Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, State Duma Speaker Sergei Naryshkin, Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Sergei Ivanov, Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu, heads of ministries and agencies, veterans, military commanders and public representatives also took part in the ceremony, which commemorated the 73rd anniversary of the start of the 1941–1945 Great Patriotic War.
The participants in the ceremony honoured the memory of those who fell in the Great Patriotic War with a minute of silence.
The Russian national anthem was played and the ceremony concluded with troops from the Moscow Garrison marching by in ceremonial formation.
Mr Putin also laid flowers at the memorials to the hero cities and the cities of military glory.