VE Day in Moscow, 2015 (and 2017)

Harvey Smith was based in and around Moscow off and on from 1997 to 2014 and has now moved to St. Petersburg. While this report is down to Dmitry Kolesnikov, there are links to information on other attractions in Moscow and the rest of Russia at the bottom of the page.

In 2017 the train ran from Moscow's Rizhskiy station to Novoiyerusalemskaya station in Moscow Oblast, double headed by two green P36 locomotives (0110 and 0120), with blue P36 0027 in attendance in Moscow. The pictures are from Dmitry Kolesnikov.

Victory in Europe Day is marked with considerably more enthusiasm in Russia than in other parts of the world. The Soviets accepted the German surrender on 9th May 1945, so in Russia VE day is commemorated one day later than 8th May as in Western Europe.

In Moscow on 9th May 2015, P36-0120 and LV-0182 were dressed up for the occasion as pictures from Dmitry Kolesnikov show . The train ran from Kievski Station, Moscow to Poklonnaya Gori, Moscow (site of the Victory Park and Museum complex dedicated to WWII) , Bekasovka outside Moscow, Kubinka (outside Moscow and famous for its tank museum and military base) and back to Belorusski Station, Moscow. Both the main stations of Kievski and Belorusski received the soldiers who came back from the front in 1945 in trains decorated in tree branches. There are pictures taken the day before at Podmoskovnaya Depot at the end.

These pictures show the depot at Podmoskovnaya the day before (8th May 2015), the depot has been spruced up in the last year and LV-0522 maybe restored to working order. The tender off E^U-682-87 is actually coupled with E^U-699-74.

• The Richskaya (Moscow) Railway Museum

• The Museum of Lenin’s Funeral Train, Moscow (as was)

• Museum of the Moscow Railway at Paveletsky Station (Museum of Lenin's funeral train after renovation, 12th February 2012)

• Victory Park

• A Moscow Miscellany Part 1 (updated 1st August 2012)

• A Moscow Miscellany Part 2 (updated 12th August 2012)

• A Russian Steam Miscellany (updated 8th October 2014)

• Moscow Retro (Steam) Train 2010/11 (updated 24th September 2012)

• Podmoskovnaya Depot, Moscow 2010-2013 (updated 24th June 2013)

• The Kratovo Children’s Railway (13th June 2012)

• Kazanski Station and the Golden Eagle Trans-Siberian Express (24th September 2012)

• Kievski Station Locomotive Depot (1st August 2012)

• Serp and Molot Factory Steam Locomotive P24-7 (updated 22nd January 2017)

• Shcherbinka Depot and Test Track (12th August 2012)

• 175 Years of Russian Railways at Shcherbinka Depot and Test Track (12th September 2012)

• The Moscow Polytechnical Museum, 2012 (18th September 2012)

• Leningradski and Yaroslavski Stations, Moscow (3rd January 2013)

• Moscow Retro Steam Trip to the Space Village / Star City (13th March 2013)

• The Technical Museum Vadima Zadorojnogo, Moscow (updated 18th March 2018)

• Podmoskovnaya Depot, Moscow, August 2013 (6th September 2013)

• Podmoskovnaya Depot, Moscow, 9th April and 13th June 2014 (16th June 2014)

• Podmoskovnaya Depot, Moscow, July/August 2014 (11th August 2014)

• 180 years of Russian Steam (10th August 2014)

• Surviving Portable Engines in the former Soviet Union (14th August 2014)

• P36 120 formerly at Belorusski Voxhall / Railway Station (29th August 2014)

• Farewell to Podmoskovnaya Depot, October 2014 (updated 31st May 2018)