Admiral Nakhimov will be returned to service so that Moscow can lay claim to operating the largest non-aircraft carrier surface combatant in the world today.

The Frunzeis another boat of this class. Commissioned in 1984 and later renamed Admiral Ushakov in 1992, this unit was ultimately decommissioned in 2001. The Kalinin was commissioned in 1988.

The crew went on a route of the Mediterranean expedition of 1798-1800 led by Admiral Ushakov. Its outcome was liberating the archipelago’s islands and establishing the first democratic state in ...