17.04.2010

The International Military Music Festival "Spasskaya Bashnya 2010" is dedicated to the 65th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War.

Moscow, Kremlin, 17th of April 2010

The International Military Music Festival “Spasskaya Bashnya 2010” was officially announced at the press conference devoted to the opening of the 6th season of ceremonial foot and cavalry guards mount of the President’s regiment.

According to the Head of the Festival Direction Sergey Smirnov the 2010 Festival is dedicated to the 65th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War and the end of World War II and will be even more spectacular and impressive show, then the previous Festival of 2009. “6 000 people simultaneously will be able to watch Festival shows from the stands. At the same time 1 000 charity tickets will be donated to orphanages, schools, youth military institutions such as military schools and Suvorov Military Schools”. The participants of the 2010 Festival are the units of the State Honour Guards and the leading military music bands and groups from Russia, Bahrain, Belarus, Germany, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, USA, Turkey, Ukraine, France, Switzerland and other countries.

For the 2nd time the Festival is being announced officially during the ceremonial foot and cavalry guards mount of the President’s regiment of the Moscow Kremlin commandant's office of the Russian Federal Protection Service. This can be explained by the fact that performance of just that very unit accompanied by the President’s Band is an indispensable part of the Festival, the particular symbol of Russia. The grand ceremony combined with masterly technical skills of arms drill proves that great historical traditions stated by the Peter the Great’s “Military regulation” of 1716 are being continued. Modern way of the ceremonial foot and cavalry guards mount was worked out with the assistance of the commandant of the Moscow Kremlin, members of the President’s regiment and officers of the Presidential Protocol in agreement with the Russian Presidential Heraldic council.