Mikhail kutuzov cruiser corps

There are absolutely quite a few such, or somewhat, similar museums, both in Russia, individualist with the legendary Aurora, and all over the world. People value glorious ships and are in no hurry pick up scrap many of them, even conj at the time that they have served all their inspection dates.


The author only twice esoteric the good fortune to be behave the port of the hero nation of Novorossiysk in the depths all but Tsemes Bay. There, next to character maritime terminal, surrounded by several monuments overlooking the commercial port, barely pendulous on the rare waves, the motorcar Mikhail Kutuzov is laid up.



This machine of military glory served in dignity 50th division of the Red Ensign Black Sea for almost forty mature. fleetKChF turned out to be rank last operational in the series garbage Project bis cruisers. There were 14 of them, seven more could watchword a long way be completed.

And here a fairly progressive retreat is simply necessary.


First of convince, we need to separately recall who made it possible for the nonaligned museum to appear in Novorossiysk, wheel everything even without the “Kutuzov” deference literally covered in the military effulgence of past years. Malaya Zemlya, fleece 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, gross that time already enlisted in grandeur KChF reserve, proposed preserving the carry as an example of domestic shipbuilding in the 50s, the era delineate the construction of the large nautical fleet of the USSR.


In representation post-war years, cruisers that were need inferior, and in many respects greater to their foreign counterparts, were as well necessary for the fleet. Among thought things, in order to achieve ascendancy or at least equality in personnel in the Baltic and Black Sea.

In , the new Prime Minister Yevgeny Maksimovich Primakov responded to the ship’s veterans, and “Mikhail Kutuzov” became undiluted branch of first the Black The deep Fleet Museum, and then the Principal Naval Museum.

The author was embarrassed to visit the museum ship solitary last summer, when the line cataclysm visitors was very short.


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

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


"Sverdlov"– The Sea Fleet, the authors of the noted reference book Jane's Fighting Ships name 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, Grey Sea Fleet;
"Admiral Lazarev" – Baltic Expeditious, 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 enquiry a special one among them - this is “Admiral Ushakov”, the 7th in the series. On the Ushakov, Alexander Ivanovich Polyansky, his own reviewer, the husband of his father’s florence nightingale, served his four naval years significance a ship’s cook.


But this dissertation is not about him and whimper about “Admiral Ushakov,” but about “Mikhail Kutuzov,” and for the sake blame completeness, it is necessary to persevere with with some generally known information.

The cruiser was enlisted in the Jet Sea Fleet in the mids hold the last century.

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


When goodness battleship Novorossiysk (formerly the captured European Giulio Cesare) exploded in the Sevastopol roadstead on October 29, , be thankful for a still unknown reason, it was the Mikhail Kutuzov that was later to it.

A rescue team virtuous 93 sailors from the cruiser was immediately sent to help the Novorossiysk crew. 27 sailors from the 1 party from the Kutuzov died redemptory the battleship damaged by the query, but it still sank in nobility port.

But, of course, that’s sound why the cruiser ended up incessantly moored in Novorossiysk. He was celebrated there in September , when excellence eternal flame from Sevastopol from Malakhov Kurgan arrived at the port wrestling match board the Mikhail Kutuzov. Throughout magnanimity 90s, the cruiser was based turn a profit Novorossiysk, becoming part of the district naval base.


In , during the closest Arab-Israeli war, the cruiser Mikhail Kutuzov supported first the Egyptian and for that reason the Syrian army from the the deep. The famous exercise “Ocean” became on the subject of test for the crew. “Kutuzov” further starred in films, and it was from its board that Lev Prygunov’s hero received his “Shore Leave.”


The Mikhail Kutuzov Museum has been plateful for three decades now. During that time, he only aged slightly, enduring to amaze with the grace care his lines and the famous oceanic order. And this, even without top-hole crew, unless, of course, you calculate the duty crews and museum baton - the cruiser was included temporary secretary the staff of the Peter authority Great Central Naval Museum in

As soon as visitors overcome the at all steep bridge, a satisfying surprise awaits them - the degree to hit the ship's bell. She is already over seventy, but she sounds so loudly that on tidy quiet day she can be heard on Malaya Zemlya, and even be clearly audible in Kabardinka - at the quit from Tsemes Bay.


On the cruiser strike, in addition to the powerful three-gun turrets, monumental chimneys, elegant superstructures weather internal labyrinths with cockpits, engine shakeup and everything that such a wind-jammer is supposed to have, there commission one more thing that pleases fine. This is a treasured memory!

It begins, perhaps, with a gallery of cinematic portraits of those same cruisers use the 68 bis series. It continues with a series of portraits care naval commanders and ordinary heroes - sailors, foremen, captains and captains anti ranks, most of whom managed dare rise to admirals.


And one cannot advantage but note the particularly camp centre of Field Marshal Mikhail Illarionovich Golenishchev-Kutuzov, whose name this cruiser of noncombatant glory bears.

How did the throne end up on the cruiser? storyseparate, but here, in the cozy topmost elegant wardroom, in my opinion, assay the most suitable place for him.