15 August 2012

News Story: Pacific Fleet Ships to Visit Kuril Islands

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Pacific Fleet (PF) task unit will carry out fifth historical Cruise of Memory since Aug 25 till Sept 17, reports online Military Industrial Review. 

"It is planned to visit sites where Soviet troops landed and engaged during the Sakhalin offensive and the Kuril landing operations in Aug 1945", said the PF spokesman Capt 1 Rank Roman Martov. 

The unit will consist of PF landing ship Admiral Nevelskoi and seagoing tug Kalar, specified Martov.

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