2,000 servicemen will be on military parade in Tajik capital on the occasion of Victory Day and veterans of war and labor will be the main guests of the event dedicated to the 74rd anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.  

According to the press center of the Ministry of Defense (MoD), the military parade will be held in Dushanbe’s Victor Park in the morning of May 9.

President Emomali Rahmon, members of the government, parliamentarians, representatives of diplomatic corps accredited to Tajikistan and Russian military base deployed in Tajikistan as well as war and labor veterans will lay wreaths at the Military Glory Memorial. 

At the end of the solemn part of the event servicemen of military units of the Dushanbe garrison will march in a solemn step.

2,000 servicemen of Dushanbe garrison and a consolidated company soldiers and officers of the Russian base deployed in Tajikistan will be on military parade in Victory Park, a source at a MoD said.

More than 270,000 residents of Tajikistan took part in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 and more than 100,000 of them died in battle.

55 of residents of Tajikistan were given the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.  Besides, 15 other Tajikistan’s residents were Full Holders of the Order of Glory.

Victory Day marks the end of World War II in Europe, specifically the capitulation of Nazi forces to the Allies (the Soviet Union, United Kingdom, France, the United States and other principal Allied nations) on May 8, 1945.

In Russia and other countries of former Soviet Union, the day of Victory over Nazi Germany is celebrated on May 9, because when the German Instrument of Surrender actually entered into force (May 8, 1945 at 23:01 CET), it was already May 9 by Moscow time.  Post-Soviet countries have continued the tradition.

As of late April 2019, only 244 Tajik veterans of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 are estimated to be still alive.