7.12.2008
Memory
The Russian- Finnish Maritime Assembly
Time: Thursday 6.11.2008 at 16.00-17.30
(the seminar) and 17.30 – 19.30 (the assembly)
Venue: The Maritime assembly building,
Kronstadt, Russia
Participants:
Participants of
|
Mr. Òapio Valinoro |
- The
Regional Council of Kymenlaakso, Executive director |
|
Mr. Hannu
Tuittu |
- City of
|
|
Mr. Veijo
Parviainen |
- The
Finnish Sailing Association, Member of Council |
|
Mr. Matti
Mäkinen |
- The
Finnish Naval Reserve, Captain (N) |
|
Mr. Ove Enqvist |
- Historian, expert |
|
Mrs. Stella
Aaltonen |
- |
|
Mr. Matti Erävala |
- City of
|
|
Mrs. Leena Haila |
- The |
|
Ms. Sari
Mäenpaa |
- The |
|
Ms. Tuula
Kivilaakso |
- |
|
Mr. Kyösti
Vesterinen |
- Finnish
Life-Boat Institution, Managing Director |
|
Mrs.
Terhi Lindholm |
- Merikotka,
The Maritime |
|
Mr. Pentti
Kujala |
- Merikotka,
The Maritime |
|
Mr. Jorma
Salopelto |
- Suomenlinnan Liikenne Oy, Managing Director |
|
Mr. Toni
Vanhala |
- The
Regional Council of Kymenlaakso, Planer |
|
|
|
Participants of
|
Mr.Goroshko À.M. |
- Head of
Kronshtadt’s district of Saint Petersburg |
|
Mr. Speshilov À.V. |
- Rear-Admiral,
chairman of Maritime Assembly of Kronstadt |
|
Mr.Grishko Å.G. |
- Director
of |
|
Mr. Chrvirkiya N.V. |
- Chief specialist
of Maritime Council at the Saint Petersburg Government |
|
Mr.
Dmitry K. Nikitin |
- Chief
Executive officer, Nord- Service Ltd |
|
Mr. Mitrofanov Y.À. |
- Captain
I rank, member of Maritim Assembly Saint Petersburg |
|
Mr. Mityko V.B. |
- President
of Arctic academy of sciences |
|
Ms. Minina Ì.V. |
- Scientific
secretary of Arctic academy of sciences |
|
Mr. Berezkin À.À. |
- Member of Maritime Council |
|
Mr. Kalinin I.V. |
- Vice-president
of St Petersburg Owner´s Association of passenger vessels |
|
Ms. Perova Å. |
- Deputy of
cultural |
|
Mr. Lyalin À. |
- The
acting as chief of the Central Naval museum |
|
Mr. Varshavskiy
À.À. |
- General
director Center «BIZKON» |
|
Mr.Àrdatov Y.V. |
- General
director Agency «SPARIT» |
|
Mr.Shimanskiy
V.R. |
- General
director Òrade Chamber of Kronshtadt |
|
Krayniy À.À. |
- Shipowner, Kronstadt shipping
company “ |
|
Êlyuchnikov V.F. |
- Scientific employee |
The Maritime
history seminar 6.11.2008
Before
the seminar all participants had aquantance with demonstration of PLT
(Pneumatic Line Thrower) for safety services producing of LLC ISTA (Spb). There
was discussed with Finnish Life-Boat Institution to consider the possibilities
the production of these PLT in
Peter the Great´s Sea fortress
The Finnish part of the fortress, to-day, maintenance and documentation
Mr. Dr. Ove Enqvist held an interesting and important presentation on the sea /”world
heritage” fortress chain. Most important message of the presentation was the
common worry to protect the fortress chain on the Finnish Russian side for the
next generations. His message was to the assembly to think and suggest of the
concrete steps for the saving of the fortress chain. Another dimension is to
highlight the raising of public awareness of the naval and military history
sector and of the need for an integrated common policy.
Scientific employee Mr. Vladimir Kluchnikov
presented the results of Russian researches of this history event.
The assembly found the proposal very interesting and important. This
issue will be continued in forthcoming meetings.
Kronstadt (Kotlin -island)-
role in history of
Finnish-Russian relations
The documentation (archives) of the Peter the Great’s Fortress in
Russian comments was held by Mr. Eugeny Grishko- director of Kronstadt museum
The Maritime
Assembly 6.11.2008
AGENDA
1.
Opening addresses
The meeting was opened by Mr. A.
M. Goroshko with the welcoming address. He expressed his gratitude to the assembly
for hosting the meeting in Kronstadt.
The Chairman Mr. A. Varhavsky presented the agenda. The meeting adopted
the agenda attached to this memory.
2.
Preparations of project co-operation of
the maritime museums in the Baltic
Possible
themes for collaboration between Maritime museums and other related
institutions in the
Dr. Sari
Mäenpää, The Maritime
Cooperation
in:
1.
Exhibitions exchange
2. Common
marketing strategy
3.
International exhibition on ports
Other
possible topics discussed in Kotka at the previous meeting of the project
between maritime museums in the Baltic:
- The recent changes in shipping as well its
effects on seafarers themselves
- The preservation of traditional maritime
training standards and on the other the awareness and teaching of Maritime
history in maritime training institutions
- An international exhibition of ports
- Sailing ships and their developing (from
Rostock Maritime museum)
-
Society Bizkon will be as coordinator in this project
The whole
proposal was delivered for the participants in
The
letter of intent has been signed by:
The World Ocean Museum in Kaliningrad
Central
Naval Museum in St. Petersburg
Kronstadt City Museum
BIZKON
Other
partners:
The
Maritime Museum in
Forum-Marinum
in
Polish
national maritime museum (tbc)
Schiffbau
und Schifffartsmuseum in
The
assembly described the initiative as interesting and encouraged stakeholders to
participate in the planned project.
3. Sea safety
Chairman of the Voluntary Maritime Rescue Society “Kronstadt”, Mr. Igor
Kalinin
VMRS “Kronstadt”:
-
continues lifeboat activity;
-
took part in MRCC “St.Petersburg”
rescue exercise;
-
reparation of the old rescue boat is
coming
Supporters and voluntaries:
-
involved voluntaries of the Maritime
Assembly of Kronstadt;
-
supported by Kronstadt’s private
diving company;
-
involved voluntaries of Kronstadt
Aviation Club;
Supported by the JS “North-West shipping
company”.
Russian partners have got
the Finish-Estonian project application as a model.
The Russian part is preparing
the application for Eu with partners from Merikotka Research centre
and Finnish Lifeboat Institution.
Comments The Finnish Life Boat Institution
by Mr. Kyösti Vesterinen
The Finnish Lifeboat Institution is the
umbrella organization for voluntary maritime rescue associations in
The first rescue centre was opened in Gogland
(Suursaari) over 151-years ago
- the
Finnish Lifeboat Institution was founded 1897
There are 29 associations on the sea shore and
30 on lake area
We provide search and rescue services to
people in distress at sea and on inland waters.
- 2 000 sea rescue volunteers
- over 140 rescue vessels
- over 13 000 members
- we conduct more than 1000 search and rescue missions annually
- we assist about 2400 people in waters under our watch every year
The Finnish Lifeboat institution has given the
Finnish-Estonian application form to the Russian members to use:
-
Revival of voluntary Maritime search
and rescue services in
“Kronstadt has a good change to success in the
work and with the application.”
-
we give our support: Merikotka and The Finnish Lifeboat Institution
- It is possible to find a suitable SAR
-vessel from
- a separate meeting was decided to held in
The assembly found the project proposal very important.
5.
Preparations for the Tall Ships´ Races in
Mr. Berezkin À.À., Member of Sea Council
-
60 vessels have already registered to the race
-
we are waiting some 110 vessels
-
the scheme of berthing in
-
water-buss transportation of crew
members is necessary because of the traffic jams
-
wind band of the cadets from naval
academies participate for the celebrations
-
safety arrangement plan is needed
It was mentioned that Kotka has good opportunities to get several
vessels in Kotka during the race from
Volvo Ocean Race visit in
Comments:
by Mr. Kyösti Vesterinen
- The Finnish Lifeboat Institution is ready assistance the race vessels
in
- one rescue vessels follows the race vessels all the time
- also in Kronstadt should be rescue vessels on work
- it is fruitful to discuss cooperation more
6. Organization of water buses
The separate meeting of water tourism was decided to hold in
-
It was discussed e.g. of Maritime training, pleasure and sailing boats
-
the training and consultations
between
-
City water passenger transport with
countries (it was decided to hold a separate meeting later in
- it was discussed of the possible
co-operation or project
7. 150 years from scientist À.
Popov’s birthday in 2009
Arctic public
Professor Mr. Valery Mitko
Professor Mitko had first a short
presentation about the Arctic public
“Fulfilment of research
investigation for Northern territories development, improvement of Northern
peoples life-being, assistance to St. Petersburg science potential realization for
A. J. Popov inventor of Radio
In 1900 a radio station was established
under Popov's instructions on Gogland (Suursaari) to provide two-way
communication by wireless telegraphy between the Russian naval base and the
crew of the battleship General-Admiral
Apraksin. The battleship ran aground on Hogland island in the Gulf of Finland in November, 1899.
Mr. A. A. Berezkin
The Russian participants are
preliminary preparing the jubilee sailing to Gogland in 2009 as a memory of
radio inventor Popov.
- sailing and radio expeditions to
150 –anniversary on the route: Spb- Kotka-Gogland
It was agreed that the Maritime
history seminar named Popov will be held in Kotka 14 th of May as a celebration
of birth of radio inventor Popov´s
150-anniverasry.
It was decided, that the Russian
participants have duty to find 1-2 lectures and the Finnish 1-2 opponents. The
seminar takes of 2 hours including interpretation. The preliminary time is
8. Next history seminar and Assembly
The next history seminar and Maritime Assembly was invited Kotka
14.-15.5.2009
9. Other matters presented
Other
matters were discussed during the supper and on the very next day in the following
3 meetings.
10. Closing of the assembly
The chairman
Mr. Alexey Varshavsky expressed his thanks to all participants for the fruitful
meeting and closed the assembly at
The program on Friday 7th
of November
08.00-09.00
Breakfast at hotel Oktjabrskaja
09.00-10.00
Separate meetings was held at hotel
1. With search and rescue (SAR) experts
2. With water tourism experts
3. With museum experts
11.30
Visit to Submarine – department of
12.30
Visit to Morskoy Fasad (passenger terminal)
13.15
Lunch and departure
The memory was written up by the
notes of the meeting participants by:
Mr.
Matti Erävala, The City of