Hooray for old technology that could still be repaired with steel tools! After almost three decades out of service in the roadstead and a further decade in the shipyard for refitting, the nuclear cruiser "Admiral Nakhimov" (type ship of the Kirov class, 250 metres, 27,000 tonnes), which was laid down in Saint Petersburg in 1983, set off on test runs from Murmansk. The battleship only sailed for ten active years until 1997, when a disintegrating Soviet Union ran out of financial resources and only the much younger sister ship "Pyotr Velikiy" continued to be operated. With the annexation of Crimea in 2014, the "Nakhimov" was to be revitalised for 1.2 billion euros and equipped with the latest Zircon, Kalibr and Oniks missile systems by 2021. This has now taken a little longer. However, as the sister ship is now due for an urgent technical and propulsion overhaul, or perhaps rather decommissioning, and further repairs to the aircraft carrier "Admiral Kuznetsov" can also be ruled out, the "Nakhimov", with "new wine in old bottles" and its crew of 700, is set for a brilliant time as the flagship of the Russian Federation Navy.
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Moin,
in the article there is (after careful reading) a wrong statement; the "Admiral Nakhimov" ("Адмирал Нахимов") is the construction number 3 of the "Kirov" class and not the type ship as stated in the article.
The construction number 1 of the class "Kirov" ("Киров") was laid down on 27 March 1974 in Leningrad, launched on 27 December 1977 and entered service on 30 December 1980; on 27 May 1992 it was renamed "Admiral Ushakov" ("Адмирал Ушаков").
The construction number 2 of the class initially bore the name "Frunze" ("Фрунзе"), was laid down on 26 July 1978, launched on 26 May 1981 and entered service on 31 October 1984; it was renamed "Admiral Lazarev" ("Адмирал Лазарев") on 27 May 1992.
The construction number 3 of the class was initially named "Kalinin" ("Калинин"), was laid down on 17 May 1983, launched on 25 April 1986 and entered service on 30 December 1988; on 27 May 1992 it was renamed "Admiral Nakhimov" ("Адмирал Нахимов").
Finally, construction number 4 of this class was laid down under the name "Yuriy Andropov" ("Юрий Андропов") on 25 April 1986, launched on 25 April 1989, renamed "Petr Velikiy" ("Пётр Великий") on 27 May 1992 and put into service on 19 April 1998.
A construction number 5 had already been entered in the ship lists and was to bear the name "Admiral flota Sovetskogo Soyuza Kuznetsov" ("Адмирал флота Советского Союза Кузнецов"), but the keel was never even laid.
Mr Engel - thank you for the corrective note. Since "Admiral Ushakov" was decommissioned as a type ship in 2004 and "Admiral Lazarev" as construction number 2 in 1998, "Admiral Nakhimov" appears first in the usual documentation. This is how it happens.
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Moin,
In the Russian Navy, the "Admiral Nakhimov" ("Адмирал Нахимов"), which until 27.05.1992 the name "Kalinin" ("Калинин"), was classified as a "heavy nuclear missile cruiser" (TARKR = tyazhelyy atomnyy raketnyy kreyser [ТАРКР = тяжёлый атомный ракетный крейсер]).
The term battleship for this type of ship is absolutely unworthy and embarrassing for this website...
And why? Can't or won't you let us know? Janes lists this class of ship in the "Battle Cruiser" category. "Battle cruiser" and "nuclear cruiser, heavy" are not common terms in German and are not suitable for a headline. So.
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