2015 Moscow Victory Day Parade
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The 2015 Moscow Victory Day Parade was a parade that took place 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 ...
in Moscow on 9 May 2015 to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the capitulation of
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in 1945. The annual parade marks the Allied victory in the
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at the Eastern Front, on the same day as the signing of the German act of capitulation to the Allies in Berlin, at midnight of 9 May 1945 (Russian time). President of the Russian Federation
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delivered his twelfth holiday address to the nation on this day, right after the parade inspection that was presided by Minister of Defense
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. Being a landmark jubilee parade honoring the 70th anniversary of the Allied victory in the European continent, the 2015 parade was the largest and most lavish held in Russian and Soviet history, but observers noted that a real cult of Victory had developed in Russia, Putin government used the celebration to legitimize its aggressive policy towards Ukraine (e.g., wide use of the St. George ribbon), most wartime allies in the
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refused to attend the event, instead, leader of China and India, etc. as the major participants. Col. Gen. Oleg Salyukov, the Commander-in-Chief of the
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, was the 2015 commander. In addition to troops of the Russian Federation, 1,300 troops from 10 foreign countries were also on parade, including contingents from China, India, Serbia, and Mongolia, all four countries making their first appearance at a Russian Victory Day parade. Following the official parade, over 500,000 Russians and foreign attendees marched through central Moscow in commemoration of those who perished and those who survived World War II. The Moscow leg of this parade, which is an annual Victory Day tradition called the ''March of the Immortal Regiment'' and observed in numerous other Russian cities and in several other countries, was led by President Putin whose father served during the war. It is estimated that up to 12 million Russians participated nationwide in the 2015 '' March of the Immortal Regiment.''


Important dignitaries in attendance and parade information

Amongst those in attendance were: *
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* President of the Republic of Cyprus,
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, Tomislav Nikolić *
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In all, around 30 international leaders attended the parade, including heads of
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, with invitations having been sent to 68 heads of state. The UK was represented by the grandson of World War II leader British Prime Minister Winston Churchill,
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. A number of EU countries including the Czech Republic, Hungary and Greece came under US and/or EU pressure not to attend the Victory Day Parade due to the 2014
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and the subsequent
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, resulting in Czech President
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subsequently banning the US ambassador from functions at Prague Castle. A number of World War II veterans from the US and UK were present at the victory day celebrations as private attendees. The following countries opted not to participate in this year's parade in Moscow, although most sent their respective ambassadors as part of the diplomatic corps: Australia, Belarus (which held its own victory day celebrations on the same day), Belgium, United Kingdom, Germany, Georgia, Israel, Canada, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine, United States, Finland, Croatia, Montenegro, Czech Republic, Sweden, Estonia, Japan. The 2014
annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation In February and March 2014, Russia invaded the Crimea, Crimean Peninsula, part of Ukraine, and then annexed it. This took place in the relative power vacuum immediately following the Revolution of Dignity. It marked the beginning of the Russ ...
and the subsequent
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has caused a number of nations that fought in the second world war, especially those that participated in the parade of 2010, to not participate in the 2015 celebrations, including Germany, whose
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instead visited Moscow on 10 May to lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and meet with Vladimir Putin. Until three days after the Victory Day parade, US secretary of state
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laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Sochi with Russian foreign minister
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. Aside from the return of the
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tank and the
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self-propelled gun, and the usual vehicles and planes in the mobile column and the flypast, making their parade debut this year were the following: * Bumerang armored personnel carrier * Kurganets-25 infantry fighting vehicle * T-15 heavy IFV * T-14 main battle tank * 2S35 Koalitsiya-SV self-propelled howitzer * Ural Typhoon MRAP * BTR-82AM Naval Infantry armored personnel carrier * Kornet-D/EM mobile antitank missile system mounted on the
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APC * RS-24 Yars mobile ICBM launcher * The brand new ''Crimean Wings (Krilya Tavrida)'' aerobatic team with 4
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s *
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and
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fighter jets The Nakhimov Higher Naval Institute and the Chemical Defense and Control Military Academy both made their return appearances in a Red Square parade after years of absences, the former since 1985 and the latter since 2006, while the Pacific Naval Institute will be making its debut appearance this year, all in the march past segment made up of 16,000 servicemen, where they will be joined by a company-sized formation from the Ground Forces Military Institute from the
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, part of the
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, and several military contingents from other
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member countries, including the Armenian Army and the Azerbaijani Land Forces, all returning to the parade after a 5-year break, alongside first time parade participants from the armed forces of Serbia, China, Mongolia, and India. The BMD-4 infantry fighting vehicle will make its return to the mobile column after a 6-year break, together with the joint flight of the Russian aerobatics teams Russian Knights and Strizhi after a one-year absence from the parade. Also, several military vehicles that drove through the Red Square in the 1945 Victory Parade are being readied for their drivepast in other major Russian cities. As per tradition, 26 other Russian major cities (
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in the disputed
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included) held their parades, and joint civil-military parades were hosted by 50 other towns and cities nationwide, plus 5 fleet reviews in Saint Petersburg and Kaliningrad (Baltic Fleet), Sevastopol (Black Sea), Severnomorsk (Northern) and Vladivostok (Pacific). Some of the big parades featured an air fly past for the first time. Victory Day parades and celebrations were also held in the following CIS member nations: * : 9 May (
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, featuring the
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of the United States Air Forces in Europe - Air Forces Africa, Brest) * : 9 May (
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of
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, in the midst of the fighting in the Donbas, held on 9 May in
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the first public Victory Day parade of the so-called " United Armed Forces of Novorossiya" (military branch of the separatist organisation) together with the federal level Ministries of Internal Affairs and Emergency Situations. The situation was the same in the other non-recognised entity within Ukraine,
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, where on 9 May
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's first ever Victory Day parade was held, with participation of the United Armed Forces of Novorossiya and the federal MVD and EMERCOM units of the entity. The
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celebrated the day with a parade and other activities in
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on 9 May, also celebrating the 23rd anniversary of the Capture of Shusha during the
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. Due to the ongoing
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, and the fact that immediately after the parade formation of Azerbaijan was the contingent from Armenia, a photograph of the parade on the website of the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan photoshopped the
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from the official parade picture.


Preparation

Beginning in November/December 2014, preparations for the parade were well attended at the unit level. Individual unit practices were held in the various military installations for all the participating units, and by March 2015, the air flypast column began its individual practice flying runs. Also rehearsing for the parade are the massed military bands of the Armed Forces, the MVD, EMERCOM and the Moscow Garrison, all to be conducted for the 13th straight year by Lieutenant General Valery Khalilov, the Senior Director of Music of the Bands Service of the Russian Armed Forces since 2002, with a combined number of more than a thousand military bandsmen, and the world-famous Corps of Drums of the Moscow Military Music College "Field Marshal Alexander Suvorov", under the leadership of Colonel Alexander Gerasimov, the long-time college director, which has always (with a brief break from 2009 to 2011) had the privilege of leading the parade. The parade practice runs officially commenced in the practice field at Alabino, Moscow Oblast, in April 2015, and will last until the middle of April when the runs on Red Square itself will start, ending with a final general combined practice run of the parade in early May. Before the first parade dry run, there was the first practice drivepast of the estimated 200 mobile column vehicles in attendance this year, that first drivepast was held on 27 March. The first parade practice run on 3 April 2015 kicked off officially the preparation for the big parade, despite the snowy weather that day. Joining the first run-through rehearsal (for the march past segment and the mobile column only) was the first ever military women's contingent to march on Red Square for the very first time, composed of girl Cadet Corps students coming from the Moscow National Pensions School. This was followed by the first test run of the flypast column in the Alabino training grounds on 9 April, with the more than 150 aircraft taking part in that first run-through of the flypast segment. The 15 2 April parade practice run witnessed the first practice march of a
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contingent that on 9 May will be the first ever unit of its kind to march on the steps of Red Square after so many years. The unit marching for this year comes from the ranks of the
Kuban Cossacks Kuban Cossacks (; ), or Kubanians (, ''kubantsy''; , ''kubantsi''), are Cossacks who live in the Kuban region of Russia. Most of the Kuban Cossacks are descendants of different major groups of Cossacks who were re-settled to the western Norther ...
, which marched past Red Square in the Victory Parade of 1945 represented by the 4th Guards Cossack Cavalry Regiment. The 2nd dry run for the flypast was done on 21 April, and the final run on the Alabino grounds on 22 April. The first late night practice run started on 29 April in Moscow's Red Square, and continued on till 4 May with the final two practice runs on 6 and 7 May, which also serve as the general practice runs, the one on 7 May expected to have Col. Gen. Salyukov leading the marchers on Red Square and General of the Army Shoygu inspecting, just as they would be doing in the actual parade in 2 days time (the final rehearsal, just as the actual parade would be, was scheduled to be held at around 10AM Moscow Daylight Time). All of them are open to the general public, with the 7 May final practice run being open also for war veterans. At the same time, final practice runs are being made for those joining the parades on 9 May in 26 other major cities in Russia plus 50 other towns and cities. During such practice drill runs in Moscow several variants of the new Russian armored vehicle platform Armata were seen with turrets covered, together with the Bumerang APC and the Kurgarnets-25 IFV's turrets, which got the same treatment as well till the turret covers were removed for the 3 – 4 May practice runs. During the 7 May general practice run one of the T-14 Armata tanks stopped in the middle of the square because of driver's mistake, right in front of the people in attendance. There was also one incident with a T-15 APC which could drive on the platform only after the second attempt. All the 145 aircraft taking part in the flypast took their practice run on 5 May that drew a great reception from the crowds in Red Square, Manege Square and Tver Street that watched the dry run.


Full order of the 2015 Victory Day Parade

Bold indicates first appearance, ''italic'' indicates multiple appearances, ''Bold and italic'' indicate returning appearance, all indicated unless otherwise noted. * ''
General of the Army Army general or General of the army is the highest ranked general officer in many countries that use the French Revolutionary System. Army general is normally the highest rank used in peacetime. In countries that adopt the general officer fou ...
Sergey Shoigu Sergei Kuzhugetovich Shoigu; , . (born 21 May 1955) is a Russian politician and military officer who has served as secretary of the Security Council since 2024. He served as Minister of Defence of Russia from 2012 to 2024. Shoigu has served ...
, Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation'' (parade inspector) * ''
Colonel General Colonel general is a military rank used in some armies. It is particularly associated with Germany, where historically General officer#Old European system, general officer ranks were one grade lower than in the Commonwealth and the United States, ...
Oleg Salyukov, Commander-in-Chief of the
Russian Ground Forces The Russian Ground Forces (), also known as the Russian Army in English, are the Army, land forces of the Russian Armed Forces. The primary responsibilities of the Russian Ground Forces are the protection of the state borders, combat on land, ...
'' (parade commander)


Military Bands

* Massed Military Bands of the Armed Forces under the direction of the Senior Director of Music of the Military Bands Service of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant General
Valery Khalilov Valery Mikhaylovich Khalilov (; 30 January 1952 – 25 December 2016) was an Uzbek-born Russian military band conductor and composer. A lieutenant general in the Russian military, he was the Senior Director of Music of the Military Band Servi ...
* Corps of Drums of the Moscow Military Music School


Infantry Column

* ''
154th Preobrazhensky Independent Commandant's Regiment 154th Preobrazhensky Independent Commandant's Regiment serves as the official honor guard regiment of the Russian Armed Forces and serves as the main honor guard unit of the armed forces, stationed in Moscow. Aside from being the honor guard ...
Colour Guard'' * ''Front standards and historical colours'' * ''Honour Guard Company of the 1st Honor Guard Battalion, 154th PICR'' * ''Historical units'' ** Infantrymen ** Pilots ** Sailors ** Sappers ** Reconnaissance ** Militiamen ** Battalion of the
Kuban Cossacks Kuban Cossacks (; ), or Kubanians (, ''kubantsy''; , ''kubantsi''), are Cossacks who live in the Kuban region of Russia. Most of the Kuban Cossacks are descendants of different major groups of Cossacks who were re-settled to the western Norther ...
(first appearance) ** ''Presidential Cavalry Escort Battalion,
Kremlin Regiment The Kremlin Regiment (), also called the Presidential Regiment (), is a unique military regiment and part of the Russian Federal Protective Service (Russia), Federal Protective Service with the status of a special unit. The regiment ensures the s ...
'' * Foreign contingents on parade, in the order of their appearance ** '' Special Forces of Azerbaijan'' ** '' Separate Regiment of Protection,
Armed Forces of Armenia The Armed Forces of the Republic of Armenia (, abbreviated ՀՀ ԶՈՒ, ''HH ZU''), sometimes referred to as the Armenian Army (), is the national military of Armenia. It consists of personnel branches under the General Staff of the Armenian Arme ...
'' ** '' 5th Spetsnaz Brigade of the Armed Forces of Belarus'' ** '' Military Institute of the Kazakh Ground Forces'' ** '' National Guard of Kyrgyzstan'' ** '' Military Institute of the Ministry of Defense of Tajikistan'' ** The Grenadiers,
Indian Army The Indian Army (IA) (ISO 15919, ISO: ) is the Land warfare, land-based branch and largest component of the Indian Armed Forces. The President of India is the Commander-in-Chief, Supreme Commander of the Indian Army, and its professional head ...
(first appearance) ** Mongolian State Honor Guard (first appearance) ** Serbian Guards Unit (first appearance) ** Beijing Capital Garrison Honor Guard Battalion,
Beijing Military Region The Beijing Military Region was one of seven military regions for the Chinese People's Liberation Army. From the mid-1980s to 2017, it had administration of all military affairs within Beijing city, Tianjin city, Hebei province, Shanxi province, ...
,
People's Liberation Army The People's Liberation Army (PLA) is the military of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the People's Republic of China (PRC). It consists of four Military branch, services—People's Liberation Army Ground Force, Ground Force, People's ...
(first appearance) * '' Suvorov Military School'' * '' Nakhimov Naval School'' * Moscow National Pensions School Cadet Corps (first appearance) * '' Kronstadt Sea Cadet Corps'' * ''Aksanskiy Cossack Cadet Corps'' * ''
Combined Arms Academy of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation The Combined Arms Academy of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation is a military academy in Moscow which provides graduate education for officers of the Russian Armed Forces. The full name reads: ''The Combined Academies Order of Lenin Order ...
'' * '' Military University of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation'' * '' Military Academy of Material and Technical Security "General of the Army A. V. Khrulev"'' * ''
Zhukovsky – Gagarin Air Force Academy The Zhukovsky – Gagarin Air Force Academy is a Russian military institution of higher education run by the Russian Aerospace Forces. The full name is Russian Air Force Military Educational and Scientific Center Air Force Academy Professor Nikola ...
'' * '' Baltic Naval Military Institute "Admiral Fyodor Ushakov"'' * '' Black Sea Higher Naval Military Institute "Admiral Pavel Nakhimov"'' (returning) * Pacific Naval Military Institute "Admiral Stepan Makarov" (first appearance) * '' 336th Independent Guards Biaystok Marine Brigade of the
Baltic Fleet The Baltic Fleet () is the Naval fleet, fleet of the Russian Navy in the Baltic Sea. Established 18 May 1703, under Tsar Peter the Great as part of the Imperial Russian Navy, the Baltic Fleet is the oldest Russian fleet. In 1918, the fleet w ...
'' * '' Peter the Great Military Academy of the Strategic Missile Forces'' * ''Military Space Academy "
Alexander Mozhaysky file:Mozhajskij marka SSSR 1963.jpg, Mozhaysky, identified as the "Creator of world's first airplane", on a 1963 Soviet postal stamp. Alexander Fedorovich Mozhaysky (also transliterated as Mozhayski, Mozhayskii and Mozhayskiy; ) ( – ) was ...
"'' * ''Yaroslavl Air Defense Rocket Training School'' (returning) * '' Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School "Gen. of the Army Vasily Margelov" * '' 98th Guards Airborne Division'' * ''16th Spetsnaz Brigade, Western Military District'' * '' Engineering Forces, Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Defence and Control Military Academy "
Marshal of the Soviet Union Marshal of the Soviet Union (, ) was the second-highest military rank of the Soviet Union. Joseph Stalin wore the uniform and insignia of Marshal after World War II. The rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union was created in 1935 and abolished in ...
Semyon Timoshenko Semyon Konstantinovich Timoshenko (; ; – 31 March 1970) was a Soviet military commander, Marshal of the Soviet Union, and one of the most prominent Red Army commanders during the Second World War. Born to a Ukrainian family in Bessarabia, ...
"'' (returning) * 1st NBC Defense Brigade (first appearance) * ''29th and 38th Independent Railway Brigades of the
Russian Railway Troops Railway Troops of the Russian Armed Forces ()См. сведения о постоянных корреспондентах газеты «Красная звезда» в выходных данных на С. 2. каждого еженедель ...
'' * '' ODON Ind. Motorized Internal Troops Division of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation "
Felix Dzerzhinsky Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky (; ; – 20 July 1926), nicknamed Iron Felix (), was a Soviet revolutionary and politician of Polish origin. From 1917 until his death in 1926, he led the first two Soviet secret police organizations, the Cheka a ...
"'' * '' Civil Defense Academy of the Ministry of Emergency Situations'' * '' Moscow Border Guards Institute of the Border Guard Service of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation "Moscow City Council"'' * '' 2nd Guards Tamanskaya Motor Rifle Division "Mikhail Kalinin"'' * '' 4th Guards Kantemirovskaya Tank Division "Yuri Andropov"'' * '' Military Technical University of the Federal Agency of Special Construction'' * '' Moscow Military Commanders Training School "
Supreme Soviet of Russia The Supreme Soviet of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR, later the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation, was the supreme government institution of the Russian SFSR from 1938 to 1990; between 1990 and 1993, it was ...
"''


Mobile Column (in order of appearance)

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BTR-82A The BTR-80 () is an 8×8 wheeled amphibious armoured personnel carrier (APC) designed in the Soviet Union. It was adopted in 1985 and replaced the previous vehicles, the BTR-60 and BTR-70, in the Soviet Army. It was first deployed during the ...
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T-90 The T-90 is a third-generation Russian main battle tank developed from, and designed to replace the T-72. It uses a 125mm 2A46 smoothbore main gun, the 1A45T fire-control system, an upgraded engine, and gunner's thermal sight. Standard p ...
File:Танк «Армата» Т-14.JPG,
T-14 Armata The T-14 Armata (; industrial designation ) is a Russian fourth-generation main battle tank (MBT) based on the Armata Universal Combat Platform. The Russian Army initially planned to acquire 2,300 T-14s between 2015 and 2020. By 2018, product ...
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* '' T-34/85'' medium tank * ''
SU-100 The SU-100 ( Russian: самоходная установка-100, СУ-100 romanized: '' Samokhodnaya Ustanovka-''100) is a Soviet tank destroyer armed with the D-10S 100 mm anti-tank gun in a casemate superstructure. It was used extens ...
'' tracked tank destroyer * '' GAZ-2975 "Tigr"'' infantry mobility vehicle * Kornet D/EM mobile ATGM system (First appearance) * '' Typhoon-K'' MRAP * Ural Typhoon MRAP (First appearance) * '' BTR-82AM'' APC * '' BMD-4M'' air-droppable IFV (returning) * BTR-MDM "Rakushka" APC (first appearance) * BMP Kurganets-25 (first appearance of both IFV and APC versions) * T-15 heavy IFV (first appearance) * ''
T-90 The T-90 is a third-generation Russian main battle tank developed from, and designed to replace the T-72. It uses a 125mm 2A46 smoothbore main gun, the 1A45T fire-control system, an upgraded engine, and gunner's thermal sight. Standard p ...
A'' main battle tank * T-14 main battle tank (first appearance) * '' 2S19 Msta-S'' tracked self-propelled howitzer * 2S35 Koalitsiya-SV tracked self-propelled howitzer (first appearance) * ''
9K720 Iskander The 9K720 Iskander (; NATO reporting name SS-26 Stone) is a Russian mobile short-range ballistic missile system. It has a range of . It was intended to replace the OTR-21 Tochka in the Russian military by 2020. The Iskander has several differ ...
'' mobile tactical ballistic missile system * '' Tor-M2U'' mobile SAM system on tracked chassis * '' Buk-M2'' mobile tracked SAM system * '' Pantsir-S1'' mobile SAM system on wheeled chassis * ''
S-400 Triumf The S-400 Triumf ( – Triumf; translation: Triumph; NATO reporting name: SA-21 Growler), previously known as the S-300 PMU-3, is a mobile surface-to-air missile (SAM) system developed in the 1990s by Russia's NPO Almaz as an upgrade to the ...
'' mobile launch unit on 5P85TE2 trailer * RS-24 Yars road-mobile ICBM system (first appearance) * BTR Bumerang APC (first appearance)


Air Fly Past Column

* ''Mil
Mi-26 The Mil Mi-26 (, NATO reporting name: Halo) is a Soviet Union, Soviet/Russian heavy Military transport helicopter, transport helicopter. Its product code is ''Izdeliye 90''. Operated by both military and civilian operators, it is the largest ...
'' * ''Mil
Mi-17 The Mil Mi-17 (NATO reporting name: Hip) is a Soviet-designed Russian military helicopter family introduced in 1975 (Mi-8M), continuing in production at two factories in Russia, in Kazan and Ulan-Ude. It is known as the Mi-8M series in Russia ...
Colors Party'' * ''
Mil Mi-24 The Mil Mi-24 (; NATO reporting name: Hind) is a large helicopter gunship, attack helicopter and low-capacity transport helicopter, troop transport with room for eight passengers. It is produced by Mil Moscow Helicopter Plant and was introduced ...
'' * '' Mil Mi-28'' * '' Mil Mi-35'' * '' Kamov Ka-52'' *
Kazan Ansat The Kazan Ansat is a Russian light, multipurpose helicopter manufactured by Kazan Helicopters. History Kazan Helicopters in Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia has been one of the main Russian manufacturers of helicopters of the Mikhail Mil bureau design. ...
(first appearance) * ''
Mikoyan MiG-29 The Mikoyan MiG-29 (; NATO reporting name: Fulcrum) is a twin-engine fighter aircraft designed in the Soviet Union. Developed by the Mikoyan design bureau as an air superiority fighter during the 1970s, the MiG-29, along with the larger Suk ...
'' * ''
Sukhoi Su-24 The Sukhoi Su-24 (NATO reporting name: Fencer) is a supersonic, night fighter, all-weather tactical bomber developed in the Soviet Union. The aircraft has a variable-sweep wing, Twinjet, twin engines and a side-by-side seating arrangement for it ...
'' * ''
Sukhoi Su-34 The Sukhoi Su-34 (; NATO reporting name: Fullback) is a Soviet-origin Russian twin-engine, twin-seat, all-weather supersonic medium-range fighter-bomber/ strike aircraft. It first flew in 1990, intended for the Soviet Air Forces, and it enter ...
'' * ''
Sukhoi Su-27 The Sukhoi Su-27 (; NATO reporting name: Flanker) is a Soviet Union, Soviet-origin twinjet, twin-engine supersonic Supermaneuverability, supermaneuverable fighter aircraft designed by Sukhoi. It was intended as a direct competitor for the lar ...
'' *
Sukhoi Su-30 The Sukhoi Su-30 (; NATO reporting name: Flanker-C/G/H) is a twin-engine, two-seat supermaneuverable fighter aircraft developed in the Soviet Union in the 1980s by Russia's Sukhoi Aviation Corporation. It is a multirole fighter for all-weath ...
(first appearance) *
Sukhoi Su-35 The Sukhoi Su-35 (-35; NATO reporting name: Flanker-E/M, occasionally nicknamed "Super Flanker") is the designation for two improved derivatives of the Sukhoi Su-27, Su-27 air-defence fighter. They are single-seat, twinjet, twin-engine, super ...
(first appearance) * ''
Mikoyan MiG-31 The Mikoyan MiG-31 (; NATO reporting name: Foxhound) is a supersonic interceptor aircraft developed for the Soviet Air Forces by the Mikoyan design bureau as a replacement for the earlier MiG-25 "Foxbat"; the MiG-31 is based on and shares de ...
'' * ''
Ilyushin Il-76 The Ilyushin Il-76 (; NATO reporting name: Candid) is a multi-purpose, fixed-wing, four-engine turbofan strategic airlifter designed by the Soviet Union's Ilyushin design bureau as a commercial freighter in 1967, to replace the Antonov An-1 ...
'' * '' Ilyushin Il-78'' * '' Tupolev Tu-22M3'' * ''
Tupolev Tu-95 The Tupolev Tu-95 (; NATO reporting name: "Bear") is a large, four-engine turboprop-powered strategic bomber and missile platform. Maiden flight, First flown in 1952, the Tu-95 entered service with the Soviet Long Range Aviation, Long-Range Avia ...
'' * ''
Tupolev Tu-160 The Tupolev Tu-160 (; NATO reporting name: Blackjack) is a supersonic, variable-sweep wing nuclear-capable heavy strategic bomber and airborne missile platform designed by the Tupolev Design Bureau in the Soviet Union in the 1970s. The aircra ...
'' * ''
Sukhoi Su-25 The Sukhoi Su-25 ''Grach'' ( ('' rook''); NATO reporting name: Frogfoot) is a subsonic, single-seat, twin-engine jet aircraft developed in the Soviet Union by Sukhoi. It was designed to provide close air support for Soviet Ground Forces. Th ...
'' * ''
Antonov An-124 The Antonov An-124 Ruslan (; ; NATO reporting name: Condor) is a large, strategic airlift, four-engined aircraft that was designed in the 1980s by the Antonov design bureau in the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union (USSR). The An-124 is the ...
'' * '' Antonov An-22'' * ''
Yakovlev Yak-130 The Yakovlev Yak-130 (NATO reporting name: Mitten) is a Subsonic aircraft, subsonic two-seat advanced jet trainer and light combat aircraft originally developed by Yakovlev and Aermacchi as the "Yak/AEM-130". It has also been marketed as a poten ...
from the new aerobatic group Crimean Wings'' (first appearance) * ''
Sukhoi Su-27 The Sukhoi Su-27 (; NATO reporting name: Flanker) is a Soviet Union, Soviet-origin twinjet, twin-engine supersonic Supermaneuverability, supermaneuverable fighter aircraft designed by Sukhoi. It was intended as a direct competitor for the lar ...
and
Mikoyan MiG-29 The Mikoyan MiG-29 (; NATO reporting name: Fulcrum) is a twin-engine fighter aircraft designed in the Soviet Union. Developed by the Mikoyan design bureau as an air superiority fighter during the 1970s, the MiG-29, along with the larger Suk ...
of the Russian Knights and Strizhi'' (returning)


Music

; Flag procession, Review, and Address * '' Sacred War'' (Священная Война) by Alexander Alexanderov * ''Solemn Triumphal March'' (Торжественно-Триумфальный Марш) by Valery Khalilov * ''
March of the Preobrazhensky Regiment The March of the Preobrazhensky Life-Guard Regiment () is one of the most famous Russian military marches. The Preobrazhensky Life-Guard Regiment was one of the oldest and most elite Imperial Guard (Russia), guard regiments of the Imperial Russ ...
'' (Марш Преображенского Полка) by Unknown * ''Slow March of the Officers Schools'' (Встречный Марш офицерских училищ) by Semyon Tchernetsky * ''Slow March to Carry the War Flag'' (Встречный Марш для выноса Боевого Знамени) by Dmitriy Valentinovich Kadeyev * ''Slow March of the Guards of the Navy'' (Гвардейский Встречный Марш Военно-Морского Флота) by Nikolai Pavlocich Ivanov-Radkevich * ''Slow March'' (Встречный Марш) by Evgeny Aksyonov * ''Glory'' (Славься) by Mikhail Glinka * Parade Fanfare ''All Listen!'' (Парадная Фанфара “Слушайте все!”) by Andrei Golovin * ''
State Anthem of the Russian Federation The "State Anthem of the Russian Federation" is the national anthem of Russia. It uses the same melody as the " State Anthem of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics", composed by Alexander Alexandrov, and new lyrics by Sergey Mikhalkov ...
'' (Государственный Гимн Российской Федерации) by Alexander Alexandrov * Signal ''Retreat'' (Сигнал “Отбой”) ; Infantry Column * March ''General Miloradovich'' (Марш “Генерал Милорадович”) by Valery Khalilov * ''Triumph of the Winners'' (Триумф Победителей) * ''Farewell of Slavianka'' (Прощание Славянки) by Vasiliy Agapkin * ''At an Unknamed Height'' (На безымянной высоте) by Veniamin Bacner * ''Cossacks in Berlin'' (Казаки в Берлине) by Pokrass Brothers * ''
Moscow Nights "Moscow Nights", originally titled "Leningrad Nights", is a Soviet patriotic song written by Mikhail Matusovsky and composed by Vasily Solovyov-Sedoy. It was later covered as "Midnight in Moscow" by Kenny Ball. Composition and initial succ ...
'' (Подмосковные вечера) by Vasily Solovyov-Sedym * ''Blue Scarf'' (Синий платочек) by Jerzy Petersbursky * ''
Katyusha Katyusha () is a diminutive of the Russian name Ekaterina or Yekaterina, the Russian form of Katherine Katherine (), also spelled Catherine and Catherina, other variations, is a feminine given name. The name and its variants are popular in c ...
'' (Катюша) by Matvey Blanter * ''Moscow May'' (Москва майская) by Pokrass Brothers * March ''Parade Ground'' (Марш “Плац”) by Valery Khalilov * ''On Guard for the Peace'' (На страже Мира) by Boris Alexanderovich Diev * '' Air March'' (Авиамарш) by Yuliy Abramovich Khait * March ''Airplanes – First of all'' (Марш “Первым делом самолёты”) by Vasili-Solovyov-Sedoi * ''Legendary Sevastopol'' (Легендарный Севастополь) by Bano Muradeli * ''Crew is One Family'' (Экипаж - одна семья) by Viktor Vasilyevich Pleshak * ''Artillery March'' (Марш Артиллеристов) by Tikhon Khrennikov * ''March of the Cosmonauts/Friends, I believe'' (Марш Космонавтов /Я верю, друзья) by Oskar Borisovich Feltsman * ''We Need One Victory'' (Нам Нужна Одна Победа) by Bulat Shalvovich Okudzhava * ''The Last Battle'' (Последний бой) by Mikhail Nozhkin * ''To Serve Russia'' (Служить России) by Eduard Cemyonovich Khanok * ''Sound about the Alarming Youth'' (Песня о тревожной молодости) by Alexandera Pakhmutova * ''Eternal Flame'' (Вечный огонь) by Rafail Khoak * ''Ballad of a Soldier'' (Баллада о Солдате) by Vasily Pavlovich Solovyov-Sedoy * ''
On the Road ''On the Road'' is a 1957 novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, based on the travels of Kerouac and his friends across the United States. It is considered a defining work of the postwar Beat and Counterculture generations, with its protagoni ...
'' (В Путь) by Vasily Pavlovich Solovyov-Sedoy ; Mobile Column * March ''General Miloradovich'' (Марш “Генерал Милорадович”) by Valery Khalilov * March ''Three Tankmen'' (Марш “Три Танкиста”) by Pokrass Brothers * ''
Katyusha Katyusha () is a diminutive of the Russian name Ekaterina or Yekaterina, the Russian form of Katherine Katherine (), also spelled Catherine and Catherina, other variations, is a feminine given name. The name and its variants are popular in c ...
'' (Катюша) by Matvey Blanter * ''Legendary Sevastopol'' (Легендарный Севастополь) by Bano Muradeli * '' Invincible and Legendary'' (Несокрушимая и легендарная) by Alexander Alexandrov * ''March of the Soviet Tankists'' (Марш сове́тских танки́стов) by Pokrass Brothers * March ''Hero'' (Марш “Герой”) by Unknown * March ''Victory'' (Марш “Победа”) by Albert Mikhailovich Arutyunov * ''Artillery March'' (Марш Артиллеристов) by Tikhon Khrennikov * '' Long Live our State'' (Да здравствует наша держава) by Boris Alexandrov ; Air Column * '' Air March'' (Авиамарш) by Yuliy Abramovich Khait * March ''Airplanes – First of all'' (Марш “Первым делом самолёты”) by Vasili-Solovyov-Sedoi * '' Air March'' (Авиамарш) by Yuliy Abramovich Khait * March ''Airplanes – First of all'' (Марш “Первым делом самолёты”) by Vasili-Solovyov-Sedoi * '' Air March'' (Авиамарш) by Yuliy Abramovich Khait ; Conclusion * ''We are the Army of the People'' (Мы Армия Народа) by Georgy Viktorovich Mavsesya * ''
Victory Day Victory Day is a commonly used name for public holidays in various countries, where it commemorates a nation's triumph over a hostile force in a war or the liberation of a country from hostile occupation. In many cases, multiple countries may ob ...
'' (День Победы) by David Fyodorovich Tukhmanov


Gallery

File:Парад в честь 70-летия Великой Победы - 26.jpg, Chinese leader
Xi Jinping Xi Jinping, pronounced (born 15 June 1953) is a Chinese politician who has been the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and Chairman of the Central Military Commission (China), chairman of the Central Military Commission ...
and his wife with Russian President
Vladimir Putin Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who has served as President of Russia since 2012, having previously served from 2000 to 2008. Putin also served as Prime Minister of Ru ...
File:Парад в честь 70-летия Великой Победы - 29.jpg, Kyrgyz President
Almazbek Atambayev Almazbek Sharshenovich Atambayev (born 17 September 1956) is a Kyrgyzstani politician who served as the fourth president of Kyrgyzstan from 2011 to 2017. He previously served as the 11th prime minister of Kyrgyzstan from 2010 to 2011, and from ...
with Russian Prime Minister
Dmitry Medvedev Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev (born 14 September 1965) is a Russian politician and lawyer who has served as Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of Russia since 2020. Medvedev was also President of Russia between 2008 and 2012 and Prime Mini ...
File:Парад в честь 70-летия Великой Победы - 48.jpg, Kazakh President
Nursultan Nazarbayev Nursultan Abishuly Nazarbayev (born 6 July 1940) is a Kazakhstani politician who served as the first president of Kazakhstan from 1991 to 2019. He also held the special title of Elbasy from 2010 to 2022 and chairman of the Security Council of ...
with veterans during the parade File:Парад в честь 70-летия Великой Победы - 34.jpg, Azerbaijani President
Ilham Aliyev Ilham Heydar Oghlu Aliyev (born 24 December 1961) is an Azerbaijani politician who has been the fourth president of Azerbaijan since 2003. He is also the leader of the New Azerbaijan Party since 2005. The son and second child of former Aze ...
with his wife File:Парад в честь 70-летия Великой Победы - 18.jpg, Vietnamese President Trương Tấn Sang with his wife File:Парад в честь 70-летия Великой Победы - 42.jpg, Cuban leader
Raúl Castro Raúl Modesto Castro Ruz ( ; ; born 3 June 1931) is a Cuban retired politician and general who served as the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba, the most senior position in the One-par ...
with Mongolian President
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File:Парад в честь 70-летия Великой Победы - 51.jpg, North Korean Chairman of the Supreme People's Assembly Kim Yong-nam during the parade File:Парад в честь 70-летия Великой Победы - 44.jpg, Former Soviet cosmonaut and first space walker
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with his wife during the parade File:Парад в честь 70-летия Великой Победы - 13.jpg, Georgy Shirokov, 91-year-old Russian veteran of World War II and former sailor of the Baltic Fleet walks with his great grandchildren File:Парад в честь 70-летия Великой Победы - 16.jpg, Honour guard marching with the Victory Banner and the Russian flag File:Парад в честь 70-летия Великой Победы - 21.jpg, Defense Minister
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inspecting the parade File:Парад в честь 70-летия Великой Победы - 47.jpg, Russian drummers with historical units marching behind them File:Парад в честь 70-летия Великой Победы - 27.jpg, Historical units holding the banners of Soviet
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File:Belarusian Special Forces in a Moscow Parade.jpg, Contingent from the Armed Forces of Belarus File:Kazakh Cadets in Moscow Parade.jpg, Contingent from the Kazakh Armed Forces File:Парад в честь 70-летия Великой Победы - 37.jpg, Contingent from the Tajik National Army File:Парад в честь 70-летия Великой Победы - 39.jpg, Contingent from the
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File:Парад в честь 70-летия Великой Победы - 38.jpg, Contingent from the Serbian Army File:Парад в честь 70-летия Великой Победы - 40.jpg, Contingent from the
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File:Парад в честь 70-летия Великой Победы - 46.jpg, Kurganets-25 APC (front) and IFV (rear) variants during the parade File:Парад в честь 70-летия Великой Победы - 49.jpg, T-14 tank on Red Square during the parade File:Парад в честь 70-летия Великой Победы - 50.jpg, RS-24s escorted by GAZ Tigrs and Bumerang APCs behind them File:Парад в честь 70-летия Великой Победы - 55.jpg, Strategic bomber Tu-160 with refueling Il-78 during the parade File:Парад в честь 70-летия Великой Победы - 53.jpg, Russian Knights and Strizhi over the Red Square File:Парад в честь 70-летия Великой Победы - 58.jpg, Su-25s coloring the sky with the Russian flag


See also

* 2015 Chinese Victory Day Parade * Moscow Victory Parade of 1945 *
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Webpage for the 2015 Victory Day Parade
* 2015 Minsk Victory Day Parade


References


External links


All-Russia Map of Victory Parades 2015
* {{Moscow Victory Parade, state=expanded Moscow Victory Day Parade 2015 in military history 2015 in Moscow May 2015 in Russia Moscow Victory Day Parades