Aurora cruiser

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The Aurora cruiser is a historic Russian warship famed for its role in the 1917 October Revolution and preserved today as a museum ship in Saint Petersburg.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf historic ship
museum ship
protected cruiser
armament 152 mm guns
75 mm guns
torpedo tubes
beam 16.8 m
builder Baltic Shipyard
commissioned 1903-07-29
constructionSite St. Petersburg
surface form: Saint Petersburg
country Russian Empire
crew up to 570
damagedDuring Siege of Leningrad
designation Ship of the Russian Navy for military-patriotic education
displacement 6731 tons
draft 6.4 m
heritageStatus object of cultural heritage of Russia
homePort St. Petersburg
surface form: Saint Petersburg
laidDown 1897-06-23
launched 1900-05-11
length 126.8 m
mooredOn Bolshaya Nevka
surface form: Bolshaya Nevka River
museumLocation Petrogradskaya Embankment
surface form: Petrogradskaya Embankment, Saint Petersburg
name Aurora
namedAfter Eos
surface form: Aurora (Roman goddess of dawn)
operator Imperial Russian Navy
Russian Navy
Soviet Navy
participatedIn Battle of Tsushima
Russian Revolution
surface form: October Revolution

Russo-Japanese War
propulsion coal-fired boilers
triple-expansion steam engines
recognizedAs symbol of the October Revolution
removedArmament World War II for shore batteries
roleInEvent fired a blank shot signaling the start of the assault on the Winter Palace in the October Revolution
shipClass Pallada-class cruiser
status museum ship
survived World War I
World War II
topSpeed 19 knots
underwentModernization 1916
1923–1927
1984–1987
2014–2016
usedAs cadet accommodation
training ship

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