More than $3 million allocated for repairs of Aurora cruiser — symbol of 1917 revolution ST. PETERSBURG, November 24. /TASS/. Legendary Russian cruiser Aurora, a symbol of the October 1917 ...

For decades, the cruiser Aurora has stood by Petrogradskaya Embankment in central St. Petersburg. A visit to the legend of the Russian fleet was an important part of any tourist itinerary, and ...

Russian cruiser Aurora, whose salvo against the Winter Palace sounded the start of the 1917 revolution, returned to its mooring in Saint Petersburg Saturday after a year-and-a-half of restoration ...

The Aurora has served in the Russian fleet since 1903. It saw action in the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905), the Russian Civil War (1918-1922) and in both world wars.

St. PETERSBURG, July 12 /TASS/. The legendary Aurora cruiser, one of the most popular tourist attractions in St. Petersburg, will be handed over to the Russian Navy after modernization on June 15 ...

Russia's famous Aurora cruiser returned to its eternal parking lot on the Petrograd embankment in St. Petersburg on Friday. TASS reports that Aurora will be open to visitors on July 31, the ...

Moscow, Jul 16 (EFE). — The legendary Russian cruiser, Aurora, famous for its cannon fire in 1917 which signaled the start of the October Revolution, returned to St. Petersburg on Saturday after ...

The Aurora has had adventures enough for a whole squadron. Launched in 1900, she fell victim to friendly fire before firing a single shot at an enemy, and then was one of the very few fortunate ...

The Pallada-Class . Aurora was the third and final Pallada-class protected cruiser built for the Imperial Russian Navy.On the personal orders of Czar Nicholas II, the warship was named after the ...

It may not have been the proverbial shot heard around the world, but when the Russian protected cruiser Aurora opened fire on October 24, 1917, it started the assault on the Winter Palace in ...