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Nearly 8,000 people took part in the First of May demonstration in Krasnoyarsk. That was several thousand more than it had been planned by the organizers.
 
The Day of Spring and Labor started with a demonstration in the city center from the Oktyabrskaya Hotel to the Theater Square along Mira Prospect. The demonstrators were representatives of trade unions, workers, employees, regional and municipal authorities, political parties. The majority of the demonstrators were members of trade unions – forestry, mining and metallurgical, machine-building, culture, trade and catering, geology, healthcare etc. The demonstrators were carrying banners with the names of their organizations, flags made specially for May, 1.
 
The column was headed by officials and heads of trade unions: Vasily Kuzubov, First Deputy Governor, Edkham Akbulatov, Deputy Governor, Anatoly Romashov, Deputy Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Tatiana Zelenskaya, Deputy Mayor, Oleg Isyanov, chairman of the Krasnoyarsk Territory Trade Union Organization. On arrival at the Theater Square the column of each trade union was greeted "Hooray!", and after that the anthem of the Krasnoyarsk Territory was on.
 
Edkham Akbulatov greeted the demonstrators and noted that celebration of the first of May was a report of the parties of social partnership to the workers of all spheres. "Our region is going through a stage of new industrialization. New industrial outputs appear nowadays, housing construction is on a rise, which cannot but influence labor relations. Salaries have increased in the region largely. There are no arrears of wages and serious labor trials," Akbulatov said.
Anatoly Romashov congratulated all the regional citizens with the First of May on behalf of the regional parliament, and Oleg Isyanov stressed, "Lots of people have taken part in the demonstration, and it proves that all our efforts are not in vain, and we will continue heading together in the same direction."
After that a concert of local musical and dance groups started at the Theater Square.
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