The festive events devoted to the 72nd anniversary of the victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War have begun with creation of staff of troops of the Kazan garrison and a prolog of a holiday in which more than one thousand people have taken part on May 9 at 10:00 at Tysyacheletiya square of Kazan. The military parade became their culmination. A good tradition of the Soviet years on passing of columns of soldiers in the uniform of soldiers of Red Army of times of the Great Patriotic War has been carried on.