Gergiev will perform on the cruiser "Varangian"

On Sunday, July 31, in Vladivostok, after the end of the celebration of the Day of the Navy of Russia in the Gulf of the Gulf of the Gulf of the Gulf, on board the Varangian’s guards missile cruiser, a concert of the Mariinsky Theater Brassmble under the direction of Valery Gergiev will be held.

According to Interfax with reference to the press service of the Eastern Military District, more than 30 warships, boats, submarines and support vessels, more than 20 units of coastal troops and more than one and a half thousand military personnel of the Pacific Fleet will take part in the sea parade and military sports festival.

The performance of the Brass-Ansemble of the Mariinsky Theater under the direction of Valery Gergiev on board the cruiser Varangian is part ofthe program of the First International Far Eastern Festival of the Mariinsky Theater. The concert at which the festive overture of Shostakovich will be performed will be broadcast on large screens on the central square of Vladivostok.

According to the Internet magazine “Army Bulletin” , the missile cruiser of project 1164.1 “Chervona Ukraine” was laid in Nikolaev in 1979, in 1982 was enrolled in the lists of the Ships of the USSR Navy, launched in August 1983, entered in December 1989, and in February 1990 it was included in the Pacific Fleet. After the collapse of the USSR, the cruiser went to Russia and in 1996, at the initiative of the crew of the ship, he was called the “Varangian”-in honor of the famous armored cruiser of the 1st Pacific squadron of the Russian Navy, a battle participant in 1904.