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A stamp in 1948.
Soldiers of the Russian military during the holiday in 2018.

Day of Tankmen (Template:Lang-ru) is a professional military holiday in Russia and the former Soviet Union, celebrated every second Sunday of September. It celebrates the service and sacrifices of tank crews and commanders in armoured formations since the Russian Civil War, when tanks were first used in Russian territory.

History of the holiday

The holiday was established in the USSR by a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet on 11 July 1946 to commemorate the role of the mechanized and armoured forces in the Red Army in defeating their enemy counterparts from the Wehrmacht during the Great Patriotic War. It was, from 1946 to 1980, celebrated on 11 September, which honors the East Carpathian Strategic Offensive. On the first celebration that year, a military parade of tanks was held on Red Square in the presence of the military leadership on Lenin's Mausoleum and spectators from the adjacent stands.[1] In 1980, a decree by the Supreme Soviet, gave a new procedure for the celebration was established. The procedure required that the holiday not have a fixed date and it is celebrated on the second Sunday of September.[2] In 2006, it was re-approved by President Vladimir Putin.[3] It is one of the most revered holidays in the Russian Ground Forces today. In the 40s and 50s, celebrations included columns of tanks on Soviet streets.[4] It is still celebrated outside of Russia by the Belarusian Ground Forces[5] and the Ukrainian Ground Forces (with Ukrainian specifications). Ukraine has marked on 9 September since 29 August 1997 when with was created by the decree of President Leonid Kuchma.[6]  

See Also

References

  1. ^ Soviet Military Parade | Day of Tankmen, 8 September, 1946, retrieved 2020-06-13
  2. ^ Правда о танке Т-34. М. Соловьёва. «Вечерняя Москва». 16.09.05 г.
  3. ^ "Указ об установлении профессиональных праздников в ВС РФ". Российская газета (in Russian). Retrieved 2020-06-13.
  4. ^ "Tankman day celebrating in 2020 at 13 september - Russian holidays". www.rusevents.info. Retrieved 2020-06-13.
  5. ^ www.tvr.by https://www.tvr.by/eng/news/obshchestvo/den_tankista_otmetyat_9_sentyabrya/. Retrieved 2020-06-13. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  6. ^ "Ukraine marks Day of Tankman". 112.international. Retrieved 2020-06-13.
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