80 years of Victory: what is happening in Moscow and on Red Square — the latest news today, May 9, 2025

Victory Day is traditionally celebrated in Russia on May 9. At 10:00 a.m., the Victory Day Parade will begin on Red Square, and preparations for it begin in a few hours. As a result, traffic on some streets in the center of Moscow on May 9 will be restricted for both cars and public transport. Details can be found in the Izvestia article.

What's happening in Moscow today: the latest news on May 9th

On the morning of May 9, preparatory events for Victory Day are coming to an end in Moscow. On this holiday, Moscow is filled with a special atmosphere, parades, concerts, themed exhibitions and folk festivals are held.

The center is closed during the preparation and holding of festive events. Muscovites and tourists can watch as military equipment moves towards the square and returns back to the bases.

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In the jubilee year 2025, more than 20 leaders of foreign countries will attend the celebrations on the occasion of May 9. Welcoming them on May 8, Russian President Vladimir Putin noted that the date of May 9 is sacred for the multinational people of our country.

The President also stressed that it was the Soviet Union that played a decisive role in defeating Nazism.

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Rehearsals for the Victory Day Parade continued throughout the spring, and the general one took place on the morning of May 7.

In addition, the streets of the capital and all other cities and villages of Russia were decorated for the holiday. Flags and posters are visible everywhere, and important transportation points are decorated with light projections and banners.

Every evening, an animated image of the monument "Motherland calls!" is shown at the Government House, which formed the basis for the logo of the celebrations dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the defeat of Nazism. A projection on the Moscow City Hall building tells the touching story of a girl whose father went to the front, and her mother stayed to work in the rear.

Weather in Moscow and the Moscow region today, May 9, 2025

It will be colder than usual in Moscow on Victory Day.

Roman Vilfand, scientific director of the Hydrometeorological Center of Russia, told Interfax that cold weather is expected on May 9 with temperatures 5-6 degrees below normal.

+1 is expected at night and in the morning...+3 degrees, in the afternoon the air in the capital will warm up to 7 degrees.

Mild frosts of up to -1 degree are possible in some places in the region, during the day the air will warm up to +9 degrees.

No significant precipitation is expected at this time, however, light rain is forecast during the day on May 9 in the Moscow region.

The reason for the cooling, according to the forecaster, is due to the fact that air masses from the circumpolar regions are entering the region.

Whether to wait for the air part of the parade on May 9, in an interview with MSK1.RU the honored pilot of Russia, Yuri Sytnik, explained.

According to him, the final decision is made on the morning of Victory Day, based on the weather.

"The air parade may be hampered by bad weather. For example, low clouds. Our planes [on Victory Day] fly over Moscow at a certain altitude — about 150-200 meters. And when the clouds are below 100 meters, what's the point of flying? No one will see the aircraft," Sytnik explained.

Street closures in Moscow today, May 9th: map

— From 05:00 to 08:00, traffic will be closed on sections of Volgogradsky Prospekt and Sadovoye Koltso;
— from 05:30 until the end of the event, traffic will be closed on a number of central streets and embankments.;
— from 10:00 until the end of the event, traffic will be re-closed on sections of Volgogradsky Prospekt and part of the Garden Ring.;
— from 00:01 to 23:59, one-way traffic will be organized on Petrovka Street and two-way traffic in Degtyarny, Staropimenovsky, Nikitsky and Maly Cherkassky lanes.;
— Two-way traffic will be organized in the Taganskaya Square area from 05:00 to 13:00;
— from 17:00 until the end of the event, traffic will be temporarily closed on Volgogradsky Prospekt, in Highway and Projected Passage No. 3502 and along the inner side of the MKAD from Volgogradsky Prospekt to Minsk Highway.

From 05:00 to 08:00, traffic will be closed in the Projected passage No. 3502 and Highway Passage, along Zemlyanoy Val, Marxistskaya, Sadovaya-Chernogryazskaya, Sadovaya-Spasskaya, Sadovaya-Karetnaya, Bolshaya Sadovaya and Sadovaya-Kudrinskaya streets.

In addition, it will be impossible to drive along Volgogradsky Prospekt from Lyublinskaya to Abelmanovskaya Street, along Taganskaya Square, Novinsky Boulevard, and along the Garden Ring — in the section from Bolshaya Spasskaya Street to the Gravity flyover.

The restrictions will apply to the Mayakovsky Tunnel and Armory Lane. Parking in restricted areas will be prohibited until 13:00.

The traffic pattern in the Taganskaya Square area will also change. On May 9, from 05:00 to 13:00, two-way traffic will be organized on sections of Taganskaya Street from Rogozhsky Val Street to Tovarishchesky Lane, Mayakovsky Lane, Marxist Lane, as well as on the section of Alexander Solzhenitsyn Street from Taganskaya Square to Stanislavsky Street.

From 05:30 until the end of the event, the following streets will be closed to traffic: Tverskaya, 1st Tverskaya-Yamskaya, Mokhovaya, Bolshaya Nikitskaya, Bolotnaya and Sadovnicheskaya streets. It will be impossible to drive through the streets of Okhotny Ryad, Baltschug, Solyanka and Petrovka.

Travel will also be closed along the central embankments, including Moskvoretskaya, Kremlevskaya, Goncharnaya, Kotelnicheskaya, Ustinskaya, Podgorskaya, Sofiyskaya, Prechistenskaya, Raushskaya, Bolotnaya, Sadovnicheskaya and Kadashevskaya.

New and Old Squares, Kitaygorodsky Passage, Lubochny Lane, Bolshoy and Maly Moskvoretsky and Chugunny bridges will also be temporarily unavailable. It will also be impossible to drive along 1st and 2nd Raush lanes.

From 10:00 until the end of the event, traffic will be blocked along Petrovka, Rozhdestvenka, Bolshaya Polyanka, Bolshaya Dmitrovka, Bolshaya Yakimanka, Sadovaya-Kudrinskaya, Sadovaya-Triumfalnaya, 1st and 2nd Brestsky, Sadovaya-Spasskaya, Marxist, in Oruzheyny Lane, on Volgogradsky Prospekt from Lyublinskaya to Abelmanovskaya. streets.

The section of the Garden Ring from Bolshaya Spasskaya Street to the Gravity flyover will also be inaccessible.

Underground pedestrian crossings will be closed: from 05:00 until the end of the event on Volgogradsky Prospekt, Sadovoye Koltso — from Taganskaya metro station to Mayakovskaya metro station, as well as on Tverskaya Street — from Mayakovskaya metro station to Okhotny Ryad metro station. And from 10:00 until the end of the event on the Garden Ring road — from the Mayakovskaya metro station to Novy Arbat Street and Novy Arbat Street.