Dress rehearsal for the Victory Parade and Moscow from a helicopter

Marina Lystseva aka fotografersha writes: “The dress rehearsal of the parade in honor of the 69th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War took place in Moscow. I managed to get into one of the Mi-8 helicopters opening the air section. I'm showing you what happened."

(Total 47 photos)

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2. The start time for helicopters to pass over Red Square is 10:51 or so. We sit in cars and start in groups.

3. Mi-35s are rising behind us.

4. Followed by five Mi-28s. The fifth is a reserve board, which goes to an alternate airfield near the Moscow Ring Road. Pay attention to the number of cars under the glide path.

5. Ka-52 close.

6. Somewhere in the Kubinka area.

7. Turn Mi-26 and Mi-8 over the airfield.

8. Downstairs meanwhile.

9. Ten Su-25s take off alternately in pairs.

10. We also have reserve Mi-26s and Mi-8s.

11. We fly over wide fields, distant forests.

12. Whose land is this all of a sudden? Not otherwise some dachas from the ruble.

13. Tellingly, it was mid-cloudy in Moscow in the morning, on the way to Kubinka, a powerful snowfall charged on Kievka, and upon arrival in Kubinka itself, it ended and the sun came out. Having flown the Moscow region, we go to Moscow and then we get into a cyclone!

14. The area near the Voykovskaya metro station, Volokolamka is hiding in the fog.

15. The peak of the snowfall fell on Leningradsky Prospekt near the Triumph Palace.

16. You can clearly see areas of cold falling from the sky.

17. The light turned on at Dynamo.

18. Harvesting ceremonial equipment and traffic jams, traffic jams…

19. The hippodrome falls asleep with snow.

20. Belorussky railway station.

21. Sadovoye, skyscraper on Vosstaniya, White House, Moscow River. A lot of greenery to the right below - the Moscow Zoo.

22. City washed out by a hot stream from MI-8 engines.

23. "Books" of Novy Arbat, Grand Sports Arena ...

24. Square near Pushkin Square and McDuck. Most of the people are looking at us.

25. Tverskaya and the impending snow front.

26. Here it is, the main part of the celebration - Red Square (the title photo can also be viewed again).

27. The visiting card of Russia is the Cathedral of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos, also called the Cathedral of St. Basil the Blessed (popularly Vasya).

28. Already discordant lines of parade participants are smoking bamboo at the Moskvoretsky Bridge, and TOR-M1 Topol-M (now with a St. George ribbon on its side) is leaving along Vasilyevsky Spusk.

29. There are few people on Sofiyka and a full house on the Balchuga penthouse balcony.

30. Mi Mi Mi Mi. View from Mi.

31. Find An-22.

32. Above the "golden" island. Drummer, Luzhkov bridge, Bolotnaya ...

33.

34. Garden on the Crimean bridge, Park of Culture, "Oktyabrskaya".

35. CHPP-20.

36. Office of "Gazprom" on Nametkina. 1% want. However, 0.01% will suit me.

37. Next, tell me, I don’t understand the South-West.

38. There will be a separate post about the views of Moscow, it’s impossible to cram everything that doesn’t fit here.

39. Yasenevo!

40. It is also Bitsevsky Park. The Moscow Ring Road is visible in the forests.

41. Ostafyevo airfield.

42.

43. We return, and again the sun. Sod's Law? However, I also liked the snow.

44. Groups take turns landing.

45. View from the cab.

46. Neighbors.

47. And rest until the day after tomorrow.

PS I have never seen the passage of aircraft this year. I'll try to catch up tomorrow. A post with some views of Moscow is expected