Thousands of people took to the streets on May 9 in the cities around the world to take part in a public rally dubbed The Immortal Regiment. The participants carried photographs of their family members who fought on the battlefronts of World War II. Photos from the rally in cities around the world in this photo gallery.
Immortal Regiment rally in Russia and abroad
Participants of the Immortal Regiment rally proved there's hardly a family in Russia that wasn't directly affected by WWII
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Immortal Regiment rally in Moscow
© Pyotr Kovalev/TASS Immortal Regiment rally in Moscow
© EPA/MAXIM SHIPENKOV Immortal Regiment rally in Moscow
© EPA/TASS/SERGEI ILNITSKY Immortal Regiment rally in Moscow
© EPA/TASS/SERGEI ILNITSKY Immortal Regiment rally in Moscow
© EPA/TASS/SERGEI ILNITSKY Vladimir Putin (center) also joined the rally
© AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev Vladimir Putin holds a portrait of his father at the rally
© Sergey Savostyanov/TASS Immortal Regiment rally in Kazan
© Yegor Aleyev/TASS Immortal Regiment rally in Kazan
© Yegor Aleyev/TASS Immortal Regiment rally in Kazan
© Yegor Aleyev/TASS Immortal Regiment rally in Petropavlovs-Kamchatsky, Russia's Far East
© Alexander Petrov/TASS Immortal Regiment rally in Novosibirsk
© Yevgeny Kurskov/TASS Immortal Regiment rally in Vladivostok, Far East
© Yuri Smityuk/TASS Immortal Regiment rally in Vladivostok, Far East
© Yuri Smityuk/TASS Immortal Regiment rally in Grozny, Chechen Republic
© Yelena Afonina/TASS Immortal Regiment rally in St.Petersburg
© Ruslan Shamukov/TASS Immortal Regiment rally in Rostov
© Valery Matytsin/TASS Immortal Regiment rally in Volgograd, formely Stalingrad
© Dmitry Rogulin/TASS Immortal Regiment rally in Yekaterinburg
© Donat Sorokin/TASS Immortal Regiment rally in Kaliningrad
© Alexander Arkhipov/TASS Immortal Regiment in Riga, Latvia
© EPA/VALDA KALININA Immortal Regiment in Oslo, Norway
© Yuri Mikhailenko/TASS