Kruzenshtern Barque Heads Home to Russia
Sep 3, 2010
Russia's famous Kruzenshtern barque is heading for its home port of Kaliningrad, having finished its summer voyage, RIA Novosti reports.
"After a three-month training tour Kruzenshtern is on its way back home. We hope, it will complete its mission, which kicked off on June 12, on September 7," said a spokesman for the Baltic State Fishing Fleet Academy, which operates the vessel.
Kruzenshtern's three-month training tour included visits to foreign ports and participation in several international regattas and sailing festivals. The ship has a crew and 120 cadets on board.
The Kruzenshtern is widely regarded as one of the jewels of the Russian sailing fleet. It was built in Germany in 1926 as a windjammer class ship (then called The Padova).
After World War II, the ship was transferred to the Soviet Union as a reparation payment and renamed after a legendary Russian navigator Johann Kruzenshtern (1770-1846), who performed Russia's first round-the-world trip.
Russkiy Mir Foundation Information Service
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