Special Exemplary Military Band of the Guard of Honor Battalion of Russia

Special Exemplary Military Band of the Guard of Honor of Russia
Специальный образцовый военный отряд Почетного караула России
Active November 29, 1956 – present
Country  Soviet Union  Russia
Branch Ministry of Defense
Type Military Band
Garrison/HQ Moscow
Commanders
Current
commander		 Major Pavel Gernets

The Special Military Exemplary Band of the Honor Guard is a special military unit that performs military music for the guard of honor of Russia that greets foreign government delegations, as well as provide musical accompaniment for national events. It is a branch of the Military Band Service of the Armed Forces of Russia.The band participated in the welcoming ceremonies of more than 22 heads of state.[1]

The band forms part of the 154th Preobrazhensky Independent Commandant's Regiment.

Heads of the Band

The band at the airport.
  • Colonel Georgiy Nikolaev (1956–1968)
  • Lieutenant Colonel Nikolai Zubarevich (1968–1972)
  • Colonel Boris Dyldin (1972–1988)
  • Colonel Anatoliy Prihodchenko (1989–1993)
  • Colonel Sergey Gorev (1993–1998)
  • Colonel Eduard Nikolaev (1998–2003)
  • Colonel Mikhail Titov (2003–2007)
  • Lieutenant Colonel Igor Pahomov (2008–2009)
  • Major Konstantin Petrovich (2009–2015)
  • Major Pavel Gernets (2015–present)
The commander of the band from 2009 to 2015, Konstantin Petrovich.

History

The band in 2016.

The band was created in fall of 1956 by order of the Council of Ministers of the USSR. It played its music at many memorials in the country. It is most known for playing at the welcoming ceremony of Yuri Gagarin, the 1980 Summer Olympics, and the Yalta and Potsdam Conferences. It serves as a band for the wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. in Moscow.[2][3]

Ceremonial Music

TitleComposer
Moscow FanfareA. Golovin
In Defense of the MotherlandViktor Runov
Ballad of a SoldierVasily Solovyov-Sedoi
Slow march "25 years of Red Army"Semeon Tchernetsky
AdagioValery Khalilov
Solemn Triumphal MarchValery Khalilov
Moscow's SaluteSemeon Tchernetsky
March of the Preobrazhensky Regiment
Slow March of the Red ArmySemeon Tchernetsky
Slow march "Victory"Yuri Griboedov
Song of the Soviet ArmyAlexander Aleksandrov

References

  1. ↑ "The Exemplary band of the Honor Guard". www.kremlin-military-tattoo.ru. Retrieved 2017-04-15.
  2. ↑ https://function.mil.ru/news_page/country/more.htm?id=12133554@egNews
  3. ↑ https://www.m24.ru/videos/parki/15072017/149926
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