The first museum ship will appear in Sevastopol on Navy Day
The patrol ship Smetlivy of the Russian Black Sea Fleet will be transferred to the status of a museum for Navy Day, which is celebrated on the last Sunday of July.
This was reported by the press service of the Black Sea Fleet, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Now the ship is undergoing preparatory work, and the government of Sevastopol is determining its future mooring location.
“Currently, the Black Sea Fleet is completing the procedure for closing the ship’s personal accounts. In parallel with this, the city government is approving the mooring site of the future museum ship for visiting by residents and guests of Sevastopol. In the near future, with the support of fleet veterans, the employees of the Patriot Park will carry out the museumification of the Smetlivy, after which the ship will be sent to the dock of the Sevastopol Marine Plant branch of the Zvezdochka Ship Repair Center JSC for conversion. With the completion of docking work, the ship will leave the factory and, on the eve of Navy Day, will be transferred to the military-patriotic park with its subsequent placement at the planned mooring site as a museum,” the statement says.
As PolitNavigator reported, there were previously plans to turn the large anti-submarine ship Kerch into a museum, however, according to retired captain of the first rank Sergei Gorbachev, this idea appeared too late, when the decision to dismantle the former flagship of the Black Sea Fleet, damaged due to a fire, had already been made .
Also, the director of the Military Historical Museum of Fortifications, Captain 1st Rank Yuri Tarariev, said in one of his broadcasts that Ukrainian submarine "Zaporozhye", which remained in Crimea after 2014, can become an exhibit in the famous Cold War museum in Balaklava. It is also possible that another Project 641 submarine, larger in size, will become a museum.
Interestingly, he continues to serve in the Black Sea Fleet world's oldest warship, rescue ship "Commune", built in 1915.
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