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4,000 police to enforce security on Airborne Troops Day in Moscow.
MOSCOW, August 2 (Itar-Tass) -- Moscow police will tighten security
measures on occasion of the Russian Airborne Troops Day, which is
celebrated on Sunday. On August 2, "the Russian blue berets" will
traditionally hold mass celebrations in Moscow parks and yards. As the
practice shows these celebrations are followed up with massive fistfights
and acts of hooliganism.
About 4,000 policemen will enforce order in downtown Moscow on Sunday,
a duty officer of the information and public relations department of the
Moscow main police department Anatoly Lastovetsky told Itar-Tass.
"Reinforced police patrols will be on duty from the early morning at the
Gorky Park of Culture and Leisure, which is a traditional venue for the
celebrations of paratroopers, additional police patrols will be placed at
other places of mass celebrations," the duty officer said. According to
him, "If the operative situation worsens special reserves from police
commandoes will be on alert in each administrative district."
"The operative headquarters, which was formed at the Moscow main
police department and is headed by Moscow deputy police chief for public
security Vasily Yepifantsev, will coordinate the actions of the police on
this day," Lastovetsky said. "To ensure security in the city on the Day of
the Airborne Troops a special plan was drafted for the actions of police.
The order enforcement procedure in the capital during mass celebrations
was drafted long ago and was practiced repeatedly, and on this holiday the
police will act under the tested procedure."
The Moscow main police department assured that the police would treat
leniently paratroopers and veterans of the Airborne Troops. Due to a hot
spell in the Moscow region the paratroopers will traditionally attempt to
take bathes in the city fountains. However, the policemen will curb
strictly any massive violations of order. "The paratroopers celebrating
their holiday should remember about the law observance, the police will
curb all offences and those guilty will be brought to justice under the
effective legislation," Lastovetsky said.
.Russia to mark Day of Railway Worker.
MOSCOW, August 2 (Itar-Tass) -- Over a million Russians will celebrate
their professional holiday - the Day of Railway Worker on Sunday.
The holiday dates back to 1896, when until 1917 it was celebrated on
July 8, which was the name day of Russian Emperor Nicholas the First, who
launched the construction of railways in the country. On the holiday all
officials and workers of all railways coming to Petersburg, gathered for a
festive dinner at the Pavlovsky railway terminal. The Bolsheviks coming to
power abolished this remarkable date for railway workers.
The traditional holiday was reinstated only in 1937, when Soviet
railway workers outstripped the annual traffic target in 1936 for the
first time in many years. In late July the best railwaymen asked the
government to award their working successes in the future. Since then
under the June 28, 1937 decree issued by the Soviet Union Central
Executive Committee the holiday is celebrated annually on the first Sunday
of August. The Day of Railway Worker is the first professional holiday in
Russia originated 113 years ago.
One third of railway workers will spend their holiday on duty. "They
are cashiers, engine drivers, porters, controlling officers, the personnel
of railway terminals and stations," a source in the Russian Railways
Company (RZD) told Itar-Tass.
Railway workers will not be able to hold traditional mass
celebrations in the Moscow Gorky Park due to the financial crisis and the
coincidence in time of the Day of Railway Worker and the Day of
Paratrooper, the RZD source recalled. "But each Russian railway has
prepared a vast festive program," he said.
Meanwhile, brass orchestras will play at Moscow railway terminals on
the holiday.
"Transport workers and passengers will enjoy a parade of orchestras
traditional for this professional holiday," a source in the directorate of
the Moscow railway told Itar-Tass. "After the concerts at the railway
terminals brass orchestras will give a gala concert at the Yaroslavsky
railway terminal that will last until 4 p.m. Moscow time," the source said.
The festive events on occasion of the Day of Railway Worker began back
on July 31, when railway workers, veterans and the younger generation of
railway workers laid flowers to the Monument to the first Russian
Transport Minister, Pavel Melnikov, on the Komsomolskaya Square in Moscow.
Some 17 railways are running in Russia at a distance totalling 86,000
kilometres. The railways are a very important type of transport in the
country. In the Russian general transport system the railways account for
80.3% of cargo traffic and 44% of passenger traffic. The Russian railways
are ranked second in length after the United States. The railway fleet
numbers about 17,000 locomotives, more than 7,500 electric trains, about
45,000 passenger coaches and 500,000 cargo wagons.
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measures on occasion of the Russian Airborne Troops Day, which is
celebrated on Sunday. On August 2, "the Russian blue berets" will
traditionally hold mass celebrations in Moscow parks and yards. As the
practice shows these celebrations are followed up with massive fistfights
and acts of hooliganism.
About 4,000 policemen will enforce order in downtown Moscow on Sunday,
a duty officer of the information and public relations department of the
Moscow main police department Anatoly Lastovetsky told Itar-Tass.
"Reinforced police patrols will be on duty from the early morning at the
Gorky Park of Culture and Leisure, which is a traditional venue for the
celebrations of paratroopers, additional police patrols will be placed at
other places of mass celebrations," the duty officer said. According to
him, "If the operative situation worsens special reserves from police
commandoes will be on alert in each administrative district."
"The operative headquarters, which was formed at the Moscow main
police department and is headed by Moscow deputy police chief for public
security Vasily Yepifantsev, will coordinate the actions of the police on
this day," Lastovetsky said. "To ensure security in the city on the Day of
the Airborne Troops a special plan was drafted for the actions of police.
The order enforcement procedure in the capital during mass celebrations
was drafted long ago and was practiced repeatedly, and on this holiday the
police will act under the tested procedure."
The Moscow main police department assured that the police would treat
leniently paratroopers and veterans of the Airborne Troops. Due to a hot
spell in the Moscow region the paratroopers will traditionally attempt to
take bathes in the city fountains. However, the policemen will curb
strictly any massive violations of order. "The paratroopers celebrating
their holiday should remember about the law observance, the police will
curb all offences and those guilty will be brought to justice under the
effective legislation," Lastovetsky said.
.Russia to mark Day of Railway Worker.
MOSCOW, August 2 (Itar-Tass) -- Over a million Russians will celebrate
their professional holiday - the Day of Railway Worker on Sunday.
The holiday dates back to 1896, when until 1917 it was celebrated on
July 8, which was the name day of Russian Emperor Nicholas the First, who
launched the construction of railways in the country. On the holiday all
officials and workers of all railways coming to Petersburg, gathered for a
festive dinner at the Pavlovsky railway terminal. The Bolsheviks coming to
power abolished this remarkable date for railway workers.
The traditional holiday was reinstated only in 1937, when Soviet
railway workers outstripped the annual traffic target in 1936 for the
first time in many years. In late July the best railwaymen asked the
government to award their working successes in the future. Since then
under the June 28, 1937 decree issued by the Soviet Union Central
Executive Committee the holiday is celebrated annually on the first Sunday
of August. The Day of Railway Worker is the first professional holiday in
Russia originated 113 years ago.
One third of railway workers will spend their holiday on duty. "They
are cashiers, engine drivers, porters, controlling officers, the personnel
of railway terminals and stations," a source in the Russian Railways
Company (RZD) told Itar-Tass.
Railway workers will not be able to hold traditional mass
celebrations in the Moscow Gorky Park due to the financial crisis and the
coincidence in time of the Day of Railway Worker and the Day of
Paratrooper, the RZD source recalled. "But each Russian railway has
prepared a vast festive program," he said.
Meanwhile, brass orchestras will play at Moscow railway terminals on
the holiday.
"Transport workers and passengers will enjoy a parade of orchestras
traditional for this professional holiday," a source in the directorate of
the Moscow railway told Itar-Tass. "After the concerts at the railway
terminals brass orchestras will give a gala concert at the Yaroslavsky
railway terminal that will last until 4 p.m. Moscow time," the source said.
The festive events on occasion of the Day of Railway Worker began back
on July 31, when railway workers, veterans and the younger generation of
railway workers laid flowers to the Monument to the first Russian
Transport Minister, Pavel Melnikov, on the Komsomolskaya Square in Moscow.
Some 17 railways are running in Russia at a distance totalling 86,000
kilometres. The railways are a very important type of transport in the
country. In the Russian general transport system the railways account for
80.3% of cargo traffic and 44% of passenger traffic. The Russian railways
are ranked second in length after the United States. The railway fleet
numbers about 17,000 locomotives, more than 7,500 electric trains, about
45,000 passenger coaches and 500,000 cargo wagons.
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