Extreme pastime. The most extreme entertainment

	Name	Location
	All-Russian action "St. George's Ribbon"
	Theatrical performances, concerts, creative and sports workshops, lectures	Parks of culture and recreation
	Motocross	Along the Garden Ring from Akademika Sakharov Avenue to Gorky Park
	Laying wreaths and flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and the monument to Georgy Zhukov
	Evening concerts

	Broadcasts of the Victory Parade on big screens
	Final concert of the Moscow Easter Festival with the Mariinsky Theater Symphony Orchestra conducted by Valery Gergiev
	Fireworks	16 special sites and 17 parks

Parade on Red Square on May 9, 2019

The parade will be opened by foot columns of cadets of military schools and active servicemen. According to the organizers, this year there will be many debutants who will walk along Red Square for the first time.

The culmination will be the procession of military equipment. The mechanized column will include:

Mobile ground missile systems "Yars"
Anti-aircraft missile systems S-400 and anti-aircraft gun 2S38
Operational-tactical missile systems "Iskander-M"
Armored personnel carriers "Boomerang"
Self-propelled anti-tank missile systems "Kornet"
Self-propelled artillery gun "Phlox"
Armored vehicles "Typhoon"
Multiple launch rocket system "Tornado-S"
Reconnaissance and strike robotic complex "Companion"

Viewers will also see the latest military equipment, and this year they are all cars:

Mini trucks Lada 4x4 Pickup will pass through Red Square.
Chaborz M-3 light, highly passable and armed tactical all-terrain vehicle.
Another novelty is the new command convertibles, Aurus executive class cars.

The parade will end with a flight of military aircraft and an air show.

18 helicopters and 56 aircraft of operational-tactical, long-range, military transport and army aviation of the Aerospace Forces, including the latest KA-62 helicopter and A-100 aircraft, will take part in the air part of the parade. In total - 74 cars, according to the number of years since the Victory Day.

Rehearsals for the Victory Day parade on Red Square

April 29 at 19:00
May 4 at 19:00
May 7 at 10:00 – dress rehearsal

Look military equipment it is possible along its route to Red Square from the street. Nizhniye Mnevniki, where she has been based since April 20. The equipment will pass along the Zvenigorod highway, then turn along the Garden Ring to the street. Tverskaya-Yamskaya, passing into Tverskaya, where there will be a stop and you can go to the cars and take photos.

The equipment is returning along Vasilyevsky Spusk, through the Kremlin Embankment, Vozdvizhenka Street and Novy Arbat, with a turn to the Garden Ring and Zvenigorodskoye Highway.

On April 29, the rehearsal will begin at 19:00, the second night rehearsal will take place on May 4, and on May 7 from 10:00 - a dress rehearsal, which will almost completely correspond to the Victory Day parade on May 9, 2019.

Where can I watch the air part of the parade

Petrovsky Park
Leningrad highway
Friendship Park near the River Station
Tverskaya Zastava Square near Belorussky railway station
Sofia and Kremlin embankments

Action "Immortal Regiment" in Moscow in 2019

May 9 is a holiday with tears in our eyes, and this year one of the touching actions, the Immortal Regiment, will be held again. All those who lost their relatives in the war, who had relatives who were home front workers, are invited to take part in it. The gathering will start at 13:00, and the procession itself - from 15:00. In 2019, more than 700 thousand Muscovites are going to take part in the procession.

The route of the Immortal Regiment action in Moscow will run from the Dynamo metro station to Red Square: along Leningradsky Prospekt, 1st Tverskaya-Yamskaya Street, Tverskaya Street, Manezhnaya Square and Red Square. Then the procession will split up and proceed along the Moskvoretskaya Embankment and the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge.

Residents of other cities in Russia can get information about the place of gathering and the time of the procession on the official website of the event.

The best places to watch fireworks on May 9, 2019 in Moscow

Best places to watch fireworks:

Moskvoretskaya embankment
As well as bridges - Crimean and Borodinsky, Pushkin and Bagration

The evening sky of the city will be decorated with golden peonies, colorful chrysanthemums, as well as red, blue, green and yellow balloons.

Operation of the metro and surface transport

On May 9, ground transport will operate according to the weekend schedule. The work of transport routes that bring passengers to the Victory Park on Poklonnaya Hill will be strengthened.

On May 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 10 and 11, parking in the paid parking area will be free.

Unified schedule of events

More than 300 different events have been organized for guests and residents of Moscow from May 1 to May 10, 2019, these are concerts and memorial events, exhibitions and sports programs. Victory Day celebrations will be held at sites in the city center, districts and city parks. The festivities will start at 9:00.

Unified annual schedule of events:

9:00 - the beginning of the work of festive sites
10:00 - Victory Parade on Red Square
13:00 - festive events in honor of the 74th anniversary of the Second World War at the sites of the city
15:00 - start of the action "Immortal Regiment"
18:55 - minute of silence
19:00 - evening concerts
22:00 - fireworks

Moscow Spring Festival

Recall that from 1 to 12 May in Moscow for the third time as part of a cycle of city street events, the Moscow Spring festival is being held. The Moscow Spring Festival is also a competition. The star jury and the audience themselves will choose the best performers. Recall that in 2018 the Grand Prize was received by the Six AppeaL group (USA).

On May 8 and 9, a special program dedicated to the Victory Day is planned within the framework of the festival, within which you will see theatrical and musical performances at venues and in parks in Moscow.

The work of museums and exhibitions

On May 9, in Moscow, the Victory Museum on Poklonnaya Hill can be visited for free. The museum will be open from 10:00 to 20:30. In addition to museum exhibits, visitors will visit an exhibition dedicated to the most significant medal of the Great Patriotic War - the medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945."
Impressive tank battles will take place at the T-34 Tank Museum on May 9th. Three dozen radio-controlled scale models of Soviet and German tanks will recreate the events of 1943 on the legendary Kursk Bulge. Start - at 14:00. Participation in the event on the territory of the museum and memorial complex is free. Pre-registration is not required. Visiting the museum - with entrance tickets. All established benefits apply.

Moscow will celebrate the Day with love and respect Great Victory. The city will host many events of various sizes - from the Victory Parade on Red Square and concerts at railway stations to showings of classic Soviet films about the war. And in the evening more than 80 thousand volleys will thunder. High-altitude fireworks are organized at 16 sites. Fireworks in honor of Victory Day will be launched in 17 Moscow parks. The evening sky of Moscow will be decorated with golden peonies, colorful chrysanthemums, as well as red, blue, green and yellow balloons.

Events in Moscow for the May holidays in 2018. Victory parade

On May 9, 33 ceremonial crews will come to Red Square, which is 12,500 people (last year - 10,001 servicemen). More than 120 units of military equipment are expected (last year - 114) and 73 - aviation (last year - 72). Among the equipment, tanks T-90A and T-14 "Armata", infantry fighting vehicles BMP-3 and "Kurganets", armored personnel carriers BTR-82A and "Boomerang", strategic missile systems "Yars" and other vehicles.

And in the sky over the Kremlin, strategic missile carriers Tu-160, Tu-95 MS, long-range bombers Tu-22 M3, refueling aircraft Il-78, military transport An-124 and Il-76 MD, fighters Su-35S, Su- 30 SM, MiG-29, MiG-31, Su-34 and Su-24M front-line bombers, Su-25 attack aircraft, Mi-26, Mi-8, Mi-28N, Ka-52, Mi-24P helicopters.

Events in Moscow for the May holidays in 2018. Action Immortal Regiment 2018

Participants of the annual procession "Immortal Regiment" will march from the Belorussky railway station along 1st Tverskaya-Yamskaya and Tverskaya streets to Red Square with portraits of relatives-front-line soldiers and home front workers.

Join the action and honor the memory of those who fought for victory in the Great Patriotic war, everyone can. Last year, despite the cold weather, more than 850,000 people took part in the procession. The column of the "Immortal Regiment" stretched for several kilometers. This year, the organizers expect that the number of participants in the action may increase to one million people.

Events for May 9, 2018 in Moscow official website

An interesting, rich program is expected in the Russian capital for the May holidays. As it became known during the next meeting of the presidium of the Moscow government, over three hundred mass events will be held on city streets and squares. It is expected that this year no less residents and guests of the capital will take part in them than last year. Then about ten million people took part in the celebrations.

Events for May 9, 2018 in Moscowat the Cathedral of Christ the Savior

At 10:00 at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, the Victory Parade will be broadcast. From 16:00 to 18:00 there will be a concert where guests will hear popular songs about the war in modern processing. Golden hits of the Soviet stage and author's songs will also be performed.

At 19:00 - a moment of silence. It will be followed by an orchestra conducted by People's Artist of Russia Pavel Ovsyannikov.

At 20:30, popular Russian artists will take the stage to perform songs from the war and post-war years. Free admission.

Events for May 9, 2018on Pushkinskaya Square

At 09:00, a film concert will begin on Pushkinskaya Square, and after it, guests will see the broadcast of the Victory Parade. Films about the war will also be shown here, starting at 11:15 and 13:05. Viewers will also be told about how such pictures were created - from tapes taken during the war years to modern ones.

At 18:00 the concert will begin, Diana Gurtskaya, Sogdiana, the Brilliant group, Anita Tsoi and others will perform.

At 19:00 - a minute of silence in memory of the dead. After it, the festive concert will continue. At 21:00, the karaoke program of the musical group "Turetsky Choir" starts.

At 22:00, fireworks will be broadcast on the big screen.

Events for May 9, 2018in the capital: concerts, master classes and free museums

Military museums can be visited free of charge. The State Museum of Defense of Moscow, the Museum of Zelenograd, the Borodino Battle Panorama Museum, the Museum of Heroes of the Soviet Union and Russia, the Museum Complex History of the T-34 Tank, and others will not charge an entrance fee on May 8 and 9.

Each of them made special program for Victory Day. For example, at 13:00 at the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War there will be a presentation of the video for the song "Kite", filmed by students of the creative film studio. In the Big Concert Hall at 16:00, guests will see the performance "I'll be back ...", which was based on letters from the front from Boris Vasilyev's story "Exhibit No. ...". At 17:30 they will show documentary"How I Became a Teacher" about the writer and veteran of the Great Patriotic and Soviet-Japanese wars Pyotr Mikhin.

The State Museum of Defense of Moscow invites you to the theatrical interactive program "Front behind the front line". One of the central themes of this day is the partisan movement. Guests will be told not only about their exploits, but also about life. Start - at 12:00 and 15:00.

The photo exhibition "Eternal Flame" will be presented at the Museum of Zelenograd. It will be dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the creation of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier memorial complex near the Kremlin wall. The exhibition will be open from 10:00 to 20:00.

Flowers will be laid at the memorial site of the Great Patriotic War at the Museum of Heroes of the Soviet Union and Russia. A festive concert will also be held here.

You will learn how to paint military-historical miniatures at the Battle of Borodino Panorama Museum during the master class Steadfast Tin Soldier. Start - at 14:00. In the museum "History of the T-34 Tank" guests will be offered to complete interactive creative tasks.

May 9 is the last day when you can see the exhibition “1942. At the headquarters of the Victory "in the New Manege. It is unique in that for the first time it shows the documents of the highest authorities, the decisions of which influenced the outcome of hostilities in 1942. The exhibition itself runs until June 25.

9 May: concerts, workshops and free museums

In Gorky Park, the celebration will begin at 10:00 and end at 22:00. An installation of letters from soldiers from the front will appear on the walls of the main entrance. Their texts will sound from the speakers. A live broadcast of the Victory Parade will be shown on the balustrade, and a concert will take place on the main stage.

You can see military equipment and taste field cuisine on Pushkinskaya Embankment. There will also be platforms where guests of the park will dance to the music of the war years.

The Museon Arts Park will tell you how many days the Battle of Stalingrad lasted, how many bombs were dropped on Moscow and how many cities turned into ruins during the war years.

Festival Square in Sokolniki Park will be turned into a chessboard. Figures representing the armies of the USSR and Germany will fight on it. Air fountains "Tongues of Flame", tantamares in the form of weapons of the Great Patriotic War and signs with piercing lines from the last letters of soldiers from the front - this and much more will also be seen by guests of the park. In addition, it will be possible to leave congratulations to veterans on the installation in the form of a large triangular letter. There will also be a festive concert. The events will be held from 13:00 to 22:00.

A documentary performance “Katya + Sergey. Letters. The production was based on the correspondence between Major General Sergei Kolesnikov and his wife. The choir of the Mishanyan and Co. Orchestra and the orchestra of Valery Bukreev will perform on the stage of the park. Everyone who wants to learn to dance in the style of the 1940s. The holiday will end with a children's parade - young Muscovites will walk through the stadium and park alleys in homemade costumes. Event time is from 10:00 to 22:00.

The atmosphere of the 1940s will be recreated in the Hermitage Garden. Guests will see Soviet vintage cars and hear music performed by a military brass band and a male chamber choir. Victory Ball "At six o'clock in the evening ..." will begin at 18:00. Everyone will dance with veterans to the songs of the war years, and open lessons guests will learn how to dance Krakowiak, tango and waltz. The holiday will end at 22:00.

The festival of marching bands will take place in the Bauman Garden. Brass bands Mosbras, ½ Orchestra, Polite People, Second Line and Pakava It will perform here. Graffiti, beatboxing and freestyle master classes will be held for young people. There will also be a retro zone with treats. Start - at 13:00. The events will run until 22:00.

In Biryulevsky arboretum at 12:00, the Gratitude of Generations holiday will begin. The program includes performances by creative teams, congratulations to veterans and master classes. Everyone will make paper flowers.

May 9 in the capital: concerts, master classes and free museums

In the living room pavilion on Tverskaya Square, visitors will be taught how to decorate photo albums and postcards for veterans. Classes will be held from 11:00 to 16:00. All guests are also invited to the concert "Poems and songs about the war."

At the site next door, in Stoleshnikov Lane, guests will find a retro program “Songs and Music of the Soviet Period”.

Performances by young musicians, dance master classes and much more will take place on Novy Arbat. The concert will start here at 12:30. The children's group "Inspiration", the children's and youth choir "Joy", the choir of school No. 1060 and the Big Children's Choir named after Popov will perform. At 19:00, the traditional jazz ensemble Moscow Trad Jazz Band will take the stage.

At 12:00, the Field Hospital will start operating on Revolution Square. The youngest guests will be taught how to provide first aid. There will also be a lesson on making bouquets of fresh flowers that can be presented to veterans.

Scrapbooking greeting cards and military hats will be made in the square near the monument to Karl Marx. The front-line album and a brooch from the St. George ribbon will be made at Kuznetsky Most (near the Central Department Store).

You will learn how to bake bread from rye flour, cook jelly and prepare a dessert in the form of a star at the culinary studio in Klimentovsky Lane. Master classes will be held from 12:00 to 18:45.

Victory Day is celebrated in Russia on May 9th. Festive events have been prepared in the capital in honor of the holiday. Concerts, exhibitions and other activities will be held in city squares and streets, in parks and squares. Portal Moscow 24 has collected information about the main events in honor of the holiday.

Procession "Immortal Regiment"

One of the central events will be the traditional procession "Immortal Regiment". Hundreds of thousands of citizens will gather at the Dynamo stadium to carry portraits of their relatives who participated in the Great Patriotic War and honor their memory.

The action "Immortal Regiment" starts in Moscow at 15:00

The organizers of the event note that the number of participants in the action in 2018 could reach a million. Citizens will have to cover a distance of 5.9 kilometers on foot. The procession will end on Red Square.

Volunteers will distribute water along the way. You can have a bite to eat in 47 field kitchens, which are placed along the route of the column.

Victory Day in the Parks

Festive venues will open in 21 parks in the capital. Visitors of all ages will be able to try their hand at passing a historical quest based on the battles on the Kursk Bulge, watch theatrical performances, and see military equipment of those years. Guests will also enjoy military band performances and retro-style dancing. In addition, everyone will be able to taste real soldier's porridge from the army field kitchen.

The Hermitage Garden on this day will be transported back to the difficult war years: the atmosphere of the 1940s will be recreated here. From the very morning, a brass band and a male chamber choir will perform military songs, and at 18:00 a costumed Victory Ball will begin on the dance floor. Here you will hear melodies of tango, waltz, Spanish rio-rita dance popular in the 1930s, as well as fast and incendiary Polish Krakowiak. Even if you don’t know how to dance at all, don’t be scared: professional dancers will help beginners.

A military-historical quest dedicated to the battles on the Kursk Bulge is being organized in Tagansky Park. It was one of the largest tank battles in world history: about two million people and six thousand tanks took part in it on both sides. Teams of participants will learn how front-line reconnaissance, defensive operations and counter-offensives took place. The quest will last from 13:00 to 18:00, and you can join it at any time.

A "Wall of Memory" will appear in Babushkinsky Park. At this stand, visitors will be able to write the names of their relatives and friends who participated in the Great Patriotic War. It will also be possible to leave wishes to veterans there. By the way, the T-34, the most famous tank of the war years, will be exhibited in the park (this model was massively used in 1942-1947 and later served for a long time on the remote borders of the country).

Vorontsov Park will present a theatrical and poetic performance dedicated to the Great Patriotic War and Victory Day. Guests of the park will not stand aside either - everyone can become participants in a theatrical interactive program. In the central clearing, a military medical station, a field kitchen will be set up, and, of course, military equipment. An exhibition of works by contemporary photographers who shoot historical reconstructions of battles will also be opened on the territory.

street events

A festive program of more than 100 special performances was prepared by the participants of the Moscow Spring a Capella festival. They will perform songs of the war years on the city streets.

Live concerts will also be held on May 9 at three metro stations in the capital. There, musical groups will perform songs about the Great Patriotic War. Events in honor of the holiday were prepared at the Belorussky, Rizhsky and Kazansky railway stations.

On the Manezh building in the evening you can watch a light show. In 2018, films broadcast using video mapping technology dedicated to the history of cities of heroes. Similar the event will take place May 9 at the Victory Museum.

fireworks

Photo: Portal Moscow 24/Lidia Shironina

You can watch the festive fireworks at 33 venues in the city, 17 of them are located in parks. The pyrotechnic show will start on May 9 at 22:00 and will last about five minutes. During this time, more than 80 thousand volleys will be fired into the sky over Moscow.

One of the main traditions on Victory Day is fireworks, which everyone is looking forward to. This year, fireworks will be launched from 33 points, so you can see them in any district of the capital.

The volleys of most of the largest points are always clearly visible from the bridges over the Moskva River, so the main thing is to take your spectator seat in time. You can watch the fireworks from the Pushkinsky, Krymsky and Patriarchal bridges, as well as from the Bogdan Khmelnitsky bridge, located a stone's throw from the Kievskaya metro station (next to Europe Square).

Another great option watch several fireworks at once - go on a trip along the Moscow River on a river boat. For this, direct routes between Kievsky railway station and Novospassky bridge are most suitable.

Traditionally, most Muscovites watch fireworks at the capital's observation decks, and fireworks for Victory Day are no exception. The most suitable sites for this are observation decks near the buildings of Moscow State University and the Russian Academy of Sciences. Tip: usually there are a lot of people there, so in order to avoid unpleasant situations better not to go there with children.

Another great lookout, which few people know about, is located on the roof of the gate to Gorky Park. True, for the opportunity not only to see the salute, but also to examine it through the binoculars installed there, you will have to pay

Finally, you can enjoy the view of the sky in colorful lights in any of the capital's parks. A particularly beautiful view will open from Poklonnaya Gora and the "floating bridge" of Zaryadye Park.

In addition, in the central district, fireworks can be seen from Gorky Park, the Bauman Garden, the Hermitage Garden, Tagansky Park and Krasnaya Presnya Park.

Public transport operation

Photo: Portal Moscow 24/Alexander Avilov

On May 9, Mosgortrans routes will operate according to the Sunday schedule with the maximum number of rolling stock from 12:00 to 19:00. At the same time, 55 routes were canceled or changed during the day due to the parade on Red Square.

Metro and MCC operate as usual - until one in the morning. During the parade, Ploshchad Revolyutsii, Okhotny Ryad, Teatralnaya, Aleksandrovsky Sad, Borovitskaya and Lenin Library metro stations worked only for entrance and transfer.

Lobby No. 2 of the Park Pobedy station is open only for the entrance. On this day, it will be possible to go to the odd side of Kutuzovsky Prospekt to Victory Park only from lobby No. 1.

After the parade, the central stations Ploshchad Revolyutsii, Okhotny Ryad, Aleksandrovsky Sad and Arbatskaya of the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line, Borovitskaya, Lubyanka, Kuznetsky Most, Kitay-gorod, Pushkinskaya , Chekhovskaya, Tverskaya, Park Kultury of the Sokolnicheskaya and Koltsevaya lines, as well as at the Oktyabrskaya metro station of the Koltsevaya and Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya lines, Vorobyovy Gory, Universitet and Sportivnaya stopped accepting passengers. You can get out of the city with them.

Suburban trains will carry passengers on May 9 according to the Sunday schedule. An additional train will be assigned to the Kursk direction. In addition, 64 electric trains will additionally stop at the Moscow-Sortirovochnaya-Kyiv station - this is the nearest suburban station to Poklonnaya Hill.

Overlappings will also appear in the capital throughout the day. On which streets in the city it is impossible to drive -.

On Wednesday, May 9, 2018, solemn events will be held on Poklonnaya Hill in honor of the annual holiday in memory of the heroes of the Great Patriotic War. The celebration will begin at 10:00, when the screens will show a live broadcast of the Victory Parade from Red Square. At 22:00 the celebration will end with fireworks.

On Poklonnaya Gora, as part of the Victory Day celebration program on May 9, 2018, a convoy of 20 GAZ M-20 Pobeda, GAZ-69 cars and one M-72 motorcycle will drive along the Newlyweds Alley to the Eternal Flame at 12:30.

On the Square of the Winners at the Eternal Flame until 14:00, it will be possible to get acquainted with the vehicles and take pictures. Then the column will follow for the rally, which is dedicated to the 73rd anniversary of the Victory in the Second World War.

At 13:00, the Mariinsky Theater Symphony Orchestra conducted by Valery Gergiev will give a concert on Poklonnaya Hill.

At 16:00 will perform: the Moscow State Academic Dance Theater "Gzhel", the opera duet of Vasilisa Nikolaeva and Vladislav Kiryukhin, the group "Five", Kristina Aglints, Maxim Lidov, the choreographic ensemble "Brothers", Dmitry Khramkov, Ruslan Alekhno and many others.

From 19:00 to 22:00 on Poklonnaya Gora there will be a filming concert for the TVC channel. Visitors can see performances by Oleg Gazmanov, Rinat Ibragimov, Diana Gurtskaya, Dmitry Kharatyan, Russian Folk Choir. M.E. Pyatnitsky, Iosif Kobzon and others.

Fireworks on Poklonnaya Hill in honor of Victory Day

Late in the evening of May 9 (at 22:00) in the Victory Park on Poklonnaya Gora, you can see the fireworks in honor of the 73rd anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War. The Western Military District announced that wartime ZiS-3 cannons would be located, which would provide noise support with 30 volleys.

Artillery salute will last 10 minutes. According to the ZVO, it became known that it will be made in a unique color scheme, which was modeled by the military personnel of a separate guards salute division.

On this moment fireworks installations are being charged, which contain more than 75 types of fireworks, providing up to 550 colors and shades, special brightness, sparkle, brilliance and a dome opening height of up to 350 meters. Installation calibers - from 105 to 310 mm.