List of October Revolution Parades in Moscow
The annual October Revolution Day Parade on 7 November (Russian: Военный Парад на 7 Ноября) on Moscow's Red Square was a military parade of the Moscow Military District of the Soviet Armed Forces that took place every year from 1919–1990 commemorating the anniversary of the 1917 October Revolution.
On 1 May 1918, on International Workers' Day, the first parade of the Red Army took place on Khodynka Field.
In 1923, the first aerial filming of Moscow and Red Square was made and for the first time, artillery tractors participated in the parade.
In 1924, the parade was opened by students of the Red Army Academy, who marched past Lenin's Mausoleum.
There were no armored cars and tanks and due to inclement weather, the flypast over Red Square was canceled.
Mikhail Kalinin was that year's parade inspector, and it would prove to be the last time the inspection was done on foot.
1930 would see the beginning of the wide armored columns passing thru Red Square provided by the men from the then Mechanized Brigade of the Moscow Military District.
In 1933, the newest additions to the parade were former partisans and bomber aircraft, plus the Vladimir Lenin All-Union Pioneer Organization and OSOAVIAKhIM.
In 1934, The parade was opened by students of military academies, infantry and mechanized units, pilots, signalmen, engineers, chemists, cadets of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee school, units of the Proletarian Division, Red Navy and border guards, work detachments of former Red Guards and partisans, young workers of Osoaviahim.
The parade was opened by a consolidated regiment of the commanding staff of the central departments of the People's Commissariat of Defense, then military academies and schools, a consolidated detachment of sailors, battalions of the Moscow Proletarian Rifle Division, squadrons of the Cavalry Division named after I.V.
Stalin, a consolidated cart regiment, cyclists, motorcyclists, a detachment of armored cars, artillery.
Training aircraft from the Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy flew in visual formations "USSR" and the Roman numeral "XX" in the skies of the capital.
It was the first ever Revolution Day parade to be started by the cadet drummers coming from the newly established Moscow Military Music College, which opened its doors that year.
In 1940, subdivisions of the 1st Moscow motorized rifle division passed (the soldiers of the division were armed with PPD assault rifles ), squadrons of the Special Cavalry Brigade of the NPO, military sailors, border guards, NKVD troops, pilots, soldiers of air defense units, tankers (medium tanks T-28 , heavy combat vehicles T-35 , fast tanks BT-7 ).
In 1953, the tradition of receiving parades on horseback ended, with Marshal Nikolai Bulganin being the first to complete the inspection in an open car (specifically a ZIS-110B).
[6] That same year, cadets of the Kiev Suvorov Military School in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic took part for the first time.
[13] In November 1967 Minister of Defense Marshal Andrei Grechko announced his gratitude and of the Ministry of Defence to all those who marched on Red Square in 1967 as the country marked the golden jubilee anniversary year of the Revolution and for the first time, together with the text of gratitude, they were presented with commemorative badges "Participant of the military parade".
The Soviet Communist Party General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev and Soviet Prime Minister Alexei Kosygin attended the parade, among other foreign leaders from Warsaw Pact and allied countries who decided to fly in for the celebrations.
This included the full implementation of the sousaphone in the back row, as well as drummers added to the front line, spaced in between the fanfare trumpets.
[26] General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, other members of the Politburo and the heads of foreign states were present on the grandstand of Lenin's Mausoleum for the jubilee parade.
Among those present were President Mikhail Gorbachev, Premier Nikolai Ryzhkov, Russian leader Boris Yeltsin, and Moscow Mayor Gavriil Popov.
