2000 Moscow Victory Day Parade
The 2000 Moscow Victory Day Parade was held on 9 May 2000 to commemorate the 55th anniversary of the capitulation of Nazi Germany in 1945. The parade marks the Soviet Union's victory in the Great Patriotic War.
Particularities
The parade was commanded by Colonel General Igor Puzanov, Commander of the Moscow Military District, and reviewed by the Minister of Defence, Marshal of the Russian Federation Igor Sergeyev. The historical part of the parade was commanded by the former Moscow Military District commander General of the Army Vladimir Govorov. A speech was made by the newly elected president Vladimir Putin. Unlike other jubilee parades, this one in particular did not see the attendance of foreign heads of state and government as well as foreign delegations. This parade was the last to feature the old national anthem of Russia. It was also the last parade to feature veterans on foot.Troops participating in the parade
- The car carrying the commander of historical part of the parade General of the army Vladimir Govorov.
- * Corps of Drums of the Moscow Military Music School
- * Victory Banner
- * Veterans of the Karelian, Leningrad, 1st Baltic, 1st, 2nd and 3rd Belorussian and 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Ukrainian fronts. These were followed by veterans of the Baltic and Black Sea Fleets of the Soviet Navy.
- The car carrying the commander of the parade Colonel General Ivan Puzanov
- *Honor Guard Battalion of the 154th Independent Commandant's Regiment
- * Great Patriotic War Liberators Regiment
- *Combined Arms Academy of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
- * Peter the Great Military Academy of the Strategic Missile Forces
- * Military Engineering Academy named after Kuibyshev
- *Military University of Radiation, Chemical and Biological Defense named after Marshal Timoshenko
- *Gagarin Air Force Academy
- * Military Aviation Technical University named after NE Zhukovsky
- *Military University of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
- * St. Petersburg Naval Institute
- * Moscow Border Institute
- * 331st Guards Airborne Regiment
- *Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia
- * 336th Guards Naval Infantry Brigade of the Baltic Fleet
- * Suvorov Military School
- * Nakhimov Naval School
- *Moscow Higher Military Command School
Music
The parade on Red Square ended with the passage of the Combined Military Band consisting of the Central Military Band of the Ministry of Defense, the Headquarters of the Moscow Military District, and the Central Navy Band of Russia, numbering 600 musicians, under the direction of Lieutenant General Viktor Afanasyev.; Inspection and Address
- Potpourri of March of the Preobrazhensky Regiment and Slow March of the Officers Schools Jubilee Slow March "25 Years of the Red Army" by Semeon TchernetskySlow March of the Tankmen by Semyon TchernetskySlow March of the Guards of the Navy by Nikolai Pavlocich Ivanov-RadkevichSlow March of the Officers Schools by Semyon TchernetskySlow March by Dmitry PertsevSlow March of the Red Army by Semyon TchernetskyMarch of the Preobrazhensky Regiment Jubilee Slow March "25 Years of the Red Army" by Semeon TchernetskySlow March of the Tankmen by Semyon TchernetskySlow March of the Guards of the Navy by Nikolai Pavlocich Ivanov-RadkevichSlow March of the Officers Schools by Semyon TchernetskyGlory by Mikhail GlinkaParade Fanfare "May 9" by Nikolai CamokhvalovState Anthem of the Russian Federation (Patriotic Song) – Государственный Гимн Российской Федерации by Mikhail Glinka
- Fanfare
- March from the theme of the song “On an Unknown Hill” In the Dugout by Alexei SurkovBlue Scarf by Jerzy PetersburskyFarewell of Slavianka by Vasiliy Agapkin
- Parade Fanfare All Listen! by Andrei Golovin
- March Victory by Albert Mikhailovich ArutyunovIn Defense of the Homeland by Viktor Sergeyevich RunovOn Guard for the Peace by Boris Alexandrovich DievCombat March by Dmitry Illarionovich PertsevAir March by Yuliy Abramovich KhaitLeningrad by Viktor Sergeyeich RunovWe are the Army of the People by Georgy Viktorovich MavsesyaWe Need One Victory by Bulat Shalvovich OkudzhavaSports March by Valentin VolkovOn the Road by Vasily Pavlovich Solovyov-SedoyVictory Day by David Fyodorovich Tukhmanov