For more than 50 years near the Petrograd embankment in St. Petersburg one can see a well-known silhouette of warship. This is cruiser Aurora, which is considered to be a monument of Russian shipbuilding and which had seen much in its life. Being a witness of many historical events of the 20th century, the cruiser took part in three wars, revolutionary events in 1917, was used as Naval College for a certain period of time and forged many generations of naval officers for Russian Navy. Now it is a shipmuseum.