[4] Navy Day is a professional holiday that is celebrated on every first Sunday of July.

[5] From 2012 till 2015 Ukraine had the same date for its Navy Day as Russia (the last Sunday of July[6]) and the Soviet Union (like Russia, Ukraine is a former Soviet republic); the Soviet Union introduced its Navy Day in June 1939; the date was chosen because of a connection with the day the Battle of Gangut took place.

[7][8] On 24 August 2014 Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko declared that Ukraine should not celebrate the holidays of the "military-historical calendar of Russia" but "We will honor the defenders of our homeland, not someone else's".

[9] On 12 June 2015 a Presidential decree by Poroshenko moved Ukraine's Navy Day to every first Sunday of July.

[1] The national leadership and the ranks of the Ukrainian Navy usually congratulate sailors on this professional holiday.