Victory Day consists of a military parade involving almost 8,000 personnel, 111 sophisticated tracked and wheeled military vehicles, as well as 32 aircraft and helicopters was launched on Moscow's Red Square on May 9th, when Russia celebrates Victory Day.
Victory Day marks the final surrender by Nazi Germany to the U.S.S.R. in WWII, often referred to as the Great Patriotic War in Russia and other states in the former Soviet Union. The parade was addressed by President Dmitry Medvedev, whose inauguration took place this past Wednesday.
The parade accompanied by a large military band of 550 musicians. Personnel dressed in WWII uniform, carrying historical military banners, are to be followed by the passing of sophisticated military hardware, including war fighting vehicles, armored personnel carriers, tanks, missile launchers and strategic bombers.
Military hardware was last involved in a parade on Red Square on November 7, 1990. No military parades were held on the square from 1991 to 1994, and the May 9 parade in 1995 saw WWII veterans marching in central Moscow. Troops resumed their participation in military parades on Red Square in 1996 and the first Victory Parade was held on Red Square on June 24, 1945 on the order of the then-Supreme Commander-in-Chief, Joseph Stalin.
Here are a few photos of the fighter planes that flew past our apartment window towards Red Square during the parade......only in Russia.
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