May 9 According to long-term tradition, our compatriots laid flowers to the monuments and burial places of Soviet soldiers on May 9. On Victory Day, major events commemorating Soviet soldiers killed in Finland during World War II were held in the cities of Hanko, Helsinki, Turku and Lahti.

8 May 1945 Victory Day is a holiday that commemorates the surrender of Nazi Germany in 1945. It was first inaugurated in the 15 republics of the Soviet Union, following the signing of the German Instrument of Surrender late in the evening on 8 May 1945 (after midnight, thus on 9 May Moscow Tim