In Photos: Marking Soviet Victory

Participants in Vladivostok hold portraits of relatives who fought in the second world war
Photograph: TASS/Barcroft Images

Vladimir Putin takes part in a wreath-laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Alexander Garden by the Kremlin Wall in Moscow
Photograph: Sergei Savostyanov/TASS

Onlookers gather at Rizhskaya station for the departure of the Victory Train
Photograph: Mikhail Pochuyev/TASS