2012 Moscow Victory Day Parade

[1] The parade marked the Soviet Union's victory in the Great Patriotic War on the very day on the signing of the German act of capitulation, on the very midnight of May 9, 1945 (Russian time).

Newly inaugurated President of Russia Vladimir Putin made his ninth victory holiday address in this parade.

Among the attendees were Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, Chairman of the State Duma Sergei Naryshkin, and Moscow's Mayor Sergey Sobyanin.

[6] The entire marchpast segment for 2012 was composed of the following Russian uniformed services: The mobile column was composed of more than a hundred military vehicles from various military units and a squadron of Army Air Center Mi-8s carrying the flag of Russia and the flags of the Armed Forces flying past Red Square closed the parade segment.

The combined military band, conducted by Lieutenant General Valery Khalilov in what was his 10th Victory Day appearance as Senior Director of Music of the Military Band Service of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, had more than 1,100 bandsmen and, for the first time in 3 years, it saw the return of the Field Marshal Alexander Suvorov Moscow Military Music School's Corps of Drums leading the parade in its dark blue and red dress uniform, as it has always done since the Moscow Victory Parade of 1945.