President Putin experiences leading Naval Parade marking Russia’s Navy Day

ST. PETERSBURG, July 28. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin, Supreme-Commander-in-Chief of the Russian defense force, is reviewing the main Naval Parade in St. Petersburg.

Navy Commander-in-Chief Admiral Nikolai Yevmenov stated to the president that the ships had been ready for the parade.

The parade kicked off on the Neva River with the participation of the newest Admiral Kasatonov frigate, the Gremyashchiy corvette, the Kronshtadt submarine of project 677, the Mytishchi and the Serpukhov small missile ships and the Ivan Antonov minesweeper.

Then, the celebrations will move on to Kronshtadt, the place amphibious Be-200 airplanes, an A-50 lengthy-latitude radar surveillance aircraft, in addition to Su-30SM fighter jets will fly over the Neva River and the Gulf of Finland.

in advance of that, the president sailed aboard a ship past the warships lining up for the parade in Kronshtadt, greeting their crews. He changed into accompanied by means of defense Minister Sergey Shoigu and Navy Commander-in-Chief Nikolai Yevmenov,

The leading Naval Parade contains more than four,000 personnel, 43 warships and submarines as well as forty one aircraft. China's destroyer Xian and India's frigate Tarkash take part within the naval parade in St. Petersburg for the primary time.