The parade on Red Square on May 9, 1985 was held in honor of the 40th anniversary of the Victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War . The second, since 1965 , Soviet parade in honor of the anniversary of the Victory (the third parade was held in 1990 ).
The 1985 parade was the last ceremonial event of comparable proportions in the history of the USSR [1] .
Content
Procedure
The parade began at 10 am Moscow time .
The military parade was received by the Minister of Defense of the USSR Marshal of the Soviet Union Sergey Leonidovich Sokolov , and commanded by the commander of the troops of the Moscow Military District Army General Peter G. Lushev
The parade consisted of three parts:
The first part is historical: the passage of a column of war and labor veterans, carrying the Victory Banner and 150 combat banners of the most distinguished parts during the war years [2] .
The second part is modern: the passage of parts of the Moscow garrison and cadets of higher military schools and academies.
The third part is technical, the passage of both military equipment of the times of the Great Patriotic War and modern vehicles.
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Participation in the parade of military equipment
The parade of 1985 until 2008 remained the last Moscow parade of the Victory , which used armored vehicles of the Great Patriotic War ; until the parade of 2010, it remained the last event in the USSR and Russia , in the framework of which famous T-34-85 tanks passed across Red Square [4] [5] .
The procedure for passing military equipment
Techniques of the Great Patriotic War
- Medium tanks T-34-85
- SAU SU-100
- Guns artillery cannons towed ZIL-157 PTP ZIS-3 , howitzers M-30 .
- Guards rocket mortars BM-13 on chassis ZIL-157
- Anti-aircraft artillery guns towed ZIL-157 and Ural-375D 37 mm and 61-K 85mm 52-K, respectively.
Soviet Army Equipment
- Combat vehicles of the Tamansk division:
- BRDM-2 with ATGM;
- Armored personnel carriers BTR-70 ;
- Infantry fighting vehicles BMP-2 , BMD-1 landing force and BTR-D .
- Tanks and SAU Kantemirovskaya division;
- T-72 and T-64 B-1, SAU and SAO Nona-S , Acacia , Carnation ;
- Rocket artillery: BM-21 Grad on the Ural-375D chassis ;
- KrAZ vehicles with Hyacinth guns;
- Anti-aircraft defense missiles: Strela-10 , Buk , Osa , ZIL-157KV air defense missile systems with S-75, Ural-375SK1 missiles with βDal β complex βs 400 rockets, DTRP OTRK, ZIL-135 landing gear , R-17M based on MAZ-537, OTRK Temp-S .
Notes
- β Peter Jahn. Triumph and pain: the Soviet and post-Soviet memory of the war of 1941β1945 = Triumph und trauma: sowjetische und postsowjetische erinnerung an den krieg 1941β1945. - Ch. Links Verlag, 2005. - p. 148. - 215 p. - ISBN 3-86153356-1 , ISBN 978-3-86153356-6 .
- β Vasilyev N. I. Veterans - national pride. - Moscow : publishing house DOSAAF USSR , 1987. - p. 32. - 76 p. - (Library propagandist DOSAAF).
- β Holders of the Order of Glory of three degrees. A brief biographical dictionary - M .: Military Publishing House , 2000
- β Bystrov A. A. Tanks. 1916-1945: Illustrated Encyclopedia . - M .: Olma-Press , 2002. - p. 95. - 224 p. - 5000 copies - ISBN 5-224-02469-2 .
- β Ilya Kramnik. Victory Parade: memory and glory . RIA News (May 05, 2010). The date of circulation is September 30, 2011. Archived on August 27, 2012.
Literature
- Military parades on Red Square / Ed. V.M. Arkhipova, I.P. Repin. 3rd ed. M., 1987.
- Grebennikov G.I. The Great Victory Day, 1945-1985 / G.I. Grebennikov, A.A. Davidyants, A.Ye. Porozhnyakov. - M., 1986. - 256 pp., Ill.
- G. Drozdov. Parade of winners: reports on parades on Red Square in Moscow: photo album / G. Drozdov, E. Ryabko; under total ed. V.I. Petrov. - M., 1985. - 287 pp., Ill.
- Parade of winners, 1945-1985: collection / comp. A. D. Davydov. - Dnepropetrovsk, 1985. - 110 p.
- Publications for the 40th anniversary of the Victory . State Public Historical Library of Russia. The appeal date is April 30, 2012. Archived May 16, 2012.
Links
- YouTube video of the parade
- Video with a selection of photos on YouTube