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The 1997 Moscow Victory Day Parade was a
The 1997 Moscow Victory Day Parade was a parade
A parade is a procession of people, usually organized along a street, often in costume, and often accompanied by marching bands, floats, or sometimes large balloons. Parades are held for a wide range of reasons, but are usually some variety ...
held in 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 ...
on 9 May 1997 to commemorate the 52nd anniversary of the capitulation of Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German Reich, German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a Totalit ...
in 1945. The annual parade marks the Allied victory in the Great Patriotic War
The Eastern Front, also known as the Great Patriotic War (term), Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union and its successor states, and the German–Soviet War in modern Germany and Ukraine, was a Theater (warfare), theatre of World War II ...
on the same day as the signing of the German act of capitulation to the Allies of World War II, Allies in Berlin, at midnight 9 May 1945 (Russian time).
Together with the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Supreme Commander of Russian Armed Forces, President of Russia Boris Yeltsin, Prime Minister of Russia, Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, the Russian army generals and other officials stood on a temporary grandstand, erected in front of Lenin's Mausoleum. The parade was attended by 5,000 officers and men, the parade went off without a demonstration of military equipment. The parade commander was deputy commander of the Moscow Military District, Lieutenant-General Igor Puzanov. Passage of the troops took 20 minutes.
See also
* Moscow Victory Parade of 1945 * Victory Day (9 May)References
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