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The Vendémiaire, a monitoring frigate of the French Marine Nationale, arrived in Vladivostok on Tuesday for a friendly visit, the ship’s third call to the Far Eastern port in the past seven years.

The visit, aimed to strengthen friendly relations and naval partnership between France and Russia, will last four days, with the French crew meeting their Russian colleagues, a press statement from Pacific Fleet reported.

The event is held within the agreement of naval partnership between the two countries, the statement said.

During their stay in Vladivostok, the French Navy sailors will meet Pacific Fleet officials and Vladivostok administration, lay wreaths at the Pacific Fleet Glory Memorial and bring ceremonials to the French sailors’ tombs at Vladivostok’s Marine Cemetery.

The Vendémiaire will also be open for tours by Vladivostok’s residents and guests, the statement reported.

The Vendémiaire, which is named after Vendémiaire, the first month of the Republican Calendar, first arrived in Vladivostok in 2000, with its second visit occurring four years later. The monitoring vessel was commissioned in 1993 and has a crew of about 100 people.

Since 1992, French vessels have called to the port of Vladivostok nine times, the statement said.