Day of the Navy

july 2017

This year, the tradition of holding parades on the Day of the Navy is reviving in Russia. The main naval parade took place in the historical part of St. Petersburg and in Kronstadt. As follows from the historical annals, the first parade of the Russian fleet was held by Peter I back in 1699 on March 18. More precisely, it was not a parade, but a review of the forces of the Azov fleet that he had just created. Fifteen years later, in 1714, the first naval victory of the Russian fleet in the history of Russia was won at Cape Gangut in a battle with a Swedish detachment of ships. It was then that Peter I signed a decree that annually on July 27 (according to the old style) celebrate the holiday with solemn services, naval parades, processions of troops, fireworks and