A new chance for ”Admiral Nakhimov”?
Speaker in the Russian Federation Council Sergey Mironov says he will do what he can to resume the reconstruction of the heavy battle cruiser “Admiral Nakhimov” currently moored at the Sevmash yard in Severodvinsk.
During a visit to Arkhangelsk last week, Mr. Mironov highlighted that the federal government should step up financing of the “Admiral Nakhimov”. The vessel has been docked at Sevmash for 12 years and federal authorities do not allocate sufficient annual funding for completion. Over the last years, Moscow has allocated an annual 250 million RUB to the project. It is expected that about three billion RUB will be needed for the complete modernization of the vessel. The “Admiral Nakhimov” was delivered to the Russian Navy by the Baltiiskaya Yard in Sankt Petersburg in 1985.
