Sri Lanka Navy's Naval and Maritime Academy Delegation (Trincomalee) led by Commodore Kalana Jinadasa, NMA Commandant, accompanied by the Heads of the Academy's Anti-Submarine Warfare, Gunnery and Logistics Programmes, is in Russia this week to inaugurate the series of reciprocal visits of the Sri Lanka Navy Naval and Maritime Academy and the principal Miltary Education & Research Centre of the Russian Navy – the Admiral N. Kuznetsov Naval Academy, stationed in St. Petersburg.

The delegation, accompanied by Gp Cpt Uditha Piyasena, Defence Attaché of the Embassy of Sri Lanka in Moscow, had a number of important meetings with their Russian counterparts and representatives of the administration of St. Petersburg.
The delegation also had a chance to visit Moscow for a short sightseeing tour. In the course of their stay in the Russian capital, representatives of the Naval and Maritime Academy were hosted by His Excellency Dr. Dayan Jayatilleka, Ambassador of Sri Lanka to Russia, for lunch, at which they informed H. E. the Ambassador of the outcome of their visit to St. Petersburg and identified next steps to be taken in the framework of development of cooperation between Naval Academies of Sri Lanka and Russia.