It was the last parade in the USSR on Red Square, dedicated to the victory in the Great Patriotic War.
This is the first Victory Day parade which did not depict Vladimir Lenin's portrait on the Red Square and this practice continues to the present.
[1][2][3][4][5] On the eve of the parade, Gorbachev laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
[6][7] During the transition period from the ground to mobile columns, 30 cadets from the Suvorov and Nakhimov schools marched to the grandstand to bring flowers to the Soviet leadership who attended.
[8] The military band of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union was commanded by Major General Nikolay Mikhailov.