The history of Russian submarine fleet displayed at the Presidential Library

July 26, 2019, on the eve of the Russia’s Navy Day, the Presidential Library hosts a multimedia exhibition, displaying the first steps of the submarine fleet in the Russian Empire. The electronic exposition organized by the A. I. Marinesko Museum of the History of Russian Submarine Forces and the Presidential Library, will be available until August 9, 2019.

Visitors to the Presidential Library can study drawings, drafts, schemes, maps and photographs and learn about little-known pages of the history of this kind of naval forces. For example, the first attempts to create a submarine were made during the reign of Peter I, when the carpenter Efim Nikonov built a “hidden vessel” - a prototype of a modern submarine.

The exposition spotlights the development and formation of the submarine fleet: about the engineers and testers, about the Dolphin submarine, which in 1904 became the first in the Russian Navy, about the Training Submarine Detachment 1906, on the fighting of the Russian submarine forces during the First World War and many other things.

To visit the exhibition please pre-register by phone (812) 334-25-14 or send an e-mail to: excursion@prlib.ru.