"This picture is capable to amaze imagination even the experienced old salt.
"This picture is capable to amaze imagination even the experienced old salt.
"That the tow dragged behind itself an aircraft carrier in the high sea - such anywhere
It is more in the world you will not see, - the captain of a tow "Sendi speaks Rej Ebegeten,
kejp ". - Therefore other ships approach to us more close, photograph,
Are curious by radio, than we are engaged ", so the Russian edition" Time
News "begins a material about peripetias round the bought
The firm registered in Macao at Ukraine.
Rej has got tired to explain, that pulls the ship which should become pride
The Soviet Navy. A ship name - "Varangian", on the western terminology it
Aircraft carrier, on Soviet - an aviabearing cruiser. According to Dzhupa Timmermansa,
Directors of the company "Interneshnl transport kontraktorz", which podrjadilas
To deliver "Varangian" from Nikolaev to a place of its new residence permit, a tow and
Aircraft carrier ply nearby to favourite resorts of Russians and Ukrainians
Already almost 400 days.
Term enough big that travel has bored its participants.
"Yesterday, today, tomorrow - same, we go circles, against the hour
Arrows ", - sighs Rej. Timmermans too does not perceive an event in
Romantic key. From its point of view "Varangian" is at all "Flying
The Dutch ", it is more likely similar to a huge whale who has got to a trap in
The pond, whence does not have an exit.
On whose fault "whale" it has appeared in so heavy position? The reporting on this
The subject, published in the newspaper "Washington the post", sounds as rephrases of plans
The Russian tsars, dreaming to take away at a Turk passages Bosporuss and Dardanelless.
After all they, Turks, do not give the permission poor "Varangian" to be pulled out on
Ocean open spaces.
Sea officials in Istanbul, whether see, consider too risky
The enterprise attempt to spend the ship in length of 1000 foots on which is not present
The engine, is not present the command, through one of the most intense sea in the world
Arteries.
However, Turks by traffic safety across Bosporus are anxious or not,
Misadventures of "Varangian" have begun with disorder of the USSR. Ukraine has suspended
Construction of an aircraft carrier because of shortage of means when it on 70 percents was ready
To operation. Maxim Pjadushkin, the deputy director of the Moscow Center of the analysis and
Technologies, says, that Kiev suggested to sell to its Moscow, Beijing and Delhi.
By estimations of experts, in not completed kind the aircraft carrier cost 2,5 mlrd dollars
If were half-billion for end of jobs Ukraine would receive 3
Billion Alas, the state buyers were not. And consequently the ship have sold for
20 million small company with the exotic name "Adzhensia turistika",
Registered in Macao.
This firm declared, that is going to to spend 60 million dollars on
Re-equipment of the fighting ship in a floating complex of entertainments where will be
The casino, disco, hotel on 600 visitors are placed. However, in Macao, were
The Portuguese colony which have passed under the sovereignty of the Peoples Republic of China, have concerned the transaction
Sceptically. After all at "Adzhensia turistika" was not neither office, nor phone on
To the address which it has specified. Therefore some analysts believed, that this
Firm podstavnaja, behind its screen the Chinese military men who want disappear
On cheap stuff to catch the ship or its prototype that with it to "pinch"
Design and design for creation of an own aircraft carrier.
China has resolutely denied these assumptions. Authoritative military magazine
"Dzhejnz difens uikli, too considers their groundless, as already
Several years ago China has refused intentions to build aircraft carriers,
Having preferred to spend means for submarines.
Anyway, the destiny of "Varangian" remains unenviable. Three weeks ago,
The truth, on the ship-phantom the helicopter has landed. Three persons have jumped out from
It and as it seemed to tow crew, something measured. Does not add
Optimism to its captain and quarrel between participants of the transaction. "Us have deceived", -
The Chinese official has complained to the American reporter. Buying "Varangian",
The company in Macao considered, that there will be no problems with transit through Bosporus. And
Now Ukraine does not wish to be involved in the conflict.
In the meantime the bill for "walk" across Black sea grows and grows. In day
Company-contractor expenses make 8,5 thousand dollars Director Timmermans
Says, that money from firm-holding has ceased to arrive. "We could
Easier to chop off ropes and to leave, but it is nonprofessional. Means, it is necessary
To search for a place where it is possible to rise on an anchor ".
Heavy aviabearing cruiser "Varangian" - the younger brother of the domestic ship
The same type "the Admiral of fleet of Soviet Union N.G. Smiths". Both
Were under construction under the project 1143 and are intended for basing on them fighting
Planes - 50 on "Kuznetsove" and 60 on "Varangian".
"Kuznetsova" have put in pawn on shipyard of the Black Sea ship-building factory in
Nikolaev in 1982, and names which it carried for the past years as in
To water drop, have reflected events of two last decades. At first a cruiser
Was "Riga", but in the end of 1982 when the secretary general floated has died
The ship was called already as "Leonid Brezhnev". It has entered a system in 1990
With an inscription onboard "Tbilisi" then it is renamed into honour of the known
The naval commander. The leapfrog with names did not pass also the second vessel of the project 1143.
It have put in pawn in 1985 "Riga" under the name, but floated by three
For years after a cruiser have renamed in "Varangian".
From the last quarter 1991 of the Ministry of Defence of the USSR has stopped financing
Buildings of "Varangian", and since January of 1992 job on him are suspended.
As it has appeared, for ever. Cruiser building has managed approximately in 98 million
The dollars In 1992-1996 factory have suffered losses from the maintenance of the ship of an order 4
Million dollars
The case has 9 decks. Displacement - 56 thousand tons. Range of a course should
Was to make 5 thousand miles.
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