Completed repair of the Smolny training ship

After the completion of the repair, the training ship Smolny arrived in Novorossiysk.

At first glance, what’s interesting here? Well, another ship was repaired, far from the most formidable and new. Meanwhile, there is something interesting - the Smolny training ship was repaired at the shipyard "Naval Arsenal ”in the Bulgarian city of Varna. The repair was carried out to repay the state debt of Bulgaria, inherited by Russia from the USSR.

This is not the first and not the last ship of the Russian Navy, whose repairs are carried out in Bulgaria - next year, the Perekop training ship will depart from Kronstadt for Varna to undergo medium repairs. The question of the repair of the hospital ship of the Black Sea Fleet “Yenisei” with the simultaneous conversion of it to the hotel for the Sochi Olympics is also being considered.

As for the hero of our story, the “foreign trail” is inextricably linked with his fate.

The Smolny training ship was built in Poland at the shipyard “Stochnia Szczecinska them. Adolf Varsky "in the city of Szczecin, becoming the lead ship of the 887 project. In June, 1976, the new training ship replenished the composition of the Navy of the USSR.

Assigned to the Leningrad Naval Base, the Smolny, together with the Perekop and Hassan training ships of the same type, made trips with cadets of naval schools every year, visiting ports of foreign countries. Properly performing the role of the “training school” in peacetime, with the start of a large-scale war, the 887 ships turned into a floating base for submarine crews, based in distant ports of friendly countries.

However sometimes the move stories unpredictable. The fact that in the 70-x or 80-x could come to mind only a science fiction writer, in our days has become a reality. Renovated in Bulgaria (a country - a member of NATO), next year Smolny will leave for Toulon (the main base of the French Navy), where it will serve as a floating tower for the Russian crew of Vladivostok type UDC, built at the STX France shipyard in the city of Sen -Naser for the Russian Navy.

Comments

[755962]

However, sometimes the course of history is unpredictable.

God works in mysterious ways...

[Sergh]

on account of paying off the state debt of Bulgaria inherited by Russia from the USSR

With the world in a string naked on a down jacket. Or better ... with a black sheep, at least cowards.

[YARY]

"Carp" must be taught somewhere? The right box.

[Armata]

Hi, hi. Do you think they get out of crucian carp in a year? Well, purely for a bang. Let's learn in the Mistral for a year. Well this is so for Fawn fans.

[gosha1970]

"... box" is for analyzes.

[Aleckub]

Hospital ship - under the hotel ?! But what about the words of Shoigu about medical support of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation ?!

[bart74]

Was on this box on the day of the Navy in St. Petersburg in 2007, it seems. On the day of the fleet "Smolny" almost always stands at the embankment. They are allowed not only to the deck but also to look inside. People with children come. Fun! More than one generation of Baltic crucians passed through Smolny. As they say, long years and seven feet under the keel!

[Ppsh]

In the 85th year he passed on Smolny practice. We went from Sevastopol to Krondstadt. Until now, I have not tried more delicious bread that was baked on a ship ... Good luck on your trips!

[not good]

In the USSR, all training ships were loaded to the fullest, and now, thanks to Serdyukov’s maratorium, there are no cadets to enroll in military schools and one ship, it’s better to have a floating ship in France than an empty screwed to the pier, but you could write them off. .

[Nickname]

Good news. Without training ships in any way.
But with Yenisei it is not clear. Which hotel? What for? Great hospital ship. I remember during the service there were fluorography