Valery Mikhaylovich Khalilov ( Russian : Валерий Михайлович Халилов ; 30 January 1952 – 25 December 2016 ) was an Uzbek-born Russian military band conductor and composer . A lieutenant general in the Russian military , he was the Senior Director of Music of the Military Band Service of the Armed Forces of Russia , most famously conducting the massed Russian military bands at the annual " Victory Day " parade held in the Moscow 's Red Square a record 14 times . He died when the plane he was on , en route to Syria , crashed into the Black Sea off Sochi , Russia
crashed into the Black Sea
2016 Russian Defence Ministry Tupolev Tu-154 crash
Valery Khalilov