1965 Moscow Victory Day Parade

Prior to 1965 Victory Day was not a major holiday and parades were not held, with the exception of the 1945 Victory Day Parade.

On this parade what is now the 1st Honor Guard Company of the 154th Preobrazhensky Independent Commandant's Regiment made its parade debut. Several of the then living officers from the war bearing the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union, including Georgy Zhukov, the parade inspector of the original 1945 Victory Parade, attended the event.^[7][8]

Full order of the 1965 parade

Following the limousine carrying General of the Army Beloborodov, the parade march past in the following manner:

Military bands

• Massed Military Bands of the Moscow Military District

Ground column

• Victory Banner Color Guard
• Honor Guard Company
• Corps of Drums of the Moscow Military Music College
• V. I. Lenin Military Political Academy
• Military Artillery Academy "Felix Dzerzhinsky"
• Military Armored Forces Academy
• Military Engineering Academy
• Military Academy of Chemical Defense and Control
• Yuri Gagarin Air Force Academy
• Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy
• Moscow Military High Command Training School
  "Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR"
• Moscow Border Guards Institute of the Border Defence Forces of the KGB "Moscow City Council"
• OMSDON
  Ind. Motorized Division of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR "Felix Dzerzhinsky"
• Suvorov Military School
• Nakhimov Naval School

Almost a third of the parade participants were veterans of the war.^[9]

External links

• Парад 1965 года on
  YouTube

References