On the Kamchatka Peninsula most of the residents watched the parade of homes was broadcast live on local TV channels. The most spectacular part – the military-sports festival. It was involved in nine ships. They showed how destroyed naval mine search and attack submarine of the conditional opponent, inspection of the suspect vessel and the release of a ship seized by “terrorists”. In conclusion, the captains of the tugs Mikhail Sukhanov and Oleg Melnikov showed the miracle of navigation – the court performed the “waltz”, circling in place under the waves of the Amur.
two hours Later, the parade started in Vladivostok, in the waters of the Golden horn – not the usual place for military parades. In this Bay is an active movement of civil courts, and therefore an arena for Maritime holidays has always been the Amur Bay. An exception was made for the parade in honor of the 70th anniversary of Victory in the great Patriotic war. And that after five years the Golden horn again took a solemn operation of ships. 16 front barrels in the main Bay of Vladivostok on the Golden bridge lined major classes of ships – the flagship of the Pacific fleet of the order of Nakhimov missile cruiser “Varyag” and the large anti-submarine ship “Admiral Panteleev”. In the front lines also was a Corvette “Loud”, small anti-submarine ship “Korean”, missile boat “P-18”, base minesweeper “BT-100” and the diesel submarine “Komsomolsk-on-Amur”.
the naval parade ended with volleys of artillery salute, which was given from the Board GRKR “Varyag”. And then on the helipad of the flagship of the Pacific fleet were made by the musicians of the orchestra of the headquarters of the Pacific fleet. And in Kamchatka and in Primorye, at 22.00 local time was followed by an artillery volleys in honor of the professional holiday of military seamen.
In Sevastopol in honor of the Day of the Navy held naval parade and military-sporting event, where sailors demonstrated the combat power of the black sea fleet. In the front of the line in Sevastopol Bay lined up the newest combat units – ship anti-mine defense “Ivan Antonov”, small missile ship “Orekhovo-Zuevo”, a special purpose ship “Ivan Khurs”, and the ships are veterans. In the parade for the first time after completion of repairs participated the flagship of the black sea fleet guards missile cruiser “Moscow”. A special place was taken by the oldest in the Russian Navy ship “Commune” – the rescuer of submarines.
Residents and guests of the city first saw the reconstruction of the battle with the landing of a sabotage group during the liberation of Sevastopol in 1944. Then in the sea was “Immortal regiment”. RAID boats were signs with the names of legendary ships and submarines of the black sea fleet, aviation and artillery units, which defended and liberated CEvastopol during the war and received the title of guards. Just the celebration was attended by more than 50 combat ships of the black sea fleet, submarines and speedboats, planes and helicopters, onshore military equipment. With the quays and piers of Sevastopol naval show was watched by tens of thousands of spectators.
Many came for the Navy Day from distant parts of Russia, others were brought on a tour of Sudak, Yalta, Evpatoria, holiday resorts, sanatoria and boarding houses of Crimea.
In Saint-Petersburg in Day of the Navy was not limited to the parade of ships in Kronstadt officially opened the Alley of heroes of the Russian Navy – the sculptural composition depicting the eleven major milestones in the three hundred years of history.
So, the image of the heroic era of Peter the great, marked the beginning of the Russian Navy, is, of course, ship’s helm. The genius artillery art of Admiral Fyodor Ushakov developed a framework tactics Maritime combat maneuver, the character of his time – guns and mortars. Admiral Thaddeus Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev discovered Antarctica, for their heroism reflects the anchor in the ice.
a Separate thematic area of the Alley is dedicated to the Navy of the Russian Federation at the present stage of development.
Prepared (Kronstadt)
