky bridge and on Moskvoretskaya embankment.
organizers of the event will be attended by more than 200 thousand People. According to their statements, with each passing day the Number of those wishing to take part in it grew, and to summarize its outcome will be possible only after its completion, reports RIA " Novosti ". Thus for an hour and a half before the action it has already gathered more than 100 thousand People, reports news Agency. Part of the "Immortal regiment" includes those who remained on the margins of the great Patriotic war, who worked round the clock in factories for the front, who was killed in the siege of Leningrad, who defended Moscow and liberated Sevastopol. They are all on the first day of the weekend will be in red square - their grandchildren and great-grandchildren will carry on the center of the capital portraits and photographs of these heroes that will forever written in the " Immortal regiment ". Before the action "Immortal regiment" were held in the far East and Siberia, and similarly in Grozny. The number of participants in events at home, in Tomsk, the expertise of the organizers, was a record - about 30 thousand People. The action "Immortal regiment" was held in Tomsk in 2012. A year later she was engulfed 120 cities in 2014 - five cities in seven countries. In the past year with portraits of fathers, grandfathers and great grandfathers have passed more than half a million people. In 2015, the Event officially became the Russian. By results of examination coordinators, it will involve more than a million people in the world. To hold the "Immortal regiment" In the current year is Expected to be more than a thousand settlements. In addition to Russia, the action will take part South Korea, Austria, Belarus, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Mongolia, Norway, Ukraine, USA, Estonia.


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