The deck of the Russian battleship Marat is filled with infantrymen in recent maneuvers, March 1940.

The Russian battleship Petropavlovsk (Russian: Петропавловск) was the third of the four Gangut-class dreadnoughts built before World War I for the Imperial Russian Navy. This was the first Russian class of dreadnoughts. The ship was completed during the winter of 1914–1915 but was not ready for combat until mid-1915. Later, her crew joined the Kronstadt Rebellion of 1921, and she was renamed Marat after the rebellion was crushed. Marat was reconstructed from 1928 to 1931 and represented the Soviet Union at the Coronation Naval Review at Spithead in 1937. When the Germans invaded on June 22, 1941 she was in Kronstadt. She provided gunfire support to Soviet troops in September as the Germans approached Leningrad. Later that month the Marat suffered two hits by 2,200-pound bombs, dropped from a Ju 87 Stuka piloted by Hans Ulrich Rudel. This detonated her forward magazine. The Marat's bow was blown off, and she sank in shallow water.

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This object has the following keywords:

• Coronation Naval Review, Spithead
• European Theater
• Hans Ulrich Rudel
• Kronstadt Rebellion
• Luftwaffe
• Marat
• Sinking ships
• Soldiers
• Soviet Naval Infantry
• Stukas
• Training maneuvers
• World War II

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