“I order on February 23, 2020, at 21:00 local time, to produce artillery salutes involving the military units of the Russian Armed Forces in the capital of our Motherland, the hero city of Moscow, in the hero cities of Volgograd, Kerch, Murmansk, Novorossiysk, St. Petersburg (city -hero Leningrad), Sevastopol, Smolensk, Tula, ”the newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda cites the text of the decree.
In addition, fireworks will be held in cities where the headquarters of the military districts, fleets, combined arms armies and the Caspian flotilla are deployed.
As indicated in the document, the salute will consist of thirty single salvos of artillery shells and fireworks of salute launchers.
Earlier, the site “Arguments and Facts”, citing the Russian Ministry of Defense, reported that salute in honor of Defender of the Fatherland Day in Yekaterinburg will be given from six rare 76-mm anti-tank guns ZIS-3, released in 1942.