The solemn events began on May 9 at 10.00 with the formation of the personnel of the troops of the Kazan garrison and the prologue of the holiday on the Millennium Square of Kazan, which was attended by more than a thousand people dedicated to the 78th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War. Their culmination was a military parade. The good tradition of the Soviet years of passing columns of soldiers in the form of soldiers of the Red Army during the Great Patriotic War was continued. The parade crew of the Ministry of Emergency Situations was headed by a banner group with the banner of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia in the Republic of Tatarstan.
The opening of the Victory Parade was attended by the Rais of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov, State Adviser of the Republic of Tatarstan Hero of Labor of the Russian Federation Mintimer Shaimiev, Prime Minister of Tatarstan Alexey Pesoshin, heads of ministries and departments of the republic, veterans of the Great Patriotic War, home front workers, children of war.