1989 October Revolution Parade

The 1989 October Revolution Parade was a parade that took place in Red Square in Moscow on 7 November 1989 to commemorate the 72nd anniversary of the socialist revolution in the Russian Empire in 1917. Mikhail Gorbachev the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Nikolai Ryzhkov the Premier of the Soviet Union was on Lenin's Mausoleum watching the parade. This would be the last time that Gorbachev would be at the parade in the capacity of General Secretary. General of the Army and Minister of Defence Dmitry Yazov made his 3rd holiday address to the nation after he inspected the troops. It is one of the last traditional soviet parades in the USSR's existence. Col. Gen. Nikolai Vasilyevich Kalinin the head of the Moscow Military District was the 1989 parade commander. After the parade the Central band of the honor guard performed during a Military band show on Red square.[1][2]

Full order of the parade

Beginning of the Parade

  • Col. Gen. Kalinin reported to General of the Army Yazov
  • Yazov greets 7 sets of armed battalions and academies
  • Yazov finishes the inspection and prepares to make a speech
  • After the speech the anthem is played
  • After the anthem finishes Kalinin gets the parade assembled and gives the order to march
  • Drummers march to 120 beats per second[1][3]

Middle of the parade

Ground Column

  • Corps of Drums of the Moscow Military Music School
  • M. V. Frunze Military Academy
  • Military Engineering Academy Felix Dzerzhinsky
  • Military Armored Forces Academy Marshal Rodion Malinovskovy
  • Military Medical Academy
  • Military Academy of Chemical Defense and Control
  • Yuri Gagarin Air Force Academy
  • Prof. Nikolai Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy
  • M. V. Frunze Naval College
  • Moscow Border Guards Institute of the Border Defence Forces of the KGB "Moscow City Council"
  • Suvorov Military Academy
  • Nakhimov Naval School
  • Moscow Military High Command Training School "Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR"

End of the Parade/Finale

  • Massed bands of the Moscow Military District under Major General Nikolai Mikhailov march off Red Square
  • Demonstrations of workers from various soviet jobs and a parade of soviet people and athletes through Red Square[1]

Parades in Soviet Republics and Cities

Revolution Day parades and celebrations were also held in the following USSR republics and cities:

The Armenian SSR cancelled the parade in Yerevan due to protest.[10] The Mobile Column of the parade in Kishinev was cancelled also due to protest.[10] Protesters in Vilnius blocked the tanks rolling through the central avenue, shortly delaying the mobile column, however the parade continued as planned.[9]

References
  1. МО АСУ'92 (29 March 2016), Парад 7 ноября 1989 г., retrieved 21 December 2016
  2. WarsawPactGuy1985 (21 December 2016), Soviet Band Show Revolution Day Parade 1989, retrieved 29 January 2017
  3. RedSamurai84 (9 May 2016), USSR 55th Anniversary Parade 1972, retrieved 24 December 2016
  4. http://www.rri.ro/en_gb/1989_in_bessarabia-2524981
  5. RedSamurai84 (9 May 2016), Soviet Army Parade, Minsk 1989 Парад 7 Ноября Минск, retrieved 21 December 2016
  6. Limited, Alamy. "Stock Photo - Kiev Ukraine Revolution day parade on a boulevarde in Kiev on 7th Nov 1989 Armed soldiers during the march past". Alamy. Retrieved 21 December 2016.
  7. Limited, Alamy. "Stock Photo - Ukraine Revolution day parade in Kiev on 7th Nov 1989 with Lenin's portrait and flags of the 15 Soviet Socialist Republics". Alamy. Retrieved 21 December 2016.
  8. Limited, Alamy. "Stock Photo - Ukraine Revolution day parade on a boulevarde in Kiev on 7th Nov 1989 Generals and armed soldiers travel on tanks". Alamy. Retrieved 21 December 2016.
  9. LordBenas (24 May 2008), 1989 sovietinis paradas Gedimino prospektu., retrieved 20 March 2017
  10. "Soviet Revolution Day celebrations disrupted". UPI. Retrieved 11 February 2017.
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