Project title:
Requiem to the Northern Convoys
Project goals
Goals
to sale on board the yacht "Secret" (Severodvinsk) along the route of the Northern Convoys: Severodvinsk – Arkhangelsk – Loch-Ewe, Dandy (Great Britain) – Reykjavik (Iceland) – Arkhangelsk. (The route mileage makes 4500 –5000 miles, see Attachment 1 for the route plan);
to visit memorial places, relating to operations during convoys’ going along the route from Iceland to Russia during World War II;
to lay wreaths in places of shipwreck and carry out actions in key points of the convoy route.
Tasks
to attract public attention to the problems of perpetuation of the memory of the fallen during World War II;
to commemorate the 55-th anniversary of World War II ending;
to produce video and text materials describing the voyage.
Social purpose of the project
to strengthen relations between the veteran and other public organisations of the countries-participants of World War II;
to bring up younger generation in a heroic and patriotic spirit.
Consumers
veteran and public organisations and museums in the countries-participants of World War II.
Readiness
The preconditions necessary to execute this project:
cruising and racing yacht Secret of Karter-30 project
the yacht crew undoubtedly capable to execute the project (having the respective qualification and experience in suchlike voyages)
the key organisational issues and necessary actions have been worked through during the previous voyage.
Novelty of the project
The voyage of this class yacht by the proposed route of the Northern Convoys is an unexampled event and will be carried out for the first time.
Previous projects
the voyage of yachts Secret and Aginey to the place of shipwreck of nuclear powered submarine Komsomolets by the route 2200 miles long: Severodvinsk – place of shipwreck of nuclear powered submarine Komsomolets (the Norwegian Sea) – Spitsbergen – Medvezhy Isle – Vardo (Norway) – Severodvinsk (see Attachment 2 for the route plan).
video film “Voyage of Sevmash Yachtsmen to the Place of Shipwreck of Nuclear Powered Submarine Komsomolets”, photo and text materials available in the town museum and in Sevmash museum (see Attachment 3 for the extracts).
Stages and time of the project execution
1. Preparation for the voyage January – June 2000
2. Ceremony of the yacht departure from Severodvinsk June 24, 2000
from Arkhangelsk June 25, 2000
3. Voyage (time stated tentatively)
3.1. Arkhangelsk - June 25, 2000
3.2. Vardo (Norway) – July 1, 2000
3.3. Tromso (Norway) – July 6, 2000
3.4. Loch-Ewe, Dandy (Great Britain) – July 19 - 21, 2000
3.5.
3.6. Nadezhdy Island – August 15, 2000
3.7. Arkhangelsk – August 31, 2000
4. Ceremony of the yacht arrival in Arkhangelsk – August 31, 2000 (the date of Dervish arrival in 1941)
5. Production of video film and text materials – September 2000 – March 2001.
6. Copies production – 2000 – 2001.
Project execution and distribution method
- According to the applications made.
Cost estimation for project development and execution
- See Attachment 4 for the estimate.
Group of authors
Project Manager
Souproun Michael N.
Doctor of Historical Science, Professor, Head of Sub-Faculty of History, Lomonosov Pomorsky State University
Address: Naberezhnaya Severnoy Dviny, 4, building 2, flat 53,
Arkhangelsk, 163002.
Phone: (8182) 443331
Project Co-ordinator
Kholodov Alexander B.
Deputy Chairman of the Cruiser Section of Yacht Club Sever of Trade Union Organization, SUE “PO Sevmash”, Severodvinsk
Yacht Captain, RF Master of Sailing Sport.
Address: Lenin str., 7, flat 7
Severodvinsk, 164501.
Home phone: (81842) 60995
Office phone: (81842) 94612
Fax: (81842) 61727
ipoved@sevmash.ruCaptain of Yacht Secret
Korenjugin Peter Georgiyevitch
Director of Yacht Club Sever
of Trade Union Organization, SUE “PO Sevmash”, Severodvinsk
Yacht Captain, RF Master of Sailing Sport.
Address: Karl Marx str., 43, flat 94
Severodvinsk, 164512.
Phone: (81842) 35648
Scientific secretary
Larintsev Roman Ivanovitch
Chief of Department, SUE “PO Sevmash”
Address: Industrialnaya str., 73, flat 538
Home phone: (81842) 61850
Office phone: (81842) 94652
* Organisation name
Club “Fraternity of Northern Convoys”, Arkhangelsk
President of Club
Kokovin Valery Petrovitch
Phone: (8182) 431175
Pomorsky Scientific Fund
Lomonosov str., 4,
Arkhangelsk, 163002, Russia
Phone: (8182) 441750
Chairman of Fund Executive Committee
Souproun Michael Ivanovitch
Doctor of Historical Science, Professor, Head of Sub-Faculty of History, Lomonosov Pomorsky State University
Address: Naberezhnaya Severnoy Dviny, 4, building 2, flat 53,
Arkhangelsk, 163002
Phone: (8182) 443331
Trade Union Organisation
SUE “PO Sevmash”
Address: Arkhangelskoye shosse, 58
Severodvinsk, 164500
Chairman of Trade Union Committee
Shevchenko Natalia Mikhailovna
Office phone: (81842) 94696