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Memorial complex «Military Glory of the Pacific Fleet». sightseeing in Vladivostok.

VLADIVOSTOK

VLADIVOSTOK SIGHTSEEING

«Military History Museum of the Pacific Fleet»

In Vladivostok the whole memorial flotilla of the well-known ships - monuments of military and labour glory is collected. A basis of a collection became a memorial museum complex " Fighting glory of Pacific fleet ", located on Korabelnaya naberegnaya (Ship quay) along which there is a long submarine. The memorial is constructed in honor of inhabitants of Vladivostok, victims on Great Patriotic war.

Legendary submarine S-56 is one of components of the memorial complex «Military Glory of the Pacific Fleet». This is a famous Soviet Pacific Fleet submarine that sank 10 fascist (German) ships during World War II.

On granite stones on which the submarine is established S-56, metal boards with names of the ships and surnames of members of the crews which have lost within Great domestic war are attached. And behind of a submarine S-56 the big boards with names of ALL inhabitants of Primorsky Krai, victims are fixed during the World War II.

Here the small ship has cast off. It is a patrol ship "Krasniy vimpel". His history began from April, 1911 when on Finnish shipyard "Kreyton" have constructed the one-screw two-deck steam yacht named in honour of Kamchatka governor V.S.Zavojko, of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatski in the Crimean war of 1853-1856. First time a yacht have attributed to Tallinn port, then ship has passed through Baltic, Atlantic, Suez canal, the Indian and Silent oceans to Kamchatka.

After civil war in Far East waters there was only one fighting ship. It also was the ship "Admiral Zavojko" to which May, 31, 1923 have appropriated (given) the new name "Krasniy vimpel" and rename in posilnoe a vessel. In 1924 - 1925 "Krasniy vimpel" protected sea border, helped scientific and naval hydrographers to investigate water area of sea of Japan. In 1923 the structure of naval Forces of the Far East was declared (later the Pacific fleet), and in lists was registered on the first "Krasniy vimpel".

In 1940 the ship have transferred naval school, but with the beginning of Great Domestic war "Krasniy vimpel" has returned in build: laid underwater communication lines, provided basing submarines in the non-equipped bays. In August, 1945 the ship becomes a trawler, participates in Сейсинской landing operation, then clears waters of the North - Korean ports of one minutes. After the termination of war, long years ""Krasniy vimpel" still served as an auxiliary vessel. July, 20, 1958 the military Council of fleet has transformed the old ship to a floating museum.