Flagship of the Pacific Fleet Guards Order of Nakhimov missile cruiser “Varangian” returns to service after scheduled repairs, held at Dalzavod. The completion of the renovation is announced on the company’s official Instagram page..
The message does not contain any information about the work carried out on the cruiser, only the fact of their implementation is stated. highlights, that high professionalism allowed us to complete the work on time, reliability, competence and efficiency of the company’s employees.
note, what about planned repairs? “Varangian” got up at the end of last month. 24 November the ship was already in the dry dock of Dalzavod. They did not comment on the volume of work being carried out and the timing at the enterprise., stated, that they are planned. All work on the ship took a little more than three weeks.
Guards cruiser “Varangian” – missile cruiser, third ship of the project 1164 “Atlas”. laid 31 July 1979 years at a shipyard “Named after the 61st Communard” in Nikolaev as a missile cruiser “Red Ukraine”. Launched 27 July 1982 of the year, accepted into the fleet 7 January 1990 of the year. In September of the same year, the inter-naval transition began from the Black Sea Fleet to the Pacific Fleet.
AT 1996 year renamed by changing the name “Red Ukraine” on “Varangian”, from 2002 year is the flagship of the Pacific Fleet. AT 2018 year, the ship was awarded the Order of Nakhimov by decree of the President of Russia, becoming the third ship of the Russian fleet, awarded the order after a nuclear-powered missile cruiser “Peter the Great” Northern Fleet and Guards Missile Cruiser “Moscow” Black Sea fleet.
