OREANDA-NEWS. On 06 April 2009 was announced, that participants of Interregional young sailors’ rally “Pomor gatherings” had visited OAO “PO “Sevmash”.

This event is annually arranged by the children’s marine center “Severomorets” and this year it is dedicated to the seventieth anniversary of Sevmash. More than a hundred of pupils of marine institutions from Severodvinsk, Archangelsk, Vologda, Rybinsk, Kostroma, Yaroslavl, Velsk and Moscow at the age from 8 to 18 years have gathered to compete in marine all-around. These competitions include knotting, flag semaphore, ceremonial song, sport relay race, wall newspapers about town and factory and many others.

Within occupational guidance work the central place in the rally program was given to getting acquainted with our enterprise. For three days young sailors have visited museum, dam and wharf, watching ships being built and repaired, marine platform “Prirazlomnaya”, aircraft-carrier “Vikramaditya”, which overmastered them due to their power.

On completion of the rally, the winners were presented with souvenirs from Sevmash. As participants noted, memories of the largest shipbuilding factory in Russia and Europe, workers of which had been building ships on which they were going to sail in future, should remain in their hearts for a long time.