DUSHANBE, May 2, Asia-Plus -- Some 2,000 servicemen from the Dushanbe Garrison of the Armed Forces of Tajikistan, as well as the Committee for Emergency Situations (CES), Interior Ministry, as well as members of the National Guard and Border Troops will be on a parade to mark the 62nd anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 in Dushanbe on May 9, according to the ministry of defense (MoD).

The source at a MoD said that Tajik Defense Minister Colonel-General Sherali Khairulloyev and Commander of the Dushanbe Garrison Major-General Latif Fayziyev, will command the parade. 

More than 250,000 residents of Tajikistan took part in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945.  More than 90,000 servicemen from Tajikistan died in that war.  54 servicemen from Tajikistan were given the title of Hero of the Soviet Union.