Kreiser Avrora - Chaplygin Andrei Viktorovich

On October 25 (November 7) 1917, a blank shot was fired from the tank gun of the cruiser Aurora, which was the signal for the storming of the Winter Palace. By this time the cruiser, launched in 1900, had come a glorious way. In 1904, as part of the 2nd Pacific Squadron, the ship participated in the Battle of Tsushima, in 1907 the cruiser joined the Gardemarin Detachment of the Baltic Fleet and on board trained future officers of the Russian Imperial Navy, and during the The ship participated in cruising operations in The First World War, covering trawling and supporting ground troops. After the end of the Civil War, the ship again became a training vessel. During World War II, the cruiser's guns were smashed by the Germans on the outskirts of Leningrad, and after the war, in 1948, the cruiser became a museum-monument. The proposed book is a detailed story about the design, construction and service of the legendary cruiser.