In Primorye, the events dedicated to the victory Day started. The railroad teamed up with the students of the Primorsky regional College of art and donated it to the townspeople at once two unusual concert at the pedestrian overpass and in the waiting room of the station. But preparation for the holiday began at dawn, in the depot on the First River.
Coal is to throw not to shovel. The firebox of a steam locomotive of a series of military "Victory" eats it with relish!
Yakov Udovenko, assistant driver of the locomotive "Victory": "the Conditions are harsh, so our grandfathers fought, it's nice to work and understand what work it was in those days."
Very young assistant driver Yakov Udovenko from Ussuriysk specially went to distant Kursk to learn how to manage the iron rarity. This model was developed at the end of the war and was nicknamed "Swan" - by the name of his father-designer Lev Lebedyansky. On these locomotives raised from the ruins of the economy of the destroyed country..
ergey Arrestov, the driver of the locomotive "Victory": "Grandma and grandpa worked during the war on the locomotive drivers. Genes and they gave me these apparently, my dream was to drive a locomotive!»
While at the depot crank the furnace of a steam locomotive on the viaduct between the sea terminal and railway station play military waltzes. Citizens and numerous tourists from the cruise ship forget about the everyday rush and stop near the orchestra. After all, many motives are familiar even to guests from abroad.
Alena Fadeeva, a student of the Primorsky regional College of arts: "I know that my mother's grandfather reached Berlin."
Kristina Gordievskaya, a student of the Primorsky regional College of arts: "my Mother told me that my grandmother was a nurse in a military hospital."
Vitaly Dmitrenko, a student of the Primorsky regional College of arts: "my great-grandfather on my mother's side Vasily Puzanov fought in the tank burned."
Boris Nedoshivin, student of the Primorsky regional College of art: "I know my grandmother worked in the rear, and my grandfather with the 41st to 43rd fought and was wounded."
Ekaterina Sukhitaeva, a student of the Primorsky regional College of arts: "I Know that my own grandmother on my father's side fought a brother, my grandfather, and he died in the first days of the war."
The second concert venue was the railway station. Boring waiting for the departure of their trains for passengers suddenly became unusually solemn.
The students of the Primorsky College of arts combined the concert numbers into a large relay of military songs. The elegant acoustics of the station through the open Windows brought their sound to the platforms.
Natalia Melnikova, teacher of the Primorsky regional College of arts: "it's Hard not to cry when you sing such songs."
Lydia Knyazeva, student of the Primorsky regional College of arts: "I cried. When you're a performer, you still have to hold on. Do not eat for yourself, but for people."
Maria Pecheneva, a student of the Primorsky regional College of arts: "Music is beautiful and about those fatal events can not only be expressed in words."