In St. Petersburg, passed the first training session of the Main naval parade, which will be held 28 July. The first took place in the Neva River, the second took place at Kronstadt raid. It is reported by the Ministry of Defense.
The first training session, which was attended by about 20 warships and boats of the Russian Navy, It passed with 05.00 to 5.30 in the waters of the Neva River in St. Petersburg. As part of the tactical groups passing in parade formation worked the ships of small displacement: RCM, minesweepers, missile boats, The latest anti-sabotage, landing, patrol boats type “Rook”, and a group of gun boats of the Caspian flotilla.
second, day training session was held for the raid on Kronstadt, and it was attended by larger ships and submarines. Group, which included a large anti-submarine ship “Severomorsk”, large landing ship “Minsk”, corvettes “Persistent” and “Guarding”, diesel-electric submarine “Vladikavkaz”, small missile ship “Shower”, patrol ship “Vasily Bykov”, worked elements motion at a predetermined speed along a course.
Earlier, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said, that in the main military parade this year will be attended by 43 ship, 41 aircraft and more than four thousand people. The celebration of Navy Day in St. Petersburg to arrive 26 Foreign military delegations. Its warships to participate in the parade will send China, India, Vietnam and the Philippines.
As a naval parade will be held at the main bases of all the fleets and the Caspian Flotilla – Severomorsk, Baltiysk, Sevastopol, Vladivostok, Astrakhan and the Syrian port of Tartus.
