Sailors at the Victory Parade 1945. Victory Parade (52 photos)

On June 24, 1945, a legendary parade was held on Red Square in Moscow in honor of the end of the Great Patriotic War. The parade was attended by 24 marshals, 249 generals, 2,536 officers and 31,116 privates and sergeants. In addition, the audience was shown 1850 units of military equipment. Interesting facts about the first Victory Parade in the history of our country are waiting for you further.

1. The Victory Parade was hosted by Marshal Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov, not Stalin. A week before the day of the parade, Stalin called Zhukov to his dacha and asked if the marshal had forgotten how to ride. He has to drive more and more on staff cars. Zhukov replied that he had not forgotten how and in his spare time he tried to ride.
- Here's the thing, - said the Supreme, - you will have to accept the Victory Parade. Rokossovsky will command the parade.
Zhukov was surprised, but did not show it:
- Thank you for such an honor, but wouldn't it be better for you to host the parade?
And Stalin to him:
- I'm already old to receive parades. Take it, you are younger.

The next day, Zhukov went to the Central Airfield on the former Khodynka - the parade rehearsal was held there - and met with Vasily, Stalin's son. And it was here that Vasily marshal was amazed. He told me in secret that my father was going to host the parade himself. He ordered Marshal Budyonny to prepare a suitable horse and went to Khamovniki, to the main army riding arena on Chudovka, as Komsomolsky Prospekt was then called. There, the army cavalrymen arranged their magnificent arena - a huge, high hall, all in large mirrors. It was here that on June 16, 1945, Stalin came to shake up the old days and check whether the skills of a dzhigit had been lost over time. At a sign from Budyonny, a snow-white horse was brought up and Stalin helped to hoist himself into the saddle. Gathering the reins in his left hand, which always remained bent at the elbow and only half active, which is why the evil tongues of party comrades called the leader "Sukhorukim", Stalin spurred the stubborn horse - and he rushed off ...
The rider fell out of the saddle and, despite the thick layer of sawdust, hit his side and head painfully ... Everyone rushed to him, helped him up. Budyonny, a timid man, looked with fear at the leader ... But there were no consequences.

2. The Banner of Victory, brought to Moscow on June 20, 1945, was to be carried through Red Square. And the calculation of the flagmen specially trained. The keeper of the Banner at the Museum of the Soviet Army A. Dementiev claimed that the standard-bearer Neustroev and his assistants Yegorov, Kantaria and Berest, who hoisted it over the Reichstag and seconded to Moscow, were extremely unsuccessful at the rehearsal - they had no time for drill training in the war. The same Neustroev, by the age of 22, had five wounds, his legs were injured. Appointing other standard-bearers is ridiculous, and too late. Zhukov decided not to take out the Banner. Therefore, contrary to popular belief, there was no Banner at the Victory Parade. The first time the Banner was taken to the parade in 1965.

3. The question arose more than once: why does the Banner lack a strip 73 centimeters long and 3 centimeters wide, because the panels of all assault flags were cut to the same size? There are two versions. First: the strip was cut off and taken as a keepsake on May 2, 1945, by the former on the roof of the Reichstag, Private Alexander Kharkov, a Katyusha gunner from the 92nd Guards Mortar Regiment. But how could he know that it was this, one of several, cotton cloth that would become the Banner of Victory?
The second version: The banner was kept in the political department of the 150th Infantry Division. Mostly women worked there, who began to be demobilized in the summer of 1945. They decided to keep a souvenir for themselves, cut off a strip and divided it into pieces. This version is the most probable: in the early 70s, a woman came to the Museum of the Soviet Army, told this story and showed her shred.

4. Everyone saw footage of Nazi banners being thrown at the foot of the Mausoleum. But it is curious that the fighters carried 200 banners and standards of the defeated German units with gloves, emphasizing that it is disgusting to even take the shafts of these standards into the hands. And they threw them on a special platform so that the standards would not touch the pavement of Red Square. The first to throw was Hitler's personal standard, the last - the banner of Vlasov's army. And in the evening of the same day, the platform and all the gloves were burned.

5. The directive on preparing for the parade went to the troops a month before, at the end of May. And the exact date of the parade was determined by the time required by the clothing factories of Moscow to sew 10 thousand sets of parade uniforms for soldiers, and the timing of tailoring uniforms for officers and generals in the atelier.

6. To participate in the Victory Parade, it was necessary to pass a tough selection: not only exploits and merits were taken into account, but also the appearance corresponding to the appearance of the victorious warrior, and that the warrior was at least 170 cm tall. Not without reason in the newsreel, all participants in the parade are simply handsome especially the pilots. Going to Moscow, the lucky ones did not yet know that they would have to do drill for 10 hours a day for the sake of three and a half minutes of an impeccable march along Red Square.

7. Fifteen minutes before the start of the parade, it began to rain, turning into a downpour. It cleared up only in the evening. Because of this, the air part of the parade was canceled. Standing on the podium of the Mausoleum, Stalin was dressed in a raincoat and rubber boots - according to the weather. But the marshals were soaked through. Rokossovsky's wet dress uniform, when dry, sat down so that it was impossible to take it off - he had to rip it open.

8. Zhukov's ceremonial speech survived. It is interesting that on its margins someone carefully painted all the intonations with which the marshal had to pronounce this text. The most interesting notes: "quieter, more severe" - in the words: "Four years ago, the Nazi hordes of robbers attacked our country"; “louder, with an increase” - on the boldly underlined phrase: “The Red Army, under the leadership of its brilliant commander, went on a decisive offensive.” And here: "quieter, more penetrating" - starting with the sentence "We won the victory at the cost of heavy sacrifices."

9. Few people know that there were four landmark parades in 1945. The first in importance, of course, is the Victory Parade on June 24, 1945 on Red Square in Moscow. The parade of Soviet troops in Berlin took place on May 4, 1945 at the Brandenburg Gate, hosted by its military commandant of Berlin, General N. Berzarin.
The Allied Victory Parade in Berlin was held on September 7, 1945. It was Zhukov's proposal after the Moscow Victory Parade. A composite regiment of a thousand men and armored units participated from each allied nation. But 52 IS-3 tanks from our 2nd Guards Tank Army aroused universal admiration.
The Victory Parade of the Soviet troops in Harbin on September 16, 1945 was reminiscent of the first parade in Berlin: our soldiers marched in field uniforms. Tanks and self-propelled guns closed the column.

10. After the parade on June 24, 1945, Victory Day was not widely celebrated and was an ordinary working day. Only in 1965 did Victory Day become a public holiday. After the collapse of the USSR, Victory Parades were not held until 1995.

11. Why at the Victory Parade on June 24, 1945, one dog was carried in the arms on a Stalinist overcoat?

During the Second World War, trained dogs actively helped sappers clear mines. One of them, nicknamed Dzhulbars, discovered 7468 mines and more than 150 shells while clearing mines in European countries in the last year of the war. Shortly before the Victory Parade in Moscow on June 24, Dzhulbars was wounded and could not pass as part of the military dog school. Then Stalin ordered to carry the dog across Red Square on his overcoat.

On June 24, 1945, the historic Victory Parade was held on Red Square in Moscow. This event, friends, is dedicated to this photo selection.

1. Victory parade. Soviet soldiers with the defeated standards of the Nazi troops.
The march of the combined regiments during the Victory Parade completed the formation of soldiers carrying 200 lowered banners and standards of the defeated Nazi troops. These banners were thrown on a special platform at the foot of the Lenin Mausoleum to the gloomy beat of drums. Hitler's personal standard was thrown first.

2. Victory Parade. Soviet soldiers with the defeated standards of the Nazi troops.

3. Group portrait of pilots - participants in the Victory Parade. From left to right in the front row: three officers from the 3rd APDD (long-range air regiment), pilots of the 1st Guards APDD: Mitnikov Pavel Tikhonovich, Kotelkov Alexander Nikolaevich, Bodnar Alexander Nikolaevich, Voevodin Ivan Ilyich. In the second row: Bychkov Ivan Nikolaevich, Kuznetsov Leonid Borisovich, two officers of the 3rd APDD, Polishchuk Illarion Semenovich (3rd APDD), Sevastyanov Konstantin Petrovich, Gubin Petr Fedorovich.

4. Ceremony of farewell to the soldiers of the Red Army with the Banner of Victory before it was sent to Moscow. In the foreground is the Soviet self-propelled gun SU-76. Berlin, Germany. May 20, 1945

5. Banner group of the combined regiment of the 1st Ukrainian Front at the Victory Parade. First on the left - three times Hero of the Soviet Union, fighter pilot Colonel A.I. Pokryshkin, second from left - twice Hero of the Soviet Union, fighter pilot Major D.B. Glinka. Third from left - Hero of the Soviet Union Guard Major I.P. Slavic.

6. Heavy tanks IS-2 pass through Red Square during the parade in honor of the Victory on June 24, 1945.

7. Solemn construction of the Soviet troops before the parade dedicated to sending the Victory Banner to Moscow. Berlin. May 20, 1945

8. IS-2 tanks in Moscow on Gorky Street (now Tverskaya) before entering Red Square during the parade in honor of the Victory on June 24, 1945.

9. Line of Soviet soldiers and officers at the Victory Parade in Moscow.

10. The head of the political department of the 4th Ukrainian Front, Major General Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (center), the future leader of the USSR in 1964-1982, during the Victory Parade. At the parade, he was the commissar of the combined regiment of the 4th Ukrainian Front. The far left is the commander of the 101st Rifle Corps, Lieutenant General A.L. Bondarev, Hero of the Soviet Union.

11. Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Konstantinovich Zhukov takes the Victory Parade in Moscow. Underneath it is a light-gray Terek horse breed named Kumir.

12. Pilots - Heroes of the Soviet Union - participants in the Victory Parade. 06/24/1945
Fifth from the right is Guard Captain Vitaly Ivanovich Popkov, commander of the 5th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment, twice Hero of the Soviet Union (personally shot down 41 enemy planes). While there is only one Golden Star on his chest, the second one will appear in 3 days. Facts from his biography formed the basis of the film “Only Old Men Go to Battle” (the prototype of the commander Titarenko (“Maestro”) and the Grasshopper). Sixth from the right is Colonel General, Commander of the 17th Air Army Vladimir Alexandrovich Sudets (1904-1981).

13. Victory Parade. The formation of sailors of the Northern, Baltic, Black Sea fleets, as well as the Dnieper and Danube fleets. In the foreground, Vice-Admiral V. G. Fadeev, who led the combined regiment of sailors, Captain 2nd Rank V.D. Sharoiko, Hero of the Soviet Union Captain 2nd Rank V.N. Alekseev, Hero of the Soviet Union, lieutenant colonel of the coastal service F.E. Kotanov, captain 3rd rank G.K. Nikiporets.

14. Victory Parade. Soviet soldiers with the defeated standards of the Nazi troops.

16. Victory Parade. Build tank officers.

17. Soldiers of the 150th Idritsa Rifle Division against the background of their assault flag, hoisted on May 1, 1945 over the Reichstag building in Berlin and which later became the state relic of the USSR - the Banner of Victory.
In the photo, participants in the assault on the Reichstag, who escorted the flag to Moscow from the Berlin Tempelhof airfield on June 20, 1945 (from left to right): captain K.Ya. Samsonov, junior sergeant M.V. Kantaria, Sergeant M.A. Egorov, senior sergeant M.Ya. Soyanov, captain S.A. Neustroev.

18. Victory Parade. Deputy Supreme Commander-in-Chief Marshal of the Soviet Union G.K. Zhukov accepts the parade of troops of the Army, Navy and Moscow garrison to commemorate the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War.

19. Hero of the Soviet Union Major General A.V. Gladkov with his wife at the end of the Victory Parade. The original title is "The Joy and Pain of Victory".

20. IS-2 tanks in Moscow on Gorky Street (now Tverskaya) before entering Red Square during the parade in honor of the Victory on June 24, 1945.

21. Meeting of the Banner of Victory at the airport in Moscow. The Banner of Victory is carried along the Central Moscow airfield on the day of its arrival in Moscow from Berlin. At the head of the column is Captain Valentin Ivanovich Varennikov (future First Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR, General of the Army, Hero of the Soviet Union). 06/20/1945

22. Warriors carry the Victory Banner along the Central Moscow airfield on the day it arrives in Moscow from Berlin. June 20, 1945

23. Troops at the Victory Parade.

24. Guards mortars "Katyusha" at the Victory Parade.

25. A column of paratroopers and submariners on Red Square.

26. A column of Red Army officers with defeated Nazi banners at the Victory Parade.

27. A column of officers of the Red Army with defeated fascist banners at the approach to the Lenin Mausoleum.

28. A column of Red Army officers throwing fascist banners at the foot of the mausoleum of V. I. Lenin.

29. Marshal of the Soviet Union Zhukov GK welcomes the troops taking part in the Victory Parade.

30. A rally at one of the airfields near Berlin before the departure of the Victory Banner to Moscow for the Victory Parade.

31. German banners thrown by Soviet soldiers on Red Square during the Victory Parade.

32. General view of Red Square during the passage of troops on the day of the Victory Parade.

34. Victory Parade on Red Square.

35. Before the start of the Victory Parade.

36. Consolidated regiment of the 1st Belorussian Front during the Victory Parade on Red Square.

37. Tanks at the Victory Parade.

38. Solemn ceremony of handing over the Banner of Victory to the military commandant of Berlin, Hero of the Soviet Union, Colonel-General NE Berzarin to be sent to Moscow. 20 May 1945

39. Participants of the Victory Parade pass through Manezhnaya Square.

40. Consolidated regiment of the Third Belorussian Front, led by Marshal of the Soviet Union A.M. Vasilevsky.

41. Marshal of the Soviet Union Semyon Budyonny, Supreme Commander of the USSR Armed Forces Joseph Stalin and Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov on the podium of Lenin's Mausoleum.

11. Why at the Victory Parade on June 24, 1945, one dog was carried in the arms on a Stalinist overcoat?

The idea of publishing and scanning the section of the book "Winners" ( Victory Parade June 24, 1945. - Moscow: Government of Moscow. Committee for Public and Interregional Relations, 2000. ) - S.V. Lyubimova, daughter of V.A. Lyubimov and the author of an essay about him -.

Although the original intention was tell about pupils of special naval schools and naval preparatory schools - participants in the Victory Parade, in the process of preparation, we decided to provide information about all the participants about whom at least something is known, both from the book and from Internet sources. About those who stood on June 24, 1945 in the ranks of the Consolidated Regiment of the Navy on Red Square. About those sailors who were present at the parade. Just over 160 participants... Out of over 1250! We will be grateful for the help, for additions.

NAVY

During the Great Patriotic War, the USSR Navy conducted active and decisive military operations to destroy the forces of the fleet and transports of the enemy, reliably guarded military and national economic sea, lake and river transportation, and assisted the Red Army groupings in defensive and offensive operations.
The Northern Fleet, in contact with the Allied navies (Great Britain, USA), provided external communications, conducted active operations on enemy sea lanes. To ensure the safety of ship traffic in the Arctic, in particular along the Northern Sea Route, the White Sea Flotilla was formed. Many coastal bridgeheads and naval bases, which were threatened by capture from land, were held for a long time by the joint efforts of the ground forces and the navy. The Northern Fleet (commander A.G. Golovko), together with the troops of the 14th Army, fought on the distant approaches to the Kola Bay and Murmansk. In 1942, he was entrusted with the defense of the Sredny and Rybachy peninsulas.
The Baltic Fleet (commander V.F. Tributs) participated in the defense of Liepaja, Tallinn, the Moonsund Islands, the Hanko Peninsula, the Oranienbaum bridgehead, the islands of the Vyborg Bay and the northern coast of Lake Ladoga. The fleet played an important role in the heroic defense of Leningrad.
The Black Sea Fleet (commander F.S. Oktyabrsky, from April 1943 - L.A. Vladimirsky, from March 1944 - F.S. Oktyabrsky), together with the ground forces, carried out operations to defend Odessa, Sevastopol, Kerch, Novorossiysk, participated in the defense North Caucasus.

On high-water rivers and lakes, river and lake flotillas were used to create defensive lines: Azov, Danube, Pinsk, Chudskaya, Ladoga, Onega, Volga, a detachment of ships on Lake Ilmen. The Ladoga flotilla provided communications through Lake Ladoga ("Road of Life") to the besieged Leningrad. The sailors of the Volga Flotilla made a great contribution to the defense of Stalingrad and to the provision of important national economic transportation along the Volga in conditions of mine danger. In 1943, the Dnieper River Flotilla was recreated, and in 1944, the Danube River Flotilla. Dnieper flotilla, relocated to the river basin. Oder, took part in the Berlin operation. The Danube Flotilla participated in the liberation of Belgrade, Budapest and Vienna.
The Pacific Fleet (commander I.S. Yumashev) and the Red Banner Amur Flotilla (commander N.V. Antonov) in August-September 1945 participated in the defeat of the Japanese Kwantung Army, in the liberation of Korea, Manchuria, South Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands.
During the Great Patriotic War, the Navy sent about 500 thousand sailors and officers to the land fronts, where military sailors fought heroically in the Red Army, defending Odessa, Sevastopol, Moscow, Leningrad. During the war years, the fleet landed more than 100 operational and tactical naval assault forces. For outstanding military merits in the Great Patriotic War, more than 350 thousand sailors were awarded orders and medals, 513 people were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, 7 people were awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union twice.

CONSOLIDATED REGIMENT OF THE PEOPLE'S COMMISSIONER OF THE NAVY

Composite Regiment Command

Victory parade. The formation of sailors of the Northern, Baltic, Black Sea fleets, as well as the Dnieper and Danube fleets. In the foreground, Vice-Admiral V. G. Fadeev, who led the combined regiment of sailors, Captain 2nd Rank V.D. Sharoiko, Hero of the Soviet Union Captain 2nd Rank V.N. Alekseev, Hero of the Soviet Union, lieutenant colonel of the coastal service F.E. Kotanov, captain 3rd rank G.K. Nikiporets. - Victory parade. Build sailors - photo | Military album 1939, 1940, 1941-1945

FADEEV Vladimir Georgievich

Genus. 10.7.1904 in Novgorod.
In the Navy since 1918. He graduated from the Naval College. M.V. Frunze (1926), navigational class of the SKKS Navy of the Red Army (1930), courses for destroyer commanders (1937), formation commanders (1938), academic courses for officers (1947) and the Naval Academy. K.E.Voroshilova. Member of the Civil War. Jung on the destroyer "Attentive", osc. naval crew, trawling detachment of the Black Sea Fleet. Watch officer of the minesweeper "Jalita", the cruiser "Comintern", the flag navigator of the gunboat division. From July 1931 senior navigator, senior assistant commander of the Shaumyan destroyer, from March 1935 commander of the Shkval patrol ship, from November 1936 commander of the patrol ship division, from May 1937 commander of the Nezamozhnik destroyer, from October. 1937 division commander, minesweeper brigade. From Aug. 1939 commander of the defensive military region of the Main Base of the Black Sea Fleet. Rear Admiral (1940).
F. entered the Great Patriotic War in this position, solving the tasks of organizing the defense of the Main Base of the Fleet, ensuring an uninterrupted regime in its zone, carrying out sentinel service, escorting ships, delivering replenishment, ammunition, weapons and cargo to Sevastopol.

Rozanov, 1945, Novorossiysk (Photo from the family archive of V.F. Rozanov)

What can you say about your commander, Vice Admiral V.G. Fadeev?
- Fadeev was very open to the people. Very caring about the sailors, sincere person. It used to happen that we would go on a mission, return, two weeks later, he comes to us by car at the pier, and immediately turns not to the commander of the boat, but to the sailors: “When were you in the bathhouse? How about food? First of all, he solved such issues. Well, he drove officers, quartermasters who were responsible for the supply of food, for the organization of healthcare. He was very demanding. He was our brigade commander, which included various divisions - large minesweepers, and our 1st Red Banner division "Sea Hunters". And then he already became the commander of the Sevastopol naval base, he was already a vice admiral.

The book "Experience in the fight against enemy mine weapons" in the OVR of the Main Base of the Black Sea Fleet is of great value, since on the basis of this experience the "Manual on minesweeping of non-contact mines" (Order of the Navy Naval Forces No. 0467) was developed.

The entire experience of the struggle was summarized directly by the organizer of the trawling, Rear Admiral Comrade. Fadeev Vladimir Georgievich, who first created mine defense against enemy non-contact mines.
The work done on PMO in the OVR of the GB Black Sea Fleet completely prevented the enemy’s attempt to block the main naval base of Sevastopol.
As a result of this, it became possible for our ships and boats to make 15,867 voyages to the besieged Sevastopol to ensure its defense. - Fadeev Vladimir Georgievich. - Memorial plaques of Sevastopol

Hero of the Soviet Union ALEKSEEV Vladimir Nikolaevich

Genus. 09/08/1912 in the village. Kimiltey Ziminsky district of the Irkutsk region. Member of the CPSU (b 1941. In 1932 he graduated from the Leningrad Marine College, was an assistant to the captain of the ship.
In the Navy since 1933. He graduated from the special courses of the command staff of the Navy. Navigator of the submarine "Sch-12: submarine division, flagship of the BTKA (Pacific Fleet). Illegally repressed in August 1938. Reinstated in the Navy in February 1939. Flight commander, detachment, chief of staff of the TKA division (05.39-04.1942). In 1944 he graduated Naval Academy.
In the Great Patriotic War from Jan. 1944 to May 9, 1945 in the Northern Fleet. During the fighting, the 3rd division of the torpedo boat brigade under the command of captain 2nd rank A. sank 17 enemy ships. The title of Hero of the Soviet Union was awarded on November 5, 1944. At the Victory parade, - the chief of staff of the combined regiment. Captain 2nd rank, chief of staff of the Pechenga Red Banner Order of Ushakov 1st class. brigades of torpedo boats of the Northern Fleet.
After the war he continued to serve in the Navy. Commanded a formation of ships. In 1953 he graduated from the Military Academy of the General Staff. He was an assistant to the representative of the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy in the Romanian Army, the commander of the Liepaja Navy, the first deputy chief of the 1st headquarters of the Navy, he worked at the Academy of the General Staff. From Oct. 1986 Admiral A. retired. Laureate of the State Prize of the USSR (1980).
He was awarded the Orders of Lenin, the Order of the October Revolution, 5 Orders of the Red Banner, 2 Orders of the Patriotic War 1st Class, Orders of the Red Star, Orders of the 3rd Class for Service to the Motherland in the USSR Armed Forces, and medals.
Died in July 1999.

The brightest memory of military operations is the attack of torpedo boats in the Barents Sea in 1943.
- This attack went down in the history of our fleet, - says the veteran. - A German caravan was going to the sea, and a command came to us: to attack! But the caravan is always protected by destroyers... Our commander was Captain second rank Alekseev (Hero of the Soviet Union Alekseev Vladimir Nikolaevich), and this is what he came up with. Each torpedo boat commander was given a course point to go to. The calculation was as follows: the boat goes to the right point, a torpedo attack follows, and the ship ends up in the very place where the torpedoes went. Gave a smokescreen. The Germans did not see us. Our boats emerge, throw torpedoes and leave. And so we laid down six units of the enemy fleet. This is the personal merit of Alekseev, because we did not lose a single boat! -Pigarev D.T. On torpedo boats. - M.: Military Publishing House, 1963.

DUBINA Alexander Davidovich

V.G. Fadeev (commander of the combined regiment), captain of the 2nd rank F.D. Sharoiko (deputy regiment commander for political affairs), colonel A.D. Dubina (deputy regiment commander for combat unit), Hero of the Soviet Union Captain 2 - rank V.N. Alekseev (chief of staff of the regiment), Hero of the Soviet Union, lieutenant colonel of the coastal service F.E. Kotanov (commander of the 1st battalion), guard captain of the 3rd rank G.K. Nikiporets (commander of the 1st company )

Genus 19(31).05.1887 in the village. Vervii of the now Letichevsky district of the Khmelnytsky region, Ukraine. Member of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks since 1933. He graduated from a rural school, four classes of a real school (external student), a naval rifle team in Oranienbaum (1909).
In May 1919, he volunteered to serve in the Black Sea naval crew in Nikolaev. During the Civil War of 1918-1920. As part of the 1st Communist Detachment, as an assistant to the head of a special detachment of sailors, he participated in battles against Denikin's army on the Southern Front. From Oct. 1919 to Dec. 1920 in stock. Dec. 1920 called again for military service and passed it on the Dnieper, then the Don flotillas. From sept. 1921 as part of the Black Sea Naval Forces - head of the training team for the naval crew, head. combat unit of the machine school, head of the combat unit of the training detachment. From Aug. 1923 to Apr. 1925 - company commander, assistant commander, commander of the Black Sea naval crew. From Apr. 1925 to July 1928 - commander of the combined training battalion of the training detachment of the MSChM. In July 1928 he was appointed commander of the Baltic naval crew. Dec. 1938 transferred to the reserve with the rank of brigade commander.
In Jan. 1945 called up and appointed head of the combat department of the Quartermaster's School of the Navy with the military rank of "colonel". At the parade - deputy commander of the consolidated regiment of the Navy for combat units. "During the period of work at the school, he achieved positive results in improving military discipline and training cadets in combat. He worked a lot to prepare cadets to participate in the parade in Moscow," the award list says.
After the war he continued to serve in the same school.
Awarded 2 orders of the Red Star, medals.
Died 1947

To be continued.

Veryuzhsky Nikolay Aleksandrovich (VNA), Gorlov Oleg Aleksandrovich (OAG), Maksimov Valentin Vladimirovich (MVV), SWF.
198188. St. Petersburg, st. Marshal Govorov, house 11/3, apt. 70. Sergey Vladimirovich Karasev, archivist. [email protected]

varlamov.ru in Moscow Walk 1945

Festivities on Red Square after the announcement of the surrender of Germany

Back in 1944, it became clear that the Soviet Union would take over the Third Reich, but in May 1945, the Red Army took Berlin, and Germany announced unconditional surrender. The enemy was defeated. The main thing that the residents of Moscow remember this year is Levitan's message about the end of the war, festivities and fireworks on May 9, the Victory Parade on a rainy day on June 24 and the meeting of demobilized soldiers at the Belorussky railway station.

Many hardships of the war years still accompanied Muscovites - ration cards, mobilization for the labor front, increased working hours. Despite the fact that the city ate poorly, the authorities did not spare money for colorful mass events, such as the parade of athletes on Red Square...

“According to the decision of the government, blackout is canceled in Moscow from April 30 ... Moscow will be lit up with thousands of windows, street lamps. This is a real holiday! And the first unemployed appeared in the MPVO system - blackouts, the first victims; no, not the war, but its imminent end. such victims!"

“How did we know that the war was over? It’s very simple. Our building, as they say, is on Volkhonka. And across the river, across the Stone Bridge, is the British embassy. So, on May 7, a huge British flag was raised over it. It was illuminated by searchlights - after all, the blackout has been canceled! And everyone came to look at this sign of the end of the war, which officially ended for us on the 9th. "

Manezhnaya Square on Victory Day.

"Selfies" of Victory.) Muscovites with Hero of the Soviet Union Major Ivan Kobyakov.

From the diaries of military commander Alexander Ustinov:

“On the night of May 9, 1945, the Muscovites did not sleep. At 2 am, they announced on the radio that an important message would be broadcast. May Day of national celebration - Victory Day. Taking the camera, I went out into the street ...

People ran out of houses. They happily congratulated each other on the long-awaited victory. Banners appeared. There were more and more people, and everyone moved to Red Square. A spontaneous demonstration began. Joyful faces, songs, harmonica dances. There were fireworks in the evening. Thirty volleys from a thousand guns in honor of the Great Victory.

From the memoirs of the navigator of military transport aviation Nikolai Kryuchkov: "... On May 9, 1945, with the permission of the commander, I left for Moscow for 3 days. It is simply impossible to tell what happened that day in Moscow ... Everyone, young and old, rejoiced. It was impossible not only to drive, but also to pass The military is grabbed, shaken, kissed.

It’s good that as soon as I arrived, I took a liter of vodka at the station, otherwise it was impossible to buy it in the evening. We celebrated Victory Day with our family, apartment owners and neighbors. They drank for the victory, for those who did not live to see this day, and for the fact that this bloody massacre would never happen again. On May 10, it was no longer possible to buy vodka in Moscow, they drank it all.

May 9, Victory Day. Performance of the Big State Symphony Orchestra on Manezhnaya Square.

Pianist of the Moscow Conservatory Nina Petrovna Emelyanova during a performance on Mayakovsky Square in Moscow.

Rally on Mayakovsky Square on May 9.

Soviet citizens congratulate the officer on his victory.

From the memoirs of the poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko recalled: “On Victory Day, all the boys rushed to Red Square and handed out cigarettes for nothing, like ice cream ladies - ice cream. Red Square was flooded with triumphant people. shells danced with the soldiers with their hands. None of the women had shoes on - all were only in tarpaulin boots. Enthusiastically threw allies into the air - Americans, French, British, and we boys picked up foreign, unfamiliar coins that fell from their pockets " .

At Pashkov's house.

Big Stone. The tram on the bridge had only a few weeks to go.

salute of victory

Tu-2 bomber junior lieutenant A.V. Kudlaev in flight over the Crimean bridge at the final rehearsal of the air parade in Moscow. Photo from the album of the pilot of the 63rd BAP A.V. Kudlaev.

View of Sverdlov Square before the Victory Parade.

ORDER OF THE SUPREME COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF

To commemorate the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War, I am appointing a parade of troops of the Army, Navy and Moscow garrison on Red Square on June 24, 1945 - VICTORY PARADE.

Bring to the parade: consolidated regiments of the fronts, a consolidated regiment of the People's Commissariat of Defense, a consolidated regiment of the Navy, military academies, military schools and troops of the Moscow garrison.

To accept the victory parade to my Deputy Marshal of the Soviet Union Zhukov.
Command the victory parade to Marshal of the Soviet Union Rokossovsky.

Supreme Commander
Marshal of the Soviet Union
I. Stalin

Georgy Zhukov before the Victory Parade.

Construction of equipment on Tverskaya.

Victory parade. Defeated standards of the Nazi troops.

The author of the picture is Evgeny Ananievich Khaldei, who himself went through the entire war from Murmansk to Berlin.

From the memoirs of General Sergei Shtemenko, who worked in the General Staff in those days:

“The consolidated regiments brought with them a lot of banners of the defeated Nazi units and formations, including even Hitler’s personal standard. It didn’t make sense to take them all to Red Square. Only two hundred were taken away. Enemy military relics were to be carried by a specially dedicated company. that she will carry them with an angle of inclination, almost touching the ground with the panels, and then, under the crackle of dozens of drums, will throw them to the foot of the Lenin Mausoleum.

Eleven hours twenty-five minutes. The melody of the solemn march falls silent and the sharp fraction of eighty drums is heard. Two hundred Soviet soldiers are carrying fascist banners bowed to the ground, the banners under which the Nazis marched in Berlin and on the streets of the capitals of Europe, the banners under which they intended to march in Moscow in 1941, disappeared, disappeared, the owners of these banners disappeared, and the banners themselves, as a symbol of the defeat and shame of Hitler's fascism, they are about to be thrown to the foot of the Mausoleum on wooden platforms so that they do not defile the sacred stones of the paving stones of Red Square with their touch. The drums are beating, counting the last steps on the robbery path of the fascist banners.

The banners of the defeated Nazi army thrown to the foot of the Mausoleum.

In honor of the Victory Parade, a 26-meter Fountain of Winners was erected on the Execution Ground of Red Square. After the parade, the fountain was removed from the square.

Marshal Zhukov in front of the troops.

Note that it was raining heavily that day.

From the memoirs of the archaeologist M. Rabinovich: “And a demonstration was supposed to take place on the same day as the parade, but heavy rain forced it to be canceled. I remember that this news caught our convoy on Arbatskaya Square, by chance - in the same place (near the Khudozhestvenny cinema) where I had been for almost five years ago I listened to Molotov's speech about the German attack and the beginning of the war. Now we stood calmly in the downpour, talking, and, it seems, the only thing that bothered us was that Stalin, on the podium, would not catch a cold."

In 1945, other parades were held on Red Square.

Parade of athletes on Red Square on August 12, 1945.

From the memoirs of US President Dwight Eisenhower:

"For five hours we stood on the podium of the mausoleum while the sports performance continued. None of us had ever seen anything even remotely similar to this spectacle. Athletes-performers were dressed in bright costumes, and thousands of these people performed movements in a single rhythm. Folk dances, acrobatic the numbers and gymnastic exercises were performed with impeccable precision and apparently with great enthusiasm.The orchestra, it was said, consisted of a thousand musicians, played continuously during the entire five-hour performance.

The Generalissimo showed no signs of fatigue. On the contrary, he seemed to enjoy every minute of the performance. He invited me to stand next to him, and with the help of an interpreter, we talked intermittently throughout the entire sports performance."

From the memoirs of MGIMO professor V. Popov:

"The Victory parade had not yet ended, when preparations began in Moscow for a new parade, this time a physical education parade. Thousands of girls and boys were selected in sports societies, universities and technical schools, who constantly conducted intensive training. From MGIMO, among the few, the parade was recommended I (apparently, my height and athletic appearance played a role.) Our group held training sessions at the Lokomotiv stadium on Novoryazanskaya Street (which I knew well, since I used to go to the skating rink here as a schoolboy) every other day, and two weeks before the parade daily.

Before training, we received a hearty five-course lunch at the factory-kitchen near the Krasnoselskaya metro station. There was also a rationing system, and getting such a meal was a dream for every Muscovite. The parade took place on Athlete's Day, August 12. On the podium of the mausoleum was the entire Politburo, headed by Stalin. General D. Eisenhower and his son were invited to the central podium, who were officially guests of Marshal Zhukov.

Interesting festive illumination and decor of GUM. The picture is also dated 1945.

In July, demobilized soldiers return to Moscow. Meeting at the Belorussky railway station on July 23.

From the diaries of the head of the Engineering Department of the headquarters of the MPVO of Moscow, Yu.Yu. Kammerera: “Today, Muscovites met the first echelon of demobilized soldiers from Berlin at the Belorussky railway station. I have never seen such a number of flowers even at the Victory Parade. When the train approached the platform, the flowers were raised in a greeting upwards - the square turned into a flowering meadow! The meeting is very warm - hugs, kisses, tears. What a joy, after long years of war, to return victorious under one's own roof."

Square in front of the Belorussky railway station.

Post-war Tver (then Gorky) looked like this:

Not all buildings were erected before the war.

Pushkin Square.

At the entrance to the Tretyakov Gallery there is a monument to Stalin.

Tram rails still lie on the Garden Ring, and the traffic is not at all intense. View from the Bolshoi Krasnokholmsky Bridge towards Taganskaya Square. There is no tunnel either.

Moskvoretsky bridge and Red Square also with a tram.

ZISy at the Moscow hotel, it has not yet been completed.

Peaceful Moscow/

Final of the USSR Football Championship. Fans are heading to the Dynamo stadium along Gorky Street.

B-29 at the Izmailovsky airfield. Here's what they say about this photo: "B-29-15-BW. Belonged to the 794th squadron of the 486th group. The aircraft commander was Lieutenant Mikish. Had the side inscription "Ding Hao". He bombed the city of Omura and left the target on three engines, the fourth was disabled by Japanese fighters. Off the coast, he was met by Soviet fighters and brought to the airfield. He landed on the territory of the USSR in November 1944. From January 1 to June 21, 1945, he underwent Far Eastern trials. The flights were carried out from the Romanovsky airfield. In June-July 1945, he was transferred to Moscow to the Izmailovo airfield. Transferred to the 65th Special Purpose Aviation Regiment. Received registration 358. Was a reference aircraft. As a standard, it stood in Izmailovo, where various specialists examined it from time to time. Didn't fly again. Decommissioned and disposed of. "

In Gorky Park - an exhibition of captured equipment.

Moscow then and now

Girls give flowers to pilots on Revolution Square.

On the Red Square.

Celebrating the Victory on Mokhovaya Street.