Russian Navy Day mini-parade held on the ISS

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Roscosmos cosmonauts congratulated sailors on Navy Day from the International Space Station (ISS) and held an impromptu mini-parade aboard the station, TASS reports.

Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Artemiev read out a congratulation in a peakless cap and unfurled the St. Andrew’s flag. The only participant in the parade on the ISS was a figurine stylized as a Project 667BDRM Dolphin submarine.

Navy Day in Russia is celebrated on the last Sunday of July. The tradition appeared in 2017, the first such review in St. Petersburg was held in the Neva on July 30, 2017.

This year the main parade will be held in St. Petersburg, more than 40 ships, boats and submarines, as well as 42 aircraft and more than 3.5 thousand military personnel will take part in the parade. The parade will end with a solemn march of parade units of military personnel, pupils of pre-university institutions of the Navy and junior officers of the Yunarmiya.

Ship parades will also take place in Vladivostok, Baltiysk, Severomorsk, Kaspiysk, Novorossiysk and Tartus (Syria).

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