Ukraine
In Ukraine Navy Day is a professional holidays that is celebrated on every last Sunday of July. Before 2012 it was celebrated on August 1. It was established in 1996 (then to be celebrated August 1). Since 2012 Ukraine has the same date for its Navy Day as Russia and the Soviet Union (like Russia, Ukraine is a former Soviet republic); the Soviet Union introduced its Navy Day in June 1939; the date was chosen because of a connection with the day the Battle of Gangut took place.
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