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    The Battle of Gangut (Russian: Гангутское сражение; Finnish: Riilahden taistelu; Finland Swedish: Slaget vid Rilax; Swedish: Sjöslaget vid Hangöudd) took...
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  • Gangut (Гангут) is the Russian transliteration of the Swedish name (Hangö udd) for Hanko Peninsula. It may have the following meanings: The Battle of...
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    War I and the last of her class to be completed. She was named after the Russian victory over the Swedish Navy in the Battle of Gangut in 1714. She was...
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    Nicholas II of Russia visited the manor in 1907 with his majesty's imperial yacht Standart. Nicholas II visited the mansion and the Battle of Gangut war memorial...
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    Estonia), driving the Swedes out of Finland. In 1714, the Russian fleet won the Battle of Gangut. During the Great Wrath most of Finland was occupied by Russian...
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    Fyodor Apraksin (category Senators of the Russian Empire)
    the conquest of Finland by his operations from the side of the sea—and the great Battle of Gangut (1714). That same year he assisted the tsar in opening...
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    Hanko Peninsula (category Peninsulas of Finland)
    times of war. The Battle of Gangut was fought outside the Hanko peninsula on 7 August 1714 ("Gangut" is the Russian transliteration of the Swedish name...
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    Gangut (Russian: броненосец "Гангут") was an Imperial Russian coast defense ship named after the Battle of Gangut. This ship was a scaled-down version...
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    Gangut (Russian: Гангут) was an 84-gun ship of the line built for the Imperial Russian Navy in the early 1820s. She participated in the Battle of Navarino...
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    The Gangut class, also known as the Sevastopol class, were the first dreadnoughts built for the Imperial Russian Navy before World War I. They had a convoluted...
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    Baltic Fleet (category Naval units and formations of the Soviet Union)
    (Finland), and Turku. The first claimed victories of the new Imperial Russian Navy were the Gangut (Swedish: Hangöudd) in 1714 and, arguably, the Grengam...
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    the Battle of Chesma, 1770; 10 July – victory over Sweden in the Battle of Poltava, 1709; 9 August – naval victory over Sweden in the Battle of Gangut, 1714;...
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  • four ships of the Imperial Russian and Soviet Navies have been named Gangut after the 1714 Battle of Gangut. Russian ship of the line Gangut (1719) - 90-gun...
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    Navy Day (category Types of national holidays)
    Sunday of July. It is a legacy of the Soviet Union that introduced this holiday in June 1939; the date was chosen in connection with the Battle of Gangut. In...
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    Navy won the Battle of Gangut – a decisive victory over the Imperial Swedish Navy. The Russo-Swedish war ended in 1721 by the Treaty of Nystad, by which...
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    launch effective operations until the end of the war in 1721. Like the previous Battle of Gangut, the Battle of Grengam was fought on Saint Pantaleon Day...
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    of Queen Silvia of Sweden, (Sweden) Nane Nane Day (Tanzania) Signal Troops Day (Ukraine) August 9 Battle of Gangut Day (Russia) International Day of the...
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    Alexey Bogolyubov (category Members of the Imperial Academy of Arts)
    Battle of Gangut in 1714 Battle of Gangut Battle of Ösel in 1719 Battle of Grengam in 1720 The Russian Museum Battle of Reval in 1790 (a free copy of...
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    Swedish Navy in the Battle of Gangut. August 1 – Georg Ludwig von Braunschweig-Lüneburg, Elector of Hanover, becomes King George I of Great Britain and...
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    Matija Zmajević (category Emigrants from the Republic of Venice)
    tsar's Baltic fleet, he achieved a victory in the Battle of Gangut for which he received the war flag of the Russian fleet. In 1719, he was promoted to rear...
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    ended in failure in late July at the Battle of Gangut. In the end, the presence of a Russian galley fleet in the Gulf of Bothnia forced both the Swedish fleet...
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    the Battle of Gangut. The holiday was canceled on October 1, 1980 by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet. By the Decree of the President of Russia Vladimir...
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    Hanko, Finland (category Grand Duchy of Finland)
    of wars and battles. The Battle of Gangut between Swedish and Russian navies was fought in 1714 in the archipelago north of the peninsula. The battle...
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    forces in the Siege of Petropavlovsk during the Crimean War Matija Zmajević, vice-admiral, hero of the battle of Gangut and the battle of Grengam during the...
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    the long history of Naval Infantry within Russia. In 1714, the regiment won a victory against the Swedes during the Battle of Gangut. However, after the...
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    House of Romanov" (1913) Medal "In Commemoration of the 200th Anniversary of the Naval Battle of Gangut" (1915) Great Gold Constantine Medal by Imperial...
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    galley of roughly 100. A small, hastily assembled Swedish coastal squadron met the Russian galley fleet west of Hangö cape in the Battle of Gangut and was...
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  • of the Pacific Fleet Fyodor Apraksin, General admiral, won the Battle of Gangut during the Great Northern War, led the Imperial Russian Navy in the Russo-Persian...
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  • during the Great Northern War. Battle of Manresa 7 May - Catalonia defeats Pro-Bourbon Spain and France. Battle of Gangut 7 August – Swedish fleet defeated...
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    etcher Adriaan Schoonebeek by the order of Peter the Great. His etchings of important events, people and monuments of the Tsar's Russia earned him great fame...
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