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How will the Navy Day go. Parades in the center of St. Petersburg and Kronstadt, ceilings, aviation flight and Putin's visit
In St. Petersburg, on July 25, festive events will be held for the Navy Day. In the center of the city and Kronstadt, a marine parade will be held. The head of the Ministry of Defense Sergei Shoigu called the parade “The largest in recent history”, President Vladimir Putin will also come to the holiday.
In the days of the general rehearsal of the parade on July 22 and on the day of the holiday in the center of St. Petersburg, they will partially block the movement, and some bridges will be divorced during the day. It will be possible to get to Kronstadt by car only on passing. The salute of the Peter and Paul Fortress was canceled.
“Paper” tells how the Navy Day will take place this year, what roads will block and where to watch the broadcasts of the parade.
Update on July 22 . The head of the department of Rospotrebnadzor in St. Petersburg, Natalia Bashkova, said that the main naval parade in St. Petersburg and Kronstadt will be held without spectators on July 25.
Travel on the WHSD on July 22 and 25 will be temporarily free.
The parade in honor of the Navy Day on July 25 will be held in St. Petersburg and Kronstadt. The holiday will be visited by Vladimir Putin
The parade in honor of the Navy Day will be held on July 25 in the center of St. Petersburg and Kronstadt. 39 ships and boats, seven submarines, 48 aircraft and more than 4 thousand military personnel will take part in it. Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that this year the parade will be "the largest in recent history."
-The fifth in a row in recent history, it [parade] takes place in the year of the 325th anniversary of the Russian fleet. The parade will take part in the forces of all fleets and flotillas. Additionally, transport and special aircraft, sailing ships, as well as the Border Service of the FSB, will be involved.
The parade in St. Petersburg will also be visited by President Vladimir Putin, his spokesman Dmitry Peskov announced this.
For the first time in the parade, three atomic submarines will participate at once: “Vepr”, “Eagle” and “Prince Vladimir”. The ships of the Northern Fleet have already arrived on the holiday in St. Petersburg-the Marshal Ustinov missile cruiser, the large landing ship "Petr Morgunov" and the anti-submarine "Vice Admiral Kulakov".
The Air of the Baltic Fleet will take part in the air part of the parade-eight multi-purpose Su-30SM fighters and Su-27 fighters, anti-submarine aircraft Tu-142MZ and IL-38N, which flew to St. Petersburg from Kamchatka and from the Khabarovsk Territory. At the parade, you can see the Su-33 and MiG-29K deck fighters, MiG-31 interceptors, Su-24 bombers, Mi-8 helicopters, Be-12 amphibians, Ka-27PL anti-submarine helicopter and KA-31R intelligence officer.
For the holiday, the Ministry of Defense created a special site where you can get information about all the participants in the parade.
Admiral Fedor Ushakov was also taken to Kronstadt. During the parade, they will be taken on a boat along the warships.
Update. The Navy Day was supposed to end with a festive salute at the walls of the Peter and Paul Fortress and in Kronstadt. However, a few days before the day of the Navy, the Personal press service was informed “Paper” that the salute of the Peter and Paul Fortress was canceled, it will be held only in Kronstadt.
Citizens are recommended to watch a parade on TV. The concert for the Navy Day was canceled
This year, the naval parade will be held “without spectators”, said Natalia Bashkova, head of the Rospotrebnadzor department for St. Petersburg. She recommended that all citizens stay at home and watch a parade on TV.
- We ask all of you: treat with understanding to such forced measures. The parade will be broadcast on television, so those who decide to stay at home will be able to see all the most impressive details thanks to media representatives.
The transmission of the parade on the air will show the first channel, they told the “paper” in his press service. It will begin at 11:00. You can see the parade on the St. Petersburg TV channel .
The city festive concert in honor of the Navy Day was canceled due to Pandemia of Coronavirus: although the intensity of the spread of the disease in St. Petersburg is reduced , 500 people per day are still hospitalized in the city. But the concert dedicated to the Navy Day at 19:00 will begin at the Oktyabrsky BKZ. It will show him on the air of the St. Petersburg channel. As follows from the BKZ posture, at this time Alexander Rosenbaum will perform there.
The military conduct training and rehearsals. The latter will be held on July 22, traffic in the city will be limited
The rehearsals of the parade are held in St. Petersburg since July 13. Since the middle of the month, warships have been standing in the city, the townspeople have seen several times over the Central, Admiralteysky, Petrograd and Vasileostrovsky districts of St. Petersburg aircraft and helicopters.
The general rehearsal of the parade will be held on July 22. On this day, some streets of St. Petersburg will be closed for car travel, and bridges will be divorced in the daytime.
The traffic on July 22 will be banned from 9:00 to 14:00, as well as from 21:00 on July 24 to 14:00 July 25. At this time, sections of roads from the Palace bridge to Nevsky Prospekt and Gorokhovaya Street, Universitetskaya embankment and Birzheva Square on Vasilievsky Island will be closed.
July 22 from 9:00 to 14:00 and July 25 from 7:00 to 14:00 for motorists will also be inaccessible to Trinity and Blagoveshchensk bridges, units of Malaya and Bolshaya Sea streets.
The foundry bridge, part of the foundry of the avenue, the congresses from the Voskresenskaya and Pirogovskaya embankments will be closed for travel on July 22 from 9:00 to 14:00 and July 25 from 4:00 to 14:00.
During the general rehearsal of the parade on July 22, travel along the WHSD will be free from 09:00 to 14:00, on the day of the Navy - from 07:00 to 14:00. We are talking about the area of the WHSD between the Ekateringki embankment and the Bogatyrsky Prospekt.
During the general rehearsal and parade, access to the Peter and Paul Fortress will be closed . On July 22, the entrance to the beach and the shooter of the hare island will open only at 13:00. On July 25, the beach will be closed to visitors, museums on the island will open at 15:00.
Kunstkamera will also change the operating mode - the museum will receive visitors from 14:00 to 17:00.
It will be possible to get to Kronstadt only by passes. Direct travel will be closed
On the day of the Navy from 7:00 to 17:00, they will close the movement along the dam connecting Kronstadt with other areas of St. Petersburg.
The exception is provided only for accredited, city passenger transport and emergency transport. The inhabitants of Kronstadt will need to pass a pass for the drive by the dam. They can be obtained at the MFC of the Kronstadt district from July 17 to 24.
Watch how the Navy Day took place in St. Petersburg last year. Hundreds of people gathered on the embankments, warships took place under diluted bridges.
Photo on the cover: mil_ru