President Putin in the Immortal Regiment column, Red Square, 9 May 2016
President Putin, in a dark suit and tie, walks in the Moscow Immortal Regiment column carrying a framed portrait of a uniformed man, among marchers holding portraits of their own relatives and a banner reading 'Immortal Regiment, Moscow'. The tells are the head of state taking part in the march as a relative carrying a family portrait, and the pairing of private family memory with the national Victory Day commemoration.
- Date
- May 9, 2016
- Period
- Contemporary
- Made by
- Presidential Press and Information Office (kremlin.ru); Immortal Regiment march, Moscow
- Country
- Russia
- Medium
- Photograph
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Putin Government
- Leader
- Vladimir Putin
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Commemorate
- Theme
- War and the military
- Techniques
- Plain folksTransfer
- Leader
- Vladimir Putin
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (Presidential Press and Information Office, kremlin.ru), retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- CC BY 4.0 (kremlin.ru, via Commons)
Presidential Press and Information Office (kremlin.ru), CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Text on the object
[illegible]ССМЕРТНЫЙ ПОЛК МОСК[illegible] Бессмертный полк АРМИЯ. [illegible] [illegible portrait captions on the other cards]
[illegible]MORTAL REGIMENT MOSC[illegible] Immortal regiment ARMY. [illegible] [illegible portrait captions on the other cards]
The banner is partly hidden behind the marchers, so only fragments of 'Бессмертный полк / Москва' are legible; the card in the foreground reads 'Бессмертный полк' beside a red star and a medal graphic. The captions under the portraits are too small or too obscured to read except the fragment 'АРМИЯ.' above the portrait the president carries. The translation of the fragments is literal and approximate.
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