And now - the long-awaited news - Victory. This word spread around everyone, giving strength to live, rebuild the devastated country, love and rejoice.
On June 24, 1945, the Victory Parade took place on Red Square in Moscow. It was the triumph of the victorious Soviet people, who defeated Hitlerite Germany, which led the united forces of Europe in the Great Patriotic War.
Mikhail Andreyevich Nikishin, a participant in the Victory Parade, lives in Tyumen. With the participation of Mikhail Andreevich, on June 24, 2021, an action was held in memory of this significant event with a symbolic planting of a blue spruce in honor of the veteran. Mikhail Nikishin spent four years on the front line, was wounded. He fought on both the Western and Eastern fronts. He still remembers how they prepared for the celebration. The veteran is 99 years old, but on a holiday he shook old things, took a shovel and personally helped to plant a blue spruce on the street with the iconic name - Victory Parade, which is hiding among a pine forest in the Tyumen Mys urban district.
From the street of the Victory Parade, the procession went to the Lake of Champions, where it was decided to mark this date by planting trees in the Garden of Memory. By the end of next spring, 1418 pines will grow around the Champion Lake in the Garden of Remembrance according to the number of days of the Great Patriotic War. Each tree will be dedicated to a specific veteran.
Artem Medvedev and Natalia Utkina, representatives of the management of Soyuzgaztekhnologiya Research and Production Enterprise LLC, took part in organizing the event together with the activists. The company pursues a policy of socially responsible business, participating both in individual campaigns and in long-term projects aimed at preserving the environment and patriotic education.
Ten combined regiments of the fronts and a combined regiment of the Navy were to take part in the festive event. Students of military academies, cadets of military schools and the troops of the Moscow garrison, as well as military equipment, including aircraft, were also involved in the parade. At the same time, the troops that existed as of May 9, 1945 of seven more fronts of the USSR Armed Forces did not take part in the parade.
The troops immediately began to create consolidated regiments. The fighters for the main parade of the country were selected meticulously. First of all, they took those who showed heroism, courage and military skill in battles. Qualities such as height and age mattered. For example, in the order for the troops of the 1st Belorussian Front of May 24, 1945, it was noted that growth should not be lower than 176 cm, and age should not be older than 30 years.
At the end of May, the regiments were formed. By order of May 24, a total of 1059 people and 10 spare people were supposed to be in the consolidated regiment, but as a result, the number was brought to 1465 people and 10 spare people.
By June 10, special trains with parade participants began to arrive in the capital. In total, 24 marshals, 249 generals, 2536 officers, 31,116 privates, sergeants took part in the parade. Hundreds of units of military equipment were prepared for the parade.
At the direction of the General Staff, about 900 units of trophy banners and standards were delivered to Moscow from Berlin and Dresden. Of these, 200 banners and standards were selected, which were placed under guard in a special room. On the day of the parade, they were taken to Red Square in covered trucks and handed over to the soldiers of the parade company of "porters". Soviet soldiers carried enemy banners and standards with gloves, emphasizing that it was disgusting to even take the shafts of these symbols into the hands. The first to be thrown is Hitler's personal standard, the last - the banner of Vlasov's army.
Despite the rainy weather and the cancellation of the flight of aviation, people stood to the end - as in the war years - as a single, indivisible force that was able to defeat a vile, strong and cruel enemy.
The Victory Parade was hosted by Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov. The parade was commanded by Marshal of the Soviet Union Konstantin Konstantinovich Rokossovsky. The entire organization of the parade was supervised by the commander of the Moscow Military District and the head of the Moscow garrison, Colonel-General Pavel Artemyevich Artemyev.