Marching on Red Square: Reenacted 1941 Military Parade

More than 5,000 people marched along Moscow’s main square.

The servicemen wore uniforms of the 1940s.

The march marking the parade’s anniversary was held in Moscow for the 14th time.

Many of them went to the frontline to defend Moscow from the advancing Nazis straight from Red Square.

The spectators saw the ceremony re-enacting the war events.

Anniversary of the 1941 military parade on Red Square in Moscow was opened by soldiers who marched with the flags of regiments that defended the Russian capital 75 years ago.

Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin later greeted the veterans and the Muscovites on occasion of the parade’s anniversary. "It lasted just more than an hour, but cannot be compared for its influence on the moral of our people, this was the victory without a single shot fired. For its significance, the parade is equal to major military operations," Sobyanin said.

The parade gave confidence that the enemy would be crushed, the mayor said. "It was a great moral victory that laid foundation for the defeat of the Germans near Moscow and Stalingrad, in the Kursk Salient and in other battles," he said.

The military equipment of the Great Patriotic War era - tanks T-34, T-38, T-37 and T-60 and Katyusha multiple rocket launchers - paraded across the square. The equipment will stay there until 5 p.m.