Victory Day celebration. Memorial To The Defenders Of The Soviet Arctic Region During The Great Patriotic War ( WWII ). Murmansk

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Victory Day parade, street procession. 64-th anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany in Second World War. Murmansk, Russia. 9 May 2009. Dmitry Dmitrienko Governor of the Murmansk Oblast, Sergey Subbotin, the mayor of the city of Murmansk . Wreath-laying ceremony. The monument was constructed in 1974. The 34-meter-tall figure of a soldier with a rifle is popularly called "Alesha".

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Size: 5500px × 3071px
Location: Murmansk, Kola Peninsula, Kola Bay, Arctic Russia.
Photo credit: © Dmitry Deshevykh / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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