Victory Day in Moscow: program for the holiday on May 9
The ceremonies will begin this week
May 9 still remains a unifying and family holiday of the country. Not only veterans of the victorious country and guests from friendly countries, but also their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren want to watch the fireworks, spend time at the concert and watch the parade. “MK” found out how to spend time on the weekend, how to congratulate the honored heroes of bygone times, and where is the best place to watch the fireworks.
We can and must please the heroes
For several years now, a youth charity foundation “V.N.U.K” has existed in Moscow. The project activists themselves decipher the acronym as “Veterans need care and company” - and are ready to give the remaining veterans, those who do not have grandchildren, both. On the eve of May 9, their main task is to do a general cleaning in the apartments of those old people who can no longer cope with washing windows or shaking out carpets. And along the way, of course, talk - many veterans willingly share their memories of difficult times, and volunteers willingly listen to them. Most of the enthusiasts are very young: schoolchildren and students.
If you want something more pathetic than simple wet cleaning, then you can take part in the patriotic event “Thank you for the Victory,” which will take place on May 6–7. As part of this project, citizens can write any personal warm words of gratitude to veterans on postcards - and Moscow volunteers will definitely pass them on to the recipients. Special mailboxes will be installed in Moscow's largest parks, and all collected postcards will be sent to veterans' councils by May 9.
In addition, a photo album - perhaps already decorated with several cards from the war years - or something more practical would be an excellent gift for a veteran. According to experienced volunteers, an LED lamp (a great way to save on electricity in the coming months), a blanket or a warm blanket, treats like chocolate and fruit, or just a basket of groceries can please the elderly - what seems boring and unromantic to young people will be greeted with a bang old people.
Veterans with whom you personally know can be invited to the cinema - especially since it will not cost anything. More than 40 films dedicated to the Great Patriotic War can be seen at free charity film screenings from May 6 to May 9 in cinemas and parks. Such famous films as “The Ballad of a Soldier”, “The Fate of a Man”, “Twenty Days Without War”, “And the Dawns Here Are Quiet...”, “Belorussky Station”, “Soldiers”, “Mashenka” and other films will be shown. However, if going to the cinema were not free, many Muscovites would be happy to please the heroes. There is not even a doubt about it.
The option is no worse - going to the theater or to a concert, especially since on the eve of an important holiday several youth volunteer associations planned performances dedicated to the war, also for free. For example, at the Stimul recreation center (Sibirsky proezd, 2, p. 5) on May 4 at 20.00 there will be a concert of military songs “Let us bow to those great years,” organized by an amateur vocal studio. And near the Volzhskaya metro station (Shkuleva St., 15/18) on May 6 at 19.00, the actors of the amateur theater "Tener" invite everyone to the musical production "And the Dawns Here Are Quiet", in which old pre-war songs will be performed by young actors, - also free.
Several special holiday concerts will be organized separately for veterans:
May 5 - at the territorial social service centers "Yasenevo" and "Zyuzino", beginning at 10.00;
Listen to the Alexandrov Ensemble
The main holiday celebrations in the city will, of course, take place on May 9th. But you shouldn’t sit at home waiting for fireworks and parades either. On April 28, the Moscow Spring acapella festival began in the city: a celebration of spring, music and good mood. Light white chalets decorated with fresh flowers appeared on the streets and squares of Moscow. The aroma from them is unearthly: you can’t even believe that you are in the center of a metropolis. Sometimes it is mixed with the smell of ice cream or barbecue: there is food at the festival for every taste. But the main character of this spring is music. They play everywhere and in all modes. Jazz is heard on Theater Square, blues is heard a little closer to the metro... (By the way, the points with the artists are placed very competently: far enough so that the songs do not merge, and close enough so that you can quickly move between venues). In total, 150 performers will perform for Muscovites, which will total 1,200 hours of live music.
On Pushkin Square As part of the festival, the famous director and choreographer Yegor Druzhinin will stage the musical “Girl without an Address” based on the Soviet romantic film. The last session will take place May 5 at 16.00 and 18.00. In addition, thematic excursions will be held as part of the festival. Educational walks dedicated to composers, musical theaters and capital patrons of the arts who patronized the city’s musical life are starting in Stoleshnikov Lane, house 6–8. For example, May 6 at 13.00 they will talk about the ceremonial and non-ceremonial Tverskaya, and May 7 at 13.00 will hold a musical tour of Moscow. Excursions about literature and history will start at Novy Arbat, 13. The final gala concert of the festival will take place on May 8.
Special holiday concerts dedicated to Victory Day will begin May 8. At the entrance square of Victory Park, on Poklonnaya Hill, on this day at 17:00 The Kremlin Riding School will host a fashion show - the “Traditions of Russia” show. Cavalrymen will march across the square in orderly steps, and there will be a parade with the flags of the hero cities. In addition, riders will perform tricks on horses. The concert will begin on the main stage at the same time.
May 9 at 13.00 in Victory Park A traditional concert of the Mariinsky Theater Symphony Orchestra conducted by Valery Gergiev will take place. It will mark the end of the Easter festival, with which the maestro traveled all over Russia and visited Syria. Those who were unable to get to Red Square can start their morning there, on Poklonnaya Hill: at 10.00 The Victory Parade will be broadcast on large television screens.
First on Poklonnaya Hill The event “Light of Memory” will take place. A 10-meter structure will appear on the entrance square: an image of fire and a flower, war and the joy of Victory. The torch flower will change color from red to white to gold.
In general, concerts will be held in every park in the capital. On the square in front of the main entrance of VDNH The Academic Song and Dance Ensemble named after Alexandrov will perform. The ensemble, revived after a terrible tragedy in December 2016, has prepared a special repertoire. On May 9, an ensemble of military drummers will perform, and the choir will perform “Dark-skinned Girl,” “Oh, Roads...”, “It’s Time to Hit the Road,” and “On a Sunny Meadow.” The arch of the main entrance itself will turn into one huge screen on which footage of the pre- and post-war years of VDNH history will be broadcast.
Gorky Park these days will be filled with music. It's better to come at 13.00, and immediately - to the dance: everyone will be taught “Soviet retro”. The lesson will last two hours. If you're not in the mood for dancing, try the French chanson performed by Philippe Darès: close your eyes and imagine the narrow streets of Paris in the setting sun... Every half hour from 16.30 they will tell true stories about the war, and at 21.00 The film screening of “Once upon a time there was a girl” will begin - a film about the life of besieged Leningrad.
theatre square- traditional meeting place for veterans - 9th May will live up to its name and become a platform on which scenes from plays about the war will be performed. Literary readings from young actors and graduates of theater universities will also be held on Triumfalnaya Square. The most active ones will be able to take part in collective readings of poems dedicated to the war.
May 8 and 9 Pushkinskaya Square will turn into an open-air cinema. A cinema will be installed at the monument to the poet: Muscovites will see musical performances and films about the war. And at the end of the holiday there will be a concert with military songs.
At the Cathedral of Christ the Savior on Victory Day Mosconcert artists will perform. Naturally, war songs will be performed. From 19.00 to 20.00 The orchestra will perform under the direction of the famous conductor Pavel Ovsyannikov. At one time he led the Presidential Orchestra and collaborated with Alexandra Pakhmutova and Lyubov Kazarnovskaya.
On May 6, a parade of the cadet movement will be held on Poklonnaya Hill, in which more than 2.5 thousand students from cadet classes in Moscow schools will take part. It will begin exactly at noon, and the event will end with the launching of doves and the laying of flowers at the Fire of Memory and Glory. The parade of the cadet movement, like all other performances by boys and girls in uniform, will be held under the motto “The connection between generations will not be interrupted!”
How to watch the parade?
It will start at 10.00 on Red Square and will be broadcast on TV channels. The ideal option for those who want to look at the equipment is to attend rehearsals or catch the equipment after the parade. You won't be able to get to Red Square - all invitations are personal only and are not available for free sale. The parade will be broadcast at city venues and parks.
The flight of aircraft can be seen from many points. Perhaps the best of them is Raushskaya embankment. And it will be possible to photograph the equipment above St. Basil's Cathedral. Tall buildings will not obscure the view.
It is ideal to look at the equipment along the route. At the same time, it is better to avoid Tverskaya Street from Pushkinskaya Square to Manezhnaya - this section will still be blocked. Alternatively, you can look at the equipment during parade rehearsals - for example, on May 7 at 10.00 there will be a dress rehearsal with the participation of foot columns and military equipment, and on May 4 in the morning you can see an aviation flyover over Moscow.
But with foot columns things are more complicated, because they usually approach Red Square from several sides - along Varvarka, Ilyinka and from Kotelnicheskaya Embankment.
It is better to reserve viewing places in advance, because, as practice shows, there will be many people who want to see the columns of military equipment and “boxes”.
Reconstructions of military events
Central Museum of Armored Weapons and Equipment in Kubinka on May 9 will conduct a historical reconstruction of the events “Victory in the Great Patriotic War.” Spectators will see the battle for the Seelow Heights, and then concert events will begin in which spectators will be able to participate. Patriot Park even invited its guests to send a list of songs that they would like to sing to the accompaniment of a button accordion.
A large exhibition of military equipment “Weapons of Victory” will be held in Gorky Park May 8–9. The ZiS-2 anti-tank gun, T-60, T-37A tanks, M-30 howitzer and other equipment will be on display on Pushkinskaya embankment. Those who wish will be fed soldier's porridge.
Children will also find something to do in Gorky Park- little guests of the park will be able to feel like nurses and intelligence officers. The popular war game “Zarnitsa” will be held for them.
In Kuzminki Park Those who wish will be able to take pictures in wartime uniforms, and then launch letters of gratitude into the sky to those who defended our Motherland.
In the park "Tsaritsyno" In memory of the war soldiers, a ten-meter-high installation “Immortal Flight” will appear in the park - many white cranes flying into the sky. Guests of the holiday will be able to fold their own cranes out of paper and complement the installation. In addition, at 20:00 a concert of wartime songs will begin in the park, accompanied by the symphony orchestra of the Moscow Academic Musical Theater. K. S. Stanislavsky and Vl. I. Nemirovich-Danchenko.
A in Izmailovsky Park guests will be able to retrain as aircraft designers and create their own model aircraft.
On Victory Square, at the Museum of the Great Patriotic War, the exhibition “Battle for Moscow. First victory." At the exhibition you will be able to see military equipment, military household items, equipment, weapons, etc. 35 museums provided exhibits from their collections.
On Chistoprudny Boulevard The exhibition “Front-line Life of Heroes” will open - the installations “Hospital”, “Young Soldier Course”, “Before the Battle”, “Photo Studio”, “Dance Floor of the 40s”, “Station, Meeting of Heroes” are presented here.
At 18.55 A minute of silence will be declared throughout the city.
The concert program will begin at 19.00.
Where to watch fireworks?
The spectacle will begin at 22.00 Moscow time and will last 10 minutes. 18 guns and 72 fireworks installations will be placed at 16 points: in Luzhniki, on Poklonnaya Hill, at VDNH, in Kyzminki, Izmailovo, Lianozovo, Tyshin, Obrychev, Novo-Peredelkin, Pokrovsk-Streshnevo, Mitino, Butove, on the street Borisovskie Prydy , in the Levoberezhny district and in the cities of Troitsk and 3elenograd.
The best way to watch the fireworks is on Poklonnaya Hill (there will be the most guns here) and on the observation deck on Vorobyovy Gory, from where you can clearly see the whole of Moscow.
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May 7 from 7.00 until the end of the dress rehearsal of the military parade in honor of Victory Day and May 9 from 7.00 until the end of the parade on Red Square stations "Revolution Square", "Okhotny Ryad", "Teatralnaya", "Alexandrovsky Garden", "Borovitskaya" and " Library named after Lenin" will only operate for entry and transfer of passengers.
On May 7 and 9, during the construction of columns of military equipment and their passage along Tverskaya Street, the exit of passengers from the stations “Pushkinskaya”, “Tverskaya”, “Chekhovskaya”, “Mayakovskaya”, “Lubyanka” (towards Nikolskaya Street), “China” will be limited -gorod" (towards Ilyinka, Kitaygorodsky proezd and Varvarka).
On May 9, throughout the day at the Park Pobedy station, lobby No. 1 will be open only for exits, and lobby No. 2 will be open only for entrances.
On May 9, from 12:00 until the end of the festive events, entry to the Park Pobedy, Kutuzovskaya, Kievskaya, and Belorusskaya stations will be limited.
On May 9, after the end of the fireworks and public festivities, passenger entry will be limited to the stations “Revolution Square”, “Okhotny Ryad”, “Alexandrovsky Sad”, “Arbatskaya” of the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line, “Borovitskaya”, “Lubyanka”, “Kuznetsky Most”, “China-Gorod”, “Pushkinskaya”, “Chekhovskaya”, “Tverskaya”, “Park of Culture”, “Oktyabrskaya”, “Sparrow Hills”, “University”, “Sports”.
