Workers assemble a model of the main Soviet order, the Order of Victory prior to Victory Day celebration in front of the historical main gates of VDNKh, The Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, April 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

PHOTO COLLECTION: Russia Victory Day Preparation

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Workers assemble a model of the main Soviet order, the Order of Victory prior to Victory Day celebration in front of the historical main gates of VDNKh, The Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, April 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
Workers assemble a model of the main Soviet order, the Order of Victory prior to Victory Day celebration in front of the historical main gates of VDNKh, The Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, April 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
Russian soldiers attend a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade at the Dvortsovaya (Palace) Square in St. Petersburg, Russia, Wednesday, April 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
Troops march during a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade at the Dvortsovaya (Palace) Square in St. Petersburg, Russia, Wednesday, April 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
A Soviet era T-34 tank leads a column of military vehicles during a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade at the Dvortsovaya (Palace) Square in St. Petersburg, Russia, Wednesday, April 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
Russian S-400 anti-aircraft missile system launchers roll during a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade at the Dvortsovaya (Palace) Square in St. Petersburg, Russia, Wednesday, April 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
Troops march during a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade at the Dvortsovaya (Palace) Square in St. Petersburg, Russia, Wednesday, April 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
Troops march during a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade, which will take place at Dvortsovaya (Palace) Square on May 9 to celebrate 80 years after the victory in World War II, in St. Petersburg, Russia, Tuesday, April 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
Cossacks march toward Red Square to attend a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade in Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, April 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
Russian APCs roll along a street toward Red Square to attend a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade in Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, April 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
Troops march toward Red Square to attend a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade in Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, April 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
Russian armoured vehicles are parked along Tverskaya Street toward Red Square prior to a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade in Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, April 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Pavel Bednyakov)
People take a selfie photo with military vehicles driving along Tverskaya street toward Red Square to attend a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade in Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, April 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Pavel Bednyakov)
Russian servicemen sit in VPK-Ural armoured vehicle driving along Tverskaya street toward Red Square to attend a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade in Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, April 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Pavel Bednyakov)
Russian servicemen walk along Tverskaya street toward Red Square to attend a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade in Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, April 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Pavel Bednyakov)
Russian tanks and military vehicles roll along Tverskaya street toward the Red Square to attend a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade in Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, April 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Pavel Bednyakov)
Troops march toward Red Square to attend a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade in Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, April 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
Russian tanks roll along a street toward Red Square to attend a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade in Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, April 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
Soviet era T-34 tanks prepare to roll along Tverskaya street to attend a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade in Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, April 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Pavel Bednyakov)
People watch military vehicles driving along Tverskaya street toward Red Square to attend a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade in Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, April 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Pavel Bednyakov)
Russian BMP-1 Basurmanin infantry fighting vehicle rolls along Borovitskaya Square next to the Kremlin, after a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade in Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, April 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Pavel Bednyakov)
Russian soldiers sit at a tank driving along Tverskaya street to attend a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade in Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, April 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Pavel Bednyakov)
Russian T-90 tanks roll along Borovitskaya Square next to the Kremlin after a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade in Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, April 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Pavel Bednyakov)
A worker washes a window of a cafe at the street decorated ahead of celebrations of the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany during the World War II, in St. Petersburg, Russia, Tuesday, April 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
Troops march toward Red Square to attend a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade in Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, April 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
Troops march toward Red Square to attend a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade in Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, April 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
Honour guard soldiers perform with guns during a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade, which will take place at Dvortsovaya (Palace) Square on May 9 to celebrate 80 years after the victory in World War II, in St. Petersburg, Russia, Tuesday, April 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
Honour guard soldiers march during a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade, which will take place at Dvortsovaya (Palace) Square on May 9 to celebrate 80 years after the victory in World War II, in St. Petersburg, Russia, Tuesday, April 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
Troops march during a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade, which will take place at Dvortsovaya (Palace) Square on May 9 to celebrate 80 years after the victory in World War II, in St. Petersburg, Russia, Tuesday, April 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
Cossacks march during a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade, which will take place at Dvortsovaya (Palace) Square on May 9 to celebrate 80 years after the victory in World War II, in St. Petersburg, Russia, Tuesday, April 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
Servicemen ride on a moving platform during a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade, which will take place at Dvortsovaya (Palace) Square on May 9 to celebrate 80 years after the victory in World War II, in St. Petersburg, Russia, Tuesday, April 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
Russian military vehicles roll along Tverskaya street toward Red Square to attend a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade in Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, April 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Pavel Bednyakov)
A driver sits in a tank driving along Tverskaya street toward Red Square to attend a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade in Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, April 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Pavel Bednyakov)
“Malva”, a Russian self-propelled gun rolls along a street toward Red Square to attend a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade in Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, April 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
Russian military trucks carrying Geran-2 unmanned aerial vehicles roll along Borovitskaya Square next to the Kremlin after a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade in Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, April 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Pavel Bednyakov)
A Russian tank and a self-propelled howitzer roll along a street toward Red Square to attend a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade in Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, April 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
Russian RS-24 Yars ballistic missile launcher rolls along a street toward Red Square to attend a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade in Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, April 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
People sit in a shop next to a poster showing the photograph Kombat (a battalion commander) by Soviet photographer Max Alpert depicting a Soviet officer armed with a TT pistol during World War II, ahead of celebrations of the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany during the World War II, in St. Petersburg, Russia, Tuesday, April 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
People walk past a poster featuring the painting “The Defense of Sevastopol” by Soviet painter Aleksandr Deyneka and words reading “The country of victories” ahead of celebrations of the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany during the World War II, in St. Petersburg, Russia, Tuesday, April 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman and the head of the United Russia party Dmitry Medvedev addresses a session titled “Our dangerous world: who is to blame and what to do?” of the Educational marathon at the Victory Museum on Poklonnaya Gora in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, April 29, 2025, with a photo of Donald Trump during an assassination attempt on the screen in the background. (Ekaterina Shtukina, Sputnik, Pool Photo via AP)
Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman and the head of the United Russia party Dmitry Medvedev addresses a session titled “Our dangerous world: who is to blame and what to do?” of the Educational marathon at the Victory Museum on Poklonnaya Gora in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, April 29, 2025, with an image of nuclear explosion on the screen in the background. (Ekaterina Shtukina, Sputnik, Pool Photo via AP)
Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, left, accompanied by Victory Museum Director Alexander Shkolnik, visits the Victory Museum on Poklonnaya Gora memorial complex ahead of celebrations of the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany during World War II in Moscow, Russia, Monday, April 28, 2025. (Dmitry Astakhov, Sputnik, Government Pool Photo via AP)
Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, center, accompanied by Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova, left, and Victory Museum Director Alexander Shkolnik, visits the Victory Museum on Poklonnaya Gora memorial complex ahead of celebrations of the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany during World War II in Moscow, Russia, Monday, April 28, 2025. (Dmitry Astakhov, Sputnik, Government Pool Photo via AP)
Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, left, accompanied by Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova, center, and Victory Museum Director Alexander Shkolnik, visits the Victory Museum on Poklonnaya Gora memorial complex ahead of celebrations of the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany during World War II in Moscow, Russia, Monday, April 28, 2025. (Dmitry Astakhov, Sputnik, Government Pool Photo via AP)
People walk along the Red Square with the Order of Victory and the Order of the Patriotic War in the background ahead of celebrations of the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany during World War II, in Moscow, Russia, Monday, April 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Pavel Bednyakov)
People cross the street past ‘Moscow’s Triumphal Gate’ decorated with a large-scale composition depicting a replica of the ‘Motherland Calls’ monument ahead of celebrations of the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany during World War II in St. Petersburg, Russia, Monday, April 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
A woman walks next to an installation reading “Victory” In Russian, installed next to the monument of Karl Marx ahead of celebrations of the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany during World War II, in Moscow, Russia, Monday, April 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Pavel Bednyakov)
Cars pass an electronic billboard showing the photograph Kombat (a battalion commander) by Soviet photographer Max Alpert depicting a Soviet officer armed with a TT pistol during World War II, ahead of celebrations of the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany during World War II, in Moscow, Russia, Monday, April 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
People walk next to a Moscow subway logo decorated with the word “Victory” in Russian and the Order of the Patriotic War, installed next to Chistye Prudy subway station entrance ahead of celebrations of the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany during World War II, in Moscow, Russia, Monday, April 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Pavel Bednyakov)
People walk along flags reading “May 9” and “Victory” in Russian, installed at the Victory Square next to the Triumphal Arch, ahead of celebrations of the 80th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany during World War II, in Moscow, Russia, Monday, April 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Pavel Bednyakov)
Honour guard soldiers pack caps after a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade, which will take place at Dvortsovaya (Palace) Square on May 9 to celebrate 80 years after the victory in World War II, in St. Petersburg, Russia, Tuesday, April 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
Troops march during a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade, which will take place at Dvortsovaya (Palace) Square on May 9 to celebrate 80 years after the victory in World War II, in St. Petersburg, Russia, Tuesday, April 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)
Honour guard soldiers march during a rehearsal for the Victory Day military parade, which will take place at Dvortsovaya (Palace) Square on May 9 to celebrate 80 years after the victory in World War II, in St. Petersburg, Russia, Tuesday, April 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Dmitri Lovetsky)

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