9th
of May - is a very special date for Sevastopol Sevastopol
as the hero-city - one of 12 hero-cities at the former Soviet
Union . In the Great
Patriotic war Sevastopol garrison together
with civil population during 250
days kept heroic defense of the
city against superior numbers and
better-equipped German fascists forces. And the 9th of May, 1944 became the
day of liberation the city from fascists' occupation - one year before the Red
Victory Banner was raised over the Reichstag.
More than 60 years had passed after
the end of war, and only a few participants and witnesses of that events are
still alive. But all citizens of Sevastopol Sevastopol 's citizens with their families and children and
very lot of visitors from neighbor Crimean cities, from Russia and Ukraine
March is opened by victory warriors
of the great patriotic war. Yes, unfortunately their number is decreasing every
year. But free places in the marching columns are filling with their
descendants, holding portraits of hero forefathers. And everybody feel the
invisible presence of these soldiers, who gone to eternity. This presence will
stay till the memory about their feat is alive.
Red
velvet of banners
in the wind, clanging of awards at the medal ribbons, applauses
and greetings and a lot
of flowers in the
outstretched children's hands. 9th of
May - is not a holiday, it is a lesson for young citizens. This lesson teaches
to be worthy the proud name of Sevastopol
Author and photographer - Yevgeniya Solovjova as known as Solo :)
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