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      🖼 Cruiser Aurora

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      An early 20th-century protected cruiser by Petrogradskaya Embankment — a museum ship with an open deck.

      Cruiser Aurora
      © Florstein · CC BY-SA 4.0
      • The cruiser was launched at the New Admiralty on 11 (24) May 1900 in the presence of Nicholas II.
      • She is named after the sailing frigate ‘Aurora’, which defended Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in the Crimean War.
      • At the Battle of Tsushima in 1905 the Aurora took 18 hits from Japanese shells, but survived.
      • A blank shot from the Aurora in autumn 1917 became the signal for the storming of the Winter Palace.
      • In 1941 nine 130-mm guns were taken off the cruiser for Battery ‘A’, which defended Leningrad at Duderhof.
      • The cruiser took up her permanent berth on 17 November 1948; naval cadets then lived and studied aboard.
      • During the 1984–1987 repair almost the whole underwater part of the hull was replaced.

      Part of these routes

      • Peter and Paul Fortress and the Petrogradka embankments
      • With a child: the zoo, cannons and the Aurora
      • The Vyborg Side and Smolny
      • The Mosque, Kshesinskaya Mansion and the Aurora
      • The Aurora, Trinity Bridge and the Summer Garden
      • The Aurora and Lenin's Steam Locomotive

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