Tiger Day was celebrated in Vladivostok with a colourful costume parade through the city. Adults and children marched along the central street with posters supporting the protection of Siberian tigers and Far Eastern leopards, rare inhabitants of the Ussuri taiga.

The flash mob ended on the city’s central square where thousands of residents gathered. Most of them were dressed in orange – a T-shirt, scarf, kerchief, or even wearing tiger make-up.

Organisations involved in the protection of Siberian tigers set up stalls on the square. There visitors were told about the work of Primorye Territory reserves, and learned the story of the tiger named Cinderella, who was released into the wild after a year of treatment and rehabilitation, and of five orphan tigers living in the rehabilitation centre in the Primorye Territory.