Navy headquarters move to St. Petersburg
The Russian navy headquarters starts moving to the Admirality building already in July.
There has been much confusion on whether the Russian navy command will be moved from Moscow to St. Petersburg or not. The moving operation was scheduled to start in the second half of 2010, but was later postponed and then finally cancelled in October last year.
Now the Ministry of Defense has ordered the navy command to organize preparations for moving of the headquarters from Moscow to St. Petersburg, APK news reports.
The Admirality building in St. Peterburg has been modernized and supplied with state-of-the-art technical equipment.
It was originally State Duma Speaker Boris Gryzlov who in 2007 called for the moving of the headquarters from Moscow to Sankt Petersburg. He quickly won the support of both Sankt Petersburg Mayor Valentina Matvienko and Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov. It was decided that the moving would be completed by the end of 2009. However, that operation was postponed following the financial crisis and the lack of money.
