On Wednesday morning, the Russian Embassy in Cairo held a ceremony to commemorate the sailors of the battleship Servette, by laying wreaths of flowers on their graves in Port Said.
Russian sailors died on this day in 1917 when the battleship Peresvet exploded on a German mine.
The commemoration of World War I soldiers, who sacrificed their lives for their country far from their hometown, was attended by Ambassador of Russia Georgy Borisenko and other Embassy diplomats, officers of the Office of the Defense Attaché and their family members.
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