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Ballet dancer Yuri Monkovsky (born in 1919) says that “We arrived on Lavensaari on torpedo-boats. We gave concerts to great acclaim, but some time afterwards we learned that the sailors who are on duty on the Gulf on mine-sweepers were sorry that they could not see our performances. It was then that we decided to perform right there on the shore, on the jetty, on the moorings made from logs (you can imagine what that was like to dance on!). The boats came as close as possible to the shore and the crews watched our concert, standing on the decks. A plane circled in the sky due to the fact that having so many boats in one place was not without risk.”*
* Shorthand report of a talk with Yuri Monkovsky. 23 April 2015