the united states considers him a phenomenon and a national treasure ray char has traveled all over the world twice been in our country. and that's what he said music, almost the only one, what has not yet become a bone of contention for people that's how this day in history was. he takes this parade alone 95-year-old front- line soldier vladimir gerasimovich kostin, a resident of the town of kovylkino near saransk, a soldier of the local garrison is marching through the streets in front of his house. youth cadets. he went to the front as a 17-year-old boy in the 1944 war. for him, it ended in the far east after the victory over militaristic japan. vladimir kostkin participated in the famous operation to force the great khingan mountain range and the defeat of the kwanton army for the successful offensive received the gratitude of the supreme commander-in-chief stalin so that there would never be a war. these are people in such, as they say, fears of themselves without end explosions. the ruins of the dead volgograd region the house of 96-year-old war veteran nikolai fedorovich masterov