page_title: Immortal Regiment
section_title: Notable participants
hierarchical_section_title: Immortal Regiment / Notable participants
caption_attribution_description: English: Vladimir Putin at Immortal regiment (Moscow, 2016-05-09) Русский: В День Победы 9 мая 2016 года Владимир Путин принял участие в акции «Бессмертный полк»: глава государства с портретом отца-фронтовика присоединился к шествию колонны на Красной площади.
context_page_description: The Immortal Regiment is a massive civil event staged in major cities in Russia and around the world every 9 May during the Victory Day celebrations. It is also a public non-profit organization, created in Russia on a voluntary basis with the aim of "immortalizing" the memory of home front workers, armed forces service personnel, partisans, personnel of resistance organizations, and personnel of law enforcement and emergency services. It involves people carrying on the memory of war veterans, with participants carrying pictures of relatives and/or family friends who served in the country's labor sector, paramilitary units, the Soviet Armed Forces and law enforcement organizations during the Second World War.
context_section_description: Vladimir Putin, President of Russia (usually with a portrait of his father, Vladimir Spiridonovich Putin)
  Aleksandar Vučić, President of Serbia (carrying a portrait of Anđelko Vučić, his grandfather)
  Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel (carrying a portrait of Hero of the Soviet Union Wolf Vilenski, who died in Israel in 1992)
  Sooronbay Jeenbekov, President of Kyrgyzstan (carrying a portrait of his grandfather Jeenbek Pirnazarov)
  Almazbek Atambayev, ex-President of Kyrgyzstan (carrying a portrait of his father Sharshen Atambayev)
  Armen Sarkissian, President of Armenia (carrying a portrait of his personal friend and Soviet intelligence officer Gevork Vartanian)
  Igor Dodon (carrying a portrait of his grandfather George Dodon and his namesake Alexander Dodon)
  Svetlana Toma, Moldovan actress who first debuted at the Moldova-Film.
caption: Vladimir Putin at the Immortal Regiment in 2016.
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