#OTD, on 17 November 1948, 🇷🇺 cruiser Aurora was assigned to its permanent anchorage at the Petrogradskaya embankment in Leningrad (today’s St.Petersburg)
🛳 Currently, it serves as a museum ship and one of the city’s landmarks.
🌟The Aurora was one of 3 Pallada-class cruisers launched in St.Petersburg in 1900. She participated in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905 surviving the Battle of Tsushima.
After returning to the Baltic, it was used as a training ship.
📆 In October 1917, a shot fired from the main gin of the cruiser was the signal to storm the Winter Palace and marked the beginning of the Bolshevik revolution.
#Aurora #history #russianhistory
🛳 Currently, it serves as a museum ship and one of the city’s landmarks.
🌟The Aurora was one of 3 Pallada-class cruisers launched in St.Petersburg in 1900. She participated in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905 surviving the Battle of Tsushima.
After returning to the Baltic, it was used as a training ship.
📆 In October 1917, a shot fired from the main gin of the cruiser was the signal to storm the Winter Palace and marked the beginning of the Bolshevik revolution.
#Aurora #history #russianhistory