1967 October Revolution Parade

50th anniversary parade emblem.

The 1967 October Revolution Parade is the parade on Moscow's Red Square devoted to the 50th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution, 7 November 1967. As 1967 being the 50th anniversary parade it would feature troops dressed up as historical units from the Russian civil war era. It would also feature the first Color guard on parade from the honor guard. Cavalry units from the Revolution era also rode through Red Square. Commanding the parade is First Deputy Commander of the Moscow Military District, Colonel General Evgeny Ivanovski. Inspecting the parade and also giving his first jubilee address is Marshal of the Soviet Union Andrei Grechko. General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Leonid Brezhnev was on Lenin's Mausoleum in attendance. Major General Nikolai Nazarov was the conductor of the Moscow Military District massed bands which performed on that historic event. The General Secretary of East Germany's Socialist Unity Party Walter Ulbricht was also in attendance. The massed bands marched off to the tune of "My Beloved Motherland" at the end of the mobile column.

Nationwide, the events were aired live on monochrome on Soviet Central Television. Moscow TV viewers saw the first color broadcasts during that parade for the first time on Programme 1 and Moscow Program 3.

Full order of the golden jubilee parade

Military Bands

• Massed Bands of the Moscow Military District
• Corps of Drums of the Moscow Military Music College

Ground Column

Following the limousine carrying the parade commander, the parade marched past in the following sequence:

• Historical Units and Colors
  • Colour Guard wearing armed workers' uniforms of the Revolution and Civil War
  • Red Guards
  • Former Imperial Russian Army personnel with the Red Army
  • Naval contingent
  • Red Army personnel of 1922
  • Historical Cavalry Units
• Frunze Military Academy
• V.I. Lenin Military Political Academy
• Felix Dzerzhinsky Artillery Academy
• Military Armored Forces Academy Marshal Rodion Malinovsky
• Military Engineering Academy
• Military Academy of Chemical Defense and Control
• Yuri Gagarin Air Force Academy
• Prof. Nikolai Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy
• Naval Engineering School
• 98th Guards Airborne Division
• Moscow Border Guards Superior College
• 336th Guards Marine Brigade
• Suvorov Military School
• Nakhimov Naval School
• Moscow Military High Command Training School "Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR"

Mobile column

• 2nd Guards Tamanskaya Motorized Rifle Division
  • BRDM-1
  • BTR-60
  • BMP-1
  • BTR-50
• 98th Guards Airborne Division
  • GAZ-69
  • 85 mm divisional gun D-44 (towed)
  • ASU-85
• 4th Guards Kantermirovsky Tank Division
  • T-62
  • ZSU-57-2
• Rocket Forces and Artillery
  • Air Defense Missile Artillery of the Soviet Army
    • 2K11 Krug
    • 2K12 Kub
  • Towed artillery
    • T-12 antitank gun
    • 100 mm field gun M1944 (BS-3)
    • 122 mm howitzer 2A18 (D-30)
    • 152 mm towed gun-howitzer M1955 (D-20)
  • BM-21 Grad
• Air Defense missile artillery of the Soviet Air Defense Forces
  • S-25 Berkut
  • S-75 Dvina
  • S-200 Angara
  • S-125 Neva/Pechora
  • ABM-1 Galosh
• Tactical and strategic missiles of the Army Rocket Forces and Artillery, Strategic Missile Forces and the Navy's Coastal Defense, Surface and Submarine Forces (Baltic and Northern Fleets)
  • UR-100
  • 2K6 Luna FROG-3
  • 9K52 Luna-M FROG-7
  • Scud-A R-11 Zemlya
  • Scud-B R-17 Elbrus
  • R-9 Desna
  • TR-1 Temp
  • RT-20P
  • R-12 Dvina
  • R-14 Chusovaya
  • R-16
  • R-5 Pobeda
  • P-15 Termit
  • P-5 Pyatyorka
  • R-21

Celebrations of the 50th anniversary

After the parade in Moscow the demonstration march of the workers of various sectors of the Soviet Union took place, preceded by an historic fireworks display at the beginning- one that had never been done before to mark the golden jubilee anniversary of the Revolution. The daytime fireworks display was a once in a lifetime moment and one of the big highlights of that year's Red Square parade.

There were parades in cities such as Baku, Tselinograd (modern day Nur-Sultan), Priozersk, and Kubyshev (modern day Samara)

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