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Legendary warships commemorated in Vladivostok

Tags: Vladivostok, Russia, Society, News
 
Feb 9, 2010 08:12 Moscow Time
Vladivostok. Photo: RIA Novosti
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Vladivostok in Russia’s Far East has commemorated the crews of cruiser Varyag and gunboat Koreyets that fought an uneven battle in the Russo-Japanese war exactly 106 years ago that day. A solemn procession laid wreaths and flowers at the Varyag memorial.

On the night of February 9, 1904 the two warships were locked by a Japanese flotilla in the bay of Chemulpo. The captains of the Russian ships sank their vessels after damaging three Japanese cruisers and destroying a torpedo boat.

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