To whom is last "Varangian" on sale?.
To whom is last "Varangian" on sale?.
The name of a legendary cruiser "Varangian"
Last days the attention of the press again has drawn, has started gleaming
In messages of news agencies. Seamen, military experts,
Journalists it is live discussed the history calling at one pleasure from the successful
Transactions, and at others - irritation and feeling of shame.
ON FLEET - old custom: names of the most glorified ships
Do not disappear from history, and are passed on relay race modern sea
To courts. Memory of the "Varangian" who has topped with glory in Tsusimsky fight in May
1905, should continue a new cruiser - "namesake", a construction
Of which at the Black Sea ship-building factory in Nikolaev has begun still
In Soviet times. After disintegration of the USSR, though readiness 67-ton
Cruiser Ukraine made 70 percent, a construction of "Varangian"
Has suspended. In 1993 to an aircraft carrier Russian military men have shown interest,
However after long negotiations with the Ukrainian party and examinations
Statuses of the ship Russians have refused to finance its building.
And here the main sensation passed on channels of ITAR-TASS: "frozen"
Cruiser, and not found worthy application in the former allied
Republics, and nowadays the independent states, it is sold to the Chinese firm
"Adzhensia Turistika e Diversos CHong the Prize limited", registered in
The Portuguese possession of Macao. The state commission of Ukraine has accepted
The decision to sign the contract with the mentioned firm for the sum of 20 million
Dollars.
However the transaction has not called special pleasure. As it was found out, the authorities
Macaos have given up to the firm which name is translated as "tourism Agency
And entertainments "to moor the aircraft carrier got by it"Varangian"at
Local mooring. In inquiry of the permission about mooring the firm has specified, that
Plans to use not completed ship under hotel. However, as
It has appeared, at firm is not present not only licences for activity, but also... Addresses.
For designated in documents of firm of street and house number in Macao simply
Physically does not exist. And specified in registration papers of the company
The capital - 125 thousand US dollars - so abrupt business to be engaged not
Allows.
Such here foggy history with purchase and sale. Not attempting at all
On sanctity of diplomatic relations, we will refer to one more message
From Macao. The local press believes, that "travel agency",
Going to to lay out 20 million "green" for a cruiser, actually
Is typical "company-mail box", and "Varangian" actually
Military men of China have got.
Here there is one more version removing a veil from the mysterious
Firms. The Hong Kong press supposes, that on not completed aircraft carrier for a long time
Have put an eye in the Navy of China. Chineses can quite complete a cruiser and
To use it directly, including for basing
Fighter aircrafts п я -27 bought in Russia. Local military men
Observers do not exclude: the ship could be got Chineses as "breakage"
On 200 dollars for ton, and then it is disassembled for technology studying. So,
By the way, the Chinese experts have arrived with the Australian aircraft carrier
"Melbourn" which they have bought in 1984 on a meltdown.
And though on conditions of the contract "Varangian" it can not be used in
The military purposes, but taking into account many not removed while the questions accompanying
This transaction, such version is quite real. As the main expert considers
The Russian state military historical and cultural centre at
The government of Russia a rear admiral of a stock Vitaly Darnopyh, China in
Status to complete a cruiser. "China does not have aviabearing ships, -
Rear admiral underlines, - but Chineses wish them to have. At them
Diligence, diligence, organisation and persistence it is possible. Except
That, water area of the South Chinese, East Chinese and Yellow seas
Allows them to use the ships of such class ".
Again and again memory returns to events of almost centenary prescription.
Because of worthless command of an admiral Rozhestvensky at island Tsushima
The Russian fleet has suffered shattering defeat. The only thing for the
trehsotletnjuju history. And from it as from a song, words you will not delete. One
From few approached to Nikolay II, having boldness to protest
Against declaration of war of Japan, the chairman of the Cabinet Sergey
Vitte wrote at the beginning of the century: "Not before our culture, not before ours
Bureaucratic tserkvju, not before our riches and well-being
Light admired. He admired our force and when have seen, that
We at all so are strong, as thought, that Russia "a colossus on the clay
Feet "at once the picture has changed, internal and external enemies have lifted
Heads, and indifferent have started not to pay to us attention ".
Disintegration of the USSR has painfully struck on the Russian fleet. On scrap metal
To South Korea cruisers "Minsk" and "Novorossisk" have been sold, deleted
From the list of fighting units of the Navy aircraft carriers "Ulyanovsk" and "Leningrad". The reason
- There is nothing to contain such ships, there is no money for their repair, spare parts,
Fuel.
Whether means it a decline of the Russian fleet? Fortunately, today in
Its structure there are still such remarkable ships, as "Peter the Great" -
Pride of the domestic Navy and subject of envy of foreign military men. Power,
Force of fleet - concepts many-sided. "The fleet solves problems not only is pure
Military men, this one of the most flexible military tools of diplomacy, - speaks
The secretary of Security council Andrey Kokoshin. - there is a concept "demonstration
Flag ". Presence at various areas of the world of the ships of various classes,
Squadrons - exclusively important point in world politics. Therefore the such
The ships as "Peter the Great", can be not only means of conducting of war,
But also means of prevention, restraint and the resolution of conflicts for those
Conditions which would be favourable to our state ".
... Recently we marked one of the most significant dates in history
Fatherland - the 300 anniversary of the Russian fleet. In its three-century biography
The feat of "Varangian" who has not obeyed the enemy takes a special place.
On the Vladivostok cemetery not to pass by a monument to seamen
Legendary cruiser. On a granite obelisk the bronze tablet - "Bottom
To ranks of a cruiser "Varangian": komandor I.Ostrovsky (Volynsk lips.), komandor
G.Borkun (Minsk lips.), komandor D.Sharapov (Vologda lips.) ". Near to
By heroes of "Varangian" seamen-dalnevostochniki are buried. To submariners,
Accepted terrible death, one line is devoted: "At execution
Official duties ".
With disgraceful sale of "Varangian" in far Macao, fortunately, the biography
Heroic cruiser has not broken. In the Navy of Russia, on Pacific ocean, bears
Service "Varangian", on strange coincidence of circumstances carrying before
The name "CHervona Ukraine". The decision on renaming of the ship and assignment
To it of a Guards Naval flag the commander-in-chief of the Navy Felix Gromov has accepted.
I have taken an interest at seamen-veterans: why at once two ships
Simultaneously carried one name, unless such it is possible? To me have explained:
When it became clear, that in Nikolaev owing to the economic reasons to complete
The cruiser will not be possible, a nice name have appropriated "CHervonoj to Ukraine".
"Varangian" it was impossible to win. To sell - it is possible.
Alexander
BATYGIN,
The editor of department "Russian newspaper".
Moscow-Vladivostok.
//* an information Source: the Russian newspaper, 27.03.98
//* Reg. Nom. - 1080300217.08-------------------------------------------
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