Reference was also made to an anniversary parade in Samara, east of Moscow which was said to include two Il-2 Sturmoviks in honour of the 600 which took part in the 1941 parade.

There is a superbly restored Il-2 on a plinth on a roundabout in Samara – I photographed it in 2007….

IIRC, after our visit, it was taken down and re-painted and put back up.

A few links to it I found:-

http://www.360cities.net/image/shturmovik-il-2-in-samara-russia#128.66,-10.48,43.7

http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB:IL-2_samara.jpg

http://wikimapia.org/222352/Ilyushin-Il-2-Shturmovik

Ken