The sailors left the legendary cruiser of Aurora, but the flag on the ship was still raised

On Tuesday, military sailors, by order of the command, left the famous cruiser Aurora, standing on the jokes of the Neva embankment in St. Petersburg and withdrawn two years ago from the armed forces of the Russian Federation. At five in the morning, 14 military personnel went from the ship ashore to go to the place of new deployment in Vyborg, reports Fontanka.ru . Nevertheless, the flag on the legendary ship was raised today. Civil experts did this not in the early morning, as it was still opened, but at about 11:00 Moscow time, RIA Novosti reports.

The sailors were supposed to leave the cruiser on August 1, but civil servants did not let the military go, citing the fact that they could not provide full service of the ship.

As it turned out, the discussion of the fate of the cruiser, despite the decision to withdraw him from the fleet, did not end. According to Fontanka.Ru, the sailors themselves turned to President Vladimir Putin, who was the Supreme Commander -in -Chief, who asked them to leave them to serve on Aurora. In turn, the veterans of the fleet proposed to endow the ship with the status of the auxiliary vessel of the Navy and dial the cruiser’s team from the sailors dismissed to the reserve. Deputies of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg completely demand that the Aurora be returned to the combat composition of the fleet.

Recall that the decision to withdraw a cruiser from the Navy was made in 2010 after a resonant scandal with a VIP voyage . The military crew left the cruiser on the personal order of the Commander -in -Chief Vladimir Vysotsky on December 1, 2010. However, in the fall of last year, the anarchists went to the ship under the guise of tourists, climbed onto the mast and launched the Flag Roger.

After this incident, in order to protect the ship from the vandals, an outfit of sailors-carriers, which began to protect the ship, was formed from among the military personnel of the Lenvmb. The Aurora transfer to the rank of museum should have completed all formalities by August 1, 2012.

"Aurora" was previously listed as a cruiser of the 1st rank of the Baltic Fleet. The ship took part in several wars in the 20th century and is one of the symbols of the October Revolution. From his gun in 1917, a single shot was made, which served as a signal to the beginning of the assault on the Winter Palace. In 1944, the cruiser was put on the eternal parking near the Petrovskaya Neva embankment as a museum-monument of the history of the fleet. From the middle of the 20th century, he has been a branch of the Central Naval Museum, but the sailors continued to carry a watch on the cruiser.