The event was held in Victory Square near the memorial to Soviet soldiers-liberators, partisans and underground fighters of Vitebsk Oblast. Veterans of the Great Patriotic War and former firefighters watched the parade. There are three war veterans in Vitebsk Oblast: Fyodor Konnov (born in 1927), Ivan Terekhov (born in 1927) and Pavel Ignevko (born in 1923).