2015 Moscow Victory Day Parade

Participants of the Victory Day parade 9 May 2015 versus 9

May 2010
2015 Moscow Victory Day Parade

The 2015 Moscow Victory Day Parade was a parade

that took place in Red Square in Moscow on 9 May 2015
to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the capitulation
of Nazi Germany in 1945. The annual parade marks the
Allied victory in the Second World War 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 Vladimir Putin delivered his twelfth holiday address
to the nation on this day, right after the parade inspection to be presided by Minister of Defense General of the
Army Sergey Shoigu. Being a landmark jubilee parade
honoring the 70th anniversary of the Allied victory in the
European continent, this years parade is also expected to
be one of the biggest and largest to be held in Russian
history. Col. Gen. Oleg Salyukov, the Commander-inChief of the Russian Ground Forces, is this years parade
commander.

this years parade in Moscow:

Australia, Belarus,[9] Belgium, Bulgaria, 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 and the subsequent War in Donbass has caused a
number of nations that fought in the war, especially those
that participated in the parade of 2010 to not participate
in this years celebrations, including Germany, whose
chancellor Angela Merkel instead will visit Moscow on
10 May, a day after the parade itself.[10] Those nations
that will be absent from the celebrations will only have
their ambassadors to the Russian Federation be present
for the parade as part of the diplomatic corps in attendance.
Aside from the return of the T-34 tank and the SU-100
self-propelled gun, and the usual vehicles and planes in
the mobile column and the ypast, making their parade
debut this year are the following:

Important dignitaries in attendance and parade information

Among those that came to the event were President of

Serbia, Tomislav Nikoli,[1] President of India, Pranab
Mukherjee, President of China, Xi Jinping,[2] President
of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev,[3] President of
Cuba, Ral Castro,[4] President of Venezuela, Nicolas
Maduro,[5] and President of Egypt, Abdel Fattah elSisi,[6] and the United Nations Secretary General, Ban
Ki-moon.[7] In all, 27 international leaders were expected to be in attendance this year, including heads of
UNESCO and the Council of Europe, although with invitations that were sent to 68 heads of state.[8]

Bumerang armored personnel carrier[11]

Kurganets-25 infantry ghting vehicle
T-15 heavy IFV
T-14 main battle tank
2S35 Koalitsiya-SV self-propelled howitzer
Ural Typhoon MRAP[12]
BTR-82AM Naval Infantry armored personnel carrier

The following countries have opted not to participate in

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PREPARATION

Kornet-D/EM mobile antitank missile system[13]

mounted on the GAZ Tigr APC

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
RS-24 Yars mobile ICBM launcher[14]
Aairs and Emergency Situations. The situation was the
The brand new Crimean Wings (Krilya Tavrida) aer- same in the other non-recognised entity within Ukraine,
Luhansk Peoples Republic, where on 9 May Luhansk's
obatic team with 4 Yakovlev Yak-130s[15]
rst ever Victory Day parade was held, with participa Sukhoi Su-30 and Sukhoi Su-35 ghter jets
tion of the United Armed Forces of Novorossiya and the
federal MVD and EMERCOM units of the entity.
The Nakhimov Higher Naval Institute and the Chemical Defense and Control Military Academy will both The Nagorno-Karabakh Republic celebrated the day with
make their return appearances in a Red Square parade a parade and other activities in Stepanakert in 9 May, also
after years of absences, the former since 1985 and the celebrating the 23th anniversary of the Capture of Shusha
later since 2006, while the Pacic Naval Institute will be during the Nagorno-Karabakh War.
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 2 Preparation
the Ground Forces Military Institute from the Kazakh
Ground Forces, part of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Kazakhstan, and several military contingents
from other Commonwealth of Independent States member countries, including the Armenian Army and the
Azerbaijani Land Forces, all returning to the parade after a 5-year break, alongside rst time parade participants
from the armed forces of Serbia,[16] China[17] and Mongolia, and even The Grenadiers from the Indian Army.[18]
The BMD-4 infantry ghting vehicle will make its return
to the mobile column after a 6-year break, together with
the joint ight 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 T-15 and Kurganets-25 during a rehearsal for the parade with
Square in the 1945 Victory Parade are being readied for covered turrets
their drivepast in other major Russian cities.
As per tradition, 26 other Russian major cities
(Sevastopol and Kerch in the disputed Crimea included)
held their parades, and joint civil-military parades were
hosted by 50 other towns and cities nationwide, plus 4
eet reviews in Saint Petersburg (Baltic Fleet), Sevastopol
(Black Sea), Severnomorsk (Northern) and Vladivostok
(Pacic).
Victory Day parades and celebrations were also held in
the following CIS member nations:
Belarus: 9 May (Minsk, featuring the military band
of the United States Air Forces in Europe - Air
The new T-14 MBT during a rehearsal for the parade
Forces Africa)
Beginning in November/December 2014, preparations
for the parade were well attended at the unit level. In Kazakhstan: 7 May (Astana)
dividual unit practices were held in the various military
installations for all the participating units, and by March
Kyrgyzstan: 7 May (Bishkek)
2015, the air ypast column began its individual prac Armenia : 9 May (Yerevan)
tice ying runs.[19] Also rehearsing for the parade are the
massed military bands of the Armed Forces, the MVD,
The self proclaimed Donetsk Peoples Republic of EMERCOM and the Moscow Garrison, all to be conNovorossiya, in the midst of the ghting in the Don- ducted for the 13th straight year by Lieutenant Genbass, held on 9 May in Donetsk the rst public Victory eral Valery Khalilov, the Senior Director of Music of
Ukraine: 9 May (Kiev, Kharkiv, Odessa)

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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.

IFVs turrets, which got the same treatment as well till

the turret covers were removed for the 34 May practice
runs.[25]
All the 145 aircraft taking part in the ypast took their
practice run on 5 May[26] that drew a great reception from
the crowds in Red Square, Manege Square and Tver
Street that watched the dry run.

The parade practice runs ocially commenced in the

practice eld at Alabino, Moscow Oblast, in April 2015, 3 Full order of the 2015 Victory
and will last until the middle of April when the runs on
Day Parade
Red Square itself will start, ending with a nal general
combined practice run of the parade in early May. Before the rst parade dry run, there was the rst practice Bold indicates rst appearance, italic indicates multiple
drivepast of the estimated 200 mobile column vehicles in appearances, Bold and italic indicate returning appearattendance this year, that rst drivepast was held on 27 ance, all indicated unless otherwise noted.
March.[20]
General of the Army Sergey Shoigu, Minister of DeThe rst parade practice run on 3 April 2015[21] kicked
fense of the Russian Federation (parade inspector)
o ocially the preparation for the big parade, despite
the snowy weather that day. Joining the rst run-through
Colonel General Oleg Salyukov, Commander-inrehearsal (for the march past segment and the mobile colChief of the Russian Ground Forces (parade comumn only) was the rst ever military womens contingent
mander)
to march on Red Square for the very rst time, composed
of girl Cadet Corps students coming from the Moscow
National Pensions School. This was followed by the rst
test run of the ypast column[22] in the Alabino training 3.1 Military Bands
grounds on 9 April, with the more than 150 aircraft taking
Massed Military Bands of the Armed Forces unpart in that rst run-through of the ypast segment.
der the direction of the Senior Director of Music of
The 15 2 April parade practice run witnessed the rst
the Military Bands Service of the Armed Forces of
practice march of a Cossacks contingent that on 9 May
the Russian Federation, Lieutenant General Valery
will be the rst ever unit of its kind to march on the steps
Khalilov
of Red Square after so many years.[23] The unit march Corps of Drums of the Moscow Military Music
ing for this year comes from the ranks of the Kuban CosSchool
sacks, 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 ypast was done
on 21 April, and the nal run on the Alabino grounds on 3.2 Ground Column
22 April.
154th Preobrazhensky Independent Commandants
The rst late night practice run started on 29 April in
Regiment Colour Guard
Moscows Red Square,[24] and continued on till 4 May
with the nal two practice runs on 6 and 7 May, which
Front standards and historical colours
also serve as the general pratice runs, the one on 7
Honour Guard Company of the 1st Honor Guard
May expected to have Col. Gen. Salyukov leading the
Battalion, 154th PICR
marchers on Red Square and General of the Army Shoigu
inspecting, just as they would be doing in the actual pa Historical units
rade in 2 days time (the nal rehearsal, just as the actual parade would be, was scheduled to be held at around
Presidential Cavalry Escort Battalion, Kremlin Regi10AM Moscow Daylight Time). All of them are open to
ment
the general public, with the 7 May nal practice run being open also for war veterans. At the same time, nal
Battalion of the Kuban Cossacks (rst appearpractice runs are being made for those joining the paance)
rades in 9 May in 26 other major cities in Russia plus 50
Foreign contingents on parade, in the order of their
other towns and cities. During such practice drill runs
appearance
in Moscow several variants of the new Russian armored
vehicle platform Armata were seen with turrets covered,
Azerbaijani Land Forces
together with the Bumerang APC and the Kurgarnets-25
Armenian Army

3 FULL ORDER OF THE 2015 VICTORY DAY PARADE

Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces
of Belarus
Military Institute of the Kazakh Ground Forces
Presidential Guard Regiment of Kyrgyzstan
Military Institute of the Ministry of Defense of
Tajikistan
The Grenadiers, Indian Army (rst appearance)
Mongolian General Purpose Force (rst appearance)
Serbian Guards Unit (rst appearance)
Beijing Capital Garrison Honor Guard
Battalion, Beijing Military Region,
Peoples Liberation Army Ground Force
(rst appearance)
Suvorov Military School
Nakhimov Naval School
Moscow National Pensions School Cadet Corps
(rst appearance)
Kronstadt Sea Cadet Corps
Aksanskiy Cossack Cadet Corps
Combined Arms Academy of the Armed Forces of the
Russian Federation
Military University of the Ministry of Defence of the
Russian Federation

Engineering Forces, Nuclear, Biological and

Chemical Defence and Control Military Academy
Marshal of the Soviet Union Semyon Timoshenko" (returning)
6th NBC Coastal Brigade (rst appearance)
29th and 38th Independent Railway Brigades of the
Russian Railway Troops
ODON Ind. Motorized Internal Troops Division of
the Ministry of Internal Aairs of the Russian Federation "Felix Dzerzhinsky"
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 Rie 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"

3.3 Mobile Column (in order of appearance)

Military Academy of Material and Technical Security

General of the Army A. V. Khrulev

T-34/85 medium tank

Zhukovsky Gagarin Air Force Academy

GAZ-2975 Tigr infantry mobility vehicle

Black Sea Higher Naval Military Institute Admiral Pavel Nakhimov" (returning)

Kornet D/EM mobile ATGM system (First appearance)

Pacic Naval Military Institute Admiral

Stepan Makarov" (rst appearance)

Typhoon-K MRAP

336th Independent Guards Biaystok Marine Brigade

of the Baltic Fleet

BTR-82AM APC

Peter the Great Military Academy of the Missile

Forces of Strategic Importance of the Russian Federation
Military Space Academy "Alexander Mozhaysky"

SU-100 tracked tank destroyer

Ural Typhoon MRAP (First appearance)

BMD-4 air-droppable IFV (returning)

BTR-MD Rakushka APC (rst appearance)
BMP Kurganets-25 (rst appearance of both IFV
and APC versions)

Ryazan Airborne Senior Command Academy Gen.

of the Army Vasily Margelov"'

T-15 heavy IFV (rst appearance)

98th Guards Airborne Division

T-14 main battle tank (rst appearance)

16th Spetsnaz Brigade, Western Military District

2S19 Msta-S tracked self-propelled howitzer

T-90 main battle tank

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2S35 Koalitsiya-SV tracked self-propelled howitzer (rst appearance)

Sukhoi Su-27 and Mikoyan MiG-29 of the Russian

Knights and Strizhi (returning)

9K720 Iskander mobile tactical ballistic missile sys- For a more detailed full order of the parades in other
tem
Russian cities
Tor-M2U mobile tracked SAM system
Buk-M2 mobile tracked SAM system
Pantsir-S1 mobile SAM system on wheeled chassis

Main article: 2015 Victory Day Parades full order for

the parades outside Moscow

S-400 Triumf mobile SAM system

RS-24 Yars road-mobile ICBM system (rst appearance)
BTR Bumerang APC (rst appearance)

3.4

Air Fly Past Column

Mil Mi-26
Mil Mi-8 Colors Party
Mil Mi-24
Mil Mi-28

4 References
[1] President of India, Pranab MukherjeePresident to attend
Victory Day parade in Moscow. B92. 13 October 2014.
Retrieved 20 February 2015.
[2] Chinese president to visit Moscow for WWII Victory Day
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2015
[3] Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev to attend Victory Parade in Moscow May 9. TASS, Russian News
Agency. April 27, 2015. Retrieved May 9, 2015.

Mil Mi-35

[4] Castro conrms coming to Victory Day parade in

Moscow. Sputnik News. April 20, 2015. Retrieved May
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Kamov Ka-52

[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz3iC7PFiJk

Kazan Ansat (rst appearance)

[6] http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/
sisi-take-part-2015-moscow-victory-day-parade

Mikoyan MiG-29
Sukhoi Su-24
Sukhoi Su-34
Sukhoi Su-27
Sukhoi Su-30 (rst appearance)
Sukhoi Su-35 (rst appearance)
Mikoyan MiG-31
Ilyushin Il-76
Ilyushin Il-78
Tupolev Tu-22M3
Tupolev Tu-95

[7] Vladimir Soldatkin (May 9, 2015). Russia stages WW2

victory parade as Ukraine bristles. Reuters. Retrieved
May 9, 2015.
[8] Twenty six heads of state conrm participation in Victory Day celebrations in Moscow, Tass, Russian News Angency, 17 March 2015
[9] Belarus President Lukashenko pulls out of Victory Day
parade in Moscow. Ukraine Today. 18 April 2015. Retrieved 19 April 2015.
[10] German Chancellor Merkel to Miss WWII Victory Day
Parade in Moscow. Sputnik. 11 March 2015. Retrieved
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[11] Victory parade in 2015 will surprise the Russians. Russian Information Network. 1 October 2014. Retrieved 21
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Tupolev Tu-160

[12] http://ria.ru/defense_safety/20150325/1054305076.
html

Sukhoi Su-25

[13] http://bmpd.livejournal.com/1238564.html

Antonov An-124

[14] http://sputniknews.com/russia/20150226/1018772157.
html

Antonov An-22
Yakovlev Yak-130 from the new aerobatic group
Crimean Wings (rst appearance)

[15] New Russian Air Force Aerobatic Team (the fth one) to
Debut during the Moscow Victory Day Parade. The Aviationist. 12 January 2015. Retrieved 21 February 2015.

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[16] http://sputniknews.com/europe/20150406/1020541768.
html
[17] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GerDWiu4Vac
[18] Indian Army Grenadiers Regiment to take part in 2015
Victory Day Parade in Moscows Red Square. India Today. 15 April 2015. Retrieved 16 April 2015.
[19] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REkjvVgCASM
[20] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nz_zY0rXyg
[21] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgvomvtWv0c
[22] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KHsLS1V1mw
[23] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HD6RtJ1soyk
[24] http://rt.com/news/254401-victory-day-parade-rehearsal/
[25] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMDQ47mYSk8
[26] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJ9v7d4IaFw

External links
All-Russia Map of Victory Parades 2015
Victory Parade in Moscow, USSR, 1945 on
YouTube
Victory Parade in Moscow, 2015 on YouTube
Navy Military Parade in St.Petersburg, 2015 on
YouTube
Navy Military Parade in Sevastopol, 2015 on
YouTube
Victory Parade in Volgograd, 2015 on YouTube
Navy Military Parade in Severomorsk, 2015 on
YouTube
Victory Parade in Tumen, 2015 on YouTube
Victory Parade in Samara, 2015 on YouTube
Victory Parade in Novosibirsk,
YouTube

2015 on

Victory Parade in Yekaterinburg, 2015 on

YouTube
Navy Military Parade in Vladivostok, 2015 on
YouTube

See also
Moscow Victory Parade of 1945
Victory Day (9 May)
Webpage for the 2015 Victory Day Parade

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