The dressed up people include members of political parties, public organizations, youth associations, and ordinary city residents impersonating archers, aristocrats on horsebacks, and common people of the 17th century on carts. The procession will be headed by people clothed as Kozma Minin and Dmitry Pozharsky, who organized the popular uprising that liberated Moscow from Polish occupants in 1612.
"People in Volgograd should know their history and their heroes - those who spent their lives fighting for the unity of the Russian land," the local administration said.
At the end of the procession, people will sing the Russian anthem, and then local artists will perform on the main square. Fireworks in Russian flag colors will round up the commemorative day.
This year, November 4 replaced November 7 that was formerly marked as the day of the 1917 Bolshevik revolution.
