On May 6, 2026, the annual spiritual and patriotic St. George's parade "Children of the Victors" was held in front of the pavilion of the Russia - My History Park Museum at VDNH in Moscow, dedicated to the day of memory of the Great Martyr George the Victorious, the heavenly patron saint of the Russian army and pathfinders, as well as the celebration of the 81st anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.
Before the parade, the Divine Liturgy was celebrated at the Krutitsky Patriarchal Compound in Moscow. At the end of the Liturgy, a solemn ceremony was held at VDNH. The parade was attended by mentors and leaders of the Brotherhood, honorary guests of the event, clergy and more than 200 young patriotic pathfinders from Bashkir, Yekaterinburg, Krasnodar, Crimean, Leningrad regional, Moscow city, Moscow regional, Orenburg, Rostov-on-Don, Chelyabinsk, Tver regional branches of the BPS, the detachment of Orthodox pathfinders of the parish of the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity Lipetsk. In addition, representatives of the regions where new detachments are being created took part in the parade.
For their active patriotic and volunteer work, the Brotherhood of Orthodox Pathfinders was awarded vouchers to the All-Russian Smena Children's Center. Hieromonk Filaret (Zubov) was given 40 vouchers for the 2026 summer season by Andrei Velichko, adviser to the director of the Center.
After taking out the Russian flag and the banner of the Brotherhood to the traditional battle of the drumming squad, Hieromonk Filaret led the ceremony of dedication to the pathfinders and awarding new ranks to the members of the organization.
At the end of the parade, flowers were laid at the memorial to the Workers of the All-Russian Military Academy who died on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945, after which "Eternal memory" was proclaimed to "the leader and the soldiers who laid down their lives on the battlefield for our Fatherland."
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The St. George Victory Day Parade was first organized by the Brotherhood of Orthodox Pathfinders in 1992 at the Krutitsky patriarchal Compound. Since then, it has become a traditional action of organizations and movements engaged in military-patriotic and spiritual-moral education of the younger generation. St. George's parade "Children of Winners" is also held in Vladivostok, Kemerovo, Korenovsk, St. Petersburg, Sevastopol, Chelyabinsk, Ufa and other Russian cities where branches of the Brotherhood of Orthodox Pathfinders operate.