Krasny Vympel

Korabelno-Naberezhnaya Embankment

Krasny Vympel Steamboat

Opposite the submarine is the memorial to the steamboat renamed the Krasny Vympel (Red Pennant), which in pre-Revolutionary times bore the name the Admiral Zavoiko. Constructed in 1911, the Admiral Zavoiko actively participated in Revolutionary events including the Russian Civil War. In contrast to the western part of Russia, where they lasted from 1918 to 1920, the Civil War and the foreign Intervention continued in Eastern Siberia and what is today the Russian Far East until October 1922. Occasionally this vessel is called the Aurora of the East, in a parallel with the Aurora of the West--in St. Petersburg--which gave the signal to start the assault on the Winter Palace, the residence of the Russian Tsars, on October 25 (November 7, New Style), 1917. When the Admiral Zavoiko was in danger of being captured by the interventionists, she left for Shanghai. On returning to Vladivostok in 1923, she became the first ship of the new Soviet Pacific Navy and thus received her new name. Her life of battle was long: she participated in the complete defeat of Japan in 1945, and was transformed into a memorial ship-museum only in 1958.

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