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    ITAR-TASS News Agency
    TASS
    October 23, 2004 Saturday

    Congress of submarine fleet veterans opens in Petersburg

    By Nikolai Krupenik, Lev Frolov

    MOSCOW


    The second congress of the international association of public
    organizations of veterans of the submarine fleet and submariners is
    opening in St. Petersburg.

    Over 200 delegates of a 300,000-strong detachment of former
    submariners of the Navy of the USSR and Russia from 44 regions of
    Russia, as well as Ukraine, Belarus, Armenia, Latvia and Estonia take
    part in the congress.

    As Itar-Tass learnt at the congress organizing committee, the
    participants in congress will pay special attention to "the
    preparation and holding of the celebrations devoted to 100th
    anniversary of Russia's submarine forces due to be marked in 2006.

    The congress delegates will visit memorial complexes and the
    Serafimovskoye cemetery in St. Petersburg to pay homage to
    submariners from nuclear-powered submarines "Kursk" and
    "Komsomolets."
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