NEW DELHI, Nov. 25 (Xinhua) -- Indian Navy chief Admiral Sunil Lanba will be visiting Russia from November 26-29, in a bid to further consolidate defence ties and explore new avenues for defence cooperation, said defence sources in New Delhi on Sunday.
During his visit, Lanba is scheduled to hold bilateral discussions with his Russian counterpart Admiral Vladimir Korolev. He is also scheduled to lay a wreath at the "Piskarev Memorial Cemetery" dedicated to the victims of the "Siege of Leningrad", and visit the Nakhimov Naval School and Admiralty Shipyard.
At Moscow, Admiral Lanba will have discussions with General V.V. Gerasimov, the Chief of General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia and Russia's First Deputy Defence Minister, and Dmitriy Shugaev, the Director of the Federal Service for Military Technical Cooperation (FSMTC) of Russia.
The Indian Navy chief will also visit the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and deliver a talk on "Indian Navy's Perspective on Maritime Security", said an official statement issued by the Indian Navy.
According to the statement, the Indian Navy are cooperating with the Russian Federation Navy on many fronts, including operational interactions, training, hydrography cooperation and exchange of subject matter experts in various fields through the medium of Navy-to-Navy staff talks.
In addition, the Indian Navy and the Russian Federation Navy have been conducting the bilateral Maritime Exercise "INDRA NAVY" since 2003 and "INDRA" tri-services exercise since 2017. The next edition of Exercise INDRA-Navy is scheduled off Visakhapatnam in southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh in December 2018.
