2011 Moscow Victory Day Parade
The Moscow Victory Day Parade in Moscow was held on 9 May 2011 to commemorate the 66th anniversary of the capitulation of Nazi Germany in 1945. The parade marked the Soviet Union's victory in the Great Patriotic War. 20,000 soldiers and officers representing all three services of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Federal Security Service, and the Ministry of Emergency Situations took part in the parade, followed by +100 military vehicles and 5 Mil Mi-8 Hip helicopters.
Minister of Defence Anatoly Serdyukov was the parade inspector while Colonel General Valery Gerasimov, the then Deputy Chief of the General Staff was the parade commander.Parade participants
Ground Column
; Flag procession, Inspection and Address
- Sacred War by Alexander Alexandrov
- March of the Preobrazhensky Regiment
- Slow March to Carry the War Flag by Dmitriy Valentinovich Kadeyev
- Slow March of the Officers Schools by Semyon Tchernetsky
- Slow March of the Guards of the Navy by Nikolai Pavlocich Ivanov-Radkevich
- Slow March of the Tankmen by Semyon Tchernetsky
- Slow March by Dmitry Pertsev
- Slow March by Evgeny Aksyonov
- Glory by Mikhail Glinka
- Parade Fanfare All Listen! by Andrei Golovin
- State Anthem of the Russian Federation by Alexander Alexandrov
- Signal Retreat
; Infantry Column
- Triumph of the Winners
- Air March by Yuliy Abramovich Khait
- Crew is One Family by Viktor Vasilyevich Pleshak
- Artillery March by Tikhon Khrennikov
- March of the Cosmonauts/Friends, I believe by Oskar Borisovich Feltsman
- We Need One Victory by Bulat Shalvovich Okudzhava
- We are the Army of the People by Georgy Viktorovich Mavsesya
- To Serve Russia by Eduard Cemyonovich Khanok
- On Guard for the Peace by Boris Alexandrovich Diev
- March Kant by Valery Khalilov
- Combat March by Dmitry Illarionovich Pertsev
- Victory Day by David Fyodorovich Tukhmanov
; Mobile and Air Columns
- March General Miloradovich by Valery Khalilov
- March Hero by Unknown
- Katyusha by Matvey Blanter
- March of the Tankmen by Semyon Tchernetsky
; Conclusion
- Bow to those Great Years by Iosif Kobzon
- Farewell of Slavianka by Vasiliy Agapkin
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