2012 Moscow Victory Day Parade

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T-90 tanks at Moscow Victory Parade 2012

The 2012 Moscow Victory Day

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.[2]

Preparations

Since October 2011, the parade has been well prepared. 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 19th of that month until April 23, and from April 21 and 22 the parade's Mobile Column began its Moscow test runs.

Full rehearsals in Moscow itself started on the final Thursday and weekend of April and lasted until May 6. These also included separate practice runs for the military bands and the mobile column.

The event

Among the attendees were Prime Minister

dress uniforms again.[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.

This year's combined

Patriotic War of 1812.[8]

Music

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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 Tchernetsky
  • 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 Tchernetsky
  • 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 Oskar 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 Tchernetsky
  • March Youth (Марш "Молодёжный") by Valery Khalilov
  • March Hero (Марш “Герой”) by Unknown
  • 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 Alexandr Alexandrov
  • March “Three Tankmen” (Марш “Три Танкиста”) by Pokrass Brothers
  • March of the Soviet Tankists (Марш сове́тских танки́стов) by 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 Boris Alexandrov
Conclusion
  • March Borodino (Марш “Бородино”) by I. Rayevsky
  • Farewell of Slavianka (Прощание Славянки) by Vasiliy Agapkin

Full list of participants

[8]

Colonel General Valery Gerasimov was the year's parade commander (his final parade appearance) while the Minister of Defence of the Russian Federation, Anatoly Serdyukov, in what would be his final parade review, was the parade reviewing officer.

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
  • Corps of Drums of the Moscow Military Music School

Ground Column

Mobile Column

Air Column Flypast

  • Mil Mi-8 Hip
    Colors Party

Rehearsals for 2012 Moscow Victory Day Parade

See also

References

  1. ^ "Victory Day parade in Moscow – in pictures". The Guardian. 9 May 2012. Retrieved 5 July 2019.
  2. ^ "Военный парад в честь 67-й годовщины Великой Победы".
  3. ^ "Мэр Москвы присутствовал на Параде Победы на Красной площади / Новости города / Сайт Москвы".
  4. Комсомольская правда
    . 17 March 2012. Retrieved 2012-03-17.
  5. РБК
    . 2012-03-16. Retrieved 2012-03-17.
  6. ^ Минобороны: участники парада Победы будут маршировать в парадной форме
  7. ^ "Парад Победы – 2012".
  8. ^ a b c "В Москве прошел Парад Победы".
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