Minsk (flight deck cruiser)

Minsk

The Minsk , 1983

Ship data flag  Soviet Union  Russia Ship type Flight deck cruiser class Project 1143 Shipyard Shipyard 444 Mykolaiv Keel laying December 28, 1972 Launch September 30, 1975 Commissioning 19th February 1978 Decommissioning June 30, 1993 Whereabouts Museum, China

Ship dimensions and crew length 273.1 m ( Lüa ) 235.9 m ( KWL ) width Hull: 31 m Flight deck: 51.3 m Draft Max. 11.5 m displacement empty: 30,530 t Use: 42,100 t   crew 1,433 men

Machine system machine 8 × KWN 98/64 steam boilers 4 × steam turbines TW-12-3 Machine performance 4 × 35,500 PS (26,110 kW) Top speed 30.7 kn (57 km / h) propeller 4th

Armament 4 × 2 starter for P-500 Bazalt 2 × 2 starters for 4K33 Osa-M 2 × 2 starters for SUW-N-1 2 × 2 76mm L / 59 AK-726 8 × 30mm L / 54 AK-630 2 × RBU-6000

Furnishing Aircraft 16 × Jak-38 18 × Ka-25 or Ka-27

The Minsk was a flight deck cruiser of the Soviet and later the Russian Navy from 1978 to 1993. She was the second ship of the series Project 1143 (NATO: Kiev class ).

history

Jak-38 Forger and Ka-25 on board the Minsk , 1986

In the service of the Soviet Union

The Minsk was laid down on December 28, 1972, the launch took place on September 30, 1975 and the ship was put into service in 1978.

The Minsk operated in the Pacific Fleet . In the years 1981–1982 it was repaired. After a fire damage in 1989, the ship was practically no longer operational. It was therefore withdrawn from circulation in February 1992 and assigned to the reserve. The decommissioning took place on June 30, 1993.

The ship was sold on November 14, 1994, but the sale was reversed. Instead, on August 1, 1995, a contract was signed with a South Korean scrapping company to dismantle the ship. The Minsk was towed to Kyang-yang in South Korea.

museum

The South Korean company scrapped the armament, the drive and the communication systems. In 1998 it was sold on to the Chinese company Shenzhen Minsk Aircraft Carrier Industry Company . The prerequisite for the sale was a non-military use of the ship. In August 1998 the ship was towed to Shenzhen.

Until February 2005, went as the operator of bankruptcy, which was Minsk part of a military theme parks in Shatoujiao , Shenzhen in the Chinese province of Guangdong of Minsk World said. The aircraft carrier was then put up for auction on March 22, 2006. After no bidder was found who would pay the 128 million RMB (approximately 16 million US dollars) starting price, the auction was closed. On May 31, 2006, the ship was sold to Shenzhen City for RMB 128 million.

In April 2016, the new owner, Dalian Yongjia Group Co., had the Minsk towed to Nantong . There it is part of the technology park, where it should be accessible from 2017 after renovations. The renovations have been delayed since then and access is still not possible in mid-2019.

Evidence and references

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Overview of the Russian aircraft carriers
2. ↑ China's Aircraft Carrier Project
3. ↑ Auction of the aircraft carrier
4. ↑ Former Soviet aircraft carrier sold in China for $ 16mln
5. ↑ Han Ximin: "Soviet-era ship leaves Shenzhen" ( Memento of the original from April 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Shenzhen Daily April 4, 2016 

literature

• В. П. Заблоцкий: Тяжелый авианесущий крейсер "Киев" In: Морская коллекция 7 (55) 2003 (about: Wladimir Sablozki: Heavy flight deck cruiser "Kiev" 7 (55) 2003 Russian Navy Collection ) In:.
• Сергей Балакин, Владимир Заблоцкий: Советские авианосцы. Авианесущие крейсера адмирала Горшкова. (For example: Sergei Balakin, Wladimir Sablozki: Soviet aircraft carriers. [The] aircraft carriers Admiral Gorshkov. ) 2007, ISBN 978-5-699-20954-5 (Russian).

Web links

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Coordinates: 22 ° 33 ′ 13 ″  N , 114 ° 14 ′ 12.1 ″  E