Border Guards Day

 

Border guards celebrating Border Guards Day in the main fountain of Moscow's Gorky Park on Thursday. Russian border guards traditionally mark their professional holiday with boisterous gatherings in cities across the country

 

 

 

                                                   Border guards celebrating Border Guards Day in Moscow's Gorky Park on Thursday 

 

                                                       Border guards celebrating Border Guards Day in Moscow's Gorky Park on Thursday.

 

Two border guards wringing out a shirt next to the main fountain of Moscow's Gorky Park, where they and their fellow officers celebrated Russia's annual Border Guards Day on Thursday.

 

 

                                            Border guards celebrating Border Guards Day in Moscow's Gorky Park on Thursday 

 

                       Two border guards hugging as they and their fellow guards celebrate Border Guards Day in Moscow's Gorky Park on Thursday 

 

A guard toting a border post of the kind that stand along Russia's border crossings to a celebration of Border Guards Day in Moscow's Gorky Park on Thursday.

 

 

Two guards posing with a border post of the kind that stand along Russia's border crossings near Moscow's Gorky Park, where border guards celebrated Russia's annual Border Guards Day on Thursday

 

 

A border guard diving into the main fountain of Moscow's Gorky Park on Thursday as he and his fellow officers celebrate Russia's annual Border Guards Day.

 

                   Border guards looking at pictures on a digital camera at a celebration of Border Guards Day in Moscow's Gorky Park on Thursday 

 

 

                         A border guard celebrating Russia's annual Border Guards Day with other officers at Moscow's Gorky Park on Thursday