Barque Kruzenshtern (registered in port Kaliningrad) moored at berth No 1 of Sochi port on February 6, 2014, at 12-00, IAA PortNews was informed by Commercial Seaport of Sochi OJSC.
The Kruzenshtern will take part in the events of the XXII Olympic Games and the XI Paralympic Games in Sochi.
The tall ship will later participate in SCF Black Sea Tall Ships Regatta 2014, which will be held in the Black Sea in May 2014, for the first time in the history.
SCF Black Sea Tall Ships Regatta 2014 is a unique international tall ship race which is to run along the Black Sea coast of the Russian Federation in May 2014, two months after the Winter Olympics in Sochi. It will host the largest sailing ships of the world including Russia’s Mir, Kruzenshtern, Sedov, Pallada and Nadezhda. The Regatta is arranged with the support of its title sponsor Sovcomflot and non-commercial organization Sail Training International.
The Kruzenshtern is a four-masted barque and tall ship that was built in 1926 in Bremerhaven, Germany as the Padua. She was surrendered to the USSR in 1946 as war reparation and renamed after Admiral Kruzenshtern. She is now a Russian Navy sail training ship owned by Baltic State Academy of Fishing Fleet.
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