Best of the week 19/2020

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Victory Day celebrations aboard Admiral Vladimirsky

Leading crewman Andrei Dubinin performs the song "Katyusha" for the crew as they celebrate the 75th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two, on board the Admiral Vladimirsky vessel in the Indian Ocean off the coast of the South African Republic. On December 2019 the research vessel Admiral Vladimirsky went on a round-the-world expedition to the shores of Antarctica, dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the continent’s opening by Russian naval sailors on the Vostok and Mirny sloops under the command of Thaddeus Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev, as well as to 250th birth anniversary of Admiral Ivan Kruzenshtern. The aim of the expedition is to conduct complex oceanographic research in the Antarctic region and along the route, determining the location of the island of Peter the Great and studying the parameters of the earth's magnetic field in order to clarify the position of the South Magnetic Pole.

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Russia Personal Victory Day Parade

WWII veteran Valentin Grebnev, 92, watches a military parade organized in his honour outside his house by servicemen of Russian Western Military District Combined-Arms Army amid the coronavirus disease outbreak, in the town of Luga, Leningrad region, Russia. The parade, which included a concert by a military band, featured an MT-12 antitank gun, a Grad multiple rocket launcher, a BRDM combat reconnaissance patrol vehicle, and a front line transporter. This year, Russia is celebrating the 75th anniversary of Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in the Great Patriotic War.

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Russia Personal Victory Day Parade

WWII veteran Valentin Grebnev, 92, looks out of the window before a military parade organized in his honour outside his house by servicemen of Russian Western Military District Combined-Arms Army amid the coronavirus disease outbreak, in the town of Luga, Leningrad region, Russia. The parade, which included a concert by a military band, featured an MT-12 antitank gun, a Grad multiple rocket launcher, a BRDM combat reconnaissance patrol vehicle, and a front line transporter. This year, Russia is celebrating the 75th anniversary of Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in the WWII.

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