2012 Moscow Victory Day Parade

Russian military parade thumbnail|300px|right|T-90 tanks at Moscow Victory Parade 2012 The 2012 Moscow Victory Day Parade was held on 9 May 2012 on Moscow's Red Square to commemorate the 67th anniversary of the capitulation of Nazi Germany in 1945.Victory Day parade in Moscow – in pictures https://www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2012/may/09/victory-day-parade-moscow-pictures The Guardian 5 July 2019 9 May 2012 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.http://kremlin.ru/events/president/news/15271 Военный парад в честь 67-й годовщины Великой Победы Preparations During October 2011, the parade's organisation started. Rehearsals began to be held by the various participating units. Beginning from March 2012, in the parade practice site in Alabino, Moscow Oblast, parade rehearsal were held from the 19 of that month until 23 April, and from 21 and 22 April the parade's mobile column began its Moscow test runs. Full rehearsals in Moscow itself started on the final Thursday of April and lasted until 6 May. These also included separate practice runs for the military bands and the mobile column. The event Among the attendees were Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, Chairman of the State Duma Sergei Naryshkin, and Moscow's Mayor Sergey Sobyanin.https://www.mos.ru/amp/mayor/themes/1299/450050/ Мэр Москвы присутствовал на Параде Победы на Красной площади / Новости города / Сайт Москвы Over 14,000 troops participated in the ceremony.http://kp.ru/daily/25852/2821372/ В Москве на параде 9 Мая будут играть 1100 военных музыкантов 17 March 2012 Комсомольская правда 2012-03-17http://www.rbc.ru/rbcfreenews/20120316172109.shtml В параде Победы на Красной площади примут участие более 14 тыс. военных. 2012-03-16 РБК 2012-03-17 For the first time in a year, due to the massive unpopularity of the new battledress duty uniforms worn during the 2011 parade by almost all the parading units, all the participants, save for those in the mobile column, began wearing dress uniforms again.Минобороны: участники парада Победы будут маршировать в парадной форме The entire marchpast segment for 2012 was composed of the following Russian uniformed services: Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Russian Ground Forces Russian Air Force Russian Navy Russian Naval Infantry Russian Airborne Troops Strategic Missile Troops Russian Aerospace Defence Forces Russian Railway Troops Border Guard of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Ministry of Emergency Situations 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. The parade finale saw the bands perform the March Borodino and a special arrangement of Farewell of Slavianka, the latter being in honor of the centennialhttps://radiovesti.ru/brand/60963/episode/1351680/ Парад Победы – 2012 anniversary of its composition and the former being in honor of the bicentennial of the Patriotic War of 1812.https://www.rbc.ru/society/09/05/2012/5703f72e9a7947ac81a67bdc В Москве прошел Парад Победы Music Source: Flag procession, Inspection, and Address Sacred War (Священная Война) by Alexander Alexandrov March of the Preobrazhensky Regiment (Марш Преображенского Полка) Slow March to Carry the War Flag (Встречный Марш для выноса Боевого Знамени) by Dmitriy Valentinovich Kadeyev Slow March of the Officers Schools (Встречный Марш офицерских училищ) by Semyon Chernetsky Slow March of the Guards of the Navy (Гвардейский Встречный Марш Военно-Морского Флота) by Nikolai Pavlocich Ivanov-Radkevich Slow March of the Tankmen (Встречный Марш Танкистов) by Semyon Chernetsky Slow March (Встречный Марш) by Evgeny Aksyonov Glory (Славься) by Mikhail Glinka Parade Fanfare All Listen! (Парадная Фанфара “Слушайте все!”) by Andrei Golovin State Anthem of the Russian Federation (Государственный Гимн Российской Федерации) by Alexander Alexandrov Signal Retreat (Сигнал “Отбой”) Infantry Column Triumph of the Winners (Триумф Победителей) Air March (Авиамарш) by Yuliy Abramovich Khait Crew is One Family (Экипаж - одна семья) by Viktor Vasilyevich Pleshak March of the Cosmonauts/Friends, I believe (Марш Космонавтов /Я верю, друзья) by Oscar Borisovich Feltsman Artillery March (Марш Артиллеристов) by Tikhon Khrennikov We Need One Victory (Нам Нужна Одна Победа) by Bulat Shalvovich Okudzhava Ballad of a Soldier (Баллада о Солдате) by Vasily Pavlovich Solovyov-Sedoy We are the Army of the People (Мы Армия Народа) by Georgy Viktorovich Mavsesya To Serve Russia (Служить России) by Eduard Cemyonovich Khanok The Entry of the Red Army in Budapest (Вхождение Красной Армии в Будапешт) by Semyon Chernetsky March Youth (Марш "Молодёжный") by Valery Khalilov March Hero (Марш “Герой”) by an unknown author On Guard for the Peace (На страже Мира) by Boris Alexandrovich Diev On the Road (В Путь) by Vasily Pavlovich Solovyov-Sedoy Victory Day (День Победы) by David Fyodorovich Tukhmanov Mobile and Air columns March General Miloradovich (Марш “Генерал Милорадович”) by Valery Khalilov Invincible and Legendary (Несокрушимая и легендарная) by Alexander Alexandrov March “Three Tankmen” (Марш “Три Танкиста”) by the Pokrass brothers March of the Soviet Tankists (Марш сове́тских танки́стов) by the Pokrass brothers Katyusha (Катюша) by Matvey Blanter March Victory (Марш “Победа”) by Albert Mikhailovich Arutyunov Artillery March (Марш Артиллеристов) by Tikhon Khrennikov Long Live our State (Да здравствует наша держава) by Alexander Alexandrov Conclusion March Borodino (Марш “Бородино”) by I. Rayevsky Farewell of Slavianka (Прощание Славянки) by Vasily Agapkin Full list of participants Source: Colonel General Valery Gerasimov was the parade commander while the Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation, Anatoly Serdyukov, was the parade reviewing officer. For both, the 2012 Parade was their final appearance. Military Bands Massed Military Bands of the Armed Forces, under the direction of the Senior Director of Music of the Military Bands Service of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant General Valery Khalilov Central Military Band of the Ministry of Defense of Russia Central Navy Band of Russia Band of the Moscow Garrison Other military bands of military educational institutions and independent ministries Corps of Drums of the Moscow Military Music School Ground Column 154th Preobrazhensky Independent Commandant's Regiment Color Guard and Honor Guard Company of the 1st Honor Guard Battalion, 154th ICR Combined Arms Academy of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Military University of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation Military Technical University of the Federal Agency of Special Construction Air Military Engineering University (first appearance) Fleet Admiral of the Soviet Union Nikolai Kuznetsov Naval Academy (first appearance) 336th Independent Naval Infantry Brigade Military Space Academy "Alexander Mozhaysky" Yaroslav Air Defense Senior College of Rocket Training and Research (first appearance) Peter the Great Military Academy of the Strategic Missile Forces 98th Guards Airborne Division 29th and 34th Independent Railway Brigades of the Russian Railway Troops''' (first appearance) 1st NBC Coastal Brigade 9th Chemical Disposal Regiment 45th Engineering Brigade Civil Defense Academy of the Ministry of Emergency Situations OMSDON Ind. Motorized Internal Troops Division of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation "Felix Dzerzhinsky" Moscow Border Institute of the FSB 5th Independent Tamanskaya Guards Motor Rifle Brigade "Mikhail Kalinin" 4th Independent Kantemirovkaya Guards Tank Brigade "Yuri Andropov" 9th Independent Guards Motor Rifle Brigade 27th Independent Sevastopol Guards Motor Rifle Brigade 288th Independent Warsaw-Brandenburg Artillery Brigade Moscow Military Commanders Training School "Supreme Soviet of Russia"'' Mobile Column GAZ-2975 Tigr Iveco LMV (first appearance) BTR-80 T-90A 2S19 Msta Buk missile system Pantsir-S1 S-400 Triumf Iskander-M Topol-M Air Column Flypast Mil Mi-8 Hip Colors Party Rehearsals for 2012 Moscow Victory Day Parade See also Victory Day (9 May) References expanded Category:Moscow Victory Day Parades Moscow Victory Day Parade Category:2012 in military history Category:2012 in Moscow Category:May 2012 in Russia