DUSHANBE, May 8, 2015, Asia-Plus -- Tajik President Emomali Rahmon today morning congratulated the people of Tajikistan on the Great Victory Day.

On the occasion of Victory Day, Tajik President Emomali Rahmon laid a wreath at the Military Glory Memorial in Dushanbe’s Victory Park on May 8, according to the Tajik president’s official website.

After him, representatives of the government and the parliament, Tajik power-wielding structures and diplomatic corps as well as the Russian military base in Tajikistan laid wreaths at the Military Glory Memorial in Dushanbe’s Victory Park.

The commemoration ceremony reportedly ended with a military parade.

In all, more than 2,000 servicemen, including soldiers and officers of the Ministry of Defense, the Border Troops, the National Guard and the Committee on Emergency Situations and Civil Defense (CES) were on the military parade.  Servicemen of the Russian military base deployed in Tajikistan also participate in the military parade in Dushanbe.

Defense Minister, Lieutenant-General, Sherali Mirzo, and Deputy Defense Minister, Lieutenant-General Bakhtiyor Ruzminshoyev, commanded the parade.

In his congratulatory speech, Emomali Rahmon noted that the people of Tajikistan remembered and would always remember the price of the historic victory.

“Glorious sons of Tajikistan alongside other peoples fighting fascist yoke made a worthy contribution to victory in World War II,” the president said, noting that more than 300,000 residents of Tajikistan took part in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 and 92,000 of them died in battle.