2007 Moscow Victory Day Parade
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The 2007 Moscow Victory Parade was a celebration of the 62nd anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany in the Great Patriotic War. It was the last time Vladimir Putin made a holiday address in his first term as president. The parade was commanded by the head of the Moscow Garrison General of the army Vladimir Bakin, and reviewing the parade was Minister of Defence Anatoliy Serdyukov. Music was performed by the Moscow Garrison's Central Orchestra under Major General Valery Khalilov.[1][2][3]
This was the first parade that was watched by people online outside of Russia.
Military Bands in Attendance
Note: Those indicated in bold indicate first parade appearance, those indicated with italic indicate double or multiple parade appearances.
- Colonel General Vladimir Bakin, Commander of the Moscow Military District (parade commander)
- Defense Minister of the Russian Federation Anatoliy Serdyukov (parade inspector)
- Massed Military Bands of the Military Band Service of the Armed Forces of Russia led and conducted by Major General Valery Khalilov and composed of:
- Headquarters Band of the Moscow Military District
- Central Military Band of the MDRF
- Band of the Moscow Military Conservatoire, Military University of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
- Corps of Drums of the Moscow Military Music College
Infantry Column
- 154th Moscow Garrison Commandant's Honor Guard Regiment and Color Guards
- Colors Party composed of:
- Combined Honor Guard Company of the Armed Forces
- Historical units
- Infantry
- Airmen
- Sailors
- Representative units of the Armed Forced, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Ministry of Emergency Situations and Civil Defense, Federal Security Service as well as units of the Moscow Military District
- Combined Arms Academy of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
- Peter the Great Military Academy of the Strategic Missile Forces
- Military University of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation
- Gagarin Air Force Academy
- Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy
- Civil Defense Academy of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation
- Military Technological University
- Moscow Military Space Institute of Radio Electronics
- Moscow Border Guards Institute of the Border Guard Service of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation "Moscow City Council"
- 2nd Guards Motor Rifle Division
- 4th Kantemir Guards Armored Brigade "Yuri Andropov"
- 27th Sevastopol Guards Motor Rifle Brigade
- Ryazan Airborne Command Academy "Gen. of the Army Vasily Margelov"
- 331st Guards Airborne Regiment
- ODON Ind. Motorized Internal Troops Division of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation "Felix Dzerzhinsky"
- 336th Separate Bialystok Guards Naval Infantry Brigade of the Baltic Fleet
- Nakhimov Naval School
- Suvorov Military School
- Moscow Military Commanders Training School "Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR/Russian Federation"
Training for the parade took place from March to April in the Alabino, Moscow Oblast.
