It was set on 9 October in honor of the presidential working visit to one of the military units located in a suburb in the city of Turkmenbashi.
[3][4] In 2013, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov made a working trip to Balkan province, where he met with the officers of the military units of the Ministry of Defence, seamen and cadets of the Navy.
[5] In 2015, President Berdimuhamedov inaugurated new buildings of Naval Institute in Turkmenbashi on the occasion of Navy Day.
Following the inauguration ceremony, he held an enlarged meeting of the State Security Council of Turkmenistan at the conference hall of the institute.
After the meeting of the State Security Council, he went to the local sea port where he took part in the ceremony of launching a new special warship and viewed the festive procession of the fleet in its waters.