On Russia Navy Day, the Main Naval Parade took place

Vladimir Putin, Chairman of the Collective Security Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization and President of the Russian Federation, hosted the Main Naval Parade in St Petersburg.

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According to the Kremlin.ru website, the President of the Russian Federation made the rounds of the waters of the Neva River on a presidential cutter and saluted the crews of the Aleksandr Obukhov lead minesweeper, the Serpukhov small-size missile ship, the corvette Boyky, the frigate Admiral of the Fleet Kasatonov and the submarine Sankt Peterburg.
The parade formation included combat vessels, the Ivan Pasko landing boat carrying a symbol of the Russian Navy – a small boat of Peter the Great – and honourary guards wearing uniforms from the period of Peter the Great. Closing out the formation were the Alexey Barinov and D-178 landing boats equipped with Katyusha rocket launchers and a T-34 tank aboard, along with the Dimitrovgrad missile boats, and the Mytishchi, Sovetsk, and Veliky Ustyug small missile ships.
Taking part in the parade from the air above St Petersburg were Mil Mi-8 helicopters, Kamov Ka-29 naval assault transport helicopters, Ka-27M anti-submarine helicopters, Beriev Be-12 and Be-200 amphibious aircraft, Ilyushin Il-38 anti-submarine warfare aircraft, in addition to Sukhoi Su-30SM, Su-33, Mikoyan MiG-29K fighters, Su-27 heavy fighters and Su-24M bombers.
Earlier, on a boat with Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu, Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy Nikolai Evmenov and Commander of the Forces of the Western Military District Alexander Zhuravlev, Chairman of the Collective Security Council of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, President of the Russian Federation, and Supreme Commander-in-Chief Vladimir Putin made the rounds of the parade line of military ships in the Gulf of Finland and the Kronstadt Yard.
Both ships and submarines took part in the parade in Kronstadt, and included, among others, the Vice-Admiral Kulakov destroyer, the Minsk, Pyotr Morgunov, and the Korolyov large landing ships, the Stoyky corvette, the Orel nuclear-powered cruise missile submarine, the Admiral Vladimirsky oceanographic research vessel and the Vasily Bykov patrol ship.
In all, sailors from the Baltic, Northern, Pacific, Black Sea Fleets and the Caspian Flotilla took part in the Main Naval Parade, in addition to 46 ships, boats and submarines as well as 40 airplanes and helicopters of maritime aviation and more than 4,000 service members.
The President congratulated each crew on Russia Navy Day.
As Vladimir Putin noted in his speech, for more than three centuries, the Russian Navy has been guarding the sovereignty of Russia and firmly standing up for its interests.
The President of the Russian Federation emphasized that the present-day Russian Navy includes ships equipped with high-precision weapons, strategic submarine cruisers and multi-purpose submarines, the newest airplanes and other aircraft, and with unique types of arms and specialized equipment.
Vladimir Putin stressed that the technological level of the Russian Navy is constantly growing.
This year it will take on forty new vessels and ships of different classes, and just a few days ago, Russia’s three leading shipyards laid the keels of another six open sea vessels, the President of the Russian Federation noted.
Vladimir Putin emphasized that the Navy’s unique advantages and an increase in its military capabilities will be achieved through the broad implementation of state-of-the-art digital technologies, unique hypersonic attack systems and unmanned submersible vehicles, all owing to very efficiently utilized defence resources.
Yet, Vladimir Putin stressed, it is the people who have been the main force of the nation’s Navy.
“I know this for certain: these sailors’ successors – their grandchildren and great-grandchildren, descendants of victorious sailors will never let the Fatherland down, and will be loyal to the covenants of the decorated Pavel Nakhimov, a great Russian admiral, that a sailor must think, first and foremost, about the glory of Russia and the national fleet,” said the President of the Russian Federation.
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