The history of Russian navigation: Interactive exhibition "The Coast of Russian glory" in St. Petersburg

In the branch of the State Museum of Urban Sculpture – the Narva Triumphal Arch (St. Petersburg) was opened an interactive exhibition "Russian Fame Shores". The protagonists of the exhibition - the future admiral Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev and their circumnavigation.

In 1819 an expedition of Bellingshausen and Lazarev went on a voyage around the world, as a result of which in 1820 was opened a new continent - Antarctica and the whole ridge of the islands in Polynesia, which had not set foot of white man. So thousands of kilometers away from Russia appeared Islands of the Russians who have received the names of Arakcheev, Barclay de Tolly, Kutuzov, Miloradovich, Chichagov and others. Immortalized in gold letters on the Narva Triumphal Arch the names of key battles of the Patriotic War of 1812 and Foreign campaigns of 1813-14 were marked on a map of the southern hemisphere.

The exhibition is included in the draft program "Children's days in St. Petersburg" and "Big regatta".