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The unique “Ship Resurrection” historical and cultural centre has received its first visitors. It was opened in Kaliningrad on the 30th of May, the birthday of Czar Peter the Great who founded the Russian Navy.
It would be difficult to find a better place for the museum of Russian shipbuilding and navigation. In 1697 Czar Peter came to Fort Friedrichsburg in Koenigsberg, currently Kaliningrad, with the Grand Embassy to learn shipbuilding. This was the first European city he visited, where he studied artillery and navigation. Undoubtedly, the memory of the great reformer czar inspired the organizers of the Ship Resurrection centre when they compiled their display, curator Nadezhda Rybalkina says:
“We decided to turn to the roots of the Russian Navy. Russia is a large maritime state which is washed by three oceans and has a huge number of internal rivers and lakes. Naturally, the first transport people started to use was not wheelcarts but boats. We display all these means of transportation beginning with the oldest craft, that people of this country used, to the end of the sailing period.”
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