BDK "Konstantin Olshansky." Destiny at a crossroads. Part of 2
The year 1991 was for the Black Sea fleet the beginning of real agony. Politicians satisfied their ambitions, ships were cut into metal, and professional military sailors lost their jobs and were forced to make a painful choice of citizenship (this was especially true in mixed families). Fleet-servicing enterprises closed, and thousands of former Soviet citizens lost their jobs. A vivid illustration of the general chaos is the fact that until the year 1997 the Black Sea Fleet went to sea under the flag of the USSR Navy.
As a result, like all the forces of the fleet, the BDK Konstantin Olshansky was in limbo. At that time, the suspension in the republics of the former Soviet Union itself was over: the stool was knocked out from under their feet. In 1992, the Georgian-Abkhaz war broke out. The former all-Union resorts of Sukhum and Gagra, attracting with a sea wave and exotic palm trees, turned into bleeding wounds. And it was not just a war between Abkhazians and Georgians. This is a civil war of the most terrible order - all with all. Let me remind you that even in the seemingly homogeneous nationalist Georgia of that time, there was an active conflict between the supporters of Shevardnadze and the "Zviadists" (supporters of Zviad Gamsakhurdia).
Tkuarchal (now part of Abkhazia) was in the blockade, the population suffered from hunger, shelling and lack of medical care. In Sukhum, the situation was no better. At first, the population was supplied with humanitarian aid from the air, but soon the Georgian side refused to guarantee the safety of the airspace for humanitarian flights.
Frame landing of peacekeeping forces in Abkhazia
14 June 1993 to the Chairman of the State Committee for Emergency Situations Sergei Shoigu was given the right to resolve all issues related to the implementation of actions for the delivery of humanitarian aid and the evacuation of civilians from the conflict zone. On the same day, a detachment of amphibious ships, which also included the Konstantin Olshansky BDK, came out of Sevastopol under the flag of Rear Admiral Nikolai Mikhalchenko (commander of the 39 Division of the Landing Forces).
15 June BDK in Pitsunda took on board a company of airborne troops and 12 armored vehicles. These forces were to accompany the humanitarian convoy, because relying on local warring parties did not make sense. At best, the convoy will be stolen. Already 17 June convoy of cars loaded with guarded by our troops moved on. On the road, the convoy was accompanied by representatives of both warring parties.
At the same time, "Konstantin Olshansky" took a completely different "paratroopers." Up to half a thousand civilians with children took the place of our military. At the same time, representatives of Georgia demanded that every refugee be discharged from the apartments and houses they occupied, especially for the Russian-speaking population. Early in the morning of June 18, the BDK went to sea and by the time of 11: 00 arrived in Sochi, where the refugees were placed in a boarding house prepared for this. It is worth noting that “Konstantin Olshansky” made far more than one such flight, delivering humanitarian aid to the besieged republic, and taking off the civilian population in the literal sense of the word.
Later, as part of strengthening the “friendship” between the nationalists of the Georgian and Ukrainian sides, this operation will be extremely mythological. Until now, in the radical press of our "nebratev" can be found stories about how Russian aircraft almost bombed a detachment of ships with refugees (!), i.e. own squad of ships. But the radicals have an answer to that. The ships were supposedly entirely Ukrainian, and the team consisted solely of the fans of “Ridna Nenka”, who came to the aid of “brotherly Georgia”.
Interestingly, the commander of the division Mikhalchenko, a hereditary sailor, a Sevastopol who ended his service on the Black Sea Fleet in 2001, was informed about this fact. One way or another, but after 2014-th year, all these nonsense only worsened.
BDK in Sevastopol (near the Ukrainian MPK "Ternopil")
However, the sawing of the fleet, sometimes in the truest sense of the word, continued. While at the highest level, Yeltsin and Kuchma signed pieces of paper, on the ground “misled Cossacks” were engaged in a banal raider seizure of property, 27 March 1996, on a large landing ship “Konstantin Olshansky” raised the Ukrainian naval flag. Fortunately, at that moment they did not rename the ship, because Konstantin Fedorovich was considered an ethnic Ukrainian, even if it was “blood red”. True, the name was translated into Ukrainian, which Olshansky himself would hardly have liked - "Konyantin Olshansky". After 1997, all formal issues were “successfully” resolved, and the Russian side recognized the departure of the BDK.
From the everyday service in the Ukrainian Navy, "Konstantin Olshansky" pulled out a military coup in Libya, which turned into a long-term civil war and the development of cave tribalism. According to the decree of the President of Ukraine, the BDK was sent to the shores of Libya and March 28 2011, approached the port of Tripoli to evacuate Ukrainian citizens. However, what should have been a dramatic rescue of refugees turned into a farce. After all approvals, the ship approached the coast to receive citizens.
The campaign was considered a battle until women with huge trunks, and some with Middle Eastern services and other goods acquired by overwork on foreign business trips, started to board. Moms, unlike the common stereotype “a woman in a ragged dress with a baby at the ready”, rolled out on tank luxury baby carriages on the deck, littered the space with bundles of diapers and endlessly sprinkled with complaints about the ship’s unwillingness to accept such a valuable cargo. In total, about 200 passengers loaded with all kinds of belongings. According to the observations of correspondents, one of the refugees even grabbed a washing machine.
Swimming also forced the crew to cross more than once. “Grateful” for saving citizens complained about the lack of conditions, insufficient number of toilets (latans), tasteless and uniform food and, of course, the lack of air conditioning. At the same time, the kids, left to themselves, diligently tried to understand the military equipment, including weapons. A part of the crew at the same time was sleeping somewhere, giving up their seats to passengers and listening to reproaches about poor service.
As part of the Ukrainian Navy BDK "Konstantin Olshansky"
In Malta, in the port of Valletta, the BDK finally got rid of the 80 passengers. The rest, all in the same atmosphere of the absurd, were taken to Sevastopol. April 11 long-suffering "Konstantin Olshansky" moored in the Sevastopol commercial port. It was the first and only combat mission that the BDK managed to perform as part of the Ukrainian Navy.
At the end of 2013, the fire of artificially bloated unrest turned into Euromaidan, and later just Maidan. Khantoryan Nazism, who seized the heads of the illiterate marginals who tried to get into the rapids of life, was not separated from the word “absolutely” by the Crimeans. Fearing that the peninsula was about to set sail, the Maidan authorities, in a fit of wisdom, threatened with force and sent troops of meager “bulls” to return submissiveness to Kiev. When the decision to hold a referendum on the status of the Crimea was made, Kiev resorted to banal provocations that threatened to turn into open hostilities. The fighting in the main base of the Black Sea Fleet of Russia. Therefore, our troops, which went down in history as "polite people", blocked the armed forces of Ukraine in their places of base.
At that time, the Konstantin Olshansky BDK was located in the Donuzlav lake in the west of the Crimea. On March 2, several KamAZ trucks with fighters drove towards the Southern Naval Base of Ukraine in Novoozernoe, on the bank of Donuzlav. The base was soon blocked, and Russian ships appeared at the exit from the lake. On March 6, the exit from Donuzlav was also blocked by the flooding of the BOD Ochakov (it was standing in a sludge in Sevastopol).
Already after the announcement of the results of the referendum, 19 in March 2014, the naval base in Novoozernoe was fully occupied by the Russian military, and the next day all Ukrainian servicemen were taken out of the base. At that time, a small Ukrainian crew was still on the Konstantin Olshansky BDK, making a direct attempt at children to repulse the klyat Moskols.
BDK in Donuzlav, "pursued" by the launch, puts a smoke screen
On March 24, an unarmed launch with Russian military personnel on board attempted to approach BDK. Armed to the teeth, the landing ship ... set up a smoke screen, and then another, trying to constantly maneuver. It lasted almost until the evening. Finally heard from the shore line of rifle weapons. The heroic crew of the BDK, even without touching the existing weapon, locked himself in the mess room. The “support group”, a company of young people touched by political Ukrainians and Maidan, added an additional comedy of the situation with the capture of a large landing ship by a modest launch, all the while screaming “SUGS” and waving a flag. And when, having broken the doors, the Russian fighters brought out the pseudo-defenders to the deck, and they lowered the flag and got out to pick up, a real ecstasy began on the shore: “Olshansky”, you are heroes. ”
On examination of the ship, it turned out that the crew had managed to do their last “patriotic” act, i.e. fill the engine with sand and break up most of the navigation devices and fire control systems. As a result, the BDK had to take in tow.
And while our military leaders put Konstantin Olshansky in order after the pathos vandalism of Ukrainians, the BDK and its crew in the information space of Ukraine began to live their own lives. When, before the captain of the BDK Dmitry Kovalenko, the perspective flashed at best, he plunged his head into the nearest dustbin (the favorite entertainment of the politicians of Ukraine in those years), the story of the ship’s delivery turned into a tragic epic. To begin with, in his words, not less than a couple of hundred people fit in on the launch: “Russian servicemen acted according to a streamlined scheme. The civilians were allowed ahead, the Cossacks followed them, and then the Russian special forces went. ” How such a motley squad is located on the launch and who these civilians were was a mystery. It also remains a mystery why to let civilians ahead, if at that very time, after the very first shots, the “heroes” had already erected barricades in the mess halls.
So roughly looked epic "battle" for BDK
When the questions began to sound, why the gallant crew did not let the ship go to the bottom, Captain Kovalenko literally before his eyes turned into such a champion of the “greens” that Greenpeace would expire with delight. Kovalenko said: “If we decided on this, then not only children, but also grandchildren would curse me for allowing it to be done. Can you imagine how much lubricant and fuel would be spilled into the Black Sea, if I had allowed it. ” Of course, I could be mistaken, but perhaps this is not the main task of the sailors - to put the enemy on the bottom along with ammunition and fuel, and spending expensive ammunition on sailing schooners and rowing ships is not part of the functions of the modern fleet.
But they have another school - European. Therefore, this fierce argumentative thrash was greeted with applause in Ukraine. Older punks from the group “Lapis Trubetskoy” even dedicated a song to this crew of environmental advocates and called them heroes.
At the moment, the Konstantin Olshansky BDK is in the South Bay of Sevastopol. Our specialists had to carry out a whole complex of repairs. Not only were navigational instruments disabled and one of the diesel engines was filled up with sand, it turned out that the second diesel engine did not work in principle even before the well-known events. After repair, the BDK was again in limbo. Representatives of the Russian authorities were not “against” the return of the ship, despite all the costs of its recovery. However, the next round of Nazi aggression in the Donbass interrupted plans to transfer the ship.
"Konstantin Olshansky" in the ranks of the Black Sea Fleet
Since then, "Konstantin Olshansky" with the minimum crew remains at the pier. St. Andrew's flag hovers over it. However, in fact, the ship is not used by the fleet, becoming hostage to political decisions.
And it is clear to any adequate person that it is more convenient for Ukraine that the BDK be located precisely in Russia. Firstly, what goals will be assigned to the "paratrooper" as part of the Ukrainian Navy? None Secondly, are the Ukrainian Navy capable of forming a group of support ships for the landing force? It is doubtful. But Ukraine has succeeded in boosting information noise. For example, the Ukrainian portal "Dumskaya", citing a source in the General Staff, said that the BDK will be used in the so-called "Syrian Express", and, possibly, for the landing of troops in Odessa (!).
In the end, it's time to decide. To hand over the ship to Ukraine is stupid. But it is even more stupid, fearing hysterical cries of neighbors, to keep the ship on balance and not to use it. Moreover, its use by Ukraine itself is a big question.
As a result, like all the forces of the fleet, the BDK Konstantin Olshansky was in limbo. At that time, the suspension in the republics of the former Soviet Union itself was over: the stool was knocked out from under their feet. In 1992, the Georgian-Abkhaz war broke out. The former all-Union resorts of Sukhum and Gagra, attracting with a sea wave and exotic palm trees, turned into bleeding wounds. And it was not just a war between Abkhazians and Georgians. This is a civil war of the most terrible order - all with all. Let me remind you that even in the seemingly homogeneous nationalist Georgia of that time, there was an active conflict between the supporters of Shevardnadze and the "Zviadists" (supporters of Zviad Gamsakhurdia).
Tkuarchal (now part of Abkhazia) was in the blockade, the population suffered from hunger, shelling and lack of medical care. In Sukhum, the situation was no better. At first, the population was supplied with humanitarian aid from the air, but soon the Georgian side refused to guarantee the safety of the airspace for humanitarian flights.
Frame landing of peacekeeping forces in Abkhazia
14 June 1993 to the Chairman of the State Committee for Emergency Situations Sergei Shoigu was given the right to resolve all issues related to the implementation of actions for the delivery of humanitarian aid and the evacuation of civilians from the conflict zone. On the same day, a detachment of amphibious ships, which also included the Konstantin Olshansky BDK, came out of Sevastopol under the flag of Rear Admiral Nikolai Mikhalchenko (commander of the 39 Division of the Landing Forces).
15 June BDK in Pitsunda took on board a company of airborne troops and 12 armored vehicles. These forces were to accompany the humanitarian convoy, because relying on local warring parties did not make sense. At best, the convoy will be stolen. Already 17 June convoy of cars loaded with guarded by our troops moved on. On the road, the convoy was accompanied by representatives of both warring parties.
At the same time, "Konstantin Olshansky" took a completely different "paratroopers." Up to half a thousand civilians with children took the place of our military. At the same time, representatives of Georgia demanded that every refugee be discharged from the apartments and houses they occupied, especially for the Russian-speaking population. Early in the morning of June 18, the BDK went to sea and by the time of 11: 00 arrived in Sochi, where the refugees were placed in a boarding house prepared for this. It is worth noting that “Konstantin Olshansky” made far more than one such flight, delivering humanitarian aid to the besieged republic, and taking off the civilian population in the literal sense of the word.
Later, as part of strengthening the “friendship” between the nationalists of the Georgian and Ukrainian sides, this operation will be extremely mythological. Until now, in the radical press of our "nebratev" can be found stories about how Russian aircraft almost bombed a detachment of ships with refugees (!), i.e. own squad of ships. But the radicals have an answer to that. The ships were supposedly entirely Ukrainian, and the team consisted solely of the fans of “Ridna Nenka”, who came to the aid of “brotherly Georgia”.
Interestingly, the commander of the division Mikhalchenko, a hereditary sailor, a Sevastopol who ended his service on the Black Sea Fleet in 2001, was informed about this fact. One way or another, but after 2014-th year, all these nonsense only worsened.
BDK in Sevastopol (near the Ukrainian MPK "Ternopil")
However, the sawing of the fleet, sometimes in the truest sense of the word, continued. While at the highest level, Yeltsin and Kuchma signed pieces of paper, on the ground “misled Cossacks” were engaged in a banal raider seizure of property, 27 March 1996, on a large landing ship “Konstantin Olshansky” raised the Ukrainian naval flag. Fortunately, at that moment they did not rename the ship, because Konstantin Fedorovich was considered an ethnic Ukrainian, even if it was “blood red”. True, the name was translated into Ukrainian, which Olshansky himself would hardly have liked - "Konyantin Olshansky". After 1997, all formal issues were “successfully” resolved, and the Russian side recognized the departure of the BDK.
From the everyday service in the Ukrainian Navy, "Konstantin Olshansky" pulled out a military coup in Libya, which turned into a long-term civil war and the development of cave tribalism. According to the decree of the President of Ukraine, the BDK was sent to the shores of Libya and March 28 2011, approached the port of Tripoli to evacuate Ukrainian citizens. However, what should have been a dramatic rescue of refugees turned into a farce. After all approvals, the ship approached the coast to receive citizens.
The campaign was considered a battle until women with huge trunks, and some with Middle Eastern services and other goods acquired by overwork on foreign business trips, started to board. Moms, unlike the common stereotype “a woman in a ragged dress with a baby at the ready”, rolled out on tank luxury baby carriages on the deck, littered the space with bundles of diapers and endlessly sprinkled with complaints about the ship’s unwillingness to accept such a valuable cargo. In total, about 200 passengers loaded with all kinds of belongings. According to the observations of correspondents, one of the refugees even grabbed a washing machine.
Swimming also forced the crew to cross more than once. “Grateful” for saving citizens complained about the lack of conditions, insufficient number of toilets (latans), tasteless and uniform food and, of course, the lack of air conditioning. At the same time, the kids, left to themselves, diligently tried to understand the military equipment, including weapons. A part of the crew at the same time was sleeping somewhere, giving up their seats to passengers and listening to reproaches about poor service.
As part of the Ukrainian Navy BDK "Konstantin Olshansky"
In Malta, in the port of Valletta, the BDK finally got rid of the 80 passengers. The rest, all in the same atmosphere of the absurd, were taken to Sevastopol. April 11 long-suffering "Konstantin Olshansky" moored in the Sevastopol commercial port. It was the first and only combat mission that the BDK managed to perform as part of the Ukrainian Navy.
At the end of 2013, the fire of artificially bloated unrest turned into Euromaidan, and later just Maidan. Khantoryan Nazism, who seized the heads of the illiterate marginals who tried to get into the rapids of life, was not separated from the word “absolutely” by the Crimeans. Fearing that the peninsula was about to set sail, the Maidan authorities, in a fit of wisdom, threatened with force and sent troops of meager “bulls” to return submissiveness to Kiev. When the decision to hold a referendum on the status of the Crimea was made, Kiev resorted to banal provocations that threatened to turn into open hostilities. The fighting in the main base of the Black Sea Fleet of Russia. Therefore, our troops, which went down in history as "polite people", blocked the armed forces of Ukraine in their places of base.
At that time, the Konstantin Olshansky BDK was located in the Donuzlav lake in the west of the Crimea. On March 2, several KamAZ trucks with fighters drove towards the Southern Naval Base of Ukraine in Novoozernoe, on the bank of Donuzlav. The base was soon blocked, and Russian ships appeared at the exit from the lake. On March 6, the exit from Donuzlav was also blocked by the flooding of the BOD Ochakov (it was standing in a sludge in Sevastopol).
Already after the announcement of the results of the referendum, 19 in March 2014, the naval base in Novoozernoe was fully occupied by the Russian military, and the next day all Ukrainian servicemen were taken out of the base. At that time, a small Ukrainian crew was still on the Konstantin Olshansky BDK, making a direct attempt at children to repulse the klyat Moskols.
BDK in Donuzlav, "pursued" by the launch, puts a smoke screen
On March 24, an unarmed launch with Russian military personnel on board attempted to approach BDK. Armed to the teeth, the landing ship ... set up a smoke screen, and then another, trying to constantly maneuver. It lasted almost until the evening. Finally heard from the shore line of rifle weapons. The heroic crew of the BDK, even without touching the existing weapon, locked himself in the mess room. The “support group”, a company of young people touched by political Ukrainians and Maidan, added an additional comedy of the situation with the capture of a large landing ship by a modest launch, all the while screaming “SUGS” and waving a flag. And when, having broken the doors, the Russian fighters brought out the pseudo-defenders to the deck, and they lowered the flag and got out to pick up, a real ecstasy began on the shore: “Olshansky”, you are heroes. ”
On examination of the ship, it turned out that the crew had managed to do their last “patriotic” act, i.e. fill the engine with sand and break up most of the navigation devices and fire control systems. As a result, the BDK had to take in tow.
And while our military leaders put Konstantin Olshansky in order after the pathos vandalism of Ukrainians, the BDK and its crew in the information space of Ukraine began to live their own lives. When, before the captain of the BDK Dmitry Kovalenko, the perspective flashed at best, he plunged his head into the nearest dustbin (the favorite entertainment of the politicians of Ukraine in those years), the story of the ship’s delivery turned into a tragic epic. To begin with, in his words, not less than a couple of hundred people fit in on the launch: “Russian servicemen acted according to a streamlined scheme. The civilians were allowed ahead, the Cossacks followed them, and then the Russian special forces went. ” How such a motley squad is located on the launch and who these civilians were was a mystery. It also remains a mystery why to let civilians ahead, if at that very time, after the very first shots, the “heroes” had already erected barricades in the mess halls.
So roughly looked epic "battle" for BDK
When the questions began to sound, why the gallant crew did not let the ship go to the bottom, Captain Kovalenko literally before his eyes turned into such a champion of the “greens” that Greenpeace would expire with delight. Kovalenko said: “If we decided on this, then not only children, but also grandchildren would curse me for allowing it to be done. Can you imagine how much lubricant and fuel would be spilled into the Black Sea, if I had allowed it. ” Of course, I could be mistaken, but perhaps this is not the main task of the sailors - to put the enemy on the bottom along with ammunition and fuel, and spending expensive ammunition on sailing schooners and rowing ships is not part of the functions of the modern fleet.
But they have another school - European. Therefore, this fierce argumentative thrash was greeted with applause in Ukraine. Older punks from the group “Lapis Trubetskoy” even dedicated a song to this crew of environmental advocates and called them heroes.
At the moment, the Konstantin Olshansky BDK is in the South Bay of Sevastopol. Our specialists had to carry out a whole complex of repairs. Not only were navigational instruments disabled and one of the diesel engines was filled up with sand, it turned out that the second diesel engine did not work in principle even before the well-known events. After repair, the BDK was again in limbo. Representatives of the Russian authorities were not “against” the return of the ship, despite all the costs of its recovery. However, the next round of Nazi aggression in the Donbass interrupted plans to transfer the ship.
"Konstantin Olshansky" in the ranks of the Black Sea Fleet
Since then, "Konstantin Olshansky" with the minimum crew remains at the pier. St. Andrew's flag hovers over it. However, in fact, the ship is not used by the fleet, becoming hostage to political decisions.
And it is clear to any adequate person that it is more convenient for Ukraine that the BDK be located precisely in Russia. Firstly, what goals will be assigned to the "paratrooper" as part of the Ukrainian Navy? None Secondly, are the Ukrainian Navy capable of forming a group of support ships for the landing force? It is doubtful. But Ukraine has succeeded in boosting information noise. For example, the Ukrainian portal "Dumskaya", citing a source in the General Staff, said that the BDK will be used in the so-called "Syrian Express", and, possibly, for the landing of troops in Odessa (!).
In the end, it's time to decide. To hand over the ship to Ukraine is stupid. But it is even more stupid, fearing hysterical cries of neighbors, to keep the ship on balance and not to use it. Moreover, its use by Ukraine itself is a big question.
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