1967 October Revolution Parade

thumb|The golden jubilee parade badge.|alt= The 1967 October Revolution Parade http://visualrian.ru/hier_rubric/photo/705494.html Военный парад на Красной площади 7 November 1967July 2026 InternetArchiveBot was the parade on Moscow's Red Square devoted to the 50th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution on 7 November 1967."City Glows as Muscovites Enjoy Fete", Chicago Tribune, November 8, 1967, p2-11 Commanding the parade was First Deputy Commander of the Moscow Military District, Colonel General Yevgeny Ivanovsky. Parade events As 1967 being the golden jubilee anniversary parade it would feature troops dressed up as historical units from the Russian civil war era. It would also feature the first color guard on parade from the honor guard. Cavalry units from the Revolution era also rode through Red Square. Notable guests on Lenin's Mausoleum included the following:RedSamurai84 Soviet October Revolution Parade, 1967 Парад 7 Ноября 2016-05-13 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leIXTci-eXY&t=4816s 2016-12-25 Soviet Union General Secretary of the CPSU Leonid Brezhnev Soviet Union Minister of Defense, Marshal of the Soviet Union Andrei Grechko (giving his first jubilee address) Soviet Union Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet Nikolai Podgorny East Germany General Secretary of East Germany's Socialist Unity Party Walter Ulbricht Yugoslavia President of Yugoslavia Josip Broz TitoКулешов Михаил 1967-11-01 Приезд в Москву государственно-партийной делегации СФРЮ http://visualrian.ru/media/672166.html 2020-07-24 Библиотека изображений "РИА Новости" ru Mongolian People's Republic General Secretary of the Mongolian People's Party Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal India Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhihttp://mealib.nic.in/?pdf2494?000 1967-68 Report, Government of India, Ministry of External Affairs, New Delhi mealib.nic.in live https://web.archive.org/web/20171127024117/http://mealib.nic.in/?pdf2494?000 27 November 2017 The massed bands (under the direction of Major General Nikolai Nazarov) marched off to the tune of "My Beloved Motherland" at the end of the mobile column.https://networks.h-net.org/node/28443/discussions/3406053/national-security-archive-briefing-book-653-communist-parades National Security Archive Briefing Book 653: Communist Parades as an Intelligence Target in the Cold War | H-Diplo | H-Net Nationwide, the events were aired live on monochrome on Soviet Central Television. Moscow TV viewers saw the first color broadcasts during that parade for the first time on Programme 1 and Moscow Programme 3.https://thewire.in/external-affairs/moscow-50-years-of-russian-revolution/amp/ How Moscow Celebrated 50 Years of the Russian Revolution in 1967 - the Wire Full order of the golden jubilee parade The parade displayed the latest Soviet weaponry, with a news report describing it as "a new muscle in every major category... ranging from a massive three-stage intercontinental missile to a relatively tiny anti-tank missile on a reconnaissance car.""Russia Takes Wraps off New Missiles in Moscow Parade", Chicago Tribune, November 8, 1967, p2-11Focus on Politics and Economics of Russia and Eastern Europe, Ulric R. Nichol, ed. (Nova Publishers, 2007) p204https://www.nytimes.com/1967/11/07/archives/soviet-parades-5-new-missiles-weapons-shown-in-moscow-on-revolution.html SOVIET PARADES 5 NEW MISSILES; Weapons Shown in Moscow on Revolution Anniversary SOVIET PARADES 5 NEW MISSILES The New York Times 7 November 1967 Ground Column Following the limousine carrying the parade commander, the parade marched past in the following sequence: Historical Units and Colors Colour Guard wearing armed workers' uniforms of the Revolution and Civil War Red Guards Former Imperial Russian Army personnel with the Red Army Naval contingent Red Army personnel of 1922 Historical Cavalry Units Tachanka Historical horse artillery Historical Armored Units Corps of Drums of the Moscow Military Music College Frunze Military Academy V.I. Lenin Military Political Academy Felix Dzerzhinsky Artillery Academy Malinovsky Military Armored Forces Academy Military Engineering Academy Military Academy of Chemical Defense and Control Yuri Gagarin Air Force Academy Prof. Nikolai Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy Naval Engineering School 98th Guards Airborne Division Moscow Border Guards Superior College 336th Guards Marine Brigade Suvorov Military School Nakhimov Naval School Moscow Military High Command Training School "Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR" Massed Bands of the Moscow Military District (parade finale) Mobile column 2nd Guards Tamanskaya Motorized Rifle Division BRDM-1 BTR-60 BMP-1 BTR-50 98th Guards Airborne Division GAZ-69 85 mm divisional gun D-44 (towed) ASU-85 4th Guards Kantermirovsky Tank Division T-62 ZSU-57-2 Rocket Forces and Artillery Air Defense Missile Artillery of the Soviet Army 2K11 Krug 2K12 Kub Towed artillery T-12 antitank gun 100 mm field gun M1944 (BS-3) 122 mm howitzer 2A18 (D-30) 152 mm towed gun-howitzer M1955 (D-20) BM-21 Grad Air Defense missile artillery of the Soviet Air Defense Forces S-25 Berkut S-75 Dvina S-200 Angara S-125 Neva/Pechora ABM-1 Galosh Tactical and strategic missiles of the Army Rocket Forces and Artillery, Strategic Missile Forces and the Navy's Coastal Defense, Surface and Submarine Forces (Baltic and Northern Fleets) UR-100 2K6 Luna FROG-3 9K52 Luna-M FROG-7 Scud-A R-11 Zemlya Scud-B R-17 Elbrus R-9 Desna TR-1 Temp RT-20P R-12 Dvina R-14 Chusovaya R-16 R-5 Pobeda P-15 Termit P-5 Pyatyorka R-21 Commemorative badges In mid-later November 1967, Marshal Andrei Grechkov announced his gratitude on behalf of the Ministry of Defence to all those who marched on Red Square, ordering for the first time that, together with the text of gratitude, participants were presented with commemorative badges that read "Participant of the military parade". The badge is a gilded circle, in the center of which is the image of the Kremlin's Spasskaya Tower, covered with bright red enamel. On the right, the circle is surrounded by a strip in the form of a Ribbon of Saint George, and on the left, on a white strip in two lines. The number "50" is engraved in the lower part of the badge. The diameter of the badge is 30 mm.Нагрудные знаки участникам московских парадов http://izhig.ru/znaki-i-zhetony/nagrudnyye-znaki-uchastnikam-moskovskikh-paradov.php 2020-07-28 izhig.ru Celebrations of the golden jubilee After the parade in Moscow the demonstration march of the workers of various sectors of the Soviet Union took place, preceded by an historic fireworks display at the beginning – one that had never been performed before – to mark the golden jubilee anniversary of the Revolution. The daytime fireworks display was a once in a lifetime moment and one of the big highlights of that year's Red Square parade. There were parades in cities such as Yerevan,Հոկտեմբերյան հեղափոխության 50-ամյակին նվիրված շքերթ, Armenpress Baku, Tselinograd (modern day Astana),https://e-history.kz/ru/publications/view/2444 Праздник, которого нетhttps://www.net-film.ru/film-83772/ Сюжеты Парад в честь 50-летия Октября, Алма-Ата. (1967) Priozersk, and Kuybyshev (modern day Samara). During the parade on Lenin Square in Baku, the parade was opened by a guard of honor (from the Baku Higher Combined Arms Command School) instead of drummers, one of the first cities to do that in their annual parade.http://kombat-bvoku.com/index/voennye_parady_1964_1968_g_g/0-304 Четвертый батальон БВОКУ - Военные парады 1964-1968 г.г. References October Revolution Parade October Revolution Parade Category:October Revolution parades