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1963 October Revolution Parade
The 1963 October Revolution Parade was a parade on Red Square in Moscow on November 7, 1963, for the 46th anniversary of the October Revolution. Inspecting the parade was Marshal of the Soviet Union Rodion Malinovsky and commanding the parade was the commander of the Moscow Military District, Afanasy Beloborodov. The massed bands of the Military Band Service of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union led by Major General Nikolai Nazarov was playing the military marches. The parade officially began at the chimes of the Kremlin Clock at 10:00. It has one of the earliest records of the full parade. Music Providing the ceremonial music for the parade was the massed bands of the Moscow Military District, under the overall direction of Major General Nikolay Nazarov. ;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 М ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Square
Red Square ( rus, Красная площадь, Krasnaya ploshchad', p=ˈkrasnəjə ˈploɕːɪtʲ) is one of the oldest and largest town square, squares in Moscow, Russia. It is located in Moscow's historic centre, along the eastern walls of the Moscow Kremlin, Kremlin. It is the city's most prominent landmark, with famous buildings such as Saint Basil's Cathedral, Lenin's Mausoleum and the GUM (department store), GUM department store. It has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1990. Red Square has been the scene of executions, demonstrations, riots, parades, and speeches. Almost 73,000 square metres (800,000 square feet), it lies directly east of the Kremlin and north of the Moskva River. A moat that separated the square from the Kremlin was paved over in 1812. Location Red Square has an almost rectangular shape and is 70 meters wide and 330 meters long. It extends lengthways from northwest to southeast along part of the wall of the Kremlin that forms its boundary on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
October Revolution Parades
October is the tenth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Its length is 31 days. The eighth month in the old calendar of Romulus , October retained its name (from Latin and Greek ''ôctō'' meaning "eight") after January and February were inserted into the calendar that had originally been created by the Romans. In Ancient Rome, one of three Mundus patet would take place on October 5, Meditrinalia October 11, Augustalia on October 12, October Horse on October 15, and Armilustrium on October 19. These dates do not correspond to the modern Gregorian calendar. Among the Anglo-Saxons, it was known as Winterfylleth (Ƿinterfylleþ), because at this full moon, winter was supposed to begin. October is commonly associated with the season of autumn in parts of the Northern Hemisphere, and spring in parts of the Southern Hemisphere, where it is the seasonal equivalent to April in the Northern Hemisphere and vice versa. Symbols October's birthstones are the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1963 In Russia
The following lists events that happened during 1963 in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Incumbents * First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union: :: Nikita Khrushchev * Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union: :: Leonid Brezhnev * Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union: :: Nikita Khrushchev Events June * 16 June - Valentina Tereshkova, aboard Vostok 6, is the first woman in space December * 18 December - Ghanian students protest in Red Square during the 1963 Moscow protest Births * 4 February - Sergei Pugachev, Russian businessman and politician * 12 April - Anton Siluanov, Russian economist and current Minister of Finance * 13 April - Garry Kasparov, Russian chess grandmaster and former World Chess Champion * 21 December - Dmitry Rogozin, Russian politician, co-founder of the far-right party Rodina, and Senator of the Russian Occupied Zaporozhye Oblast Deaths * 30 March - Alex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi
Vasily Pavlovich Solovyov-Sedoy (; – 2 December 1979) was a Soviet classical composer and songwriter who was born and died in Leningrad. Originally named Solovyov, when he entered the Union of Soviet Composers he added the suffix "Sedoy", meaning grey-haired, to avoid confusion with another composer with the same surname. Solovyov-Sedoy composed the music for many songs such as "Moscow Nights" () and " Nightingales" (). He also wrote music for numerous films. Filmography * '' Heavenly Slug'' (1945) * '' The First Glove'' (1946) * ''World Champion'' (1954) * ''Good Morning'' (1955) * '' Maksim Perepelitsa'' (1955) * '' Be Careful, Grandma!'' (1960) * '' Don Tale'' (1964) * ''The Salvos of the Aurora Cruiser'' (1965) * '' Virineya'' (1968) * ''Fitil ''Fitil'' ( rus, Фитиль, p=fʲɪˈtʲilʲ, ''Fuse'') is a popular Soviet short film and television anthology series which ran for 608 episodes. Some of the episodes were aimed at children, and were called , ''Little Fuse'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Let's Go (march)
"" (, ) is a song written in 1954 by Soviet composer Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi and poet Mikhail Dudin. It was originally written for the film '' Maksim Perepelitsa'' starring Leonid Bykov. The movie itself was released in 1955, and the song has achieved fame and popularity independently of it ever since. To this day it is still used as a so-called ''drill song'' (somewhat similar to a cadence call in the U.S. Army). In 1959, Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi received the Lenin Prize for this song. (in Russian) "" is performed on as well as on other military holidays in Russia, Belarus and other |
Oscar Feltsman
Oscar Borisovich Feltsman ( Ukrainian & ; 18 February 1921 – 3 February 2013) was a Ukrainian-born composer of Lithuanian Jewish descent. He was the father of Vladimir Feltsman. Biography Feltsman was born in Odesa, the son of Boris Osipovich Feltsman, a Lithuanian Jewish orthopedic surgeon who also played the piano professionally. He had musical training from the age of five; learning the violin as a pupil of Pyotr Stolyarsky and the piano with Bertha Reynbald, who also taught Emil Gilels and Tatiana Goldfarb. He produced his first musical composition for the piano "Autumn" when he was six years old. Feltsman graduated from the Pyotr Stolyarsky Music School in Odesa in 1939, where he studied composition with the composer Nikolai Vilinsky. Then Feltsman was admitted to the Moscow Conservatory, studying under Vissarion Shebalin who wrote a letter of thanks on behalf of the Moscow Conservatory to Vilinsky for teaching Feltsman composition. During the Second World War, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
14 Minutes Until Start
"14 Minutes Until Start" (), also known as "I Believe, My Friends" () is a popular Soviet and Russian mass song composed in 1960 by Oscar Feltsman, to lyrics by Vladimir Voinovich. The original performer was Vladimir Troshin. The song was written as an unofficial anthem for the Soviet Space Program, and became a significant symbol of Space Race era, being printed two times in ''Pravda'' and even being sung in space by cosmonauts Andriyan Nikolayev and Pavel Popovich during the Vostok 3 mission. Creation and acclaim "14 Minutes Until Start" was written in autumn 1960 by Vladimir Voinovich, a relatively unknown Soviet author at the time, during his six months working as a writer for Radio in the Soviet Union, All-Union Radio. In late 1960, the Soviet government requested that a song be written to commemorate the Vostok 1 mission, which was scheduled for launch in mid-1961. In his biography ''Design'', Voinovich claims that he was the only worker at the All-Union Radio to volunteer to w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Air March
The "Air March" (), also known as the "Aviators' March" (), is a Soviet military march published in 1923. It currently serves as the organizational anthem of the Russian Aerospace Forces. It formerly served as the organizational anthem of the Soviet Air Force. The music to the march was composed by , and its lyrics were written by Pavel Herman. It is part of the repertoire of Russian military bands and is frequently performed at Victory Day Parades in Moscow and throughout the former Soviet Union. Usage in other countries The melody was borrowed by German Communists in early 1920s and used with German lyrics. German Nazis also borrowed the melody, changed a couple of chords, and wrote their own lyrics to the song. The new march under the title " Herbei zum Kampf" also known under the title "Das Berliner Jungarbeiterlied," it was used by the ''Sturmabteilung'' ( English: ''Storm Troopers'') from 1929 to 1945. The melody to the march was used during World War II in Yugoslav M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Pokrass
Samuel Yakovlevich Pokrass (; 1894, in Kiev – June 15, 1939, in New York City) was a Soviet composer of Russian and History of the Jews in Russia, Jewish origin. In 1920, during the Russian Civil War, he and the poet P. Grigoryev wrote fighting songs for the Red Army, including "White Army, Black Baron". That song's melody was used for the song "Die Arbeiter von Wien" ("The Workers of Vienna") in Red Vienna. Pokrass later emigrated to the United States, where he worked as a composer in Hollywood from 1934 to 1939, and was known primarily for the 1939 musical film ''The Three Musketeers (1939 film), The Three Musketeers''. References *A. V. Shilov, Из истории первых советских песен (1917–24), М., 1963 *A. Sokhor, Как начиналась советская музыка, "МЖ", 1967, No 2. External links * 1894 births 1939 deaths Musicians from Kyiv People from Kievsky Uyezd Jewish composers Soviet composers Soviet male composers Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White Army, Black Baron
"The Red Army Is the Strongest", popularly known by its incipit "White Army, Black Baron", is a Soviet March (music), march song written by and composed by Samuel Pokrass. Written in 1920, during the Russian Civil War, the song was meant as a combat anthem for the Red Army. History The immediate context of the song is the final Crimean offensive in the Russian Civil War by Pyotr Wrangel's troops in July 1920. The second verse refers to the call to a final effort in the Crimea published by the Revolutionary Military Council in ''Pravda'' on 10 July. While the song has a separate refrain, the verses repeat the claim that "The Red Army is stronger than all", which came to be the song's conventional title. The first verse of the song reads as follows: "Black Freiherr, Baron" was a nickname of Pyotr Wrangel, Wrangel's, from his alleged penchant for wearing (and dressing some of his elite units in) black uniforms. Wrangel's offensive was indeed halted by the Red Army, and Wrangel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Józef Pławiński
Józef Pławiński (born in 1853 or 1854, died on 8 August 1880) was a Polish composer and socialist activist. He wrote the music to the popular Polish revolutionary song '' Whirlwinds of Danger'' (''Warszawianka''), to the lyrics written by Wacław Święcicki, later used in Spain as the melody of the Spanish Civil War song ''A las Barricadas "" () is a Anarchism in Spain, Spanish anarchist anthem, popularised during the Spanish Civil War as the official hymn of the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo, National Confederation of Labour (CNT). The lyrics, written by Valeriano Orob ...''. 1850s births 1880 deaths Year of birth uncertain Polish composers Polish socialists {{Poland-composer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
