"Since time immemorial, the ships of our ancestors plied the waters of the Black, Marmara, Mediterranean, Adriatic, Aegean, Baltic and Northern seas. Russian voyages along the Black Sea in the 9th century were so common that it soon received the name Russian: that’s how the Black Sea is called on Italian maps until the beginning of the 16th century. The “Slavic Venice” of Dubrovnik, founded by our ancestors on the shores of the Adriatic Sea, is also known, and the settlements they founded on the shores of England are also known [1]. Asia, about many others.

On these long long voyages, maritime customs took shape, which gradually formed into maritime regulations and statutes."