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Shoot out of a cannon on the important events really began in St. Petersburg almost immediately after the founding of the city. For example, out of a cannon shot during the completion of the work in the Peter and Paul Fortress. But the tradition to shoot at noon was not born in the northern capital, and in the Black Sea, and not for the sake of celebrations and exclusively for business purposes. In 1819, Admiral Greig, who commanded at the time of the Black Sea Fleet, ordered every day at exactly 12:00 shoot out of a cannon on the forts of Sevastopol and Nikolayev: this signal checked all the basic utilities chronometers at sea and on land. Subsequently, this tradition adopted in the rest of the sea capital - Kronstadt and Vladivostok - and in St. Petersburg, where the first shot of the midday gun was produced in 1865 from the yard of the Admiralty. And in 1872, began to shoot from the roof of the Naryshkin bastion fortress. 

After the revolution, this tradition considered bourgeois. In Sevastopol stopped firing in 1922, and in Leningrad citizens stopped to compare notes on the midday shot in 1934. Resumed shooting in 23 years.