Museum on the cruiser Aurora

For 50 years, at the Petrograd embankment of St. Petersburg, the ship’s silhouette has become familiar. The cruiser "Aurora", being a monument of domestic shipbuilding, has seen many events in its lifetime of the controversial history of the twentieth century. Defender of Russia in three wars, participant of the revolutionary events of February - October 1917, forge of training of many naval officers, later becoming a museum, retained the status of ship No. 1 of the Russian Navy. With its legendary past and symbolic present, Aurora attracts the attention of the world.