In Britain, preparations for the celebration of Victory Day began long before the solemn date. Compatriots from different parts of the United Kingdom had been planning a number of large-scale and local for several months.

The celebrations were launched with the "St. George's Ribbon" campaign organized by the Bureau of Russian-Speaking Volunteers on one of the main streets of the capital – Piccadilly Street. Students of local universities handed out ribbons and told about the role of the Soviet Union and the Allied forces in the victory over Nazism.

A car rally from London to Coventry, the twin city of Volgograd, started on May 6. An increasing number of people join the car rally to bring the flags across the country and remind the people of Britain about the Second World War. Participants say that this year there were twice as many cars as in 2016. The rally ended with a festive concert in Nottingham.

A festival dedicated to World War II was held in Scotland, and an exhibition was opened at the Russian Arctic Convoy Museum in the memory of the heroic Arctic convoys of Arkhangelsk and Murmansk. The Russian-British Music Academy "Music Nova" held a lecture-concert "Music of the besieged Leningrad". In Brighton, Russian school "Horizon" organized a meeting with a resident of the besieged Leningrad Anna Arkhipovna Smirnova. Memorable lessons, meetings, screenings of movies were held in other Russian schools throughout the country.

On Victory Day, traditional wreath-laying ceremony was held at the Imperial War Museum in London. The ceremony was attended by Soviet and British veterans, representatives of the Embassies of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. The memory of the fallen soldiers was honoured with a minute of silence. Students of the Russian Embassy school in London performed the song "Nightingales". Representatives of local authorities, various organizations, as well as ordinary citizens brought flowers. In cemeteries in Leeds, Huddersfield, Harrogate, Manchester, Shaftesbury, Aldershot, Tidworth, Hartlepool, York, Liverpool and Chester, wreaths were placed on the graves of Soviet citizens killed in the war. On the island of Jersey wreaths were laid to the Jersey's Slave Workers Memorial).

The largest event of the day – the "Immortal Regiment" – was held in the streets of five cities of the United Kingdom. About two thousand people took part in the procession in London. Hundreds of people with portraits of ancestors who fought on the frontline and toiled in the rear marched along the main sights of the capital of Great Britain - from Trafalgar Square past the Prime Minister's residence, Big Ben, the Houses of Parliament and Westminster Abbey. On the way, volunteers handed out St. George’s ribbons to passers-by and told about the meaning of this march. "Immortal Regiment" also passed through the streets of Derby, Cardiff, Mansfield and Manchester.

The representative office of Rossotrudnichestvo in London hosted an exhibition of posters "The Edge of Victory" from the collection of the State Central Museum of Contemporary History of Russia. Also, an exhibition of children's drawings dedicated to Victory Day prepared by students of Russian schools as well as an exhibition of British wartime newspapers were showcased in the course of the festive events.  

In London, the celebrations ended with a big concert with the invitation of Russian and British veterans, prepared by talented compatriots. Solemn events will continue throughout the country within the next few days.