Verkhnyaya Pyshma. May 9, 2022.
The parades in Yekaterinburg and Verkhnyaya Pyshma are scheduled so that people can attend both events on the same day. That’s only if they hurry, of course. That’s why I had to miss the end of the parade in Yekaterinburg.
When we arrived, the equipment was already at the starting positions, under sparse but reliable security.
The crews were no longer busy with any primping, but were happily while away the time before the event began.
The crowd was growing, the stands were filling up.
We, as seasoned guys, tried to find out the expected route of the equipment in order to choose the most advantageous places, just like last time. And here we were in for a major disappointment! I’m not sure exactly why (I can name a bunch: preserving the city’s street surfaces, reducing the number of vehicles participating in the parade, refusing to allocate forces for the cordon, etc.), but the route was VERY shortened.
Accordingly, the density of spectators on the roadsides has increased significantly. You can judge for yourself by comparing it to last year’s situation.
The event’s increased popularity, thanks to various online writers, including myself, also contributed to the increase in attendance.
So we couldn’t find anything better to do than take this place.
And that policewoman is blocking my view! But you can’t swear – there are children there. And lots of them. My middle-aged fellow travelers were pushed away from the fence. I, taking advantage of my pensioner appearance and nature, defended my place in the front rows: they still have their whole lives ahead of them, they’ll see enough.
I combined video footage from two phones (mine and a colleague’s) into one almost 400-second video.
For this purpose, I decided to buy a program and cut and pasted videos for the first time – please don’t blame me. I also compiled last year’s footage into one video (twice as long).
It follows that this year we didn’t see the parade of personnel and all the Lend-Lease equipment.
While last year I was completely disappointed with the parade in Yekaterinburg and overjoyed in Verkhnyaya Pyshma, this year it was the complete opposite.
And even the aerobatic team couldn’t save the mood.
