Celebration of May Day 1960 in Moscow. The parade of troops of the Moscow garrison on the Red Square – Antique Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Celebration of May Day 1960 in Moscow. The parade of troops of the Moscow garrison on the Red Square, preserved in this historic photograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Celebration of May Day 1960 in Moscow. The parade of troops of the Moscow garrison on the Red Square
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Troops of the Moscow garrison march across Red Square in this May Day parade from 1960, a print credited to N. Granovsky of the Soviet news agency TASS. May Day, the international workers' holiday, was one of the most important dates on the Soviet calendar, and its parades let the state show its military strength and discipline before the Kremlin and Lenin's Mausoleum. The photograph captures the ceremonial side of Soviet public life in the Khrushchev years, when such displays were carefully staged for domestic and foreign audiences. The details here come from a caption card and have not been independently verified.
| Created / published | 1960 May. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | Photoprint by N. Granovskogo (TASS). No. 444254. This record contains unverified data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,118 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-159375 |
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