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Pacific Fleet Ships to Visit Kuril Islands

08/14/2012 
Text: vpk-news.ru
Photo: interfax-russia.ru
Pacific Fleet (PF) task unit will carry out fifth historical Cruise of Memory since Aug 25 till Sept 17, reports online Military Industrial Review.

"It is planned to visit sites where Soviet troops landed and engaged during the Sakhalin offensive and the Kuril landing operations in Aug 1945", said the PF spokesman Capt 1 Rank Roman Martov.

The unit will consist of PF landing ship Admiral Nevelskoi and seagoing tug Kalar, specified Martov.

"The cruise is associated with 365-th anniversary of the town of Okhotsk which is the Pacific Fleet's cradle, and paying honors to Soviet mariners fallen when liberating Kurils and Sakhalin islands in the World War II", said the interviewee.

As for him, a memorial ceremony commemorating servicemen died in M-49 and M-63 submarines will be held onboard the landing ship in the Peter the Great Bay. Also, in the La Perouse Strait it is planned to pay honors to Soviet submarine L-19 and American one USS Wahoo failed to return from patrols.

"According to the cruise program, the ships will visit islands of Kunashir, Paramushir, and Iturup. Then they will call at Okhotsk, Khabarovsk region to attend festivities related to 365-th anniversary of the town's foundation", Martov said.

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