Russian Navy Day is traditionally celebrated on the last Sunday of July. 2017 marks the 321 anniversary of the Russian Navy, created on October 30, 1696, by a decree of Tsar Peter the Great. Major events took place in the cities of Saint Petersburg, Sevastopol and Vladivostok, home bases of the Navy’s Baltic, Black Sea and Pacific Fleets. The main Naval Parade was held on the Neva River. Guests of the parade saw the Northern Fleet flagship, the Pyotr Velikiy battlecruiser, the world’s biggest nuclear submarine, the Dmitry Donskoy and a number of the Russian navy’s newest warships, including the Ivan Gren landing ship and the Veliky Novgorod submarine.
Russia celebrates Navy Day from the Pacific to the Baltics
2017 marks the 321 anniversary of the Russian Navy, created on October 30, 1696, by a decree of Tsar Peter the Great
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People at the Russian Navy Day parade in the Amur Bay waters in Vladivostok
© Sergei Orlov/TASS Russian Navy's Varyag guided missile cruiser, the flagship of the Russian Pacific Fleet
© Sergei Orlov/TASS Russian Navy's Admiral Nevelskoy large landing ship brings BTR-80 amphibious armoured personnel carriers
© Sergei Orlov/TASS A view of the Egersheld lighthouse on the rocky Tokarevsky Spit during the Russian Navy Day parade in Vladivostok
© Sergei Orlov/TASS A missile boat releases a smoke screen in the Amur Bay waters
© Sergei Orlov/TASS Russian servicemen take pirates captive as part of the Russian Navy Day parade drills in Sevastopol, Crimea
© Alexei Pavlishak/TASS R-334 Ivanovets missile boat in Sevastopol, Crimea
© Alexei Pavlishak/TASS Khersones three-mast training tall ship takes part in the Russian Navy Day parade in Sevastopol
© Alexei Pavlishak/TASS Azov large landing ship in Sevastopol
© Alexei Pavlishak/TASS Perekop training ship takes part in the Russian Navy Day parade
© Alexei Pavlishak/TASS Su-25 attack aircraft seen during the Russian Navy Day parade in Saint Petersburg
© Alexandr Demyanchuk/TASS Ivan Gren dock landing ship
© Peter Kovalev/TASS The parade of warships in Saint Petersburg
© Peter Kovalev/TASS Marshal Ustinov guided missile cruiser
© Peter Kovalev/TASS Pyotr Veliky nuclear cruiser and Typhoon-class Dmitry Donskoy nuclear submarine
© Peter Kovalev/TASS The Russian Navy's missile corvette Serpukhov and Minsk large amphibious ship
© Alexandr Demyanchuk/TASS