1983 October Revolution Parade

The 1983 October Revolution Parade was a parade on to celebrate the 66th anniversary of the October Revolution of 1917. It took place on Red Square in Moscow the capital of the Soviet Union on November 7th 1983. Marshal of the Soviet Union and the Minister of Defence Dmitry Ustinov inspected the parade. the 1983 parade commander was the head of the Moscow Garrison Petr Lushev. Music was performed by the head of the Military Band Service of the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union Major General Nikolai Mikhailov. Yuri Andropov the Soviet leader at the time did not attend the parade due to a sickness prior to the parade.[1][2]

Parade Units

Tanks headed to Red Square.

Military Bands

  • Massed Bands of the Moscow Military District under the direction of Major General Nikolai Mikhailov, Senior Director of Music of the Bands Service
  • Corps of Drums of the Moscow Military Music School
  • Band of the Caspian Higher Naval School led by Yusif Akhundzade

Ground Column

Lenin's Mausoleum was the grandstand used for the parade.

Leading the column was the limousine carrying the parade commander, General of the Army Petr Lushev, the commanding general of Moscow Military District.

  • Frunze Military Academy[3]
  • V.I. Lenin Military Political Academy[3]
  • Felix Dzerzhinsky Artillery Academy[3]
  • Military Armored Forces Academy Marshal Rodion Malinovsky[3]
  • 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
  • Moscow Border Guards Institute of the Border Defence Forces of the KGB "Moscow City Council
  • Western Military District units:
  • 98th Guards Airborne Division
  • OMSDON
  • 336th Marine Regiment of the Baltic Fleet
  • Suvorov Military School
  • Nakhimov Naval School
  • Moscow Military High Command Training School named after the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR
Cadets of the Grechko Naval Academy on Palace Square in Leningrad (Modern St. Petersburg).

References

  1. ↑ Times, Serge Schmemann, Special To The New York (1983-11-08). "ANDROPOV MISSES MOSCOW PARADE, STIRRING RUMORS". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2017-01-27.
  2. ↑ Schmidt-Häuer, Christian (1986-01-01). Gorbachev: The Path to Power. I.B.Tauris. ISBN 9781850430155.
  3. 1 2 3 4 RedSamurai84 (2016-05-09), Soviet October Revolution Parade, 1983 Парад 7 Ноября, retrieved 2017-01-27
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