PACIFIC FLEET'S LARGE LANDING SHIP COMPLETING MEMORY CRUISE
RIA Novosti
VLADIVOSTOK, April 13 (RIA Novosti's Veronika Perminova) - The BDK-11 large landing ship of the Russian Navy's Pacific Fleet is completing its Cruise of Memory in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the victory over Nazism in the 1941-1945 Great Patriotic War.
On April 14, Thursday, the ship carrying war veterans, cadets and clergymen with the Vladivostok diocese is to return to the port of Vladivostok to be met by a ceremony, the Pacific Fleet's press center told RIA Novosti.
The military history cruise - Cruise of Memory - to the places of combat glory - was launched from Vladivostok on April 2. The ship covered over 1,600 miles with stopovers in Korsakov (Sakhalin), Sovetskaya Gavan (Khabarovsk Territory), Nakhodka and coastal towns of the Primorye Territory.
The participants in the cruise laid wreaths at the site of the sinking of the L-19 submarine in the La Perouse Strait and honored the memory of the Novik and Izumrud cruisers' crews killed in action during the Russian-Japanese War of 1904-5.
Everywhere en route the war veterans would meet youth, the Pacific Fleet's song and dance ensemble would perform and a Pacific Fleet exhibition dedicated to the victory's anniversary would be displayed.
The presidential plenipotentiary to the Far Eastern Federal District, Konstantin Pulikovsky, sponsored the Cruise of Memory.
"The Cruise of Memory is dedicated to the heroes and events of the Great Patriotic War and WWII that ended here, in the Far East. As people who have seen a lot in their life and know about the price paid for the victory, veterans cannot but pay tribute to the heroes of other battles, those who died for Russia," Pulikovsky stressed.
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