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President Putin oversees the Navy Parade in St. Petersburg on July 25 in the waters outside Kronstadt in 2023. Photo: Kremlin

Main naval parade in Kronstadt canceled

For the first time since 2017 no larger warships will participate in Russia’s Main naval parade in the waters outside St. Petersburg. “Security reasons,” says Rear Admiral.

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Thomas Nilsen

The Barents Observer this weekend reported about the three Northern Fleet warships aborting their voyage and sailing out of the Baltic Sea.

The nuclear-powered submarine Tambov, the destroyer Admiral Levchenko and the landing vessel Ivan Gren were all supposed to line up on display at the Main naval parade in Kronstadt.

The vessels are currently steaming north outside Norway on return to their bases on the coast of the Kola Peninsula.

Now it is official. The city administration of Kronstadt, the small island outside St. Petersburg where Vladimir Putin together with the Navy Commanders use to oversee the big warships, got a short SMS message:

“I inform you that there will be no naval parade in Kronstadt. The rest of the festive events will take place according to the plan,” the text said according to Novye Izvestia.

The newspaper reports that only 12 smaller vessels will take part in the event, to be anchored and at the berths along the Neva River in the centre of St. Petersburg. 

The big warship parade in Kronstadt has been arranged annually since 2018. Every year, except last, one or two nuclear-powered submarines from the Northern Fleet have sailed south to participate. For 2024, state information agency TASS said the two submarines Tambov and Kazan would be present. 

The Tambov has left and there are no reports about Kazan sailing into the Baltic Sea. Rather opposite, the Northern Fleet navy tug that has followed the Kazan across the Atlantic after a historic visit to Cuba last month, the Nikolay Chiker, was earlier this week operating outside Ålesund in the Norwegian Sea.