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  2. Keel laying - Wikipedia

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    Keel laying is one of the four specially celebrated events in a ship's life; the others are launching, commissioning, and decommissioning. Earlier, the event recognized as the keel laying was the initial placement of the central timber making up the backbone of a vessel, called the keel. As steel ships replaced wooden ones, the central timber ...

  3. Leningrad (2028 icebreaker) - Wikipedia

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    The keel of the sixth Project 22220 icebreaker was laid on 26 January 2024. [3] The vessel was initially to be named Kamchatka (Russian: Камчатка) after the Kamchatka Peninsula, [17] but in November 2023 it was announced that instead it would be named Leningrad (Russian: Ленинград) to commemorate the Siege of Leningrad. [18]

  4. Project 22220 icebreaker - Wikipedia

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    The keel-laying ceremony of the third ("second serial") Project 22220 icebreaker was held on 25 July 2016 shortly after the partially-assembled hull of Sibir had been moved down the slipway for final hull assembly. [50] [51] The vessel was launched on 27 May 2019 as Ural (Russian: Урал; after the Ural Mountains). [52]

  5. Leningrad (band) - Wikipedia

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    Leningrad disbanded in 2008, and then reunited in 2010. Several new songs and videos have been released since, most of them featuring lead vocals by Kogan rather than Shnurov. Their music video Kolshchik, directed by Ilya Naishuller, won the Berlin Music Video Awards in 2017, taking the 1st place for the "Best Concept" Category. [1]

  6. Coin ceremony - Wikipedia

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    The coin ceremony is an event which takes place at the keel laying, in the early stages of a ship's construction.In it, the shipbuilders place one or two coins under the keel block of the new ship to bless the ship and as a symbol of good fortune.

  7. Sibir (2017 icebreaker) - Wikipedia

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    The keel of the second Project 22220 icebreaker was laid on 26 May 2015. [2] After the launching of Arktika in June and in order to make way for the keel laying of the third icebreaker, [ 24 ] the partially-assembled hull weighing about 3,500 tonnes (3,400 long tons) was moved about 125 metres (410 ft) along the slipway to the position where ...

  8. Leningrad Cowboys discography - Wikipedia

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    The Leningrad cowboys were formed in 1986 by members of the Finnish group Sleepy Sleepers and film director Aki Kaurismäki as a joke on the waning power of the Soviet Union. Kaurismäki's first feature with the group was a success and led to the group developing a life beyond the films, recording albums, giving concerts, and making their own ...

  9. Leningrad première of Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7

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    The Leningrad Radio Orchestra under Karl Eliasberg was the only remaining symphonic ensemble in Leningrad after the Philharmonic was evacuated. [8] The Radio Orchestra's last performance had taken place on 14 December 1941 and its final broadcast on 1 January 1942. [9] A log note from the next scheduled rehearsal reads "Rehearsal did not take ...