Sports parades on Red Square will be revived in Russia

The President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, instructed the government to prepare proposals for holding sports parades on Red Square by March 2024. This is reported on the website of the Kremlin.

The head of the International Boxing Association, Umar Kremlinov, took the initiative to revive the tradition of sports parades on Red Square in October.

The first parade of athletes on Red Square was held in 1919. Since 1931, such parades began to be held regularly in the presence of Joseph Stalin. Thousands of people participated in them. During the Great Patriotic War, there were no parades.

In August 1945, in honor of the victory in the Great Patriotic War, an All-Union parade of athletes took place on Red Square with the participation of 25 thousand people from all republics of the USSR. Since then, only workers’ demonstrations and military parades have been held within the walls of the Kremlin, and sports parades have been moved to Moscow’s “Dynamo” stadium, where this event was held until 1954. In the following years, sports festivals, more modest in scale, were held in the capital’s large stadiums, they opened the Spartakiad of the Peoples of the USSR.

In December of last year, on the initiative of Vladimir Putin, a state youth movement called “Movement of the First” was created in Russia – a kind of analogue of the pioneer movement in the USSR. Putin even proposed to call the participants of the movement pioneers. The mass pioneer organization existed until the collapse of the USSR in 1991.