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City of Military Glory is an honorary title bestowed upon the citizenry of Russian cities, where defenders had displayed courage, steadfastness, and mass heroism in the fight for their Fatherland’s freedom and independence during the Second World War.

Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky is a sea port in the Far East of Russia, the administrative center of Kamchatka krai. The city is located in the south-eastern part of Kamchatka peninsula, on Avacha bay of the Pacific Ocean.

Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky is one of the oldest cities in the Far East of Russia. Founded as Petropavlov prison on October 17, 1740, during the Kamchat expedition #2 in 1733-1743 headed by Vitus Bering and Alexey Chirikov, in the Kamchadal settlement Aushin. The ships were called “Saint Apostle Peter” and “Saint Apostle Paul”, so the settlement received the name Petropavlovsk. In 1924 the city was renamed to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.

During the Crimean War, its small garrison and the local volunteer corps defended the city for ten days, repelling the attacks of British and French troops. Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky survived many tribulations in the Russo-Japanese War, and during World War II the Lend-Lease supplies of food and other goods from the United States were transported via the city. In 1945 the Kuril troops were formed, which landed on the islands of Paramushir and Shumshu and drove out the superior Japanese forces, bringing an end to the bloodiest war in human history.