1967 October Revolution Parade


The 1967 October Revolution Parade was the parade on Moscow's Red Square devoted to the 50th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution on 7 November 1967. Commanding the parade was First Deputy Commander of the Moscow Military District, Colonel General Yevgeny Ivanovsky.

Parade events

As 1967 being the golden jubilee 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.
Notable guests on Lenin's Mausoleum included the following:
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 Programme 3.

Full order of the golden jubilee parade

The parade displayed the latest Soviet weaponry, with a news report describing it as "a new muscle in every major category... ranging from a massive three-stage intercontinental missile to a relatively tiny anti-tank missile on a reconnaissance car."

Ground Column

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

Mobile column

Commemorative badges

In mid-later November 1967, Marshal Andrei Grechkov announced his gratitude on behalf of the Ministry of Defence to all those who marched on Red Square, ordering for the first time that, together with the text of gratitude, participants were presented with commemorative badges that read "Participant of the military parade".
The badge is a gilded circle, in the center of which is the image of the Kremlin's Spasskaya Tower, covered with bright red enamel. On the right, the circle is surrounded by a strip in the form of a Ribbon of Saint George, and on the left, on a white strip in two lines. The number "50" is engraved in the lower part of the badge. The diameter of the badge is 30 mm.

Celebrations of the golden jubilee

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 performed 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 Yerevan, Baku, Tselinograd, Priozersk, and Kuybyshev (modern day Samara). During the parade on Lenin Square in Baku, the parade was opened by a guard of honor instead of drummers, one of the first cities to do that in their annual parade.