• American cruiser in Sevastopol 2

American cruiser in Sevastopol

Images

ID:
64105
Place
Sevastopol
Date:
1989
Technique:
Photograph (printed on paper)
Creator
Unknown
Collection
Oksana Avramenko
Copyright
Oksana Avramenko
Description

A woman, her cousin Irina Ananyeva with her sons Dmitry and Alexey pose in front of the cruiser Thomas S. Gates CG-51 (USA) at the Grafskaya Wharf in Sevastopol. Other townspeople also came to see the foreign ship, which was anchored in the South Bay. The visit of the American military cruiser to the port of the closed regime city on 4-8 August 1989 took place at the invitation of Gorbachev, as part of the negotiations with Ronald Reagan on ending the Cold War.

Tags:
cruiser, family,
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