This day in Russian history and the History of the world.

November 17

November 17, 1948: Famous Russian cruiser Aurora was moored permanently alongside Petrovskaya naberezhnaya (Petrovskaya embankment).

Till 1956 Aurora was used as a naval training ship by the Leningrad Nakhimov College and was made a museum in 1956. Aurora's famous for heroic deeds of its sailors during the Russian-Japanese War (1904 - 1905).

In 1917 the Aurora's crew took an active part in the February and October revolutionary activities and the Civil War repulsing international intervention.

In 1922-1923 the cruiser Aurora became one of the first warships on the Baltic Sea to be put into service as a specialized ship for training.

In 1924 the cruiser was awarded the Red Banner of the USSR Central Committee and in 1927 decorated with the order of Red Banner. With the beginning of the Great Patriotic War the cruiser Aurora with her crew defended Leningrad.

For the whole period of the Leningrad siege from 1941 to 1944 the Aurora was moored at a pier in the Oranienbaum port and was constantly shelled and bombed.

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