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Photo Log: Rehearsal of the Main Naval Parade from a bird's eye view
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

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by Daria Drai

[Regnum] On July 24, in the waters of the Neva River in St. Petersburg and in the waters of the Great Kronstadt raid, a combined training session of the Main Naval Parade was held. The rehearsal was attended by surface ships and boats of various classes, submarines, as well as naval aviation of the Navy and foot units as part of parade boxes.

During the training, all components of the Main Naval Parade were successfully tested. Among the 11 ships that took part in the passage on the Great Kronstadt roadstead are the Dimitrovgrad missile boat, the Passat and Sovetsk small missile ships, the Urengoy and Kazanets small anti-submarine ships, the Stoikiy and Soobrazitelny corvettes. ”, the Yaroslav the Wise patrol ship, the Purga border patrol ship, the Perekop training ship, and the Magadan diesel-electric submarine.

A total of 17 warships and boats took part in the waters of the Neva. Among them are small missile ships "Odintsovo" and "Zeleniy Dol", mine defense ships "Alexander Obukhov" and "Pavel Khenov", anti-sabotage boats "Nakhimovets", "Yunarmeeets of Tatarstan", "P-471" and "P-468", patrol boats "Evgeny Kolesnikov" and "P-436".

In addition, the coherence of the actions of the parade group of naval aviation was checked. About 40 aircraft of the Naval Aviation of the Russian Navy took part in the rehearsal of the parade.

Recall that the Main Naval Parade will be held on July 31, 2022 on the fairways in the waters of the Neva River between the Blagoveshchensky and Troitsky bridges and on the fairways in the waters of the Great Kronstadt roadstead along the southern protective wall of the port. The parade will be attended by 36 surface ships and boats, 4 submarines, 7 sailing ships, 42 aircraft, and more than 3,500 military personnel. The dress rehearsal for the parade is scheduled for July 28.



Posted by: badanov 2022-07-25
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