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The result of the past day On October 25, 1922, units of the People's Revolutionary Army entered Vladivostok, ending the civil war in the Far East. Just in these moments, before their eyes, extraordinary courage! - 30 ships left the Golden Horn Bay. Admiral Georgi Stark's Siberian flotilla. The historical magazine Rodina mentions the unprecedented departure of 2,000 miles to a foreign land under the flag of St. Andrew. "The main enemy was not the Reds, but "fresh weather", deadly to the coast (small icebreakers, steamers, transports, gunboats, boats, barges) and, moreover, overloaded ships. Ahead lie two thousand miles of open sea (about four thousand km) and continuous storms. Ships "dismantled almost every sea load". The state of the flotilla (its state no longer existed)... In Posen, a former colleague from the Mines Division came to see Stark. He now served with the Reds and arrived in Korea with a secret mission - to convince Stark to return to Vladivostok with the flotilla. In return - amnesty, family reunification and a generous reward.

The admiral advised his colleague to "avoid bad consequences for him personally" to leave the hotel room... ". The Soviet government published in the newspapers "an order to Admiral Stark to return the ships withdrawn from Vladivostok by January 1, 1923." But the flotilla "hijacked" by Stark had already moved on. Further east along the route remains the island of Tsushima, where in 1905 the senior mine officer, Lieutenant George Stark, served in the new cruiser "Aurora". In the mortal battle the stern flag was shot down six times in fragments, but being in the crew as the senior officer, Lieutenant Stark, himself wounded twice, commanded: "Flag! Raise the flag! Is it not a bad dream that his dear "Aurora", to which he devoted almost ten years of service, became a symbol of the collapse of the empire?... 11 ships arrived in the Philippines. Stark divided the proceeds from their sale equally between the teams.