1987 October Revolution Parade

The 1987 October Revolution Parade was a parade on Red Square to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the October Revolution of 1917. It took place in Moscow on November 7, 1987. Marshal of the Soviet Union and the Minister of Defence Dmitry Yazov inspected the parade. Commanding the parade was the commander of the Moscow Garrison Vladimir Arkhipov. Music was performed by the head of Moscow Garrison's central band, Major General Nikolai Mikhailov. General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev and other members of the Politburo were on the grandstand of Lenin's Mausoleum in Red Square.

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 Mikhailov.

;Inspection and address
# ''Jubilee Slow March "25 Years of the Red Army"'' (Юбилейный встречный марш "25 лет РККА) by Semeon Tchenertsky
# ''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
# ''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 of the Guards of the Navy'' (Гвардейский Встречный Марш Военно-Морского Флота) by Nikolai Pavlocich Ivanov-Radkevich
# Slow March ''Victory'' (Встречный Марш «Победа») by Yuriy Griboyedov
# ''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
# ''Slow March of the Guards of the Navy'' (Гвардейский Встречный Марш Военно-Морского Флота) by Nikolai Pavlocich Ivanov-Radkevich
# '' Long Live our State'' (Да здравствует наша держава) by Boris Alexandrov
# Signal ''Everyone, listen!'' (Сигнал «Слушайте все!») by unknown composer
# State Anthem of the Soviet Union (Государственный Гимн Советского Союза) by Alexander Alexandrov
# Fanfare (Фанфара)

;Infantry Column
# ''Varshavianka''
# ''The Red Army is the Strongest''
# ''Cavalry trot''
# ''We are the Red Cavalry''
# '' The Sacred War'' by Alexandrov and Lebedev-Kumach
# '' Victory Day'' (День Победы) by David Fyodorovich Tukhmanov
# ''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
# ''Air March'' (Авиамарш) by Yuliy Abramovich Khait
# ''Leningrad'' (Ленинград) by Viktor Sergeyeich Runov
# ''We are the Army of the People'' (Мы – армия народа) by Georgy Viktorovich Mavsesyan
# ''there’s a parade on red square''
# ''Sports March'' (Спортивный Марш) by Valentin Volkov
# '' Wide is My Motherland''

; Mobile Column
# ''Victorious March'' (Победный Марш) by Nikolai Pavlocich Ivanov-Radkevich
# ''Salute to Moscow'' (Салют Москвы) by Semyon Tchernetsky
# ''March of the Tankmen'' (Марш Танкистов) by Semyon Tchernetsky

; Conclusion
'' Invincible and legendary'' (Несокрушимая и легендарная) by Alexander Alexandrov

Parade Units

Military Bands

* Massed Bands of the Moscow Military District under the direction of Major General Nikolai Mikhailov, Senior Director of Music of the Bands Service
* Corps of Drums of the Moscow Military Music College (recently awarded the Komsomol Prize)

Ground Column

Leading the column was the limousine carrying the parade commander, Col. General Vladimir Arkhipov, the commanding general of the Moscow Military District.

* Historical Units
** Russian Revolution Regiment
*** Combined Color Guard consisting of 50 Civil War era colors
*** Red Guards
*** Former Imperial Russian Army personnel with the Red Army
*** Naval contingent
*** Red Army personnel of 1922
*** Historical Cavalry Units
** Great Patriotic War Regiment
*** 12 member tri-services color guard led by the Victory Banner
*** Combined Color Guard
*** Historical "Warrior-Liberators" Unit
* Frunze Military Academy
* V. I. Lenin Military Political Academy
* Felix Dzerzhinsky Artillery Academy
* Military Armored Forces Academy Marshal Rodion Malinovsky
* Military Engineering Academy
* Military Academy of Chemical Defense and Control
* Yuri Gagarin Air Force Academy
* Prof. Nikolai Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy
* Naval Engineering School
* Moscow Border Guards Institute of the Border Defence Forces of the KGB "Moscow City Council"
* Moscow Garrison units:
**98th Guards Airborne Division
** OMSDON
** 336th Marine Regiment of the Baltic Fleet
* Suvorov Military School
* Nakhimov Naval School
* Moscow Military High Command Training School "Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR"

Mobile column

* 2nd Guards Tamanskaya Motorized Rifle Division
** BRDM-2
** BTR-70
** BMP-2
* 98th Airborne Division
** BMD-1
* 4th Guards Kantermirovsky Tank Division
** T-72
* Rocket Forces and Artillery
** 2S9 Nona
** 2S1 Gvozdika
** 2S3 Akatsiya
** BM-21 Grad

International dignitaries

* Cuba - Fidel Castro
* East Germany - Erich Honecker
* Bulgaria - Todor Zhivkov
* Poland - Wojciech Jaruzelski
* Romania - Nicolae Ceaușescu
* Ethiopia - Mengistu Haile Mariam
* Hungary - János Kádár
* Mongolia - Jambyn Batmönkh
* Kampuchea- Norodom Sihanouk

Gallery

File:70th Anniversary Emblem.png, The banner for the 1987 parade.

Notes

References

{{Annual Great October Socialist Revolution Parade

October Revolution parades
1987 in Russia
November 1987 events in Europe
1987 in Moscow