Photos of Victory Day 2008 in Moscow. These are just a few of the many great photos of Victory Day available on Flickr.

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Today marks the 63rd anniversary of the victory over Germany in World War II. In Russia, the war is known as the Great Patriotic War, and May 9th is still one of the biggest holidays of the year. Russia today has English language coverage of this morning’s Victory Day parade on Red Square. Watch the full video with English commentary and read about the event on the Russia Today website.

Military parade on Red Square – full version (68 min)

Update: Russia Today has posted a lot of great video covering this year’s Victory Day and the history of the Great Patriotic War. Here are some highlights.
History of Great Patriotic War

Russia celebrates WW2 victory

U.S. uncertain about WW2 history
A Victory Day report from America with a Russian perspective.

Yuri Timofeyev has posted a couple of great photos of children swinging in Moscow. Compared to swings in the West, this looks a lot more fun (and possibly dangerous)!

Young spacewomen training 2. By Yuri Timofeyev.

Young spacewomen training. By Yuri Timofeyev.

The past few days have been extremely hot in Russia’s capital with temperatures reaching as high as 35 degrees Celsius (95 degrees Fahrenheit). Here’s a short video clip from Russia Today covering this extraordinary Moscow weather.

Here’s a small collection of videos and photos posted by internet users on Victory Day 2007.

Russian National Anthem sung by soldiers during the official Victory Day celebrations on Red Square. You can follow along with the lyrics.

Video from inside the cockpits of the jets that flew over the Red Square ceremony.

Veteran. Originally posted by Encinar.

Veteran. Originally posted by Leonid V. Kroujkov.

Veterans marching in Victory Day parade. Originally posted by Leonid V. Kroujkov.

Victory Day parade, Moscow, 9 May 2007. Originally posted by urbanpostings.

Stalin poster in Victory Day parade. Originally posted by Leonid V. Kroujkov.

Marchers in Victory Day parade. Originally posted by Leonid V. Kroujkov.

Fire in the Sky. Originally posted by stranger in moskva.

Here is a short American news clip from 1961 covering the May 1st celebrations in both the Soviet Union and Cuba. While the clip shows little about the actual May Day events, it does provide examples of both American and Soviet Cold War propaganda.

Landscape after the April snowfall. Moscow, Maryino district. Photo by Sergey at Flickr.

A view of the Kremlin taken from the Big Stone Bridge. Photo By: Eldar Vagapov

Moscow based photographer Andrey Ilyin is publishing a growing collection of 360 degree panoramas. These virtual tours of Moscow give an interesting view of life in the city. The photos, which use Quicktime VR technology, allow you to spin around and look in every direction. You can even look up and see the sky or down to see what’s on the ground. We found this view of kids sledding down a hill especially interesting.

Link: Panoramic Moscow

Moscow photographer Sergey has published a collection of photographs featuring Russian power plants. We stumbled across these photos and found them very interesting. We asked Sergey why he took the pictures.

“Why do I take the pictures of the power plants? Well, these monster buildings are very unusual for town environment and they attract me by some inexplicable beauty. A huge energy inside them amaze my imagination and it borns I guess some emanations to people that look at them.

Sometimes I think looking at them that people waste significant part of their power and it seems that nobody cares of that, at least in Russia.”

Power Plant in Birjulovo, Moscow. It’s cold -15C.

Power Plant in Kapotnia, Moscow

Link: Power Plants at Flickr