In Voronezh, the military parade of 1941 was reconstructed

Near the Diorama Museum on Leninsky Prospekt, the famous parade was reconstructed. Exactly 85 years ago, in the autumn of 1941, this celebration took place in Voronezh.

The mechanized column was particularly impressive. The audience saw the famous cars. Among them was the T-34 tank, representing Soviet armored vehicles. The T 60 and T 70 light tanks were also shown at the parade – in the first war years they often played the role of the last line of defense. Armored vehicles BA 20 and BA 64 also passed. Special attention was paid to the legendary Katyusha: the first serial copies of these units were produced in Voronezh, at the Comintern plant.

In the ranks followed the “half” GAZ AA and “three-ton” ZIS 5. Without them, it was impossible to imagine neither transportation of goods, nor evacuation, nor provision of troops. Heavy M72 motorcycles closed the column - machine guns and sometimes mortars were mounted on their wheelchairs during the war years.

The atmosphere of that era was recreated by reenactors who came from different cities. Participants included representatives of Voronezh, Kursk, Orel, Tambov, Volgograd, Krasnodar, Belgorod, Saratov, Tula, Kaluga and Moscow. It was through their efforts that the spirit of those years was revived.