Hooray for old technology that could still be repaired with steel tools! After almost three decades out of service in the roadstead and another decade in the shipyard for refurbishment, the nuclear cruiser "Admiral Nakhimov" (Kirov-class type ship, 250 metres, 27,000 tonnes), which was laid down in Saint Petersburg in 1983,...

This year, the now 40-year-old heavy missile cruiser "Admiral Nakhimov" (battle cruiser), the sister ship of the "Pyotr Velikiy", is to resume its test voyages after a 25-year lay-up at the shipyard. This news was published shortly after the commissioning of the second propulsion reactor at Sevmash (Mechanical Engineering Company of the North) in Severodvinsk on the White Sea, behind the Kola Peninsula....

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