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Nuclear Ninety North
Eclipse of the Midnight Sun
August 1st, 2008 |
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Back to Murmansk
2008-08-02 14:48 UTC |
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Atomflot comes into sight. Our ship will dock between the two
icebreakers and the aircraft carrier (about which more below).
Docked next to our ship was the
Admiral
Kuznetsov, a ski-jump aircraft carrier (or, in the Russian
designation, a heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser). This ship was first named
Tiblisi (Georgia on my mind!), and then the
Leonid Brezhnev. Although docked at Atomflot, this is a
conventional oil-burning ship.
A Russian
video
of
Su-33 operations
from this carrier is available.
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