First post-Soviet military parade in Murmansk
On May 9th, Russia’s official Victory Day, there will be a military parade downtown Murmansk.
Every May 9th in Russia is Victory Day, the official celebration of defeating Nazi Germany in what Russians refer to as The Great Patriotic War.
Last year’s parade on the Red Square in Moscow was the first in years to include heavy military hardware like tanks, more than one hundred nuclear missiles, jet planes and strategic bombers.
The estimates vary, but at least 20 million Russians died during World War II.
On the Kola Peninsula, the biggest official ceremony marking May 9th use to be at the Litsa front (photo), some 80 kilometres west of Murmansk.
This was the front where the Red Army’s soldiers was fighting for three years from 1941 to 1944 and avoiding Hitler to capture Murmansk with its important supply harbour.
