Polar bear

Nuclear Ninety North

Eclipse of the Midnight Sun

August 1st, 2008

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Atomflot comes into sight. Our ship will dock between the two icebreakers and the aircraft carrier (about which more below).

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Docked next to our ship was the Admiral Kuznetsov, a ski-jump aircraft carrier (or, in the Russian designation, a heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser). This ship was first named Tiblisi (Georgia on my mind!), and then the Leonid Brezhnev. Although docked at Atomflot, this is a conventional oil-burning ship. A Russian video of Su-33 operations from this carrier is available.

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by John Walker
August 20th, 2008
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