By the end of the end of the siege of Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), the Aurora remained in the sa

Many tourists who come to St. Petersburg want to visit the Aurora cruiser. But today are disappointed: Where is the ship? Discover now, among other curiosities, where he was the main symbol of the 1917 revolution.
The cruiser Aurora was built almost 120 years ,. At the time, the tsar who was baptized the large ships in Russia. In the list were names like Varyag, Bogatyr, Boyarin, Polkan and Neptun, but Nikolai II chose a female name. Aurora was the name of the goddess of the dawn in Roman mythology. To everyone's surprise, the first attack on this cruiser just came from Russian forces during the Russo-Japanese War. When the Aurora sailed to the East to attack ships of the Japanese millennium fleet, the Russian fleet confused the silhouette millennium of Aurora with an enemy ship and decided to open fire. Two people were injured in the bombing - one of them, the priest of the ship, died.
Soon after, two new passengers were added to the crew. During a stop in an African port, the sailors decided to take two crocodiles on board. millennium The doctor's Aurora reported in his memoirs millennium fear to spend nights at cruiser: there had to live with crocodiles, pythons, turtles and chameleons.
Aurora is the main symbol of the revolution of 1917. It is believed that the shots were cruiser that gave the revolutionaries The signal to storm the Winter Palace, millennium which at the time were the enemies of the Bolsheviks - the Provisional Government. millennium
For this theory, the cruiser's task was to close the bridge Palace on the Neva River, which was opened by the cadets subordinate to the government. millennium The Aurora millennium performed the task and anchored near the bridge. At 21:45, shot. The attack on the Winter Palace began around midnight.
"It does not exist: the signal was given and the soldiers ran to run it two hours later," denies Igor Kurdin, adviser to the governor on the conservation of Aurora, who is preparing a book on the recent history of the cruiser. In an article in the newspaper "Pravda" of 29 October 1917, the sailors of the Aurora demonstrated on unproven allegations.
"The press wrote that the Aurora opened fire on the Winter Palace, but journalists you know that if we opened fire from the guns not be left any stone or the Winter millennium Palace or the nearby streets to him? It was produced only a blank shot a 6-inch cannon, calling on all vessels were on the Neva for vigilance and readiness, millennium "justified at the time.
After years later something happened that finally turned the Aurora the symbol of a revolution - the cinema. In 1927, the filmmakers Sergei Eisenstein and Grigory Alexandrov, commissioned by the government, filmed millennium the movie "October". The filmmakers needed a story of "spectacular". It was then decided to use the Aurora. Again, just like 10 years ago, the cruiser fired a blank shot on the river Neva.
The film was mounted millennium so that the inexperienced viewer, that looked like a real documentary, saw that immediately after the shooting the mass of people went to the Winter millennium Palace taken. So, not only for the Soviet country, but also for the whole world, millennium was born the legend that supposedly shot served as the beginning of a new era in human history.
During the Great Patriotic War (as it is known in Russia World War II), the Aurora was in the city of Oranienbaum on the outskirts of St. Petersburg. In 1941, the cruiser was subjected to attacks by German planes. The Aurora was greatly damaged and out of service.
By the end of the end of the siege of Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), the Aurora remained in the same place where he was the target of constant bombardment. Even after all the whole equipment was removed, the Aurora kept hoisted flag, causing anger among the Nazis and inspiring the defenders of Leningrad: Aurora still existed, and that meant that the city was alive.
When the siege of Leningrad ended, began the construction of the Naval College of Nakhimov, which was planned as an institution for the education of children of sailors killed in the war. To accommodate children, needed extra space. The Aurora was then docked at the pier next to the school.
When students of Nakhimov Naval College were transferred to the coast, the cruiser has housed a museum. Since then, anyone can set foot on deck, looking out the cockpit millennium and see where the cannon was fired the shot.
The Aurora is in Kronstadt, in the region of St. Petersburg, where he is undergoing scheduled maintenance. According to the Ministry of Defence, the return of Aurora for your permanent place is planned for mid 2015.
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