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The flag of Russia’s former Siberian Flotilla, now a historic item once belonging to one of the Flotilla’s ships and then kept in the U.S. for 83 years, was delivered to the Pacific Fleet Museum in Vladivostok on Wednesday.

The flag’s reception ceremony was performed on Vladivostok’s Korabelnaya Naberezhnaya, near the memorial of the Pacific Fleet's Glory, a statement from the Fleet reported.

The stern flag was withdrawn from Vladivostok to the U.S. in October 1922, during the disbandment of the Siberian Flotilla, the predecessor of the current Pacific Fleet. The item was taken to San Francisco in the United States to be kept with the family of the Russian lieutenant colonel Alexei Kolosov, and later was passed to the city’s Naval Officers Association. Until September 2006, the flag was kept in the city’s Museum of Great War Veterans.

The historic item was returned due to the efforts of Vladivostok’s Marine Association. The homecoming of the flag, the statement noted, is an event which marks a reuniting of Russians who were scattered across the world during the country’s revolution in 1917 and in the following civil war.