March 19 is Submariner's Day in Russia!
On this day in 1906, Tsar Nicholas II included a new class of warships – submarines – in the classification of ships operated by the Russian Imperial Navy.
Submariner's Day was, however, not celebrated in the Soviet Union. It was only revived in 1996.
Traditionally, it is not only a holiday for sailors, but also for everyone who ensures the construction, repair and maintenance of combat readiness of the submarine fleet – designers, submarine builders and ship repairmen, to name a few.
Submarine ‘Dolphin’, 1904.
Submarine ‘Akula’ and armored cruiser ‘Rurik’, 1913.
Submarines in Reval (Tallinn), 1915.
Senior officer Alexey Kolchin in a submarine compartment, 1941.
Submarine ‘K-21’, 1941 or 1942.
Ceremony of awarding the crew of the submarine ‘Shch-402’ with the ‘Order of the Red Banner’ and the ‘Red Banner Flag’, 1942.
Commanders Nikolai Morozov and Ivan Kolyshkin (right), the first submariner to be awarded the ‘Hero of the Soviet Union’, 1942.
K-3 commander Lieutenant Commander Kuzma Malafeev in a conning tower, 1942.
I. A. Fokeev, commander of the K-21 helmsman squad, foreman 2nd class, 1942.
Submariners during exercises, 1948.
Sailors of a nuclear submarine playing chess during their free time, 1973.
A sailor doing some morning cleaning on a nuclear submarine, 1973.
Sailors of the nuclear submarine ‘50 years of the USSR’ sit on benches near their barracks, 1977.
‘Okean-70’ naval exercises of the USSR Navy, which took place in the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, as well as in adjacent seas, from April 14 - May 5, 1970. Below submariners attempt to moor their submarine.
Head of the radio technical service Nikolai Karasev and sailor Sergei Surgucho operating a hydroacoustic observation post, as part of the Northern Fleet of the USSR Navy, 1987.
A nuclear multipurpose submarine docked at a pier, 2006.
Submarine B-274 ‘Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky’ from the 636.3 ‘Varshavyanka’ project during the Main Naval Parade on ‘Russian Navy Day’ at the Kronstadt roadstead in the Gulf of Finland, 2020.
Sailors aboard the diesel-electric submarine ‘Vladikavkaz’ during a parade to mark ‘Russian Navy Day’ in 2022.
A crew member and his family attend a welcoming ceremony for the Russian Pacific Fleet's diesel-electric submarine 'Magadan', returned after completing its combat mission at sea, at its home base in Vladivostok, Russia, 2024.
