The Baltic Fleet training ship Perekop completed a port call at Cam Ranh, Vietnam, where cadets took part in ceremonial and sporting events, then sailed for Cambodia on a voyage scheduled to run from July to mid-December and to visit multiple foreign and Russian ports.
Perekop visited Cam Ranh as part of a navigation training voyage that began in July and will last until mid-December.
During the stop in Vietnam, crew and cadets met Vietnamese naval command, played a friendly volleyball match with the Vietnamese Naval Academy, and laid a wreath at a memorial.
The voyage covers about 30,000 nautical miles, visits 20 ports (12 foreign), and includes a route through the Northern Sea Route and multiple oceans, seas, and straits.
# What happened
# Activities in Cam Ranh
During the stop at Cam Ranh, the ship's crew took part in protocol and social activities with Vietnamese naval authorities. Specific events reported by the Russian Consulate General in Ho Chi Minh City included:
# Voyage plan and scale
The Perekop's navigational voyage is substantial in scope. According to the voyage plan cited by the consulate:
Named Russian ports on the schedule include Severomorsk, Arkhangelsk, Nikolskoye, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, and Vladivostok. Named foreign ports include Cam Ranh (Vietnam), Sihanoukville (Cambodia), Maputo (Mozambique), Pointe-Noire (Republic of the Congo), Lome (Togo), and Conakry (Guinea).
# Context on Russia–Vietnam naval cooperation
The consulate's statement reiterated a long-standing pattern of naval cooperation between Russia (and earlier the Soviet Union) and Vietnam. The report linked current friendly naval visits to historical logistics and assistance provided by Soviet sailors during Vietnam's conflicts in the mid-20th century, when Soviet naval forces helped ensure the passage of cargo to Vietnamese ports. The consulate framed contemporary port calls as a continuation of those ties during peacetime.
# What's next
# Takeaway
This trip is primarily a naval training and goodwill deployment: it provides sea time and protocol exchanges for cadets, and it follows a planned itinerary of international and domestic port calls that links a major Cold War-era logistics site at Cam Ranh to Russia's current pattern of naval diplomacy and training voyages.
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