The world’s only Festival of Icebreakers will be held for the second time in Saint-Petersburg on May 2 – 3, the Organization Committee says.
The Festival is dedicated to the 70-year anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War and to the deeds of the Polar Convoys.
The event will be held in the water area of Bolshaya Neva and will involve the operating icebreakers of the North West Basin Branch of FSUE Rosmorport: Moskva, Ivan Kruzenshtern, Kapitan Sorokin. Icebreaker Krasin, branch of the Museum of the World Ocean in Saint-Petersburg, will be the flagship of the Festival. Citizens and guests of Saint-Petersburg will be able to visit the icebreakers during three-day period, special tours will be arranged to the museum of the Admiralty Shipyards and to the icebreaker Arktika being built at the Baltiysky Zavod.
The Festival programme includes tours to icebreakers, large-scale historic reenactment dedicated to the development of Arctic and the Polar Convoys during the Great Patriotic War, as well as the presentation of the today’s icebreaking fleet of Russia.
The Parade of Icebreakers to be held with the support of PORTOFLOT CJSC on May 3. The programme of the closing ceremony will included the performance of the symphony orchestra and opera stars of Saint-Petersburg.
Source: http://en.portnews.ru/news/198282/
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