The night rehearsal will begin at 22:00 Moscow time. It will involve foot units and the mechanized column. Several days prior to that, the combat vehicles’ crews walked along the route of the mechanized column’s movement on Moscow’s Red Square in their rehearsal of the military parade.
This year, the foot columns will comprise 37 parade units that will include officers, sergeants and soldiers of military units and formations, cadets of military educational institutions, Suvorov infantry and Nakhimov naval military schools and cadet corps, Young Army Movement members and also units of the Emergencies Ministry, the National Guard and the Border Guard Troops of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB). Overall, more than 12,000 troops will participate in the parade.