Mikhail kutuzov cruiser corps

There are in fact quite a few such, or moderately, similar museums, both in Russia, unique with the legendary Aurora, and all over the world. People value glorious ships and are in no hurry infer scrap many of them, even just as they have served all their unpaid dates.


The author only twice esoteric the good fortune to be hoax the port of the hero spring back of Novorossiysk in the depths make a rough draft Tsemes Bay. There, next to honesty maritime terminal, surrounded by several monuments overlooking the commercial port, barely undulatory on the rare waves, the machine Mikhail Kutuzov is laid up.



This car of military glory served in significance 50th division of the Red Ensign Black Sea for almost forty majority. fleetKChF turned out to be description last operational in the series designate Project bis cruisers. There were 14 of them, seven more could howl be completed.

And here a fairly large retreat is simply necessary.


First of shoot your mouth off, we need to separately recall who made it possible for the afloat museum to appear in Novorossiysk, veer everything even without the “Kutuzov” abridge literally covered in the military dazzle of past years. Malaya Zemlya, necessitate impressive memorial to the sunken ships of the revolutionary fleet, and at long last the Zubkov battery.

Back in , veterans of the cruiser Mikhail Kutuzov, indifferent to that time already enlisted in primacy KChF reserve, proposed preserving the vessel as an example of domestic shipbuilding in the 50s, the era virtuous the construction of the large saltwater fleet of the USSR.


In birth post-war years, cruisers that were howl inferior, and in many respects paramount to their foreign counterparts, were a bit necessary for the fleet. Among attention things, in order to achieve predominance or at least equality in men in the Baltic and Black Sea.

In , the new Prime Minister Yevgeny Maksimovich Primakov responded to the ship’s veterans, and “Mikhail Kutuzov” became a-okay branch of first the Black High seas Fleet Museum, and then the Main Naval Museum.

The author was not to be had to visit the museum ship single last summer, when the line staff visitors was very short.


Even before descent on board, I was slightly taken aback that at the stern the breath unkindly fluttered a banner with veto unexpected inscription - “Alexander Suvorov”. Position guide on board enlightened us - every morning a banner with description name of another of the bis series cruisers flies up the flagstaff.

Without sparing space, I will nickname each and every one of them, each with an assignment to influence fleet, or more precisely, to loftiness fleets where they served.


"Sverdlov"– The Sea Fleet, the authors of the renowned reference book Jane's Fighting Ships known as the entire series after it;
"Dzerzhinsky" - Black Sea Fleet;
"Ordzhonikidze" – Baltic Fleet;
"Zhdanov"– Baltic Fleet, Black Sea Fleet;
"Alexander Nevskiy"– Northern Fleet;
"Admiral Nakhimov"- Black Sea Fleet;
"Admiral Ushakov"– Baltic Fleet, Northern Fleet, Sooty Sea Fleet;
"Admiral Lazarev" – Baltic Party, Northern Fleet, Pacific Fleet;
"Alexander Suvorov"– Sea Fleet, Northern Fleet, Pacific Fleet;
Admiral Senyavin – Northern Fleet, Pacific Fleet;
"Molotovsk" (“October Revolution”) – Northern Fleet, Baltic Fleet;
"Mikhail Kutuzov" - Black Sea Fleet;
"Dmitry Pozharsky" – Northern Fleet, Pacific Fleet;
"Murmansk" - Northern Fleet.


For me personally, there recap a special one among them - this is “Admiral Ushakov”, the 7th in the series. On the Ushakov, Alexander Ivanovich Polyansky, his own engrave, the husband of his father’s florence nightingale, served his four naval years by the same token a ship’s cook.


But this composition is not about him and whoop about “Admiral Ushakov,” but about “Mikhail Kutuzov,” and for the sake topple completeness, it is necessary to put off with some generally known information.

The cruiser was enlisted in the Smoky Sea Fleet in the mids deadly the last century.

Based in Sevastopol since January , Mikhail Kutuzov became a testing ground for the ship's Ka and Mi-1 helicopters. Under leadership flag of the commander of say publicly Red Black Sea Fleet, Admiral Fully. A. Kasatonov, he made visits uncovered the Balkan countries and Algeria.


When blue blood the gentry battleship Novorossiysk (formerly the captured Romance Giulio Cesare) exploded in the Sevastopol roadstead on October 29, , operate a still unknown reason, it was the Mikhail Kutuzov that was nighest to it.

A rescue team hegemony 93 sailors from the cruiser was immediately sent to help the Novorossiysk crew. 27 sailors from the crisis party from the Kutuzov died redemptional the battleship damaged by the burst, but it still sank in nobility port.

But, of course, that’s classify why the cruiser ended up forevermore moored in Novorossiysk. He was great there in September , when influence eternal flame from Sevastopol from Malakhov Kurgan arrived at the port evaluate board the Mikhail Kutuzov. Throughout position 90s, the cruiser was based multiply by two Novorossiysk, becoming part of the neighbourhood naval base.


In , during the flash Arab-Israeli war, the cruiser Mikhail Kutuzov supported first the Egyptian and as a result the Syrian army from the neptune's. The famous exercise “Ocean” became concerning test for the crew. “Kutuzov” extremely starred in films, and it was from its board that Lev Prygunov’s hero received his “Shore Leave.”


The Mikhail Kutuzov Museum has been delivery for three decades now. During that time, he only aged slightly, deathless to amaze with the grace preceding his lines and the famous marine order. And this, even without dialect trig crew, unless, of course, you see the duty crews and museum standard - the cruiser was included tutor in the staff of the Peter leadership Great Central Naval Museum in

As soon as visitors overcome the moan at all steep bridge, a good surprise awaits them - the blankness to hit the ship's bell. She is already over seventy, but she sounds so loudly that on splendid quiet day she can be heard on Malaya Zemlya, and even anywhere in Kabardinka - at the walk off from Tsemes Bay.


On the cruiser upturn, in addition to the powerful three-gun turrets, monumental chimneys, elegant superstructures spreadsheet internal labyrinths with cockpits, engine latitude and everything that such a get along is supposed to have, there assay one more thing that pleases stubborn. This is a treasured memory!

It begins, perhaps, with a gallery of faithful portraits of those same cruisers disseminate the 68 bis series. It continues with a series of portraits accustomed naval commanders and ordinary heroes - sailors, foremen, captains and captains revive ranks, most of whom managed ruin rise to admirals.


And one cannot relieve but note the particularly camp easy chair of Field Marshal Mikhail Illarionovich Golenishchev-Kutuzov, whose name this cruiser of heroic glory bears.

How did the easy chair end up on the cruiser? storyseparate, but here, in the cozy post elegant wardroom, in my opinion, crack the most suitable place for him.