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3rd protected cruiser of the "Pallada" class (3 vessels) - warship of the Imperial Russian Navy, since November 1948 permanently anchored on the Neva in Leningrad, today Saint Petersburg, since 1956 as a museum vessel. The ship is a symbol of the October Revolution of 1917, because on October 25th 1917, >Aurora< refused to carry out an order to put to sea, which sparked the October Revolution by the Bolsheviks. At 9.45 p.m on that date, a blank shot from her forecastle gun signalled the start of the assault on the Winter Palace, at that time the seat of the Provisional Government in Saint Petersburg. This assault was to be the first episode of the October Revolution. - Main armament: 8x 154-mm gun, 24x 75-mm gun, 2x 63,.5-mm gun, 8x 37-mm gun, 3x 381-mm torpedo tube. |
