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Kirov class nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser Adm. Nakhimov to Rejoin Russian Navy in 2018

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Naval Forces News - Russia
 
 
 
Kirov class nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser Adm. Nakhimov to Rejoin Russian Navy in 2018
 
The Admiral Nakhimov, a nuclear-powered missile cruiser currently being overhauled and modernized, will rejoin the Russian Navy in 2018 with the most advanced weapons systems for its vessel type, the Sevmash shipyard said Thursday.
     
The Admiral Nakhimov, a nuclear-powered missile cruiser currently being overhauled and modernized, will rejoin the Russian Navy in 2018 with the most advanced weapons systems for its vessel type, the Sevmash shipyard said Thursday.
Aerial starboard quarter view of the Russian Northern Fleet Kirov class nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser Admiral Nakhimov (CGN-080) underway.
     
The Kirov-class cruiser, known as the Kalinin until 1992, was commissioned in 1989 and mothballed in 1999. It has since been docked for upgrades at the Sevmash shipyard in the northern Russian city of Severodvinsk, on the White Sea.

Sevmash deputy head Sergei Marichev said in a statement that the Admiral Nakhimov would become the most advanced heavy nuclear-powered missile cruiser in the Russian Navy.

Originally four units were built for the Soviet Navy. As of today only one Kirov-class nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser, the Pyotr Velikiy, is still operational, but Russia plans to reactivate the remaining three vessels by 2020.