Military parades on Red Square (1923-1972)

Parade of the Moscow Garrison troops on Red Square on November 7, 1942. Students of military academies marching.

Parade of troops on November 7, 1923. Cavalry marching.

Fragments of the parades of 1923-1924. Students of military academies march in parade formation across Red Square on November 7, 1972. View of Red Square during the military parade (above).

Marine units march across Red Square.

Students of military academies and cadets of the Moscow Higher Command Combined Arms School march.

An airborne unit marches across Red Square.

The beginning of the military parade, with students of the Moscow Military Music School marching in formation behind the parade commander's car.

Faces of Marshal of the Soviet Union S.K. Timoshenko greeting the troops during the parade on November 7, 1940. View of Red Square during one of the parades in the 1930s (top), with trucks with infantry entering the square.

Kalinin M.I. greeting the troops from the tribune during the parade on Red Square in 1923. Kamenev L.B. and Kalinin M.I. on the tribune during the parade.

Heavy tanks drive across Red Square during the May Day parade in 1935. BT tanks drive across Red Square at high speed.

Heavy artillery on caterpillar tracks drives across Red Square, with crews in the back of trucks.

A unit of horse artillery at a parade on Red Square in 1923. Artillery on caterpillar tracks during a parade in the 1920s.

View of part of Red Square during one of the parades in the second half of the 1930s (top), with anti-aircraft artillery driving across the square.

View of part of Red Square during the parade on November 7, 1972 (top), military equipment enters the square.

Missile Troops units at the parade on Red Square.

View of part of Red Square during the passage of military equipment (top).

Self-propelled artillery units of the airborne troops pass through Red Square.

Missile Troops unit during the parade.

Air defense units during parades of the 1940s - early 1970s.

Self-propelled artillery units pass through Red Square.

Airplanes fly over Red Square during the May Day parade of 1937.