“Today, the Kruzenshtern training sailing ship with cadets from the educational institutions of the Russian Fisheries Agency on board completed the call to the Brazilian port of Rio de Janeiro and headed for the port of Montevideo (Uruguay), which is scheduled for call on February 1,” RIA Novosti quotes the expedition media center.
During the stay in Rio de Janeiro, the ship was replenished with fuel, technical fluids and food.
Russian sailors also participated in the ceremony of laying wreaths and flowers at the National Monument to the Fallen in World War II in Rio de Janeiro.
On January 1, the Russian sailing ship Sedov, making a round-the-world expedition, called at the port of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. On February 6, the sailboat plans to call at the port of Montevideo.
Both ships will sail along the route as close as possible to that made 200 years ago by Russian sailors under the command of Thaddeus Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev.
For the first time in the history of Russia, a training sailing fleet of the Federal Agency for Fishery is entering a joint circumnavigation.