The GLONASS system has already been navigating us for over two months from the start of the round-the-world sailing expedition on yacht Delta. It is carried out under the Russian satellite navigation system GLONASS to promote it and popularize the Russian innovative technology as a whole. The expedition would have been impossible without support from the Center of Space Services. Having started from the Kremlin walls on Russia’s Independence Day, we passed the Moscow Canal and the Volga, visited the ancient Russian cities
and picturesque places untouched by civilization. The GLONASS system plots our route correctly.
We saw a boat from the height of Onega beacons,
and in Petrozavodsk, the capital of Karelia, visited the Arctic Odissey club,
where they make copies of ancient ships.
We visited Kizhi Pogost (or Kizhi enclosure), a monument on the UNESCO World Heritage list, and abandoned Karelian villages,
admired wonderful sunrises
and saw the bottom of the Navy in St. Petersburg.
We set up the GLONASS system together with specialists
and made sure it’s running correctly
and started monitoring the system’s coverage zones and signal levels.
We didn’t even notice how we reached the EU’s border in a place called Santio, Finland,
Helsinki was no distance from there.
At the fortress of Suomenllina (monument on the UNESCO World Heritage List), we made our next footage for VGTRK.
In the port of Helsinki, antique barques peacefully coexist with
huge ferries.
And you should have seen fireworks in the royal yacht club, HSS!
The crew learned how to work with sails at sea
and not to be scared of bad weather,
and be glad when the weather’s fine.
We said goodbye to Finland by Hanko beacon.
Our neighbors in Latvia’s Ventspils pleased us with their sense of humor,
comfortable moorings,
Baltic sprat,
as well as the correctness of the GLONASS operation.
At night, we met barque Sedov but, unfortunately, saw it on the radar only
and came to the island of Gotland in Sweden,
the homeland of Volvo
and beautiful rural landscapes.
A new crew member, cat named GLONASS, felt very well,
while we helped ourselves to huge briar.
Continuing our journey across Sweden, we make this report from the city of Karlskrona. It is famous for its naval museum, the fact that the city center is on UNESCO World Heritage List, and that Ericsson phones are made here, and that GLONASS is operating well at this place.