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Sat, 11/13/2010 - 19:55
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Russian missile cruiser Varyag ends visit to South Korea's Incheon.
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13/11 Tass 34
VLADIVOSTOK, November 13 (Itar-Tass) -- The flagship of the Pacific
Fleet, the guards' missile cruiser Varyag rounded off its visit in the
South Korean port of Incheon and headed for the coast of the Primorsky
Territory. The Pacific Fleet sailors visited the monument unveiled in 2003
on the occasion of the centenary of the heroic deed committed by the crew
of the legendary cruiser Varyag and the gunboat Koreyets, had several
meetings and sport competitions with their South Korean colleagues during
the four-day visit in the South Korean port, the Pacific Fleet information
support group told Itar-Tass on Saturday.
However, the highlight of the visit was the participation in a festive
ceremony to hand over the jack flag from the legendary Russian cruiser
Varyag, which in 1904 together with the gunboat Koreyets engaged in a
losing battle against the overwhelming Japanese flotilla at the port
Chemulpo (currently Incheon). The modern missile cruiser Varyag will bring
the jack flag back to Russia.
The jack flag of the legendary cruiser Varyag was presented to Russian
President Dmitry Medvedev. After the handover ceremony at the Russian
Embassy in Seoul Russian presidential aide Alexander Beglov brought the
jack flag aboard the missile cruiser Varyag.
The citizens and the Mayor's Office of Incheon decided to transfer the
jack flag for temporary storage to St. Petersburg, where it will be kept
at the Military Naval Museum.
The relics from the cruiser Varyag and the gunboat Koreyets were kept
permanently at the Incheon Metropolitan Museum. Along with 13 other
objects from the Varyag the Japanese captured the jack flag after the
battle at Chemulpo, but after Japan's defeat in the Second World War the
flag happened to turn up in South Korea.
This year the relics were shown at an exhibition, which had been
moving all over the country for nine months and visited St. Petersburg,
Moscow, Murmansk, Severomorsk, Kaliningrad, Vladivostok and the Black Sea
Fleet base. The exhibition was displayed in Vladivostok in a hall of the
Pacific Fleet museum dedicated to the Russian-Japanese War (1904-1905).
The Varyag relics, including the personal things of Varyag's Captain
Vsevolod Rudnev, are already being kept at the museum.
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13/11 Tass 34
VLADIVOSTOK, November 13 (Itar-Tass) -- The flagship of the Pacific
Fleet, the guards' missile cruiser Varyag rounded off its visit in the
South Korean port of Incheon and headed for the coast of the Primorsky
Territory. The Pacific Fleet sailors visited the monument unveiled in 2003
on the occasion of the centenary of the heroic deed committed by the crew
of the legendary cruiser Varyag and the gunboat Koreyets, had several
meetings and sport competitions with their South Korean colleagues during
the four-day visit in the South Korean port, the Pacific Fleet information
support group told Itar-Tass on Saturday.
However, the highlight of the visit was the participation in a festive
ceremony to hand over the jack flag from the legendary Russian cruiser
Varyag, which in 1904 together with the gunboat Koreyets engaged in a
losing battle against the overwhelming Japanese flotilla at the port
Chemulpo (currently Incheon). The modern missile cruiser Varyag will bring
the jack flag back to Russia.
The jack flag of the legendary cruiser Varyag was presented to Russian
President Dmitry Medvedev. After the handover ceremony at the Russian
Embassy in Seoul Russian presidential aide Alexander Beglov brought the
jack flag aboard the missile cruiser Varyag.
The citizens and the Mayor's Office of Incheon decided to transfer the
jack flag for temporary storage to St. Petersburg, where it will be kept
at the Military Naval Museum.
The relics from the cruiser Varyag and the gunboat Koreyets were kept
permanently at the Incheon Metropolitan Museum. Along with 13 other
objects from the Varyag the Japanese captured the jack flag after the
battle at Chemulpo, but after Japan's defeat in the Second World War the
flag happened to turn up in South Korea.
This year the relics were shown at an exhibition, which had been
moving all over the country for nine months and visited St. Petersburg,
Moscow, Murmansk, Severomorsk, Kaliningrad, Vladivostok and the Black Sea
Fleet base. The exhibition was displayed in Vladivostok in a hall of the
Pacific Fleet museum dedicated to the Russian-Japanese War (1904-1905).
The Varyag relics, including the personal things of Varyag's Captain
Vsevolod Rudnev, are already being kept at the museum.
-0-baz/kud
