1990 Moscow Victory Day Parade

1990 Moscow Victory Day Parade
The 1990 Moscow Victory Day Parade was held on May 9, 1990 to commemorate the 45th anniversary of the Victory of the Soviet Union in the Great Patriotic War. The parade was inspected by the USSR Minister of Defense Marshal Dmitry Yazov, and was commanded by the Commander of the Moscow Military District Colonel general Nikolai Vasilyevich Kalinin.
Overview
12.5 thousand people and 429 units of equipment took part in the parade. It was the last parade in the USSR on Red Square, dedicated to the victory in the Great Patriotic War. This is the first Victory Day parade which did not depict Vladimir Lenin's portrait on the Red Square and this practice continues to the present. This parade also featured a float featuring the Soldier-liberator Statue, the first-of-its-kind for a Soviet Victory Day Parade. On the eve of the parade, Gorbachev laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. A small parade featuring the Waltham American Legion Band was also held on Red Square following the massive parade, becoming the first American Band to ever play in Moscow.
Full order of the marchpast
Military bands
Massed Military Bands of the Moscow Military District
Ground column
Corps of Drums of the Moscow Military Music College
Victory Banner Color Guard
Front Standards
Colour guard battalion of regimental, brigade and division colors of the Soviet Army
Veterans regiment
Heroes of the Soviet Union
Recipients of the Order of Glory
Veteran participants of the Moscow Victory Parade of 1945
Partisans
Civil awardees of the Order of Labour Glory
Historical regiment
M. V. Frunze Military Academy
V. I. Lenin Military Political Academy
Military Artillery Academy "Felix Dzerzhinsky"
Military Armored Forces Academy Marshal Rodion Malinovsky
Military Engineering Academy
Military Academy of Chemical Defense and Control
Yuri Gagarin Air Force Academy
Professor Nikolai Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy
M. V. Frunze Naval College
Airborne Division
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
Moscow Military High Command Training School "Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR"
During the transition period from the ground to mobile columns, 30 cadets from the Suvorov and Nakhimov schools marched to the grandstand to bring flowers to the Soviet leadership who attended.
Mobile Column
Historical column
T-34
SU-100
ZIL-157
ZIL-131
Katyusha rocket launchers
BRDM-2
Modern column
BTR-80
BMP-2
BMP-3
BMD-1
T-72
T-80
2S1 Gvozdika
2S3 Akatsiya
2S9 Nona
BM-21 Grad
BM-27 Uragan
2A36 Giatsint-B
9K35 Strela-10
9K33 Osa
S-300 missile system
OTR-21 Tochka
9K52 Luna-M
R-17 Elbrus
Music
The military band of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union was commanded by Major General Nikolay Mikhailov.
Inspection and address
Jubilee Slow March "25 Years of the Red Army" (Юбилейный встречный марш "25 лет РККА) by Semyon Tchernetsky
Slow March of the Tankmen (Встречный Марш Танкистов) by Semeon Tchenertsky
Slow March of the Guards of the Navy (Гвардейский Встречный Марш Военно-Морского Флота) by Nikolai Pavlocich Ivanov-Radkevich
Unknown March
March of the Preobrazhensky Regiment (Марш Преображенского Полка)
Slow March of the Officers Schools (Встречный Марш офицерских училищ) by Semyon Tchernetsky
Slow March (Встречный Марш) by Dmitry Pertsev
Slow March of the Red Army (Встречный Марш Красной Армии) by Semyon Tchernetsky
Slow March Victory (Встречный Марш «Победа») by Yuriy Griboyedov
Slow March (Встречный Марш) by Severian Ganichev
Slow March of the Guards of the Navy (Гвардейский Встречный Марш Военно-Морского Флота) by Nikolai Pavlocich Ivanov-Radkevich
Slow March (Встречный Марш) by Viktor Sergeyebich Runov
Glory (Славься) by Mikhail Glinka
Moscow Parade Fanfare (Московская Парадная Фанфара) by Unknown
State Anthem of the Soviet Union (Государственный гимн Советского Союза) by Alexander Alexandrov
Fanfare (Фанфара)
Infantry Column
Long Live Our State (Да здравствует наша держава) by Boris Alexandrov
"The Sacred War" (Священная война) by Alexander Alexandrov
Farewell of Slavianka (Прощание Славянки) by Vasiliy Agapkin
We Need One Victory (Нам Нужна Одна Победа) by Bulat Shalvovich Okudzhava
Victory Day (День Победы) by David Fyodorovich Tukhmanov
March Victory (Марш Победа) by Albert Mikhailovich Arutyunov
In Defense of the Homeland (В защиту Родины) by Viktor Sergeyevich Runov
On Guard for the Peace (На страже Мира) by Boris Alexandrovich Diev
Combat March (Строевой Марш) by Dmitry Illarionovich Pertsev
Leningrad (Ленинград) by Viktor Sergeyeich Runov
We are the Army of the People (Мы Армия Народа) by Georgy Viktorovich Mavsesyan
Sports March (Спортивный Марш) by Valentin Volkov
Victory Day (День Победы) by David Fyodorovich Tukhmanov
Long Live our State (Да здравствует наша держава) by Boris Alexandrov
Mobile Column and Conclusion
My Dear Capital/My Moscow (Дорогая Моя Столица/Моя Москва) by Isaac Dunayevsky
We Need One Victory (Нам Нужна Одна Победа) by Bulat Shalvovich Okudzhava
Salute to Moscow (Салют Москвы) by Semyon Tchernetsky
March of the Tankmen (Марш Танкистов) by Semyon Tchernetsky
Song of the Soviet Army (Песня о Советской Армии) by Alexander Alexandrov
Other parades held in other cities
For many republics, this was the last parade held before the independence day of their republic. Among these was the Latvian SSR, whose parade of the Baltic Military District took place on the bank of the Daugava in Riga, being received by Colonel General Fyodor Kuzmin, the commander of the district's troops. Parades were also held in cities such as Minsk (Belarusian SSR) and Kyiv Ukrainian SSR).
See also
Moscow Victory Day Parade
References
1990 in the Soviet Union
1990 in military history
May 1990 events in Russia
Moscow Victory Day Parades