All the sailors left the cruiser Aurora, and only civilian personnel remained on the ship, Interfax reported on Tuesday, October 16, citing the press service of the Western Military District. The sailors left for their deployment site in Vyborg.

As Fontanka.ru writes, until recently there were 14 sailors remaining on the ship. They were supposed to leave the cruiser, which now operates as a museum, on August 1. According to the publication, the civilian staff of the Aurora asked the sailors to stay, since without their help they could not fully service the ship.

The cruiser was withdrawn from the Russian Navy on December 1, 2010, and the combat crew was disbanded at the same time. In October 2011, activists from anarchist movements boarded the cruiser and unfurled a pirate flag from its mast. After this incident, sailors again appeared on the ship and were on duty around the clock.

At the end of June 2012, the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin with a request to return a full-fledged combat crew to the cruiser and keep it in the Russian Navy at least as an auxiliary vessel, but their request remained unanswered.

In September 2012, State Duma Deputy Speaker Sergei Zheleznyak proposed returning the Aurora to the Navy and assigning the cruiser the status of a presidential ship, but no instructions regarding the ship were given by the country's leadership.

"Aurora" became famous thanks to a single blank shot, which in 1917 served as a signal for the beginning of the Bolshevik revolution. After the Great Patriotic War, the cruiser was sent to eternal parking on the right bank of the Neva, and it began to work as a museum.

The sailors left the cruiser "Aurora"