The St. Petersburg River Yacht Club, also known as St. Petersburg Central River Yacht Club or simply Central River Yacht Club, is a

sailing club A yacht club is a sports club specifically related to yachting. Description Yacht clubs are mostly located by the sea, although there some that have been established at a lake or riverside locations. Yacht or sailing clubs have either a mari ...

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

. It is located on

Petrovsky Island Petrovsky Island (russian: Петро́вский о́стров) is an island in Saint Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Russia, bordered by the Malaya Neva River, Malaya Neva, Malaya Nevka River, Malaya Nevka, and Zhdanovka, Zhdanovka Rivers (in ...

, off Peter's Passage, between the mouths of

Malaya Neva The Little Neva or Malaya Neva (russian: Ма́лая Нева́) is the second largest distributary of the river Neva. The Neva splits into Great Neva (the southern armlet) and Little Neva (the northern armlet) near the Spit of Vasilievsky I ...

and Malaya Nevka rivers. The Naval Yacht Club is close by.

History

The St. Petersburg River Yacht Club was established in 1860 and is one of the oldest Yacht clubs in Russia. It was bestowed royal patronage by the tsar in 1910 on its 50th anniversary. During the period prior to the revolution of 1917 the Saint Petersburg Yacht Club was a social centre for officers of the

Russian Imperial Guard The Russian Imperial Guard, officially known as the Leib Guard (russian: Лейб-гвардия ''Leyb-gvardiya'', from German ''Leib'' "body"; cf. Life Guards / Bodyguard) were military units serving as personal guards of the Emperor of Rus ...

. It was described as "the great centre where careers and reputations were made and broken". During the

Soviet The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...

era the club went through a difficult period. It was renamed a few times; one of the club's names being "Central Yacht Club Trud". As part of the 1980 Olympics preparations program, the club was revived, so that the Soviet Union would have a competing Olympic sailing fleet.History of Yacht Clubs in Russia
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Skipper: Central River YC (St Petersburg)
1860 establishments in the Russian Empire Organizations with royal patronage Yacht clubs in Russia {{SaintPetersburg-stub