Victory Banner

[citation needed] According to the Law of the Russian Federation, the Banner of Victory is to be stored forever in a place which provides its safety and public availability.

The courageous warriors - ordinary soldier Grigorij Bulatov, Komsomol party organizer Viktor Pravotorov and partyless Senior Sergeant Ivan Lysenko, Stepan Oreshko have erected a banner, the proud flag of the Soviet Union over the German parliamentary building, a symbol of our Great Victory.

[citation needed] In 2011, Russia presented Belarus with one of the official copies of the Victory Banner, being kept at the Belarusian Great Patriotic War Museum.

[4][5][6] On 21 April 2010, in the Hall of Fame of the Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War in Moscow, a ceremony where a copy of the Victory Banner was handed over to the Chief of Staff of the Administrative Department of the President of Kazakhstan.

[7][8] On 6 May 2015, accompanied by a guard of honor, an exact copy of the Victory Banner, made by Russian craftsmen, was transferred to the National Archives of Kazakhstan.

[11] On 21 October 2009, the self-proclaimed separatist Supreme Council of Transnistria adopted a law on equating the Victory Banner with the Transnistrian Flag.

Despite this, the weak drill training of Yegorov, Kantaria and Stepan Neustroev forced Marshal Georgy Zhukov to not go ahead with this portion of the parade.

In 2015, the banner was brought to Astana (the capital of Kazakhstan) to be trooped through Kazakh Eli Square by personnel of the Aibyn Presidential Regiment in the Defender of the Fatherland Day parade on 7 May.

[18] In 2020, during the first Victory Parade held in Ashgabat, the Banner was brought from Russia to be trooped on the square near the Halk Hakydasy Memorial Complex.

[19] On 9 May 2017, the largest copy of the Victory Banner measuring 60 by 25 meters was deployed on Great National Assembly Square in the Moldovan capital of Chișinău.