Not logged in Talk Contributions Create account Log in Article Talk Read Search Wikipedia Photograph a historic site, help Wikipedia, and win a prize. Participate in the world's largest photography competition this month! Main page Contents Learn more Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us 2020 Moscow Victory Day Parade Donate From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Contribute The 2020 Moscow Victory Day Parade was a military parade that Help took place in Moscow's Red Square on 24 June 2020[1][2] to Learn to edit commemorate the 75th Diamond Jubilee of both the capitulation of Community portal Recent changes Nazi Germany in the Second World War in 1945 and the historic Upload file Moscow Victory Parade of 1945. For the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Tools resumption of military parades in 1995, this is the first parade to be What links here Related changes cancelled on a holiday itself. Originally scheduled to take place on May Special pages 9, the Kremlin decided to postpone the parade to a later date amid the Permanent link COVID­19 pandemic in the country.[3] Close to 3.6 million Muscovites Page information [4] watched the live broadcast of the parade. Emblem of the 75th anniversary Cite this page Victory Day Parade Wikidata item Contents [hide] 1 Events Print/export 1.1 Foreign troops Download as PDF 2 Invited attendees Printable version 2.1 Summary In other projects 2.2 Guest list Wikimedia Commons 2.2.1 Original composition 2.2.2 Final list Languages Full version of the 2020 Moscow 3 Preparation Victory Day Parade. Русский 3.1 Timeline for preparatory activities in Moscow Edit links 4 Impact of the coronavirus pandemic 4.1 Postponement and replacement celebrations on 9 May 5 Full order of the 2020 parade 5.1 Military bands 5.2 Infantry column 5.3 Mobile column 5.4 Air fly­past column 6 Other parades 6.1 In Russia 6.2 In other countries 7 See also 8 Notes 9 External links 10 References Events [ edit ] Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered his seventeenth holiday address to the nation after the parade inspection presided over by Minister of Defense General of the Army Sergey Shoygu, accompanied by the parade commander General of the Army Oleg Salyukov, Commander­in­Chief of the Ground Forces, who will be in the parade for the seventh consecutive year. The ceremonies honoured the 1945 parade, with the bands playing the Jubilee Slow March "25 Years of the [5] Red Army" at the outset of the inspection stage. Every year, for Start of the parade. several days of Victory Day celebrations, a dress rehearsal of the Parade is held in the Armed Forces' Alabino Training Range in Moscow Oblast, which exactly repeats the holiday program itself. On this day, huge columns of military personnel, cadets and representatives of law enforcement agencies, legendary and modern military equipment take to the streets, and dozens of modern planes and helicopters appear in the skies above the federal capital. All actions of rehearsal participants are usually so coordinated that what is happening is called a mini­ parade. Military equipment. For the first time, 20 samples of the latest armoured and aviation equipment, including the Kurganets­25 infantry fighting vehicles and the latest S­300V4 and S­350 air defense systems, took part in the parade[6] which involved 1,250 bandsmen, an estimated 16,000 personnel in the ground column, 4,500 in the mobile column of around 250 plus vehicles (including historical vehicles from the Second World War), and 600 aircraft crew personnel of the 80­strong flypast. Foreign troops [ edit ] In addition to troops from the Russian Armed Forces, contingents from 20 foreign countries were also planned be on parade, groups from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS),[7][8] as well as contingents from China, India,[9] Serbia, France, the United Kingdom, United States, Poland and Mongolia, returning after a 5 to 10­year hiatus. Parade groups from Belarus, Egypt, Israel, and Iran were planned to Participants of the Victory Day [10][11] be invited. Many of these plans however were scratched in light of parade 24 June 2020 versus 9 May the coronavirus pandemic. The original contingent from Kyrgyzstan 2015 was supposed to be provided by the Honour Guard of the National Guard of Kyrgyzstan. However, this was scrapped after it became known that one of its members had become infected with the coronavirus.[12] A contingent from the General Staff represented the country in their place.[13] Days before the parade, it was reported that multiple members of the Belarusian contingent had become ill with the coronavirus.[14] The Turkmen contingent consisted of two color guards (one carrying A schematic of the foreign troops in the parade. the Flag of Turkmenistan and the other carrying the combat flag of the 748th Infantry Regiment of the 206th Rifle Division) riding in two GAZ­ M20 Pobeda cars brought in from the Turkmen capital.[15] After their appearance, the contingent were quarintined at a hospital in Turkmenabad.[16] Other Red Army banners that were carried by foreign contingents included the banners of the 89th Rifle Division, the 8th Guards Motor Rifle Division, the Zheleznyak Partisan Detachment, and three units who participated in the Minsk Offensive.[17][18] Members of the Indian contingent on Invited attendees [ edit ] Red Square. Summary [ edit ] The first official invitations came during the 2019 G20 Osaka summit, with invitations going to US President Donald Trump, French president Emmanuel Macron, German chancellor Angela Merkel and Chinese leader Xi Jinping.[19] The invitation to President Trump was reiterated in a phone call with Putin later that year.[20][21][22] However, President Trump would later decline the invitation in a diplomatic cable to Moscow, sending National Security Advisor (United States) Robert O'Brien, to attend on his behalf.)[23] In December 2019, an official invitation was sent to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey by the Russian Embassy in Ankara.[24] President Putin has also at various times invited multiple heads of state from the CIS and the CSTO.[25][26] President Putin has also at various times invited multiple heads of state from the CIS and the CSTO.[25][26] In January 2020, former Polish President Lech Walesa expressed a willingness to come to Moscow for the parade if he received an invitation.[27][28] In an interview with an Estonian news agency, Estonian Defence Minister Jüri Luik alluded to the parade by saying that he would not recommend that President Kersti Kaljulaid visit on such an occasion.[29] United Nations General Assembly President Tijjani Muhammad­Bande said in an interview to Sputnik that he would be "honored" to attend the parade if invited.[30] In early June 2020, despite having accepted the invitation earlier this year, Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe announced that he will skip the parade due to the 46th G7 summit (which was itself rescheduled).[31] It is currently unknown who represented Japan at the parade. As of 14 June 2020, a total of 31 foreign heads of state and government, along with 4 multilateral leaders, had accepted the invitation to this year's parade. However, following the rescheduling of the event to 24 June 2020, more than two­thirds of the leaders had withdrawn their invitation (mostly due to scheduling conflicts and COVID­19 pandemic restrictions). The Foreign Minister of Russia Sergei Lavrov said that 12 heads of state had confirmed their attendance to the rescheduled event. Guest list [ edit ] Original composition [ edit ] Over 30 guests accepted the invitation to the 2020 parade. However, most of them had done this before the postponement (abide to the original 9 May schedule). The following names indicate leaders either who did not reconfirm their attendance to the rescheduled 24 June parade or leaders who reconfirmed but decided to cancel their attendance the week prior to the parade: Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan (cancelled due to COVID­19 restrictions)[32] President of Austria Alexander Van der Bellen[33] President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev (cancelled due to COVID­19 restrictions) President of Bulgaria Rumen Radev[34][35] President of Croatia Zoran Milanović (cancelled due to issues with plane)[36][37] President of Cuba Miguel Diaz­Canel[38] President of the Czech Republic Milos Zeman (cancelled due to COVID­19 restrictions) President of Egypt Abdel Fattah el­Sisi President of France Emmanuel Macron[39] Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi[40] Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu and Alternate Prime Minister Benny Gantz (cancelled due to political situation in Israel)[41] Prime Minister of Italy Giuseppe Conte[42] Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe (cancelled due to the 46th G7 summit, and then COVID­19 restrictions) Grand Duke of Luxembourg Henri[43] President of Mongolia Khaltmaagiin Battulga (cancelled due to the 2020 Mongolian legislative election, which was held on the same day)[44] President of North Macedonia Stevo Pendarovski[45] President of Palestine Mahmood Abbas (cancelled due to political situation in the Middle East)[46][47] President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow (cancelled due to COVID­19 restrictions he would have to take in relation to his 63rd birthday five days after the parade)[48][49] National Security Advisor of the United States Robert O'Brien[50] President of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro President of Vietnam Nguyễn Phú Trọng[51] Among those who were also invited were United States Secretary of Defense Mark Esper.[52] Final list [ edit ] The following is a list of leaders who confirmed their attendance to the 24 June parade.