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date: 15:24 09/02/2014
Source: “Itar-Tass”
City: Vladivostok

Itar-Tass. The consecration ceremony of three Orthodox churches marching to the Pacific Fleet was held on February 9 in Vladivostok. She went on the quay in the center of the city, where the fleet moored warships, including the flagship – Guards missile cruiser “Varyag”.

Consecration by Metropolitan Bishop of Vladivostok and Primorye Benjamin NEWSru.com reports citing ITAR-TASS.

One of the temples made of wood and is designed for cruiser “Varyag”, which for him is allocated a special room. The temple is dedicated shrine Russian sailors – Port Arthur Icon of the Mother of God, whose history is closely connected with the events of the Russian-Japanese war of 1904-1905.

This icon painted in the year of the beginning of the war for an Orthodox church besieged Port Arthur, was considered lost for many years and was only found in 1998. Now it is stored in Vladivostok.

Turning to the crew of the cruiser “Varyag”, Metropolitan Benjamin stressed the importance that the consecration of the temple took place in marching momentous day – the 110th anniversary of the feat sailors of the cruiser “Varyag” and the gunboat “Korean”. “Exploit sailors” Varyag “still serves as an example of heroism and patriotism” – said Bishop Benjamin.

In commemoration of this significant Metropolitan donated to the crew of the Pacific Fleet’s flagship art gallery “Battle cruiser” Varyag “.

Two marching church, consecrated in Vladivostok today, will be sent to Kamchatka. One of them is designed for marine brigade, the other – the crew of the nuclear submarine “Tomsk”.

Consecration marching temples – one of the events dedicated to the 110th anniversary of the beginning of the Russian-Japanese War of 1904-1905, as well as the heroic battle cruiser “Varyag” and the gunboat “Korean”. In the first half of the day at the memorial to the lower ranks of the cruiser at the Marine City Cemetery laid flowers and wreaths, Honor Guard of the Pacific Fleet military weapons produced fireworks, Orthodox priests chanted commemorative litany for the dead sailors “Varyag”. Then branch of the museum fleet “Voroshilov battery” on the Russian island, an exhibition that tells the story of the death of the destroyer 208th Siberian flotilla. He was blown up by a mine off the coast of the Japanese island of Russian July 4, 1904 and then sank. The exhibition presents the items raised by divers from the sunken destroyer, searchers discovered in 2011 and 2012.

February 9, 1904 (January 27 old style), the first day of Russian-Japanese War, the Korean port Chemulpo – now Incheon – cruiser “Varyag” and the gunboat “Korean” entered into an unequal battle 14 Japanese destroyers. Russian ships did not give the enemy: the cruiser was sunk, and “Korean” blown up. The current “Varyag” its flagship Rank received in 2002. It can make trips of up to 9 thousand miles (17 500 thousand km), armed with a powerful multi-purpose attack missile complex reactive bombometnymi installations, torpedo tubes and several artillery systems of various calibers. Just a few days ago, the flagship of the Pacific Fleet returned from a long voyage.

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