Victory Day parade kicks off in Moscow's Red Square; the event is dedicated to the 74th anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.

Axar.az reports citing Sputnik.

More than 13,000 military personnel, 132 pieces of military equipment and 74 aircraft of all types and branches of the Russian armed forces, as well as the parade units of other uniformed services are taking part in the military parade on Red Square.

2019 will mark the first year when women will march with the honour guard.

Hundreds of commemorative events are to be held in Russia and around the globe to mark the anniversary of the official capitulation of Nazi Germany to the Soviet forces in 1945.

The Great Patriotic War, which constituted part of the Second World War of 1939-1945, began at dawn on June 22, 1941, when Nazi Germany, violating the Soviet-German non-aggression treaty of 1939, attacked the USSR.