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The 2017 Moscow

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Parade was a

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that took place in

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on 9 May 2017 to commemorate the 72nd anniversary of the capitulation of Nazi Germany in 1945. The annual parade marks the Allied victory in World War II on 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 fourteenth holiday address to the nation after the parade inspection presided over by Minister of Defense General of the Army

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. For the

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, the 2017 parade was the first for its current Senior Director of Music, Colonel Timofey Mayakin, who was appointed in this capacity last August 2016, succeeding the now deceased Lieutenant General

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, the former Senior Director of Music and conductor of the Moscow area massed bands for the holiday parades for a record 14 years, who was in the 2016 Russian Defence Ministry Tupolev Tu-154 crash. President of Moldova

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attended the parade after meeting with Putin. Military_parade_on_Red_Square_2017-05-09_017

The 2017 Moscow parade was the first and only parade so far in modern times to have its flypast segment cancelled due to bad weather for the first time since they resumed in 2008. General of the Army Shoygu, Colonel General Salyukov as well as parading officers from all service branches (land, sea and air) also wore new officer uniforms (the Ground and Aerospace Forces uniforms being a throwback to the M1943 dress uniforms). ODON National Guardsmen also wore new 4 button uniforms with a new shoulder board design.

Preparatory activities

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Beginning in November/December 2016, 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 in the national and local parades. Unit practices within Moscow Oblast itself started in early March in the Alabino field before the full blown parade practice run-throughs for all the participating units will commence. All parade practice run began on 5 April 2017 in the Alabino training range with the first practice run through for the ground column, kicking off the month long national preparations for the 72nd Victory Day, and will last even until the middle of April when the runs on Red Square for the national parade itself will start, ending with a final general combined practice run of the parade in early May in the morning. From the 1st week up to the 3rd week of April, the Alabino military training center serves as the parade training ground for the estimated 14,000 military personnel in attendance for the Moscow parade, plus more than 126 vehicles and 78 aircraft. Arctic military equipment such as the Tor-M2DT missile are due to make their first national parade appearance on this very day. Joining the ground column for the first time will be cadets from the Defense Ministry's Young Army Cadet Program. Flypast rehearsals began at the Kublinka air base on 10 April 2017, the same day RT premiered its series of 360 degree videos for the parade.

Timeline for preparatory activities in Moscow

* 5 April towards 9 April - beginning of parade practice runs in

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* 2nd up to 3rd week of April - General practice run-through in the Alabino training field, including flypast * 4th week of April until 2 days before Victory Day - practice runs in Red Square right up to the general practice run ** 25–30 April, 2–6 May - evening parade practice run-throughs ** 4–5 May - Air flypast practice runs ** 7 May - general practice run at 10am MST

Full order of the 2017 parade

Bold indicates first appearance, ''italic'' indicates multiple appearances, ''Bold and italic'' indicate returning appearance, all indicated unless otherwise noted. * ''

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, Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation'' (parade inspector) * ''

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, Commander-in-Chief of the

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'' (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, Colonel Timofey Mayakin * Corps of Drums of the

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Ground Column

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Colour Guard'' * ''Honour Guard Company of the 1st Honor Guard Battalion, 154th PICR'' * ''

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'' * Moscow Young Army Patriotic Cadets Unit (''on behalf of the

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'') * ''Moscow National Pensions School Cadet Corps'' * ''

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'' * '' Military University of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation'' * '' Military Academy of Material and Technical Security "General of the Army A. V. Khrulev"'' * ''

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'' * ''Military Space Academy "

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"'' * '' Pacific Naval Military Institute "Admiral Stepan Makarov"'' * '' 336th Independent Guards Biaystok Marine Brigade of the

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'' * 61st Kirkinesskaya Red Banner Marine Brigade of the

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'' * ''Military Space Academy "

"'' * '' Ryazan Higher Airborne Command School "Gen. of the Army Vasily Margelov" * '' 98th Guards Airborne Division'' * '' Engineering Forces, Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Defence and Control Military Academy "Marshal of the Soviet Union

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Ind. Motorized Division of the

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'' * '' Moscow Border Guards Institute of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation'' * ''

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"Mikhail Kalinin"'' * ''

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"Yuri Andropov"'' * '' 27th Independent Guards Sevastopol Motor Rifle Brigade "60th Diamond Jubilee Anniversary of the formation of the USSR"'' * ''

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Mobile Column

* '' T-34/85'' medium tank * '' GAZ-2975 "Tigr"'' infantry mobility vehicle (

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) * '' Kornet D/EM'' mobile ATGM system on the GAZ Tigr chassis * '' Typhoon-K'' MRAP (

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'' MRAP (Russian military police) * '' BTR-82AM'' APC * ''

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'' (27th Independent Guards "Sevastopol" Motorized Rifle Brigade) * ''BMP

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'' APV and IFV (27th Independent Guards "Sevastopol" Motorized Rifle Brigade) * ''

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B3M (T-72B4)'' modernized main battle tank ( 2nd Guards "Tamanskaya" Motorized Rifle Division) * ''

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'' main battle tank (2nd Guards "Tamanskaya" Motorized Rifle Division) * '' 2S19 Msta-S'' tracked self-propelled howitzer (147th Guards "Simferopol" Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment) * ''

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'' tracked self-propelled howitzer (147th Guards "Simferopol" Self-Propelled Artillery Regiment) * ''

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'' mobile tactical ballistic missile system (112th Guards "Novorossiysk" MRL Brigade) * '' Tor-M2U'' SAM complex on tracked chassis ( 6th Independent Tank Brigade) * '' Buk-M2'' mobile tracked SAM system (6th Independent Tank Brigade) *

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and Pantsir-SA towed Arctic SAM system on tracked Vityaz chassis ( 80th Independent (Arctic) Motor Rifle Brigade) * ''

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M'' air-droppable IFV ( 106th Guards Tula Airborne Division) * '' BTR-MDM "Rakushka"'' APC (106th Guards Tula Airborne Division) * ''

Pantsir-S1 The Pantsir () missile system is a family of self-propelled, medium-range surface-to-air missile and anti-aircraft artillery systems. Three types of vehicles make up one system: a missile launcher, a radar truck and a command post. Starting with ...

'' mobile SAM system on wheeled chassis (93rd Guards Anti-Aircraft Rocket Regiment) * ''

S-400 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 S ...

'' mobile SAM system on self-propelled wheeled MAZ-7910 chassis (93rd Guards Anti-Aircraft Rocket Regiment) *''

RS-24 Yars The RS-24 Yars (РС-24 Ярс – ракета стратегическая (strategic missile)-modification 24) also known as Topol-MR, NATO reporting name SS-29 or SS-27 Mod 2), is a Russian MIRV-equipped, thermonuclear armed intercontinen ...

'' road-mobile ICBM system (54th Guards Rocket Division) * ''BTR Bumerang APC''

Air Fly Past Column

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The Russian MoD canceled the flypast segment minutes before the parade began on account of the bad weather on that day, which made it difficult for the aircraft to proceed as scheduled from their air bases. If the weather had improved the flypast would have been composed of the following: * ''1 Mil

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Mi-8 The Mil Mi-8 (, NATO reporting name: Hip) is a medium twin-turbine helicopter, originally designed by the Soviet Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute (TsAGI) in the 1960s and introduced into the Soviet Air Force in 1968. Russian production of t ...

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Mil Mi-28 The Mil Mi-28 (NATO reporting name "Havoc") is a Soviet all-weather, day-night, military tandem, two-seat anti-armor attack helicopter. It is an attack helicopter with no intended secondary transport capability, and is better optimized than th ...

from the Berkuts'' * ''4

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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 ...

'' * ''4 Tupolev Tu-22M3'' * ''1

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 ...

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'' * ''3

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'' * ''4 Sukhoi Su-24M'' * ''4

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and

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of the

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Other parades

As per tradition, 26 other Russian major cities (

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and

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in the disputed Crimea included) held their parades on that day (some of them now including flypasts), and joint civil-military parades were hosted by 50 other towns and cities nationwide. Parades were held in both the pro-Russian territories in eastern Ukraine (the

Donetsk People's Republic The Donetsk People's Republic (DPR; , ) is Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine, occupied territory in Ukraine that the Russian Federation has claimed to annex and declared as a Republics of Russia, republic of Russia, comprising parts o ...

and the

Luhansk People's Republic The Luhansk People's Republic (LPR; , ) is a disputed territory administered as a republic of Russia in the occupied parts of eastern Ukraine's Luhansk Oblast, with its capital in Luhansk. The LPR was proclaimed by Russian-backed paramilitar ...

, both featuring the former

United Armed Forces of Novorossiya Russian separatist forces in Ukraine, primarily the People's Militias of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR), were pro-Russian paramilitaries in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. They were under the o ...

and the republican MVD and EMERCOM units) and celebrations were held in almost all the former republics of the Soviet Union (save for the Baltics).

References

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May 2017 in Russia Articles containing video clips

Preparatory activities

Timeline for preparatory activities in Moscow

Full order of the 2017 parade

''Military Bands''

Ground Column

Mobile Column

Air Fly Past Column

Other parades

See also

References