1967 October Revolution Parade
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The 1967 October Revolution Parade[1] was the parade on Moscow's Red Square devoted to the 50th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution on 7 November 1967.[2] Commanding the parade was First Deputy Commander of the Moscow Military District, Colonel General Yevgeny Ivanovsky.
As 1967 being the golden jubilee anniversary parade it would feature troops dressed up as historical units from the Russian civil war era. It would also feature the first color guard on parade from the honor guard. Cavalry units from the Revolution era also rode through Red Square.
Notable guests on Lenin's Mausoleum included the following:[3]
General Secretary of the CPSU Leonid Brezhnev- Minister of Defense, Marshal of the Soviet Union Andrei Grechko (giving his first jubilee address)
- Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet Nikolai Podgorny
General Secretary of East Germany's Socialist Unity Party Walter Ulbricht
President of Yugoslavia Josip Broz Tito[4]
General Secretary of the Mongolian People's Party Yumjaagiin Tsedenbal
Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi[5]
The massed bands (under the direction of Major General Nikolai Nazarov) marched off to the tune of "My Beloved Motherland" at the end of the mobile column.[6] Nationwide, the events were aired live on monochrome on Soviet Central Television. Moscow TV viewers saw the first color broadcasts during that parade for the first time on Programme 1 and Moscow Programme 3.[7]
Full order of the golden jubilee parade
The parade displayed the latest Soviet weaponry, with a news report describing it as "a new muscle in every major category... ranging from a massive three-stage intercontinental missile to a relatively tiny anti-tank missile on a reconnaissance car."[8][9][10]
Ground Column
Following the limousine carrying the parade commander, the parade marched past in the following sequence:
- Historical Units and Colors
- Colour Guard wearing armed workers' uniforms of the Revolution and Civil War
- Red Guards
- Former Imperial Russian Army personnel with the Red Army
- Naval contingent
- Red Army personnel of 1922
- Historical Cavalry Units
- Tachanka
- Historical horse artillery
- Historical Armored Units
- Corps of Drums of the Moscow Military Music College
- Frunze Military Academy
- V.I. Lenin Military Political Academy
- Felix Dzerzhinsky Artillery Academy
- Malinovsky Military Armored Forces Academy
- Military Engineering Academy
- Military Academy of Chemical Defense and Control
- Yuri Gagarin Air Force Academy
- Prof. Nikolai Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy
- Naval Engineering School
- 98th Guards Airborne Division
- Moscow Border Guards Superior College
- 336th Guards Marine Brigade
- Suvorov Military School
- Nakhimov Naval School
- Moscow Military High Command Training School "Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR"
- Massed Bands of the Moscow Military District (parade finale)
Mobile column
- 2nd Guards Tamanskaya Motorized Rifle Division
- 98th Guards Airborne Division
- GAZ-69
- 85 mm divisional gun D-44 (towed)
- ASU-85
- 4th Guards Kantermirovsky Tank Division
- Rocket Forces and Artillery
- Air Defense Missile Artillery of the Soviet Army
- Towed artillery
- BM-21 Grad
- Air Defense missile artillery of the Soviet Air Defense Forces
- Tactical and strategic missiles of the Army Rocket Forces and Artillery, Strategic Missile Forces and the Navy's Coastal Defense, Surface and Submarine Forces (Baltic and Northern Fleets)
- UR-100
- 2K6 Luna FROG-3
- 9K52 Luna-M FROG-7
- Scud-A R-11 Zemlya
- Scud-B R-17 Elbrus
- R-9 Desna
- TR-1 Temp
- RT-20P
- R-12 Dvina
- R-14 Chusovaya
- R-16
- R-5 Pobeda
- P-15 Termit
- P-5 Pyatyorka
- R-21