DUSHANBE, April 21, 2015, Asia-Plus — A military parade dedicated to the 70th anniversary of Victory over Nazism will take place in Dushanbe on May 9.
An official source at the Ministry of Defense (MoD) says more than 2,000 servicemen will be on the military parade that will be held in Dushanbe’s Victory Park.
According to him, servicemen of the Russian military base deployed in Tajikistan will also participate in the military parade in Dushanbe.
Defense Minister, Lieutenant-General, Sherai Mirzo, and Deputy Defense Minister, Lieutenant-General Bakhtiyor Ruzminshoyev, will command the parade, the sources said.
More than 270,000 residents of Tajikistan took part in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 and some 70,000 of them died in battle. 54 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.
Meanwhile, two war veterans from Tajikistan, 91-year-old Hakim Khalilov and 91-year-old Yusuf Yunusov, have been invited to participate in the 2015 Moscow Victory Parade, a jubilee parade honoring the 70th anniversary of the capitulation of Nazi Germany in 1945. Seven other veterans from Tajikistan have been invited by the Russian government to the Victors’ Ball that will take place at Poklonnaya Hill in Moscow on May 9.
